George Horace Coshow was a 1930 graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School. After graduation, Coshow relocated to California and apparently spent the remainder of his career in Carpinteria. He practiced at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and was in part responsible for the establishment of its Reeves Library. A letter sent from Coshow to Bertha Hallam and Margaret Hughes in 1974 shares his joy at the opening of the G. Horace Coshow, M.D. Room. The Carpinteria Valley Museum of History also has a room named after Coshow. He died in 1989.
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The collection consists of five bound black notebooks, and a small envelope of loose materials. Some of the notebooks are handwritten, some typescript, some a mix.
Received from an anonymous donor via mail from the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, PO Box 689, Pueblo at Bath St. Santa Barbara, CA 93102, 2009 July 27.
George Horace Coshow medical school materials collection, Collection Number 2009-015, Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives
This is typescript one sided, with much room for handwritten notes. Sometimes if no notes are added it appears as 2 blank pages. Some printed instructions are interleaved with the pages.
It is signed by Coshow who dated this notebook as 1927-28, and that he was a member of medical fraternity Alpha Kappa Kappa. However, this notebook is odd in that the date in the begining of the book is Oct. 5, 1927, and goes into February 1928; but at the end is dated Oct. 27, 1926. It is also handwritten and hand drawn, double-sided. It also includes notes from Dr. Allen on Neurology and Dr. Bellinger on Tuberculosis.
This notebook is handwritten.
This notebook is handwritten.
Typescript, single-sided notes of Dr. Osgood's, with Coshow's handwritten notes. Also includes notes for Dr. W.H.Bueerman's "Surgical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Gastro-intestinal Tract", and Physical Therapy with Dr. Arthur C. Jones. At the end is a reprint from v6 1923 Archives of Surgery on an"Outline of the Treatment of Fractures".