Articles from Missouri Historical Review and Missouri Times
- Barrett, James T. "Cholera in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 55 (July 1961): 344-354. - Bek, William "George Engelmann, Man of Science."
Part I: Missouri Historical Review 23 (January 1929): 167-206.
Part II: Missouri Historical Review 23 (April 1929): 427-446.
Part III: Missouri Historical Review 23 (July 1929): 517-535.
Part IV: Missouri Historical Review 24 (October 1929): 66-86. - Bender, Robert Patrick "This Noble and Philanthropic Enterprise: The Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair of 1864 and the Practice of Civil War Philanthropy."
Missouri Historical Review 95 (January 2001): 117-139. - Betz, Hermann "History—Science—Fiction."
Missouri Historical Review 52 (April 1958): 193-204. - Boxerman, Burton A. "The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis: Its Formative Years."
Missouri Historical Review 91 (April 1997): 229-249. - Brophy, Patrick "Weltmer, Stanhope, and the Rest: Magnetic Healing in Nevada, Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 91 (April 1997): 275-294. - Brunette, Donna A. "Charles Valentine Riley and the Roots of Modern Insect Control."
Missouri Historical Review 86 (April 1992): 229-247. - Caldwell, Dorothy J. "Vignettes of Famous Missourians-Andrew Taylor Still."
Missouri Historical Review 51 (July 1957): 386-394. - Christensen, Lawrence O. "Pains of Birth and Adolescence: The University of Missouri and Its Rolla Campus, 1871-1915."
Missouri Historical Review 79 (April 1985): 357-372. - Cross, Jasper W. The Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair."
Missouri Historical Review 46 (April 1952): 237-246. - Culmer, Frederic A. "Brigadier Surgeon John W. Trader's Recollections of the Civil War in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 46 (July 1952): 323-334. - Dains, Mary K. "The St. Louis Tornado of 1896."
Missouri Historical Review 66 (April 1972): 431-450. - Ewalt, Donald H., Jr. "Patients, Politics and Physicians: The Struggle for Control of State Lunatic Asylum No. 1, Fulton, Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 77 (January 1983): 170-188. - Fisher, Linda A. "A Summer of Terror: Cholera in St. Louis, 1849."
Missouri Historical Review 99 (April 2005): 189-211. - Fleet, Robert R. "The Morrison Observatory."
Missouri Historical Review 37 (October 1942): 19-28. - Greger, Darling "Garland Carr Broadhead."
Missouri Historical Review 9 (January 1915): 57-74. - Hall, Thomas B. "John Sappington."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (January 1930): 177-199. - Hendrickson, Walter B. "St. Louis Academy of Science: The Early Years."
Missouri Historical Review 61 (October 1966): 83-95. - Hulburt, Ray G. "A. T. Still, Founder of Osteopathy."
Missouri Historical Review 19 (October 1924): 25-35. - Jones, Bartlett C. "History of Morrison Observatory, 1875-1979."
Missouri Historical Review 75 (January 1981): 184-196. - Kenney, Edward C. "From the Log of the Red Rover, 1862-1865: A History of the First US Navy Hospital Ship."
Missouri Historical Review 60 (October 1965): 31-49. - King, Charles R. "Dr. J. C. Parrish, Frontier Accoucheur."
Missouri Historical Review 85 (April 1991): 288-303. - Kirkpatrick, R. L. "Professional, Religious, and Social Aspect of St. Louis Life, 1804-1816."
Missouri Historical Review 44 (July 1950): 373-386. - Kremer, Gary R. "William J. Thompkins: African American Physician, Politician, and Publisher."
Missouri Historical Review 101 (April 2007): 168-182.
"George Washington Carver: The Man and the Myth."
Missouri Historical Review 112, no. 2 (January 2018): 87-106. - Lanser, Roland L. "The Pioneer Physician in Missouri 1820-1850."
Missouri Historical Review 44 (October 1949): 31-47. - Larsen, Lawrence H., and Nancy J. Hulston "Through the Eyes of a Medical Student: A Window on Frontier Life in Kansas City, 1870-1871."
Missouri Historical Review 88 (July 1994): 430-445. - Loeb, H. W. "One Hundred Years of Medicine in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 14 (October 1919): 74-81. - Long, Michael "George Engelmann and the Lure of Frontier Science."
Missouri Historical Review 89 (April 1995): 251-268. - McCune, Sarah Lirley. “The Untimely Death of Annie Roberts and the Politics of Abortion in Late Nineteenth-Century St. Louis.”
Missouri Historical Review 111 (April 2017): 189-203. - McDermott, John Francis "Dr. Brown's St. Louis."
Missouri Historical Review 54 (April 1960): 245-253. - McIlvaney, Nancy "From the Stacks: The Tooth Fairy vs. The Atom Smashers: The Baby Tooth Survey Records in the Committee for Environmental Information Collection (1956-1977)."
Missouri Historical Review 109 (January 2015): 128-131. - McLear, Patrick E. "The St. Louis Cholera Epidemic of 1849."
Missouri Historical Review 63 (January 1969): 171-181. - McShane, C. Kevin "The 1918 Kansas City Influenza Epidemic."
Missouri Historical Review 63 (October 1968): 55-70. - Munger, Donna Bingham "Base Hospital 21 and the Great War."
Missouri Historical Review 70 (April 1976): 272-290. - Morrow, Lynn "Dr. John Sappington: Southern Patriarch in the New West."
