{"id":1756,"date":"2018-12-03T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:07:05","slug":"mclester-james-somerville-1877-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"McLESTER, JAMES SOMERVILLE, 1877-1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician, university professor. Born&#8211; January 25, 1877, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; Joseph and Nannie (Somerville) McLester. Married&#8211; Ada Bowron, 1903. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; A.B., University of Alabama, 1896; M.D., University of Virginia, 1899; postgraduate, Gottingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Munich. Employed as chief of medicine, Camp Sheridan, 1917; commanding officer, evacuation hospital, 1918; professor of medicine, University of Alabama, 1919-1950. Member&#8211; American College of Physicians; Association of American Physicians, American Climatological and\u00a0Clinical Association, Southern Medical Association and Alabama Medical Association; president of the Alabama Medical Associations, 1920. Died February 8, 1954.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorder of Metabolism. New York; Oxford University Press, 1928.<\/p>\n<p>Nutrition and Diet in Health and Disease. Philadelphia; W.B. Saunders Co., 1931.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician, university professor. Born&#8211; January 25, 1877, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; Joseph and Nannie (Somerville) McLester. Married&#8211; Ada Bowron, 1903. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; A.B., University of Alabama, 1896; M.D., University of Virginia, 1899; postgraduate, Gottingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Munich. Employed as chief of medicine, Camp Sheridan, 1917; commanding officer, evacuation hospital, 1918; professor of medicine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9130,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}