Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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HAROLD N . MUY ER. DAVID XVILSON GRAHAM

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ibatolb M. IIDOQQIX Harold N. Moyer was born in Panajoharie. Montgomery county. New York. August. 1358. His early education was begun in the district school. and continued by preparation for college. which was conducted partly under a private tutor. He early entered upon the study of medicine and received his degree from Rush Medical College in M79. at the age of 21 years. His first appointment was as Assistant Superintendent of the Eastern Insane Hospital at Kankakee. which position he held until October. NNY. at which time he resigned to continue his studies in Europe. He spent two years on the Continent in the schools and hospitals of Vienna. Heidelberg and Berlin. On his return to this country he entered private practice in Chicago. He was soon appointed Lecturer of Physiology in Rush Medical College. In 1991 he was Professor of Physiology. and two years afterwards was made Adjunct Professor of Medicine. D1'. Moyer has been an active contributor to medical literature. having published numerous monographs especially relating to neurology. psychiatry, and medical jurisprudence. In addition he has made some original investigations on the use of arsenic and its eifects when injected beneath the skin. Ellfreb Qllevelanb Gorton. Alfred Cleveland Cotton was born in the village of Griggsville. Pike county. Illinois. May IH. 1H4T. He attended the Grammar and High School of his native village and took a preparatory course for college under a private tutor. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Union Army as a drummer boy. was wounded. captured. and held eight months as a Confederate prisoner. At the close of the war he entered Illinois Normal University. from which he gradu- ated in 1869. Received his M. D. degree at Rush. Where he was both the President and Valedictorian of the class of TH. and later took special courses in New York and Philadelphia In 1986 the degree of M. A. was conferred upon him. Among the positions of honor which he has occupied may be mentioned the Deputy Superintendency of the public schools of Iroquois county. Coroner of Du Page county, Examining Surgeon of United States Pension Board. and the City Physician of Chicago. He is a member of Cook County Staff: Accoucheur and Physician of Diseases of Children. Presbyterian Hospital: and Attending Physician at Central and Bethesda Free Dispensaries. Has been lectui ing on Materia Medica at Rush Medical College since 1990, and is now Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children and Adjunct Professor of Materia Medica at this institution. He is a member of the Illinois State Medical Society and Chicago Medical Society. His clinical reports of childrens diseases are widely published and quoted. 68