Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ir. HtUiam N. flarkinaflu Dean and Professor of Clinical Surgery We Humbly Dedicate Our Book

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Htngrapifij nf Sir. parkiuBOtt ' H OCTOR PARKINSON was born in Philadelphia) September 17, 1886. He was educated in the Philadelphia Schools, and after further preparation was entered as a student in Temple I ni-versitv Medical School, from which he graduated in 1911. He served as interne at the Montgomery General Hospital at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and after being licensed to practice, located in West Philadelphia, where he built up a large practice. During the five years following his beginning practice, he was attached to the Joseph Price Memorial Hospital as an assistant surgeon. At the same time he served as quiz-master in surgical anatomy at his Alma Mater. 'Pile call for service in the World War saw him assigned to the 28th Division during the entire enlistment of the “Iron Division,” being mustered out at the close of the war as a Major in the Medical Corps. He again entered practice and served as a member of the visiting staff of the Montgomery General Hospital, surgical division, for a number of years. In 1921 he became Associate Dean at Temple Medical School. During his busy years of practice he was an earnest student of the progress of medical education, and as Associate Dean he visited many of the large medical schools of the Kastern and Middle sections of the country. He likewise attended clinics in important centers in order to further his knowledge of surgery. In 1924 he resigned as Associate Dean and went abroad to continue his studies, spending a year on the Continent and in the British clinics. Cpon his return he moved to St. Augustine, Florida, serving for a brief time as Assistant Surgeon at the Fast ('oast Hospital, shortly becoming Chief Surgeon to the same hospital. In 1929 he returned to his Alma Mater as Medical Director of the official Hospitals of Temple Cniversitv, and in a few months was made Dean of the Medical School. Since then our school has made phenomenal strides in achieving a national reputation, and it was only fitting that this, Temple Medical School’s most nationally representative class, should dedicate its book to him.