Alfred C. Peterson, M.D.,

Alfred C. Peterson, M.D., whose office is at No. 319 Geary street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California for the past twelve years, and since 1878 has been in the practice of his profession.  He was born in Philadelphia in 1854, the son of the late Thomas K. Peterson, who was well known in the mercantile circles of Philadelphia for many years past.  The family have been for several generations residents of that city, having come from Delaware before the Revolutionary war.  Alfred received his education in his native city, having passed through the various grades and graduated at the high school in 1874.  In that year he commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. B. F. Betts, who has been for the past fifteen years a professor of gynecology at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.  Dr. Peterson in the same year entered the Hahnemann College, where he graduated after full course of three years, in 1877.  Soon after graduating he came to California, entering into private practice, in which he has since been continuously engaged.  During the last year of his studies at college he had made a specialty of diseases of the eye and ear.  In September, 1880, he returned to New York and entered the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, under homeopathic control, where he took a special course of study in those diseases.  On his return to California he devoted himself specially to treatment of the eye and ear.  Dr. Peterson now holds the chair of anatomy and physiology of the eye and ear, and also of diseases of the throat at the Hahnemann College of San Francisco.  He was secretary of the California State Homeopathic Medical Society for seven years, treasurer of the Hahnemann Hospital College, and also secretary of the Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners of the State.