Bennett Medical College - Em Dee Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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its - - John Dill Robertson, B. S., lVl. D., was born on March 6, IS7 I, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He became interested in railroad work and was a telegrapher for a number of years in the Middle West. Realizing that he was not living up to the fullest of his abilities, he went to Tyrone, Penna., and read Medicine for a period of six months under Dr. C. M, Ewing. At the expira- tion of this time he came to Chicago and entered Bennett, from which he grad- uated in IS96. l-le took the competitive examination for interne at Cook County l-lospital, which he successfully passed, and served there during i896- 1897. After completing his interneship he opened an oflice on the West Side and became connected with Bennett, where he occupied the Chair of Chemis- try. He was appointed Attending Surgeon of Cook County Hospital in i898 and remained in this capacity until the spring of I9 l 3, when his multitudinous duties made it necessary for him to relinquish his position. ln i900 he organ- ized the American College of Medicine and Surgery, now the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Two years later he was instrumental in building the Frances E. Willard Hospital. ln i905 he sold the American College of Medi- cine and Surgery to Valparaiso University, and again became connected with Bennett, where he was appointed Professor of Surgery. At this time, jeffer- son Park l-lospital, of which he was the founder, became affiliated with Ben- nett. ln i908 he was elected President of the Board of Trustees of Bennett, which position he held until June, IQI4. The school in a very short time showed the influence of his energy and spirit and has been steadily progressing from the time he became associated with it. ln addition to his professional and college duties, Dr. Robertson is Vice-President of the State Board of .Agriculture from the Sixth Congressional District, and is Superintendent of the Boys' State Fair School, the Educational Department, and the Emergency Hospital on the State Fair Grounds at Springfield. As an author and in- structor he stands high in the medical profession. Member of the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society. Member of the Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity. IH

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EN W Maximilian Joseph Herzog, M. D., was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main. in Germany. l-le attended the schools of his native town. During the years 1879-81 he was a student of biology, chemistry and physics in the Universi- ties of Giessen, Strassburg and Marburg, in Germany. The desire for greater knowledge was shown, when he crossed the pond in january, ISSZ, arriving in the United States, where he was engaged as newspaper writer on the Ger- man Daily Press, in St. Louis, Missouri, and Cincinnati, Ohio, from l882 to l890. During the last hfteen years as a newspaper writer, he studied medicine in the Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated with honors in l890. Enthusiastic over the great work of medicine, Dr. Herzog returned to his baby-land and took a post-graduate medical course in the Universities of Wuerzburg, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, in Germany, and Vienna, in Austria. Returning in December, l892, to the United States, he practiced medicine in Cincinnati until summer of l894. During this period he was member of the Medical Staff of the German Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. ln the summer of l894, he came to Chicago and engaged in the practice of medicine. From l896 to 1903 he was Professor of Pathology and Bacteriol- ogy in the Chicago Policlinicg Pathologist to the German Hospital and to the Maurice Porter Hospital for Children. From l903 to 1906 he was Pathologist in the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine lslands. Towards the close of the Russo-Japanese war, he was ordered by the Philippine Government to japan to study Beri-Beri in the Military Hospitals of Hiroshima and Tokio, Japan, returning to Chicago in l906. Since I906 he has been Professor of Pathology ancl Bacteriology in the Chicago Veterinary College. From I906 to l909 was Pathologist at Michael Reese Hospital. Since 1909 he has been Pathologist in the German Hospital, Alexian Brothers' Hospital, North Chicago Hospital, and is Chief of Division of Pathology, Cook County Hospital. Since October, l9l2, he has been Professor of Pathology and Head of the Department of Pathology, Bacteriol- ogy and Hygiene at Bennett Medical College. ln the year I9 l 3 the honor of Dean was placed upon him. 21