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LAURA
A. S. BALLARD, M. D.
Laura A. S. Ballard, M.D., whose office
is at No. 205 Powell street, has been since
1875 a resident of California, and has
practiced medicine during that time, and for the past twelve years in her
present location. She was born in Sheffield, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1834, and
received her early education in the Ringsville Academy in the
adjoining town, and later at the seminary of Beloit, Wisconsin. She
commenced the study of medicine in 1865, under the preceptorship
of her brother, Dr. L. Stow, a graduate of Nashville (Tennessee) Medical College. She
engaged in the application of medical electricity until 1873, when she went to Chicago and entered the
Hahnemann Medical College of that city, graduating
there in 1875, after a full course of study and lectures, and receiving her
degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. Ballard came to California
in that year, where she has been continuously engaged in practice. She is
one of the consulting physicians of the Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary; a
member of the State Homeopathic Medical Society; a member of the American
Institute of Homeopathy. Her son, Dr. J. Stow Ballard, a graduate of the University
of California, has lately taken his
degree from the Hahnemann Medical College of
Philadelphia, after a three years' course, and has entered into practice in
partnership with his mother. He is also attending physician in the
Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary. Dr. Ballard has built up a very
satisfactory practice.
Transcribed 4-18-05 Marilyn R. Pankey
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 59-60, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.
© 2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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