Category: Medicine

RAILWAY HOSPITAL

A RAILWAY HOSPITAL (1856-59) opened when Cleveland railroads cooperatively rented an abandoned water-cure (see HYDROTHERAPY) establishment on Lake St. and converted it into a hospital for company employees injured in accidents. Some private patients were admitted, usually gynecological cases. Dr. Seth R.

RAMMELKAMP, CHARLES HENRY, JR.

RAMMELKAMP, CHARLES HENRY, JR. (24 May 1911-5 Dec. 1981), scientist and teaching physician who discovered that streptococcus bacteria causes rheumatic fever, was born in Jacksonville, Ill. to Charles Henry and Jeanette Capps Rammelkamp. He graduated from Illinois College with an A.B. (1933) and from the University of Chicago with an M.D. (1937). He was an assistant in medicine at Washington University in St.

RAUSCHKOLB, RUTH (ROBISHAW), M.D.

RAUSCHKOLB, RUTH (ROBISHAW), M.D. (24 Nov. 1900-13 Jan.

RICHMOND HEIGHTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

RICHMOND HEIGHTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, located at 27110 Chardon Rd., RICHMOND HTS., is a 220-bed osteopathic community hospital with a medical staff of 180 physicians. It opened in 1961, with major additions in 1970. Dr. Jerry A. Zinni, an osteopathic physician, established the hospital and served as its president. By 1986 Richmond Hts.

ROBB, HUNTER

ROBB, HUNTER (30 Sept. 1863-15 May 1940), the first Cleveland physician with special training in gynecology and a proponent of aseptic surgical techniques, was born in Burlington, N.J. to Thomas and Caroline Woolman Robb. He was educated at Burlington College and the University of Pennsylvania, received his medical degree in 1884, and was a resident in Philadelphia between 1884-86.

ROBB, ISABEL ADAMS HAMPTON

ROBB, ISABEL ADAMS HAMPTON (26 Aug. 1859-15 April 1910), nurse and textbook author, helped standardize education for NURSING in the United States and abroad. She played a key role in founding the forerunner of the Francis Payne Bolton School for Nursing in Cleveland (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY).

ROBERTS AND WENDT ANIMAL HOSPITAL

ROBERTS AND WENDT ANIMAL HOSPITAL, founded in 1934 by Drs. Harry Roberts and Clifford Wagner, is Cleveland's oldest small-animal clinic. Clinic doctors served as the CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO veterinarians from late 1930s until 1988, and also conducted field studies on anesthetics for Parke-Davis drug company. Dr. Wallace Wendt joined the practice in 1945 and Dr.

ROSENWASSER, MARCUS

ROSENWASSER, MARCUS (4 Oct. 1846-4 Sept. 1910), physician and teacher, was born in Bohemia, son of Herman and Rosalia Rosenwasser. He came to Cleveland with his family in 1852, graduated from CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL in 1864, then returned to Europe to study medicine at the universities of Prague and Wurzburg.

ROWLAND, AMY FARLEY

ROWLAND, AMY FARLEY (30 May 1872-10 March 1953), editor and teacher, served with the LAKESIDE UNIT, WORLD WAR I, edited a number of publications by Dr. GEORGE W. CRILE, SR., and advocated for women and girls. She was born in Saratoga Springs, NY, to Tace Wardwell Rowland and Rev. Lyman S. Rowland.

SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL ASSN.

SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL ASSN. (SLHA) is a multi-institutional system of hospitals (see HOSPITALS AND HEALTH PLANNING) which ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER has acquired or with which it has affiliated. The SLHA was founded in 1904 as "Saint Luke's Hospital Assn.

SAINT LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER

SAINT LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER (formerly Saint Luke's Hospital), was founded on 30 January 1894 as Cleveland General Hospital. The articles of incorporation of the College Building & Hospital Assn. (later ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ASSN.) were signed that day, and that fall Cleveland General Hospital opened with 75 beds, on Woodland Ave. near E. 20th St.

SAINT VINCENT CHARITY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER

SAINT VINCENT CHARITY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER, a 492-bed not-for-profit general acute-care hospital (located at 2351 E. 22nd St.), opened on 10 Oct. 1865 as Cleveland's first permanent general hospital. Bp.

