Additional Sources of Information

Robert Gillespie, MD, MPH

Modern Articles

Aldrich, Mark.  Train wrecks to typhoid fever:  the development of railroad medicine organizations, 1850 to World War I.  Bulletin of the History of  Medicine 2001;75:254-289.

Cox, Mike.  Dr. Sofie:  frontier surgeon blazed a trail for other women to follow.  Texas Medicine 1999; 95(9):41-3.

Kepner, Raymond B.  A brief history.  Industrial Medicine and Surgery 1963;32(9):349-50.

Lockwood, Vernon A.  The Florida East Coast Railway Hospital:  A study of early corporate medicine, 1906-1963.  Journal of the Florida Medical Association 1987;74(7):499-503.

Rutkow, Ira.  Railway surgery:  traumatology and managed health care in 19th-century United States.  Archives of  Surgery 1993;128(4):458-63.

Grant, H. Roger.  Railroad Rx.  Railroad History #192 Spring-Summer 2005: 8-15. (published by Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Urbana, IL)

Historical Journals

The Railway Surgeon.  The original professional journal of railway surgery, founded in 1894.  Some volumes are available on Google Books.

Books

All titles are out of print.  Libraries may be able to obtain them through interlibrary loan, and the titles occasionally appear at online used book sellers.  Some titles are available on Google Books.

Short, Henry J.  Railroad doctors, hospitals and associations:  pioneers in comprehensive low cost medical care.  Lakeport, Cal.:  Shearer/Graphic Arts, 1986.  A delightfully quirky reminiscence and history of railroad hospitals by a retired administrator for the Southern Pacific’s hospital system.

Stemen, Christian B.  Railway Surgery:  A Practical Work on the Special Department of Railway Surgery, for Railway Surgeons and Practitioners in the General Practice of Surgery.  St. Louis, Mo.:  J.H. Chambers & Co., 1890.  The first textbook of railway surgery.  Available on Google Books.

Herrick, Clinton B.  Railway Surgery:  A Handbook on the Management of Injuries.  New York:  William Wood and Co., 1899.  Another early and well-known textbook of railway surgery.  Available on Google Books.