Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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He graduated as president of his class at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. New York City. 1580. and immedi' ately took a position on the medical staff of the New York City Asylum for the Insane and continued in asylum work un- til 1886. when he resigned from the position of Medical Superintendent of the Bloomingdale Asylum. New York City. to pursue his studies abroad. In 1886-T he conducted an elaborate series of original investigations in connection with Professor E. A. Schaafer. at University College. London. for the purpose of definitely locating the cortical centers of taste. smell and vision in the monkey. This work was presented to the Royal Society. which expressed its appreciation by remunerating the authors for all expense incurred in the work. Settling in Chicago in N90 Dr. Brown was elected Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Hygiene in Rush Medical College the following year. He is an active member of the London Neurological Society. Fellow of the New York Acad- emy of Medicine. member of the National Medical Association. and most of the local societies. A Uruman 11111. JBropbQ. Truman W. Brophy was born in XVill county, Illinois. Ap1'il 12. NIH. He is of Irish-English descent. From seven to fourteen the boy Truman worked on the farm in summer and attended the district school in winter. At fourteen we find him pursuing a higher course of study at the Elgin Academy. Elgin. Illinois. This was supplemented by a course of business training at the Dyrenfurth Business College in Chicago. Having decided to become a dentist. in 1567 he entered the dental otiice of Dr. J. O. Farnsworth. of Chicago. and subsequently the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. at Philadelphia. from which institution he graduated in DTS Having spent some time in various medical colleges and hospitals of the east he returned to Chicago and at once entered upon the practice of dentistry. In IHSO he received the degree of M. D from Rush Medical College and was soon elected to the Chair of Dental Pathology in that institution. a position which he still holds. In 1882 Dr. Brophy. with others. took the initiative steps for founding the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. This institution is now permanently located at the corner of Wood and Harrison streets. The building is a niagniiient six- story structure of stone and pressed brick. The professors are now thirteen in number. with seventeen instructors and three hundred and fifty-two matriculates. Dr. Brophy has been Dean of this college since its organization in IHHS. He is an honorary member of many state dental associations and has written much for the leading publications dc- voted to medical and dental surgery. He is also a member of the Delta Sigma Delta. Dental College Fraternity. 64

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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

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Ztltlilliam G. 3t3clficlb. William 'l'. Beltield was horn at St. Louis. Mo., Nitin. and received his early education in Chicago Grammar and High Schools. After three years literary course at the University of Michigan. he became Instructor in Latin and Chemistry in the Chicago High School until lHTti. when he entered Rush. graduated in NTT. and held the position of interne in Cook County Hospital tor the succeeding eighteen months. He then pursued his studies in Vienna. Berlin. and London for two years. and upon his return, was elected Lecturer on Pathology and Surgery at Rush: he was also Lecturer. l f Cartwright Fund. tNew Yorkl. for IHHES. He was successively Pathologist and Surgeon at Cook County Hospita or two and seven years respectively, later becoming Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery at Chicago Polyclinic in IHSH. Professor of Surgical Pathology. Chicago College of Dental Surgery, 1987: and Professor of Bacteriology at Rush. 1890: Dr. Beltield is the author ol' Relations of Micro-organisms to Disease tCartwright Lecturesl: Diseases of Urinary and Male Sexual Organs tWood's Standard Lihraryt: Operative Treatment of the Enlarged Prostate? and Genito- Urinary Surgery with Cystoscopyf' He was President of Chicago Medical Society. MST H. is an Honorary Fellow of New York Pathological and Boston tiynzological Societies: and is also a member of American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons. Davie Itiilileon Graham. David Wilson tlraham was horn at Briggsville, Ill.. 154421. He graduated from Monmouth Academy and received the degree A. B. from Monmouth College in lstltt. his studies having been interrupted from 'tif to '65 hy service in the Eightys'l'hird Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He hegan his medical course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College. where he graduated with the class of 'Ti He was Attending Surgeon of Central Dispensary for sixteen years. was Attending Surgeon in Cook County Hos- pital for two years. and has been Attending Surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital since its organization, He is Consulting Surgeon at the Wesley and St. .l'oseph's Hospitals and the VVashingtonian Home. also Attending Surgeon at the National Temperance Hospital. llr. tlrahain was President one year. and Secretary tive years ot' the Chicago Medical Society: Secretary seven years ot' the illinois State Medical Society: and is a meinher ot' the Pathological Society. and ol' the American Medical Association. He taught Anatomy at the YVo1nan's Medical College for nine years and is now Professor ot' Surgery in that institution. ile was Assistant ot' Clinical Surgery with Dr. Gunn in Rush Medical College. where he is now Clin- citl l,I'4'7i.t'SSHl' ol' Sut'ger,V. 65