SALISBURY, JAMES HENRY

SALISBURY, JAMES HENRY (13 Oct. 1823-23 Aug. 1905), a physician and medical researcher who investigated the germ-causation theory of disease, was born in Scott, N.Y. to Nathan and Lucretia Babcock Salisbury. He graduated with a Bachelor of Natural Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1846; an M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1850; and an M.A. from Union College in 1852.

SANITATION

SANITATION. Progress in Cleveland sanitation followed the classical patterns of those cities in the U.S. that experienced rapid industrial and urban growth, where sanitary reforms were often initiated one step ahead of potential disasters. The city's earliest sanitary measures were based on New England's experiences, which centered around noxious miasmas, filth, and sin as causative agents of disease.

SCOTTISH OLD FOLKS HOME, INC.

The SCOTTISH OLD FOLKS HOME, INC., est. 1919 and inc. 1934, was founded and operated by the St. Andrews Scottish Benevolent Society (founded in Cleveland in 1846) for older natives of Scotland and their families. A new home opened in 1929 at 1835 North Park Blvd., CLEVELAND HTS., with Jessie L. Warnock as superintendent.

SHAKER MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL

The SHAKER MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL was a small, community-oriented hospital that served as a lower-cost alternative for patients who did not require the services available in larger hospitals. Shaker Medical Ctr. was founded in July 1955 by Dr. Victor D. Ippolito as a voluntary, short-term general hospital.

SIHLER, CHRISTIAN, MD

SIHLER, CHRISTIAN, MD (2 Oct. 1848-22 Aug. 1919), physician, researcher and writer, and founder of WINDSOR HOSPITAL and LUTHERAN HOSPITAL (1896), was among the first physicians in Cleveland to promote HYDROTHERAPY.

SKEEL, ARTHUR J.

SKEEL, ARTHUR J. (1874-7 Dec. 1942) was nationally known for advancing obstetrics and serving as director of the Obstetric Div. of ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL from 1910-38. Born in Augusta, Michigan, son of Frances Adelbert and Hettie (Butler) Skeel, he attended Cleveland schools and studied medicine at the University of Michigan.

SLOVENE HOME FOR THE AGED

The SLOVENE HOME FOR THE AGED, est. 1962, is a nursing home for elderly Slovenian-American women and men, the second nursing facility in the U.S. specifically built to serve this population (the first was located in California). Efforts to establish the home began in the local Slovenian-American community in the late 1950s. By June 1958, a board of directors had organized with Blas Novak as president.

SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

The SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES was formed in Dec. 1887 as a professional forum for scientific and medical topics by dissident members of the CUYAHOGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY, who felt that the county organization was out of step with medical research.

SOLLMAN, TORALD HERMAN

SOLLMAN, TORALD HERMAN (10 Feb. 1874-11 Feb. 1965), dean of American pharmacology, was born in Colberg, Germany to August and Adelhaid Eckhardt Sollman, and came to America at 13 to live with his brother, a druggist in Canton, working in his store and studying medicine in his spare time. At 17 he became the youngest person to receive a pharmacist's license from the state of Ohio.

SONES, F. MASON, JR., M.D.

SONES, F. MASON, JR., M.D. (28 Oct. 1918-28 Aug. 1985) was a medical science pioneer in cardiac cinematography whose work was instrumental in the development of coronary bypass and cardiac surgery. Born in Noxapater, Mississippi to Frank Mason and Myrtle (Bryan) Sones, Sones graduated from Western Maryland College in 1940. He received his M.D.

SOUTH POINTE HOSPITAL

SOUTH POINTE HOSPITAL, 41110 Warrensville Road, was created in November 1994 through the merging of Meridia Suburban Hospital and nearby Brentwood Hospital. Meridia Suburban Hospital opened in 1957 as Suburban Community Hospital, expanding its structure in 1968 and 1975.

SOUTHWEST GENERAL HOSPITAL

SOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER (formerly Southwest General Hospital), founded in 1921, continued in the 1990s to operate one of the most active emergency departments in Cuyahoga County, seeing over 34,000 patients in its Emergency Dept. in 1994. Southwest General was one of the first community hospitals in the U.S. founded by public subscription, with 8 original beds.

SPENZER, JOHN GEORGE

SPENZER, JOHN GEORGE (6 Sept. 1864-28 July 1932), an expert in forensic medicine who introduced the latest European toxicological techniques to Cleveland, was born in Cleveland to Peter Ignatius and Mary Theresa (Molloy) Spenzer.