Butte-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Miller, P. B. M. 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    P. B. M. MILLER, M. D., L. R. C. S. E., is of Scotch ancestry, and a native
of Rosshire, Scotland, where he was born on the fifteenth day of January, 1835.
In the common schools of his native country he received a thorough primary
education, and at the age of fourteen years he entered the high school of
Edinburgh. In 1854, he matriculated in the university of Edinburgh, and in 1858
graduated from the royal college of surgeons, receiving the degree of L. R. C.
S. E. In 1859, he went out to India with the British army as a surgeon. In 1860,
he returned to England, and shortly after went to Australia, and for a period of
ten years was actively engaged in the practice of his profession in the mining
districts of that country and New Zealand. In 1872, he removed from New Zealand
to California, and in a short time located at Oroville. During the year 1873,
the University City college of San Francisco conferred upon him the degree of M.
D. In 1876, he was elected a member of the California state medical society.
Being ambitious to still further perfect himself in the knowledge of his
profession, he spent eight months of the year 1877 in the east, during which
time he visited Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, and the Bellevue
hospital medical college of New York city, one of the best of the kind in the
world, from which institute he also has a diploma. He has since been actively
engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Oroville. In 1875, he
received the appointment of surgeon in charge of the Butte county infirmary. His
observations of similar institutions in Europe and this country well fitted him
for the position. It is no flattery to say that the Butte county infirmary, of
which mention is made elsewhere, is one of the best managed institutions of the
kind on the Pacific coast. In looking through the transactions of the medical
society of California for 1880-81, we notice an able treatise on the advancement
made in surgery in the past few years, by Dr. Miller, in which he takes issue
with Professor Lister, of Edinburgh, in regard to the treatment of cases of
empyema—collections of pus in the pleura—questioning the propriety of invariably
using the carbolic acid atmospheric spray, a method which Lister favored in all
cases, we believe. Dr. Miller maintained that that treatment alone was
ineffectual in removing the disorganized material which was likely to cause
putrefaction. He is a strong and original thinker in his department of
scientific learning, and his success in treating the most obstinate forms of
disease has been remarkable. As a physician he enjoys the confidence of the
public, and as a man and citizen he likewise enjoys their highest esteem and regard.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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