Bench marks / Geography and medicine : founding a medical school on the Niagara Frontier / A tale of two nineteenth-century hospitals : Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity and Buffalo General Hospital / Ray Vaughn Pierce, M.D. 1840-1914 : Buffalo's common sense medical adviser / R.V. Pierce and the Invalids' hotel : mechanical progress and the business of medicine / Buffalo's other medical school 1883-1898 / Germ theories, scientific medicine, and the Buffalo medical community / Roswell Park, M.D.--The parasitic theory of the cause of cancer / Dr. Roswell Park and the McKinley assassination / Dr. Roswell Park's lasting legacy to the world in developing the concept of a cancer center / A history of Buffalo's medical response to the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 / Irving W. Potter and Podalic version : a Buffalo case study / Development of the implantable cardiac pacemaker / Origin of newborn screening / Making of the first loop / A short history of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics / Forces of change : Buffalo and its deans / A salute to three academic giants from Buffalo / Bibliographic essay. Bibliography