P2246.xml GEORGE C. WELLNER: An Inventory of His Medical Addresses at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Kathryn A. Johnson. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

 Finding aid encoded by Lyda Morehouse, October 5, 1999. Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society Wellner, George C. (George Christian), 1849-. Medical addresses. undated and 1906-1911. Fifteen numbered and four unnumbered medical addresses presented by Wellner mainly to the Goodhue County Medical Society. The addresses cover a variety of topics including contemporary medical theory and practice and local medical hagiography. 3 folders. See Detailed Description section for shelf location. BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE C. WELLNER

Wellner, a physician, was born in Bavaria (May 24, 1849); immigrated to the United States (1857); graduated from Rush Medical College; came to Red Wing, Minnesota (1875); lived in Springfield and Wabasha, Minnesota (1880-1885); was a physician in Brown County (1880-1883), Goodhue County (1884), the village of Wabasha (1890-1893), and later the city of Red Wing; and was president of a number of county medical societies, including that of Goodhue (1906). He married Margaret Hickman (d.1939) in 1878.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

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Topics: Goodhue County Medical Society. Communicable disease--Minnesota--Goodhue County--Prevention. German Americans--Minnesota--Goodhue County. Medicine--Minnesota--Goodhue County--Philosophy. Medicine, Preventative--Minnesota--Goodhue County. Patent Medicines--Minnesota--Goodhue County. Tuberculosis--Minnesota--Goodhue County--Prevention. Medicine--Societies, etc.--Minnesota--Goodhue County. Places: Goodhue County (Minn.). Red Wing (Minn.). Types of Documents: Speeches. Occupations: Physicians--Minnesota--Goodhue County. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. George C. Wellner Medical Addresses. Minnesota Historical Society.

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 Accession Information:

Accession number: 4100

 Processing Information:

Processed by: Kathyrn A. Johnson, August 1997

Catalog ID number: 09-00320177

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION P2246 1 Biographical information. Numbered Addresses: 1-8, undated.

Topics consist of brief biographies of Goodhue County doctors and information on the Goodhue County Medical Society (0.1); Wellner's medical philosophies (0.2-3); medical education on communicable diseases, particularly tuberculosis (0.4-8).

 P2246 1 Numbered addresses: 9-15, undated

Topics consist of his views regarding patent medicines, with information on their financial profitability (0.9-10); past medical practices (0.11-13); and methods of preventative medicine.

 P2246 1 Unnumbered Addresses, January 2, 1906-April 4, 1911.

The unnumbered addresses to the Goodhue County Historical Society are: "The Role of the Druggist in Promoting Patent Medicines," January 2, 1906; "Constipation as a Source of Infection," July 3, 1906; "A Greater County Medical Society" (president's address), April 2, 1907; and "The Forces of Health," April 4, 1911.