Cooper Medical College, a predecessor institution to<unk><unk> . San Francisco, 1882. Photo from Lane Medical Archives Photo File, Box 9, folder 6. Reproduced with permission by the<unk>  Medical History Center<unk><unk>  traces its history back to 1858 when Elias Samuel Cooper, a physician in San Francisco, California, founded the first medical school in the Western United States. That school went through many changes, including a change of name to Cooper Medical College, a takeover by<unk>  University in 1908, and a move from San Francisco to the<unk>  campus near Palo Alto, California in 1959.
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