Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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cal Congress. London. IHHIL Consulting Physician to the Woman's Hospital. Chicago: President of the obstetric sec- tion ofthe Ninth International Medical Congress. Wiashington. D. C.. IHHT: with Professor Ephraim Ingals. editor of the Chicago Medical Journal. two years: life inetnber of the British Gyneecological Society, London: member of the Chicago Medico-Legal Society: President of the Board of Trustees of Rush Medical College. IHHQ. In his personal interviews with medical students he has always dis.-ouraged their usual haste in obtaining the degree of M. D.. and urged them to take all the time possible before graduating. regardless of the requirements of the chllege. that they might become the betterqualitied for practice when they should enter the profession. Some of the Doctor's medical friends may be interested to know that he is a Mason. and has 1'eceived the Knights Tetnplar degree of the York rite. and the ElElrd degree of the Supreme Council of the Scottish rite. lElDl3l'k'ill1l ll l'lQ?ll5. The ancestors of Ephraim Ingals. M. D.. catne from England to America in llife. and were among the tirst settlers or Lynn. Mass. He was born in Potnfiet. Connecticut. May Sli. IHQEI. Wheig fourteen years old he came to Illinois. where he has always since resided. He received a limited literary and scientific education at an academy at Princeton. Ill.. and Mt. Morris Seminary. and two years in the Illinois College. While not thus engaged. and for one year while teaching. he worked on a farm. When twenty-one years old he connnenced the study of medicine. and entered Rush Medical Col- lege in 1845. taking his degree in February. IMT. He practiced medicine ten years in Lee county. Illinois, In 1857 he removed to Chicago. where he has since been in continual practice. Soon after coniing to Chicago he became associated with Professor Daniel Brainard in the editorship of the Chicago Medical Journal. and when later Professor Brainard re- tired from the Journal. Dr. Ingals continued in the same position in company with Professor De Laskie Miller. In 1959 he was appointed tothe Chai rot Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence in Rush Medical College. and in the subsequent twelve years he failed but once to till his lecture hour. During this time he took an active interest inthe erection of the new college building at the corner of Dearborn and Indiana streets. which was burned with the city in 1871. Just before this ca- latuity he had resigned his Professorship and was made Emeritus Professor to the same chair. He has been President of the Illinois State Medical Society, and has served three terms as President of the Chicago Medical Society. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society. .the Chicago Medical Society. and is Consulting Physician to the Presbyterian Hospital. He has always, by word and pen. advocated at higher grade of medi- cal education. and a strict observance of the code of medical ethics. Though not now in active professional work. he is not less active to these interests than he has ever been. 47

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JBiograpbies. There is no life of a man. faithfully recorded. but is an heroin- poe'n of its sort. rhymcd or nnrhymcd. -Smfl. Ee 'llashic fllbiller. De Laskie Miller was born in the state of New York. May 29. 1S1H. His early education was acquired in the district school. which he attended during the winter terms. and was employed on the farm during' the summer seasons until he was about seventeen years old. He then resolved to begin the study of medicine. and to enable him to carry out the deterinination he taught school during the xvinter for four years. and was engaged as a clerk in a country store and post-oflice during the summers intervening.utilizing the time which remained at his disposal in reading medical works and Writing to his friend and preceptor. Dr. Thomas G. Catlin. who. besides being an amiable gentleman and poet. was a skillful physician. His iirst course of lectures was taken at the Albany Medical College. 15441 41. His second course was attended in Geneva Medical College, where he graduated in N-12. After practicing ten years in the east he located in Chicago in the fall of 152. and became actively engaged in practice. and in teaching in Rush Medical College. The Rev. Dr. Robert H. Clarkson. rector of St. James Clzurch. afterwards Bishop of Nebraska. organized the tirst general hospital in Chicago, which was located at 112 Ohio street. in 124454. Dr. Miller was appointed its physician and surgeon. Q Some of the other ofticial appointments filled by the Doctor are the following: President ot the Chicago Medical Society. 1856: Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. Rush Medical Cl'1llEg0.15:li'.Wi'11l'i1 position he held until 19549, when he was elected Emeritus Professor: President of the Gynzecological Society. 191: Consulting' Physician of the Home of the Friendless: Consulting Obstetrician to the Michael Reese Hospital. Obstetric-ian to Cook County Hospital: Consulting' Physician to the Hospital for Incurables: Obstetrician to St. Lakes Hospital: Obstetrician to the Presbyterian Hospital: member of the American Medical Association: member of the Seventh International Medi- 4 6 C

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