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JAMES HARVEY M’BRIDE
M’BRIDE, JAMES HARVEY, Physician, Pasadena, California, was born in La Fayette, Oregon, January 23, 1849, son of Dr. James and Mahala (Miller) McBride. He married Evangeline Ackley of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, September 20, 1887. There are two children.
He was given his primary education in the public schools of Oregon, and later attended the McMinnville College, Oregon.
Choosing medicine for a profession, he went to new York City and entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He graduated in the year 1873, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine.
He first saw active service as physician on the house staff of Charity Hospital, on Blackwell’s Island. He retained this position for two years.
He was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and was later appointed to the superintendency of the Hospital for Insane at Milwaukee.
After a service of five years he founded the Milwaukee Sanitarium for Nervous Diseases. This was opened in the year 1884, and was successfully conducted and grew to large proportions until the year 1895, when it was sold.
He made a prolonged trip to Europe and the Orient, and in 1897, located at Pasadena. Later he founded the Southern California Sanitarium for Nervous Diseases, and of this he has been medical director since.
He has been an educator and was professor of the diseases of the nervous system in the Chicago Polyclinic Medical College from 1890 to 1895, when he resigned to visit Europe.
The doctor was president, in 1910, of the American Academy of Medicine, a national organization, devoted to medical sociology.
Dr. McBride is a specialist in nervous and mental diseases. He was an expert witness in the trial of Guiteau, the assassin of President James A Garfield, and testified that he believed Guiteau insane.
Soon after graduating from medical college he made original researches in physiology and therapeutics, the results of some of which were published. Among these were:
Experiments on the effects of Nitrate of Amyl on the circulation of the brain of dogs and the use of this remedy in the treatment of epilepsy. Published in 1875.
Experiments in the localization of the function of the brain of dogs. 1874-5.
The production of epilepsy in dogs and rabbits. 1875.
Investigations into the minute anatomy of the brain. 1876.
The following are titles of some of his contributions to medical literature:
Epileptic insanity and the criminal responsibility of epileptics. 1894.
The treatment of the morphine habit. 1900.
The management of the neurasthenic. 1901.
Ideals of the medical teacher. 1903.
Health and education of girls. 1904.
The individual and the social organism. 1911.
In addition he has written many addresses of a popular character and notes of travel.
The doctor has led a busy life and has had little time for politics, except to take the interest characteristic of all men who favor clean government. He has never sought nor held public office, except for those semi-public positions to which he has been called in his profession.
He is a member of the following societies: Royal Society of Arts of Great Britain, American Academy of Medicine, American Neurological Association, American Medico-Psychological Association, American Medical Association, American Climatological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the California State Medical Society.
Transcribed 2-24-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 3797, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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