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The original Druid City Hospital opened Mar. 28, 1923, on the University of Alabama campus. Prior to that time, Tuscaloosa had had a number of privately owned and managed hospitals. The movement for this new hospital began in 1919 when a group of…

Dr. Rufus Cornelius Partlow Sr. was born in 1885 in St. Clair County, Partlow and his older brother, W.D. (William Dempsey) Partlow grew up on a farm and left to attend medical school. Both interned at Bryce Hospital and spent their careers treating…

Cabinet card photograph of Dr. Peter Bryce taken in 1859 upon his graduation from the Medical College of the University of New York.

Bryce was superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa (later Bryce Hospital) for 31 years.

Dr. Peter Bryce was superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa (later to be named Bryce Hospital) for 31 years, beginning in 1860.

Bryce was born in 1834 in Columbia, South Carolina. At the age of 17 he entered the South Carolina…

Dr. Bryce wrote to his "dear Nellie" on the last day of 1879. She was at her family home in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Lewis Davis, the only physician in the small town of Gordo, Alabama, at the time, died in 1960.

“Dr. Lewis,” as he was called, delivered more than 5,000 babies, most in homes, during his 45 years of practicing medicine.

Dr. Lewis was…

Bryce Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1930

Front row: Posey Hicks, Nursing Instructor; Ruby Lowley, R.N. Graduate; Iva Strickland, Nursing Instructor; Betty Finch, Nursing Instructor; Zena Cranford, R.N. Graduate; Ara Williams, R.N.…

Dr. John Francis Burnum was a native of Tuscaloosa and a graduate of the University of Alabama. He served as a combat infantryman in the Battle of the Bulge.

Upon his return from service he attended the University of Alabama School of Medicine…

Bryce Hospital School of Nursing students Clenny Hartley and Ola Belle Mullenix hold babies born to patients at Bryce Hospital in 1939 in Tuscaloosa, AL.

The building built for the Alabama Insane Hospital, later named Bryce Hospital, was designed by psychiatrist Thomas Kirkbride and architect Samuel Sloan, famed architect of the time. With three wings set in echelon formation, the hospital was an…