Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Daniel 1R. Jmower. Daniel R. Brower was born in Philadelphia. Pa.. Oct. 121. IHEIEI. He received his early education at the public schools and Fremont Seminary at lN1orristown. Pa. He further pursued his studies at the Polytechnic College of Phil- adelphia where he graduated in IHQSO. Having decided to study medicine he attended the Medical Department- of George- town University and took the degree of M. D. in lslil. Upon graduation he obtained the appointment of Assistant Sur- geon of the United States Volunteers. He was elected Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in IHGSI. Hevvresigned this position and located in Chicago in IHT6. He tirst became connected with Rush in ISHS as Lect- urer on the Practice of Medicine: seven years later he further became Professor of Mental Diseases: for the last three years he has been Professor of Mental Diseases. Materia Medica. and Therapeutics. He is President of the Medicc-Le gal Society ot Chicago: Ex-President Chicago Medical Society: Vice4President Illinois State Medical Society: and a member of the Practitioner's Club of Chicago. Chicago Academy of Medicine. Chicago Pathological Society. American Neurological Association. American Psychological Association. Electro-Therapeutic Society. and American Medical Association. Dr. Brower's writings. which consist mainly of papers on Neurology and Psychiatry. are about forty in number. and may be found in the various medical journals and in the reports of transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society' the Tenth International Congress. and the International Clinics. 3OlJill JB. 'll3E:llllllfOl'l. .Iohn B. Hamilton was born in .Iersey county. Illinois. December. IMT. educated at Hamilton tiratnmar School a11d was graduated M. D. at Rush Medical College. February. ltiofl. He engaged in general practice from March. lHt3El, until IHT4 when he was appointed Assistant Surgeon and First Lieutenant I'. S. Army. and served at St. Louis Barracks and in the Department of the Columbia at Fort Colville. Washington. which he resigned in ISTH. In September. IHTH, he en- tered the U. S. Marine Hospital Service as an Assistant Surgeon and served in New York City. He was then ordered to Boston, and in June, IHTT, was promoted to be a Surgeon. In April. 1979. he was promoted to be Supervising Surgeon- tieneral to succeed Gen. Jno. M. Woodworth, who died March lil. INTEL General Hamilton immediately begun the re- organization ofthe service. During his incumbency of the ottice he succeeded in having the national quarantine acts passed. and successfully managed the campaign against two epidemics of yellow tever. lu J une. IHSPI. he resigned his commission of Surgeon-General. and once more came into the ranks of medical otiicers as a Surgeon. Outside his otiicial 62

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lite. he was Professor of Surgery in the University of Georgetown ttrom which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Laws in ISHN. and Surgeon to Providence Hospital. On returning to Chicago. he was made Professor of the Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in Rush Medical College. Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital. and Profes- sor of Surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic. In IHHT he was the Secretary-General of the Ninth International Medical Congress held in VVashington. and in 1,990 he was a delegate from our Goxjernment to the International Medical Congress held in Berlin. He was President of the section on Surgery at the first Pan American Medical Congress. also Secretary of the Illinois State Medical Society. Dr. Hamilton is Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3obn flnilton Eobson. John Milton Dodson was born at Berlin. Wisconsin February IT. 1959, being the elder of the two sons of Nathan Monroe and Elizabeth Abbot Dodson. I-Ie was educated in the common and High-Schools of Berlin and at the University of Vlfisconsin. from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in IHHU. In 1982 he received the degree of M. D. from Rush. and the same degree in IHHEB from Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia. He practiced in Berlin. VViscon- sin. from ISHS to IHHF4. In IHSS he completed a second course ot study at the University of Wisconsin. receiving the de- gree of A. M. In January. IHSSL Dr. Dodson located in Chicago, accepting that same month the position of Demon- strator of Anatomy in Rush. a position he still holds. In January. 1591. he was appointed Professor of Physiology. which chair he holds at present. He is a member of local and state medical societies in Wisconsin and Illinois. and ot the Beta Theta Pi and Nu Sigma Nu Fraternities. Dr. Dodson's writings have been confined to contributions to the proceedings of medical societies and to medical journals: among them are: The Treatment of Hyperpvrexiaf' IHHI: The Diagnostic Significance of Epithelia in the Urinary Sediment. two: The County Insane Asylum System in IVisconsin. IHEYOI: etc.. etc. Sanger 1ii31 cvw11. Sanger HITHVII was born in ljlooinneld. Prince Edward county. Ontario. Canada. February llii. IHB2. and received his early education in the village public school. At the age of twenty he matriculated at Albert College University. Belle- ville. Ontario, in arts and civil engineering, but,while having done some practical work in the latter courselie never pre- sented hiniself for graduation in either. 65