HOMEOPATHY, founded by German physician Samuel Christian Frederick Hahnemann, is a therapeutic drug specialty within the general field of internal medicine. Guided by the principle that that which causes a disease can also cure it, homeopathy profoundly affected 19th century medical practice, ending "shotgun prescriptions" and introducing elements of conservatism to dominant medical theories.
HORTON, WILLIAM P., SR. (23 Oct. 1832-13 Feb.
The HOSPICE COUNCIL OF NORTHERN OHIO promoted and coordinated home care of the terminally ill in northeast Ohio from 1979-84.
The HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, one of the area's first such services, was founded in September 1978 in Lake County as Cancer Family Service, Inc., to offer home care and support for terminally ill patients and their families. Elizabeth Pitorak, through an American Cancer Society committee, created the agency with two part-time nurses, a social worker and volunteers.
HOSPITALS & HEALTH PLANNING. In the U.S., the hospital attained its "modern" institutional form by 1900-10, having passed through 3 more or less distinct stages.
The HOUGH-NORWOOD FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER was established in 1967 with an Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) grant to serve the needs of the inner-city poor, long neglected by the medical community. The center, at 1465 E. 55th St., offered primary care to any residents of HOUGH, Norwood, or Goodrich whose income fell below the poverty line—about 30,000 of the 76,000 Hough residents.
HUDSON, CHARLES LOWELL, M.D. (5 Aug. 1904-30 Aug. 1992) served as president of the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1966.
HURON HOSPITAL (formerly Huron Road Hospital and Meridia Huron Hospital), incorporated on August 6, 1874 and located at 13951 Terrace Road in EAST CLEVELAND, traces its history to the CLEVELAND HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL (1856-1917). In 1869, after encountering problems practicing at both St.
HYDROTHERAPY, or water cure, was introduced in Cleveland in the 1890s as a treatment for typhoid fever and was later applied in the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders. Developed in Germany, hydrotherapy was first used in the U.S. in the late 1880s to treat almost every known malady, from the common cold to chronic illness.
INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918-1919. In 1918 Cleveland had to cope with two major global events. One was the first WORLD WAR, a conflict that the United States entered in April 1917. Nearly 41,000 Clevelanders would serve in
INVACARE CORPORATION began in Elyria, Ohio, in 1889 as the Worthington Company that focused on manufacturing and selling wheelchairs. The company changed its name to the Colson Company following a merger with a manufacturer of rubber-tired wheels and became a major supplier of bicycles with wheelchairs becoming a secondary product. Colson moved from Elyria in 1952.
JOHN, HENRY J. (5 Mar. 1885-28 Mar. 1971), an expert in diabetes, was born Jindrich Jeroslav to Czech parents, Jindrich and Filomena (Kvapilova) John, in Olomouc, Moravia. He came to the U.S. when he was 14 and graduated from the University of Kansas (1911). He then received his M.A. from the University of Minnesota (1912), and his M.D.
The JUDSON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY organized on January 9, 1906 as the Baptist Home of Northern Ohio (incorporated August 17, 1906). The nonprofit, interdenominational agency consists of two separate facilities, Judson Park and Judson Manor, but functions as one institution to provide independent and assisted living, and nursing care for retired men and women of independent means.
The KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM evolved from industrial health care programs for construction, shipyard, and steel-mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies during the late 1930s and 1940s. It was opened to public enrollment in October 1945. It developed locally from the Community Health Foundation, which was established in 1964.
The KATAN ARCHIVES of the Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development in UNIV. CIRCLE includes correspondence with pioneer psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, a signed picture of him, and about 160 letters from his daughter, Anna Freud, as well as signed first editions of books such as The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense by Anna Freud.
KATAN, ANNY ROSENBERG, M.D. (1 May 1898-24 Dec. 1992), child psychoanalyst, established the Hanna Perkins School (1951) in Cleveland and pioneered the use of psychoanalysis with emotionally disturbed CHILDREN AND YOUTH. Dr.
KATAN, MAURITS, M.D. (25 Nov. 1897-3 April 1977), a psychoanalyst known for his work on schizophrenia, taught analysis at the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY) (1946-64) and with his wife Dr.
KELLEY, SAMUEL WALTER, M.D. (15 Sept. 1855—20 Apr. 1929), a pediatrician and pioneer in the study of diseases of CHILDREN AND YOUTH, published "The Surgical Diseases of Children" (1909), the first such treatise by an American surgeon.
KERN, FRANK J. (18 Mar. 1887-4 Oct. 1979), physician and leader in the Slovenian community, was born Frank Jauh near Skofja Loka in Slovenia to parents Francis and Mary Jauh. He studied for the priesthood, going to St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota in 1903; but moved to Cleveland in 1906 before completing his education to work for Nova Domovina. He moved to Calumet, Mich.
KINZER, GERTRUDE C. (19 Jan. 1878-22 Dec. 1946), a pioneer in the field of industrial nursing, was born in Tiffin, Ohio, the daughter of Gottlieb and Matilda Thol Kinzer.
KNAPP, HAROLD JENNINGS (15 July 1887-25 Jan. 1955) public health advocate and Cleveland health commissioner, was born in Elyria, the son of William Pitcher and Mary Ann (Churchill) Knapp. Educated at Elyria public schools, Knapp received an A.M. degree from Western Reserve University in 1911 and an M.D. from its Medical School in 1919. After working briefly for the U.S.
KOLFF, WILLEM J., “Pim,” (14 February 1911-11 February 2009) was a prominent medical surgeon and inventor whose work on the artificial kidney, lung, and heart earned him the title “The Father of Artificial Organs.” Kolff served as the founding president of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs from 1955 to 1956 and as the founder and director of the Cleveland Clinic’s first hospital-based kidney dialysis program.
KOLLER, JOHN JOSEPH (2 July 1863-6 Oct. 1923), a noted physician and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in Funfkirchen (Pecs), Hungary, the son of Adolph and Theresa (Mandell or Mautal) Koller. He attended the High School and the University at Budapest. In 1887 he graduated from the University of Vienna with an M.D.
The LADIES HOSPITAL AID SOCIETY OF EAST CLEVELAND (1868-78) was established on 27 May 1868 as an auxiliary to aid the Cleveland City Hospital (also known as Willson St. Hospital), forerunner of Lakeside, later a part of UNIV. HOSPITALS.
The LAKESIDE UNIT, WORLD WAR I, formally designated U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 4, was the first contingent of the American expeditionary forces to be transported to Europe after the U.S. entry into World War I. Based in a British army hospital near Rouen, France, it provided medical care for Allied troops from the spring of 1917 to the winter of 1918-19. In 1915 a surgical team from Lakeside Hospital headed by Dr.
