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History of Peoria County Illinois, ed. not specified. (Chicago: Johnson and Company, 1880), 451-52. Return to Text[2]
Levi C. Lane, "Obituary of Elias Samuel Cooper." San Francisco Medical Press 1862 Oct; 3 (12): 227-31. Return to Text[3]
Lane Medical Archives, Stanford. Emmet Rixford Papers. MSS 8 Box 1.7. Letter from O.B. Will to Rixford dated 28 April 1923. Return to Text[4]
"Reviews: Introductory Lectures, for the Sessions of 1848-9." North-Western Medical and Surgical Journal 1849 Feb-Mar; 1 (6): 508-09. Return to Text[5]
Lane Medical Archives. E. S. Cooper Collection. File of Victoria Hineman, M.D., Peoria. Return to Text[6]
Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions 1846-1847 (Philadelphia: Printed for the American Medical Association by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers, 1847), 175 pp. Return to Text[7]
"Minutes: Resolution on Concours." Transactions of the Second Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, May 1849 Vol. 2., p.42. Return to Text[8]
"Editorial: Appointment of Demonstrator of Anatomy in Rush Medical College." North-Western Medical and Surgical Journal 1850 Jan; 2 (5): 457-58. Return to Text[9]
Emmet Rixford, "Early medical schools on the Pacific Coast." Pacific Medical Journal 1913 Mar; 56 (3): 158. Return to Text[10]
Ernest E. Irons, The Story of Rush Medical College (Chicago: Published by Board of Trustees of Rush Medical College, 1953),12. Return to Text[11]
George H. Weaver, "Beginnings of medical education in and near Chicago." Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago 1925,Vol. 5, and Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago 1925, Vol. 3, p. 19. Return to Text[12]
Irons, p. 11. Return to Text[13]
Ibid., p.14. Return to Text[14]
Thomas N. Bonner, Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950 (New York: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., 1957), 16. Return to Text[15]
Weaver, p. 50. Return to Text[16]
Norwood, pp. 340-41. Return to Text[17]
Irons, pp. 14-15. Return to Text[18]
Weaver, p. 19. Return to Text[19]
History of Peoria County Illinois ed. not specified (Chicago: Johnson and Company, 1880), p. 528-30. Return to Text[20]
Norwood, pp. 339-44. Return to Text[21]
Weaver, pp. 54-5. Return to Text[22]
American Medical Biographies, H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage eds. (Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1920), s.v. Freer, Joseph Warren. Return to Text[23]
"Editorial: Annual Commencement, Rush Medical College, 22 February 1849.) North-Western Medical and Surgical Journal 1949 Feb-Mar; 1 (6): 547. Return to Text[24]
"Editorial: Concour for Demonstrator of Anatomy in Rush Medical College." North-Western Medical and Surgical Journal 1850 July; 3 (2): 178-79. Return to Text[25]
Lane Medical Archives, Stanford. E.S. Cooper Collection. File of Holograph Letters. Return to Text[26]
Irons, pp. 24-5. Return to Text[27]
Lisabeth M. Holloway, Medical Obituaries. American Physicians' Biographical Notices in Selected Medical Journals Before 1907 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1981), s.v. Brainard, Daniel. Return to Text[28]
David J., ed., History of Medical Practice in Illinois. Vol. II: 1850-1900. (Chicago: Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, 1955), 205-06; 419. Return to Text[29]
Ibid., p. 388. Return to Text[30]
History of Peoria County Illinois, pp. 340-43. The material from this reference is extensively quoted, excerpted, rearranged and paraphrased in order to condense the essential facts of the episode in Peoria involving the execution by hanging of two men, and the delivery of their bodies to Dr. Elias Cooper for dissection. Return to Text[31]
Davis, p. 369-70. Return to Text[32]
Ibid., p 372. Return to Text[33]
Ibid., p. 368. Return to Text[34]
Ibid., p. 384. Return to Text[35]
Lane Medical Archives, Stanford. Emmet Rixford Papers. MSS 8 Box 1.7. Letter from O.B. Will to Rixford dated 23 April 1923. Return to Text[36]
Emmet Rixford, "Master Surgeons of America. Elias Samuel Cooper." Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 1929 Dec; 49 (6): 862. Return to Text[37]
"Minutes of 4 June 1851." Proceedings of Illinois State Medical Society, First Annual Meeting, Peoria, Illinois June 1851, pp. 7-8. Return to Text[38]
Lane Medical Archives, Stanford. Emmet Rixford Papers. MSS 8 Box 1.7. Letter from O.B. Will to Rixford dated 23 April 1923. Return to Text[39]
Lane Medical Archives, Stanford. E.S. Cooper Collection. File of Peoria Public Library. Newspaper reports. Return to Text[40]
James M. Rice, Peoria City and County Illinois. A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol.1 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912), 352. Return to Text[41]
Davis, pp. 398-99. Return to Text[42]
Weaver, p. 7. Return to Text[43]
Norwood, pp. 337-38. Return to Text[44]
Weaver, pp. 13-16. Return to Text[45]
Lucius H. Zeuch, History of Medical Practice in Illinois, vol.1, Preceding 1850 (Chicago: The Book Press, Inc., 1927), 543-44; 645-46. Return to Text[46]
Ibid., pp. 544-545. Return to Text[47]
Ibid., pp. 546-47. Return to Text[48]
Ibid., pp. 547-48. Return to Text[49]
Weaver, pp. 24-30. Return to Text[50]
Ibid., p. 47; pp. 63-4; 79-82. Return to Text[51]
Norwood, pp. 347-50. Return to Text[52]
Lane Medical Archives, Stanford. E. S. Cooper Collection. File of Holograph Letters. Return to Text[53]
Ibid. Return to Text[54]
Weaver, p. 80. Return to Text