Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Daniel CY. tlaelefon. Daniel T. Nelson was born in Milford. Mass.. September 16. lH3tl. He graduated from Amherst at the age of twenty- two and soon after began his medical studies at Harvard. During his course he served in the Mason United States Gen- eral Hospital at Boston as a medical cadet, nurse and house surgeon. He received his degree of M. D. fiom Harvard in U465. and at once went to the front in the army. where he served three months as acting Assistant Surgeon. The war now being over he came to Chicago and began lecturing on Physiology and Histology in C'hicag'o Medical College. with which institution he was connected until IHTH. Two years later he became identitied with Rush Medical College. tirst as Adjunct Professor of Gyneecology. which position he occupied for seven years. when he was elected Professor of Clinical Gvneecology. 'While connected with the Chicago Medical College he was Attending' Physician at Mercy Hospital. Ht- has also been Attending' Gvnzecologist at the XVoman's Hospital and the Presbyterian Hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association. At-adeiny of Medicine. British Medical Society. British Gvnmcological Society. Chicago Medical Society. Medico-Legal Society. and eXePresident of the Cliic-ago tjyinecological Society. His writings have consisted of articles tor medical journals. He became an Emeritus Professor ot' Rush in IHSUZI. IEUWHYD 1- ll9OllllC5- Professor Edward L. Holmes. President ol' the Facultvot Rush Medical College. was born at Dedham. Massachusetts July SH. ISSN. After leaving the grammar school of his native town he prepared for college in private academies. and in 1542! was giaduated from Harvard College. He then taught tor some time in the Hoxlntijv tMass.l Latin School. In INS-I he oli- tained his degree of Doctor ol' Medicine from the Harvard Medical School. and at once sectm-tl an internship in the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston. After a ,year in this institution he determined to study abroad. and according'l,v he visited the great schools and hos- pitals of Paris and Vienna. For a year and a halt' he devoted himself to the study of general medicine and Sll1'Q'P1'y. and especially of the diseases ot the eve and ear. On his return from Europe ll4't'Zllll1J to Chicago. and in the fall ot INT-ti lv 1-'- n tt m self principally to his specialty. t,a l1l'2lC'lll't' in this city. devoting' him- In 1858 he founded the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear lntirmary. and in lstttt was appointed Lectnreron theEve and Ear in the summer school of medicine connected with Rush Medical College. 50

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- A few years later he lectured during the winter term upon his special branch. and was subsequently given the Pio- fessorship, Dr. Holmes in IHHEI tooli a most active part in aiding Professor J. P. Rossi who was the founder of the Presbyterian Hospitalfin his efforts to found and extend the hospital. In lbtltl Dr Holmes was elected President of the college, as successor of President J. Adams Allen. deceased. and it has always been his untiring ambition to see Rush Medical College rank among the tirst of our many medical schools. 1bem'Q nb. lpman. Henry M. Lyman was born of American parents on the Island of Hawaii. November fo. IHZJB. He prepared for college at the Punahon Academy. Hawaii Island. and graduated from Williams College 1858. receiv- ing the degree of A. B., and subsequently that of A. M. Hebegan the study of medicine in IHSH. attending acourseof lectures in 13530 at the Harvard Medical College in Bos- on. removed to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1359. and was graduated from that college in lslil, Was surgical interne in Bellevue Hospital from October. 186311, till April. 1962. when he was appointed Acting As- sistant Surgeon, U. S. A.. and was assigned to duty in the United States Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee where he remained on duty till the spring of 1Ht3El. Prostrated by the camp fever he was invalided and returned north. Married lHoif5. he settled in Chicago. October. IHUEZ. and has been engaged in the practice of medicine in that city ever since. In the year M65 he began to hear classes in recitation connected with Rush Medical College. lu Iso? was appointed Lec- turer on Chemistry in the same college. ln IHTH, on the failure of Professor Blaney's health, he lectured on Chemistry in his place. and was appointed as his successor in the following year. In 1375 he was transferred to the Chair of Nerv- ous Diseases. and on the death of Professor Frei-r. in IHTH. he succeeded him as Professor of Physiology. occupying that position until the death of Professor J. Adams Allen. when he was appointed Professor of the Theory and Prac- tice of Medicine. a position which during the preceding ten years he had held in the Woman's Medical College. of Chi- cago. During this course of years he had been one of the physicians upon the staff of the Cook County Hospital. from lHliti till IHTTI. Since lssfi he has been one of thc attending physicians to the Presbyterian Hospital. He is also Attend- ing Pnysician to the Hospital for Women and Children and St. Josephs Hospital. He is a member of the Chicago Path- ological Society. of the Chicago Practitioners Club. ot the Illinois State Medical Society. of the Association ot' American Physicians. of the American Neurological Association, and of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. 51