Dr. Anton P. Sohn graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1961, interned at San Francisco City and County Hospital, and completed a residency in pathology in Tacoma, Washington, with one of the country's foremost forensic pathologist, Dr. Charles P. Larson. Captain Sohn served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam as Chief of Pathology of the Ninth Medical Laboratory in Saigon where he was awarded the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service Under Hostile Fire.After discharged from the U.S. Army, Dr. Sohn came to Reno in 1968 to pursue a career in pathology. At Washoe Medical Center (Renown Regional Medical Center) appointed director of the laboratory, founded the hospital's Pulmonary Function Laboratory, and served on its Board of Governors.Dr. Sohn is a strong supporter of organized medicine. In 1977, he was president of Washoe County Medical Society (wcms) and in 1984 president of the Nevada State Medical Association (nsma). It was during his active participation in nsma that he became interested in Nevada's medical history after hearing stories of the 'old days' by nsma leaders. Sohn received the Nevada Physician of the Year award in 1991, and he received the President's Award for Service to Medicine in 1998 and 2011.Dean Daugherty recruited Dr. Sohn, a member of Reno pathologists with twenty members, to be chairman of pathology at UNRSOM in 1984. (Doctors Sam Parks, Roger Ritzlin, and Sohn lead the department for twenty-five-years.) In the department Dr. Sohn founded the UNRSOM Cytogenetics Laboratory with Bill McKnight of Sierra Nevada Laboratories. He also founded the Great Basin History of Medicine Program. As part of the program, Doctors Owen Bolstad and Sohn started the UNRSOM oral history archives in the department of pathology. Several chapters in this book are the result of this endeavor. For example: The Great Carlin Canyon Train Wreck and Adventure in the High Sierra.Doctors Bolstad and Sohn founded Greasewood Tablettes, A quarterly history of medicine bulletin and Greasewood Press. The press has published fourteen books on the history of medicine. Dr. Sohn also was the Nevada Editor for the Western Journal of Medicine and a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine.The use of the name Greasewood in the history of medicine program is an interesting story. Dr. S.N. 'Nick' Landis, Reno's first oncologist, frequently stopped by Dr. Sohn's office at wmc to chat and sometimes consult on a patient.On one occasion Dr. Landis told Dr. Sohn about an Indian man referred to him by a Fallon Clinic doctor. The man had metastatic melanoma to the liver. Dr. Landis told the patient the cancer was incurable, and he had nothing to offer and told him, "Go back to Fallon, get your life in order, and see your medicine man." One year later the patient came back to thank Dr. Landis for referring him to the medicine man. After an examination and finding no evidence of tumor, Dr. Landis asked him about his treatment. He was told that the medicine man told him to daily drink tea made from the leaves of the Greasewood Bush (also known as the Creosote Bush). Further research revealed that for over twelve thousand years Great Basin Indigenous People have used all parts of greasewood for medicinal purposes. The upshot of this information resulted in a clinical study by the biochemistry department at UNSOM, and no anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer) properties were found in the plant to explain the tumor regression.After Dr. Sohn suggested the name Greasewood, Dr. Bolstad added the name Tablettes, French for tablets to give the quarterly bulletin sophistication.