Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr., M.D.
Temple, Bell County, Texas
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(1865-1940) Born in Gainesville, Texas, Arthur C. Scott graduated from Bellevue Medical College in 1886 and won an internship at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Returning to Gainesville, he married Maud M. Sherwood in 1889 and began a private medical practice. In 1892 Dr. Scott was appointed Chief Surgeon of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Hospital in Temple. In 1895 he hired Dr. Raleigh R. White, Jr., and they formed a private partnership in 1897. In 1904 they founded the Temple Sanitarium which they directed jointly until Dr. White's death in 1917. Subsequently, Dr. Scott established a partnership with Dr. G.V. Brindley, Sr., and Dr. M.W. Sherwood and changed the name of the hospital to Scott and White Hospital in 1922. A specialist in surgery, Dr. Scott became an internationally respected authority in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Scott and White received accreditation from the American College of Surgeons as a cancer treatment center in 1933, the earliest in Texas. Dr. Scott was active in many medical and community organizations. The institution he co-founded became a multi-specialty health system renowned in the Southwest. He died in 1940. (1997)
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The Story
A Gainesville-born physician trained at Bellevue, Dr. Arthur C. Scott became chief surgeon of a Temple railroad hospital in 1892 and soon partnered with Dr. Raleigh R. White. In 1904 the two founded the Temple Sanitarium, renamed Scott & White Hospital in 1922, and Scott earned international standing as an authority on diagnosing and treating cancer. In 1933 the institution became the earliest accredited cancer treatment center in Texas, seeding a health system renowned across the Southwest.
Why it matters
Scott helped pioneer organized, multi-specialty and cancer medicine in Texas, building one of the region's most enduring medical institutions.
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Scott & White Hospital
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Temple was born as a railroad town in 1881, and by 1891 the Santa Fe had planted a hospital there to care for its workers. Two surgeons, Arthur C. Scott and Raleigh R. White, joined forces in a private partnership in 1897 and in 1904 opened the Temple Sanitarium, later renamed Scott & White. From those railroad-medicine roots it grew into one of the nation's largest group practices and a hub of medical training and research.
Raleigh R. White, Jr., M.D.
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Raleigh R. White, Jr. (1871–1917), the son of a Mississippi minister who had trained as a physician, graduated from Tulane's medical school at just 21. Hired as a railway hospital physician in Temple in 1895, he partnered with Dr. Arthur C. Scott, and in 1904 the two founded the hospital that would become Scott & White. A gifted surgeon who worked on cancer treatment and championed the humane care of patients, White shaped Texas medicine until his early death in 1917.
George Valter Brindley, Sr., M.D.
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George Valter Brindley, Sr., born on an Ellis County farm in 1886, graduated from the University of Texas medical department at Galveston in 1911 and joined the staff of the Temple Sanitarium that same year. Over a fifty-year career he became a pioneering cancer surgeon and a central figure at what grew into Scott and White Memorial Hospital, lending his name to its foundation. His life mirrors the rise of Central Texas as a regional center of modern medicine.
Log Cabin Study of Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott
Temple, TX
Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott, co-founder of the renowned Scott and White Hospital, used this cabin from the 1920s until his death in 1940 as a private study and retreat. Assembled from two old log corn cribs and warmed by a fireplace of stones brought by rock-collecting friends, it stood in an oak grove where a farm bell, not a telephone, summoned him for emergencies. Trained at Bellevue and once chief surgeon for the Santa Fe Railway, Scott helped grow a small 1904 sanitarium into one of the nation's foremost medical centers.