University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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JHaurtrc C Jturuffs By A. M. Shipley, M. D., Baltimore, Md. C4 pa R. MAURICE C. PINCOFFS was born in Chicago on August 6, 1886. His father, Maurice H. Pincoffs, was Dutch from Rotterdam and came across irf the seventies. His mother was born in Chicago, and her father came from Belgium. His mother ' s father and brother were both physicians and two generations before that. His uncle was Dr. Henrotin, who was a gynecologist of note. He was interested in Post Grad- uate Medical Education, upon which he wrote a book — The Democracy of Education in Medicine — and was one of the founders of the Chicago Polyclinic, and after his death the new hospital erected by the Polyclinic was called The Hen- rotin Memorial Hospital. A great uncle of Dr. PincofT ' s on his father ' s side was a physician in Holland in the middle of the last century, and volunteered in the British Service for the Crimea, and his wife went out with Florence Nightingale, th got home safely, although the doctor was wounded. The wife lived to be very old, and died only about fifteen years ago in Florence. It can, therefore, be seen that the subject of this sketch comes of a cultured and adventurous race. y As a boy. Dr. Pincoffs went to both private and public schools in Chicago, and from his thirteenth to his sixteenth year was on the conti- nent, chiefly in the city of Antwerp, in Belgium, and in France. He began his collegiate woi ' k at the University of Chicago in 1903. After two years he took up some of the medical courses along with his college work. From the beginning of his college work in Chicago to his graduation in medi- cine, nine years elapsed. The last tw ' o years of these nine were spent at the Hopkins in the third and fourth years in the Medical School. He received his Bachelor ' s Degree at Chicago, served one year as Assistant in Anatomy, did special work in chemistry and pathology, and completed the first two years in medicine. Out of these seven years, however, he spent a total of two years in the far West. Much of this two years was spent as a Peripatetic philosopher. He spent a part of two winters in Stetson University in Florida, as a part of his collegiate work at the Uni- versity of Chicago. He graduated in medicine in 1912, and during his senior year was a substitute interne for some time at Bellevue, New York. In 1912-13 he was medical interne at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chi- cago. This sei ' vice was a very active one and was in charge of Drs. Billings, Herrick and Sippy. During 1913-14, he was Assistant Resident in the City Hospitals at Bay View, and the following year, 1914-15. was Medical Resident. These two years were spent in the service of Dr. Thomas R. Boggs. During 1915-16, he was associated in the practice Seven