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Sr., Mavis Parrott Kelsey, was born on October 7, 1912 in Deport, Texas, United States. Son of John Roger Kelsey, Senior and Bonita Parrott Kelsey.
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For centuries Texas has fired the imagination of artists as well as explorers and settlers. Before modern photography, engravings were the principal type of illustration used by artists to portray images of the state. Now, in this extensive catalogue, authors Mavis P. Kelsey Sr., and Robin Brandt Hutchison have surveyed all engraved illustrations about Texas published before 1900. Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554–1900 presents the whole range of early Texas history as portrayed in published engravings: from the first printed representation of a buffalo in 1554 to a 1900 view of the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. Entries include information on more than 2000 engravings, 470 of which are illustrated in this volume. Presented chronologically by century and decade of publication, each chapter features a brief introduction to the historical background of the era, highlighting key illustrations and placing the art within the context of major events of the period. Several topical discussions address subjects that span decades or recur as pervasive themes in illustration. Historians, teachers, and scholars will find this catalogue a useful reference for locating pictorial representations of particular events, subjects, or persons. It is an indispensable source for lovers of Texas history and an important contribution to preserving the visual record.
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( Dr. Mavis Kelsey’s career spanned some of the most asto...)
Dr. Mavis Kelsey’s career spanned some of the most astounding years ever in the development of medicine as a profession. Medical research and technological developments fundamentally transformed the treatment of patients during those years, but perhaps as important was the transformation of what has come to be called the patient-care delivery system. One of the pioneers of multi-specialty clinics, Kelsey was a founder of the prominent Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston. His story is quintessentially the story of how medicine developed from a single-doctor, home-visit practice to the mega-business, high-tech system it now is, especially in urban areas. Mavis Kelsey’s training included general medical education at the University of Texas in Galveston, internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York, work on staff at Scott and White in Temple, and a residency at the Mayo Clinic, where he was impressed by the benefits of the clinic organization. After serving in World War II, he returned to Rochester to join the staff and participate in the innovative studies then being done at the Mayo, becoming particularly involved with research on metabolic disorders and the use of radioiodine tracers in diagnosing them. As a specialist in endocrinology, Kelsey moved to Houston in 1949, just a few years after contruction began on the Texas Medical Center. With two partners, William D. Seybold and William V. Leary, he welcomed the challenge and opportunity of an ambitious medical environment within one of the country’s fastest growing urban populations and founded the now-famous Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. The years of his practice included the development of an intricate business and professional structure linking the Texas Medical Center with private specialists in Houston, the emerging structure of contract-medicine providers for corporations and institutions (including for the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Pennzoil and NASA), and the formation of charitable and research foundations based in the wealth generated by medical practice. In understated but compelling prose, Kelsey brings to life this period of unparalleled challenge and growth in the pioneering Houston medical community. Through anecdotes and memories backed by careful notes he took at the time, he reminds readers of the human face of medicine.
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Sr., Mavis Parrott Kelsey, was born on October 7, 1912 in Deport, Texas, United States. Son of John Roger Kelsey, Senior and Bonita Parrott Kelsey.
Bachelor of Science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1932. Doctor of Medicine, University Texas, Galveston, 1936. Master of Science in Medicine, University Minnesota, 1946.
Intern Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1936—1937. Instructor pathology University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1937—1938. Junior staff Scott & White Clinic, Temple, 1938—1939.
Fellow medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1939—1947, staff internal medicine, 1947—1949. Private practice, chief Kelsey Seybold Clinic, Houston, 1949—1986. Retired, 1986
Chief endocrinology University Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 1949—1965.
Acting dean University Texas School Postgraduate Medicine, Houston, 1951—1952. From instructor to professor emeritus Baylor University College Medicine, Houston, 1949—2003. Lieutenant colonel United States Air Force, 1941-1945.
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Trustee Museum Fine Arts, Houston, 1990—2001. Member development board University Texas Medical Branch, 1989—2000, member emeritus, since 2000. Member development council Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University Health Science Center, College Station.
Friend Cushing Library. Member council Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Institute Biological Technology, Houston. Member of Sons of the American Revolution, American Endocrine Society, American History Print Society, Texas Philosophical Society, Texas State History Society, Alpha Omega Omega.
Married Mary Randolph Wilson, September 17, 1939 (deceased October 1997). Children: John Wilson, Thomas Randolph, Mavis Parrott Junior.