Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine - Caduceus Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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$119 Eblexus 1 st Is anivensitty - 3301mm m 15 JOHN DILL Rmzlek'rsnx, B. 5., M. 11., was born on March 6, 1871, 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, Pennsz and read Medicine for a period of six months under Dr. F. M. Ewing. At the expiration of this time he came to Chicago and entered Bennett, from which he graduated in 1896. He took the com- petitive examination for interne at Cook County Hospital, which he successfully passed, and served there during 1896-1897. After completing his interneship he opened an office 011 the West Side and became connected with Bennett, where he occupied the Chair of Chemistry. He was appointed Attending Surgeon of Cook County Hospital in 1898 and remained in this capacity until the spring of 1913, When his multitudinous duties made it necessary for him to relinquish his position. 111 1900 he organized 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 In 1905 he sold the American College of Medicine and Surgery to Valparaiso University, and again became connected with Bennett, where he was appointed Professor of Surgery. At this time, Jetterson Park Hospital, of which he was the founder, became affiliated with Bennett. 111 1908 he was elected President of the Board of Trustees of Bennett, which position he still holds. 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. In addition to his pro- fessional and college duties, Dr. Robertson is Vice-president 0f 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 011 the State, Fair Grounds at Springfield. As an author and iii- 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 F iaternity.

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:Loyota ' anivensity - I I I91 exus jg 21 REVEREND HENRY S. SPALDING, S. J., who has charge of the affiliated work of the university, was born in Kentucky in 1865. He was for a year Professor of History and Literature at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. He was Vice-president 0f Marquette University for seven years and labored with Father Bui'rowes, former President of Loyola University, in developing the courses of that institution. For the past four years he has had charge of the affiliated work of Loyola, his principal duties being in connecton with the medical school, in which he has taken great interest and pride. He is the author of several books for boys. His first book, entitled, MThe Cave by the Beech Fork, has gone through eight editions and has been translated into German. His second book, ttThe Sheriff of the Beech Fork, is equally interesting as his first book. Re- cently his latest book has been published, the scenes of which are laid in Kentucky, the place he knows so well. Father Spalding lectures to the Senior Medical Class on the subject of ttMoral Principles and Medical Practice.H Member of the Board of Trustees. Lecturer of Medical Jurisprudence.

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$119 $31 exus $0y018 ' aniversitty . MAXIMILIAN J OSEPH HERZOG, M. D., was born in Frankfort- on-the-Main, in Germany. He attended the schools of his native town. During the years 1879-81 he was a student of biology, chemistry and physics in the Universities of Giessen, Strassbm'g and Marburg, in Germany. The desire for greater knowledge was Shown, When he crossed the pond in January, 1882, arriving in the United States, where he was engaged as newspaper writer on the German Daily Press, in St. Louis, Missouri, and Cincin- nati, Ohio, from 1882 to 1890. During the last fifteen years as a newspaper writer, he studied medicine in the Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated with honors in 1890. Enthusiastic over the great work of medicine, Dr. Herzeg returned to his baby-land and took a postgraduate medical course in the Universities of Wuerzburg, Munich, Leipzig, Ber- lin, in Germany, and Vienna, in Austria. Returning in Decem- ber, 1892, to the United States, he practiced medicine in Cin- cinnati until summer of 1894. During this period he was mem- ber of the Medical StaE of the German Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the summer of 1894, he came to Chicago and engaged in the practice of medicine. From 1896 to 1903 he was Pro- fessor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the Chicago Policlinie; Pathologist to the German Hospital and to the Maurice Porter Hospital for Children. From 1903 to 1906 he was Pathologist in the Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands. 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, J apan, returning to Chicago in 1906. Since 1906 he has been Professor of Pathology and Bae- teriology in the Chicago Veterinary College. From 1906 to 1909 was Pathologist at Michael Reese Hospital. Since 1909 he has been Pathologist in the German Hospital, Alexian Bro- thers, Hospital, North Chicago Hospital, and is Chief of Div- ision of Pathology, Cook County Hospital. Since October7 1912 he has been Professor of Pathology and Head of the Depart- ment of Pathology, Bacteriology and Hygiene at Bennett Med- ical College. In the year 1913 the honor of Dean was placed upon him.