TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN CLINICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, VOL. 127, 2016

The Jeremiah Metzger Lecture This lectureship is supported by a sum of money bequeathed to the Association by its namesake in 1960. In 1963 the Council decided to use the income from the fund created from the bequest to support a 30-minute lecture given at the annual meeting by a member selected by the President. The first lecture, entitled “Urinary Stone,” was given by Dr. John Eager Howard of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1965. Dr. Metzger, a prominent Tucson physician, died on May 26, 1958, in a local hospital, after some seven years of semi-invalidism following three heart attacks. He was born in Oak Harbor, Ohio, attended Ohio State University for one year and the University of Michigan for three years, before graduating from Rush Medical College in 1901. He first practiced medicine in Toledo, Ohio, but ill health (presumably tuberculosis) caused him to move to Monrovia, California in 1909, where he worked as an assistant physician at the Pottenger Sanatorium until 1911. He then moved to Tucson and opened the city’s first tuberculosis sanatorium. Several years later he traveled to Leysin, Switzerland to study “sun therapy.” On his return to Tucson, he helped found a second sanatorium, the Desert Sanatorium, which later evolved into the Tucson Medical Center, the largest private hospital in Southern Arizona today. During the Spanish-American War, he served in the medical corps and remained in the Army medical reserve corps during World War I. In 1941, Governor Sidney P. Osborn appointed Dr. Metzger superintendent of the Arizona State (psychiatric) Hospital, a post he held for a short time before becoming chairman of the hospital board. When Dr. Metzger arrived as director, the institution was poorly managed, in large part because of a long history of political interference. Dr. Metzger provided the necessary leadership to transform it into a firstclass hospital for the mentally ill. Dr. Metzger was a member of the county and state medical societies, as well as the AMA and the New York Academy of Medicine. He was elected into ACCA in 1922.

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THE JEREMIAH METZGER LECTURE.

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