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'Conservae rosae rubrae'. 'Conservae' comes from 'concervo', meaning to preserve. The rosae rubrae was treated in much the same manner as wormwood and used to treat stomach ailments. This was a fixed matter of petals, slightly laxative and especially…

On May 24, 1975, Lady Bird Johnson (widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson) was the speaker at the commencement ceremony for Southwestern Medical School, a component of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas.

At Bradford Memorial Hospital, "Hess Beds" for premature and sickly infants replaced the improvised incubators (warmed by heated bricks) used at "Baby Camp." Named for their inventor, Dr. Julius H. Hess, these beds circulated hot water between inner…

In the early 1950's, polio--also called "infantile paralysis"--was epidemic in Dallas and the rest of the USA. The disease paralyzed muscles, including those controlling breathing. Some patients required a mechanical ventilator or "iron lung." This…

In 1913, public health nurse Mary Forster Smith set up the summer "Dallas Graduate Nurses Baby Camp" to care for sick infants from poor families. The "Baby Camp" consisted of four tents on the shady grounds of Parkland Hospital. This was the first…

Parkland Hospital opened a new brick building-- the first brick hospital in Texas--on December 1,1913. It was one of the best-equipped hospitals in the state. Additions were built in the 1920's and 1930's. Parkland occupied this site until 1954.…

The Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium (later to become Baylor University Hospital) opened a new building at 3315 Junius Street in 1909. The land was earlier the site of Dr. Charles M. Rosser's privately-owned Good Samaritan Hospital. Rosser sold his…

In 1967, the Children's Medical Center Institutional predecessors consolidated their services in this new building, adjacent to Parkland Memorial Hospital and Southwestern Medical School. This proximity was due to concerted effort by academic and…

Parkland Memorial Hospital's Trauma Room #1 was the scene of heroic but unsuccessful efforts to save President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Texas Governor John Connally, gravely wounded along with Kennedy, was treated in an adjacent trauma room and…

On November 22, 1963, the nation was shocked by the shooting of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Southwestern Medical School physicians tried to save him, without success. The empty Presidential…