Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr., M.D.

Scott's plaque covers the partnership and the hospital. Two things it leaves out show how he worked. In 1898 he and Raleigh White joined the Kings' Daughters' Circle in opening Kings' Daughters Hospital for the medically indigent, an arrangement that lasted six years before they started the Temple Sanitarium. And Scott developed a hot cautery knife for cancer surgery. The Handbook says his hospital pioneered industrial medicine, multispecialty group practice, prepaid health insurance and postgraduate medical education, concepts that took shape under his own leadership.

What the plaque says

Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr., M.D. (1865-1940) Born in Gainesville, Texas, Arthur C. Scott graduated from Bellevue Medical College in 1886 and won an internship at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Returning to Gainesville, he married Maud M. Sherwood in 1889 and began a private medical practice. In 1892 Dr. Scott was appointed Chief Surgeon of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Hospital in Temple. In 1895 he hired Dr. Raleigh R. White, Jr., and they formed a private partnership in 1897. In 1904 they founded the Temple Sanitarium which they directed jointly until Dr. White's death in 1917. Subsequently, Dr. Scott established a partnership with Dr. G.V. Brindley, Sr., and Dr. M.W. Sherwood and changed the name of the hospital to Scott and White Hospital in 1922. A specialist in surgery, Dr. Scott became an internationally respected authority in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Scott and White received accreditation from the American College of Surgeons as a cancer treatment center in 1933, the earliest in Texas. Dr. Scott was active in many medical and community organizations. The institution he co-founded became a multi-specialty health system renowned in the Southwest. He died in 1940. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 1.6 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Mother Neff State Park — 19 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 28 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.

More markers nearby

• Scott & White Hospital — steps away
• Raleigh R. White, Jr., M.D. — steps away
• Former Site of Scott & White School of Nursing — steps away
• George Valter Brindley, Sr., M.D. — steps away