Walter C. Alvarez

Walter C. Alvarez

:"For his grandson, the American geology professor, see Walter Alvarez."Walter Clement Alvarez (1884–June 18 1978) was an American doctor of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote Introductions and Forewords for many others. Alvarez was known for his dry wit.

He was born in San Francisco and spent his childhood in Hawaii, where his father was a government physician. In 1910, having received his medical education in Stanford University, he began his practice.

From 1913 to the end of 1925, Alvarez practiced internal medicine in San Francisco and conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1934 he became Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (Mayo Foundation) and later served as Consultant in Medicine Emeritus.

His father was Luis F. Alvarez, who worked as a doctor in California and Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy. His sister was the famed California artist and oil painter Mabel Alvarez. Alvarez was married to the former Harriet Skidmore Smythe and the couple had four children: Gladys, Luis, Robert and Bernice. Luis Alvarez, would later become a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

His grandson is Walter Alvarez, a noted Professor of Geology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Beginning in the 1950, Alvarez began writing a medical column which soon became syndicated throughout North America in hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers. He became one of the most well-known physicians in the USA, with numerous appearances on radio and television. His status led to him being referred to as "America’s Family Doctor".

The "Walter C. Alvarez Memorial Award" is named in his honor and is presented to a member or nonmember of American Medical Writers Association to honor excellence in communicating health care developments and concepts to the public.

"Alvarez' syndrome", a syndrome of hysterical or neurotic abdominal bloating without any excess of gas in the digestive tract, and "Alvarez-waves", painless uterine contractions occurring during the length of pregnancy, are named after him.

His personal papers are held by Lane's Archives and Special Collections.

Bibliography

* "Alvarez on Alvarez", 1977
* "Walter C. Alvarez: American Man of Medicine", 1976
* "Inglenook Doctor Book", 1975
* "Dr. Walter C. Alvarez on Health & Life", 1975
* "Gay Liberation and Homosexuality and Other Forms of Sexual Deviance" (co-written with Sue March), 1974
* "The New Home Medical Encyclopedia" (co-authored with Samuel L. Andelman), 1974
* "Nerves in Collision", 1972
* "Danger Signals: How to Recognize the Warnings of Serious Diseases", 1966
* "Little Strokes", 1966
* "Incurable Physician, An Autobiography", 1963
* "Minds that Came Back", 1961
* "Geriatrics: Devoted to Research and Clinical Study of the Diseases", 1958
* "Practical Leads to Puzzling Diagnoses: Neuroses that Run Through Families", 1958
* "Live at Peace with Your Nerves", 1958
* "How to Live with Your Arthritis", 1953
* "The Neuroses: Diagnosis and Management of Functional Disorders and Minor Psychoses", 1951
* "How to Live with Your Ulcer", 1951
* "Brief Psychotheraphy: A Handbook for Physicians on the Clinical Aspects of Neuroses" (co-written with Bertrand S. Frohman and Evelyn P. Frohman), 1948
* "Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain", 1943 (Previously issued as "Nervous Indigestion")
* "Help Your Doctor to Help You When You Have Food Allergy", 1941
* "Help Your Doctor to Help You When You Have Gallstones and Disease of the Gallbladder", 1941
* "The March of Medicine" (co-written with Karl A. Menninger), 1940
* "An Introduction to Gastroenterology", 1940
* "How to Live with your Ulcer", 1933
* "Nervous Indigestion", 1931
* "The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract: An Introduction to Gastroenterology", 1928
* "The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract", 1922

External links

* [http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/pc/Alvarez.jpgEarly Photograph of Walter C. Alvarez]


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