Missouri Historical Review 90 (October 1995): 38-60. - Nelson, Lawrence J. "The Demise of O'Reilly Hospital and the Beginning of Evangel College, 1946-1955."
Missouri Historical Review 81 (July 1987): 417-446. - O'Connor, Candace. "Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis."
Missouri Historical Review 116, no. 3 (April 2022): 212-237. - Piston, William Garrett "'Springfield Is a Vast Hospital’: The Dead and Wounded at the Battle of Wilson's Creek."
Missouri Historical Review 93 (July 1999): 345-366. - Pitcock, Cynthia de Haven “The Involvement of William Beaumont M.D. in a Medical-Legal Controversy: The Darnes-Davis Case, 1840.”
Missouri Historical Review 59 (October 1964): 31-45.
“Doctors in Controversy.”
Missouri Historical Review 60 (April 1966): 336-349. - Pitcock, Cynthia de Haven, and Bill J. Gurley "I Acted from Principle: William Marcellus McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon."
Missouri Historical Review 89 (July 1995): 384-405. - Porter, Pierre "Quality Hill -- A Study in Heredity."
Missouri Historical Review 35 (July 1941): 563-569.
"Portrait of a Pioneer Physician."
Missouri Historical Review 37 (July 1943): 394-405. - Read, Georgia Willis "Diseases, Drugs, and Doctors on the Oregon-California Trail in the Gold-Rush Years."
Missouri Historical Review 38 (April 1944): 260-276. - Reilly, Thomas "Tom Benoist: Pioneer Early Bird of St. Louis."
Missouri Historical Review 92 (October 1997): 45-60. - Schramm, Jeff. "Nazi Scientists in the Land of Mark Twain: The US Bureau of Mines Synthetic Fuels Demonstration Plant at Louisiana, Missouri, 1945-53."
Missouri Historical Review 110 (July 2016): 260-276. - Schultz, Steven L. "The Monroe Drug Company 1876-1976: A Century of Chemical Enterprise."
Missouri Historical Review 76 (October 1981): 1-21. - Sharp, Nancy Weatherly "Vignettes of Famous Missourians-George Engelmann."
Missouri Historical Review 54 (July 1960): 366-374. - Sharp, Nancy Weatherly, and Kitty Thomas Wilkinson "Vignettes of Famous Missourians-William Beaumont."
Missouri Historical Review 54 (April 1960): 273-281. - Sunder, John E. "St. Louis and the Early Telegraph, 1847-1857."
Missouri Historical Review 50 (April 1956): 248-258.
"The Early Telegraph in Rural Missouri, 1847-1859."
Missouri Historical Review 51 (October 1956): 42-53. - Thomas, John L. "Report of the Committee on Old Landmarks, The Telegraph Line Through Jefferson County."
Missouri Historical Review 8 (October 1913): 29-34. - Weese, A. O. "The Journal of Titian Ransay Peale, Pioneer Naturalist."
Part I: Missouri Historical Review 41 (January 1947): 147-163.
Part II: Missouri Historical Review 41 (April 1947): 266-284. - Wilson, Robert "St. Louis and the 1918 Influenza: The Impact of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions."
Missouri Historical Review 105 (January 2011): 94-108. - Withers, Robert Steele "The Madstone."
Missouri Historical Review 49 (January 1955): 123-126.
"John Bradbury, the Earliest St. Louisan of Botanical Note."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (April 1930): 414-419.
Catalog
Many of the State Historical Society’s holdings are included in the SHSMO online catalog, The State Historical Society holds numerous books and serial publications pertaining to the history of science, technology, and medicine in Missouri, the Midwest, and the United States. The holdings can be searched by keyword (in Basic Search) and subject (in Advanced Search). Use search terms such as “science,” “technology,” or “medicine” along with the subject term “Missouri” to find these resources.
Historic Missourian Biographies
The State Historical Society's Historic Missourians website has entire categories devoted to doctors, entrepreneurs, and scientists in Missouri, providing informative biographies that include images, primary resources, and other references for further study.
Manuscripts
The State Historical Society of Missouri manuscript collections contain papers of scientists; records of scientific research; records of scientific and technological applications, including industrial archeology; and records of professional organizations. The collections also include the papers and records of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and other medical practitioners; institutional records; records of professional and advocacy organizations; and general material concerning health and medical care. The manuscript collections contain several examples of science, technology, and medicine, including the papers of Dr. John Sappington, a nineteenth-century medical pioneer who developed a medication for the treatment of malaria.
Serials
- Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis. St. Louis, MO: Academy of Science of St. Louis [H235.86 Ac12]
- Proceedings of the Missouri Academy of Science. Columbia, MO: The Academy [F599 M691]
- Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science. Columbia, MO: Missouri Academy of Science [F599 M691t]
- Missouri Academy of Science Bulletin. Kirksville, MO: The Academy [F599 M691b]
- Transactions of the Missouri State Medical Association. St. Louis, MO.: Missouri State Medical Association [F567 M691t]
- Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association. St. Louis, MO.: Missouri State Medical Association (f567 M6912]
- Missouri Medicine. Jefferson City, MO: Missouri State Medical Association [F567 M6912]
Vertical Files
The vertical files contain magazine and newspaper clippings, handwritten information donated by patrons, bibliographies, programs, brochures, flyers, and other materials that, by reason of their physical formats, cannot be placed on the shelves with books.