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Appendix 2c. Principal References Regarding Dr. E.S. Cooper and the Evolution of Stanford Medical School

  1. Ayer, W. "Reminiscences of the life and labors of Elias Samuel Cooper." Occidental Medical Times 7, no. 11 (Nov 1893): 599-608.
  2. Barkan, H. "Cooper Medical College, founded by Levi Cooper Lane: An historical sketch." Stanford Medical Bulletin 12, no. 3 (Aug 1954): 149-184.
  3. Bowie, A. J. "Extract from Dr. A.J. Bowie's Introductory Lecture: Eulogy on Dr. Cooper." San Francisco Medical Press 3, no. 3 (Oct 1862): 244.
  4. Cutting, W., et al. Stanford University School of Medicine: The First Hundred Years. Glendale, California: Mirro-Graphic Yearbooks, 1959.
  5. Emge, L. A. "San Francisco's first successful cesarean section: Performed by Elias Samuel Cooper, founder of California's first medical school." Parts 1-2. Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology 46, no. 2 (Feb 1938): 101-109; 46, no. 3 (Mar 1938): 162-170.
  6. Gonda, T. A. "Medical Schools in California: Stanford University School of Medicine." California Medicine 110, no. 1 (Jan 1969): 74-79.
  7. Harris, H.California's Medical Story. San Francisco: Printed by Grabborn Press for J.W. Stacey, Inc, 1932. See pp. 131-144, "Two Pioneer Medical Schools" and pp. 365-369, "Biography of Elias Samuel Cooper."
  8. Johnson, A., and Malone, D., eds. Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. See p. 397, "Biography of Elias Samuel Cooper."
  9. Kaufman, K., et al., eds. Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Vol. 1. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1948. See pp. 157-158, "Biography of Elias Samuel Cooper."
  10. Kelly, H. A., ed. A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography, Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons from 1610 to 1910. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1912. See pp. 200-201, "Biography of Elias Samuel Cooper."
  11. Kelly, H. A., and Burrage, W. L., eds. American Medical Biographies. Baltimore: Norman Remington Company, 1920. See p. 248, "Biography of Elias Samuel Cooper."
  12. Lane, L. C. "Obituary of Elias Samuel Cooper." San Francisco Medical Press 3, no. 12 (Oct 1862): 226-243.
  13. Lane, L. C. "Elias S. Cooper." In Shuck, Representative and Leading Men of the Pacific, pp. 237-247.
  14. Lane, L. C. "Dr. Henry Gibbons: In Memoriam." Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and Western Lancet 28, no. 2 (Feb 1885): 49-66.
  15. Lane, L. C. "A tribute to Dr. E.S. Cooper." Occidental Medical News 7, no. 11 (Nov 1893): 608-609.
  16. McDonald, C. B. "Isaac Rowell." In Shuck, Representative and Leading Men of the Pacific, pp. 541-543.
  17. Morison, J. "Obituary of E.S. Cooper." Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal 5, no. 10 (Oct 1862): 307-309.
  18. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 22. New York: James T. White and Company, 1932. See p. 128, "Biography of Elias Samuel Cooper."
  19. Norwood, W. F. "The beginnings of medical education in California." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 21, no. 5 (Sep-Oct 1947): 760-771.
  20. Reynolds, K. J. "A pioneer California surgeon and medical educator, Elias Samuel Cooper." Journal of Medical Education 34, no. 7 (Jul 1959): 631-643.
  21. Rixford, E. "Early medical schools on the Pacific Coast." Pacific Medical Journal 56, no. 3 (Mar 1913): 154-165.
  22. Rixford, E. "Early history of medical education in California." Annals of Surgery 88, no. 3 (Sep 1928): 321-322.
  23. Rixford, E. "Master surgeons of America: Elias Samuel Cooper." Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics 49, no. 60 (Dec 1929): 862-865.
  24. Rytand, D. A.Medicine and The Stanford University School of Medicine circa 1932: The Way It Was. Stanford, California: Department of Medicine and Alumni Association, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1984.
  25. Shuck, O. T., ed. Representative and Leading Men of the Pacific. San Francisco: Bacon and Company, Printers and Publishers, 1870.
  26. Stanford Medical Faculty. The Alway Years, 1957-1964. Stanford, California: Stanford University School of Medicine, 1966.
  27. Whitfield, R. G. "Historical Development of the Stanford School of Medicine." A Thesis submitted to the Stanford School of Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, 1949.
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