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Francisco County
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JOHN
S. MUIR, M. D.
John S. Muir, M.D., whose office is a (sic) No.
225 Geary street, San Francisco,
has been a resident of California
since 1880, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine in this city for
the past year. He was born in Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1847. His parents moved
to the West during his infancy, and he received his early education in the
public schools of St. Louis.
He commenced the study of medicine in 1868, in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of
Keokuk, Iowa, graduating at that
institution in 1876, during which time he had practiced for several years in Illinois,
Kansas, and Missouri.
After graduation Dr. Muir returned to Kansas,
where he again engaged in the practice of his profession, remaining there until
1880, in which year he came to California.
He located in Hanford, Tulare
county, where he remained until burnt out by the
disastrous fire which swept the business portion of that town in 1887.
For the next seven months he engaged in real estate in San
Diego. Returning to Fresno
the Doctor again engaged in the practice of his profession, where he remained
for about eight months. From Fresno
he came to San Francisco.,(sic) and here is building
up a satisfactory practice. Dr. Muir has made a special study of the
application of electricity to the cure of diseases. One of his inventions, a
portable apparatus for the use of the faradic current, is certainly one of the
most convenient and ingenious devices for that purpose. It is small
enough to be carried in the pocket, and yet is as powerful as any physician's
office battery. While engaged in the general practice of medicine, he is
paying attention to the use of electricity as a curative agent.
Transcribed 4-18-05 Marilyn R. Pankey
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 58-59, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.
© 2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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