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On March 12, 1856, the Medical Society of the State of California held its first meeting at Pioneer Hall on "J" Street in what is now Old Town Sacramento. The society's first president, Benjamin Franklin Keene, M.D., also a state senator representing El Dorado County led the meeting of 75. The dynamic physicians who founded the Medical Society of the State of California were veterans in the fight against cholera, encephalitis, typhoid and smallpox diseases that became prevalent in the newly minted lands of California after the Gold Rush of 1849. They dedicated their organization to "promote the science and art of medicine, protection of public health, and the betterment of the medical profession." Reflecting their mission, the group's early accomplishments were many, and these built the foundation of many achievements to come. The CMA and its leaders: - Started the state public health department in the 1870s; - Made immunizations compulsory for school children in the 1880s; - Began looking at ways to fund health care for the poor in the 1930s; - Performed some of the first cornea transplants, and set up some of the first organ transplant guidelines in the country; and - Started California's first medical schools, which later became Stanford and University of California. A deadly cholera epidemic struck Sacramento in October 1850. Despite their unfamiliarity with these diseases, physicians remained committed to helping their patients...

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