- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Dr. James Henry Downey, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, ca. 1920]
- Date of Original:
- 1920
- Subject:
- Hospitals--Georgia--Gainesville
Technological innovations
Public Health--Georgia--Gainesville
Portraits--Georgia--Gainesville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gainesville, ca. 1920. Dr. James Henry Downey was born Dec. 20, 1864 in Laurens county, S.C. In 1887 he received his medical degree. After several years of practice in South Carolina, he moved to New Holland, Ga. just north of Gainesville, in 1901. He became the physician for the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, a textile mill established at this time. In 1904 he took his practice to Gainesville. About 1912 he was able to expand on several earlier efforts by building the Downey Hospital located on Sycamore Street. Dr. Downey was a surgeon whose specialty was the treatment of bone fractures. He invented and patented the Downey fracture table, a mechanical device which uses suspended weights to facilitate the treatment of fractures. The Downey Hospital is said to have been the first fully accredited hospital in the state. Dr. Downey died Aug. 28, 1937 and is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_hal396
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:hal396
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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