Interviewer
Archives Staff -- University Library
Project
El Paso Medical Community
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee
Longtime El Paso physician; board certified radiologist; born in 1914; sone of Lithuanian immigrants; attended Lamar School; Bailey School, Morehead School, and El Paso High School; served in U.S. Navy; graduate of University of Pennsylvania; interned at Albert Einstein Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Summary of Interview
Recounts immigration of family from Lithuania to U. S.; briefly sketches history of Jewish community in El Paso; father's role in founding Congregation of Mena Zion; arranged marriage of parents; opening of pawn shop in South El Paso, City Loan and Jewelry, by father and cousin Sam Ravel; shootings in El Paso at turn of century; purchase of ammunition, guns, and pistols by Pancho Villa; Columbus Raid; Pershing Expedition to Mexico; El Paso's red light district on Ninth Street in 1930s; physical examinations of prostitutes; comments on El Paso's recognition as health center for tuberculosis patients; recounts tuberculosis sanitoriums in El Paso, including Southwestern General Hospital; neurodermatitis patients' move to El Paso; economic struggles during the Depression; advent of sulfas in 1937; availability of antibiotics and penicillin in WW II; incidence of leprosy in El Paso; mentions experience as physician for Texas Wrestling Commission.
Date of Interview
1968
Length of Interview
1 ¼ hours
Listen to the Interview
Tape Number
No. 14
Transcript Number
No 14
Length of Transcript
37 pages
Transcriber
Amy Bené
Interview Number
No. 14
Terms of Use
Unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Interview with Vincent Ravel, M.D. by Archives Staff -- University Library, 1968, "Interview no. 14," Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso.
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