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Dr. Senn so enriched the medical and surgical literature of his day that a mere mention of the hundreds of papers which he con- tributed to it is impossible. His more pretentious and best known works include, "Four Months Among the Surgeons of Europe," "Experimental Surgery," "Intestinal Surgery," "Surgical Bacteri- ology," "Principles of Surgery," "Pathology and Surgical Treatment of Tumors," "Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints," "Tuberculosis of the Genito-Urinary Organs," Syllabus of the Practice of Surgery," "Surgical Notes of the Spanish-American War," "Medico-Surgical Aspects of the Spanish-American War," "Practical Surgery," "Nurse's Guide for the Operating Room," "Around the World via Siberia," "Around the World via India (A Medical Tour)," and "Our National Recreation Parks."
Besides the great and honored name, which survives him, Dr. Senn left a widow, who throughout his remarkable career was his wise and sturdy comfort and assistant, and two sons, who are rising members of the profession in Chicago. Dr. E. J. Senn, who gradu- ated from Rush Medical College in 1893, is now associate professor
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of surgery at his alma mater, and an attending physician at St. Joseph's and Presbyterian hospitals. Dr. W. N. Senn, a younger son, is a Rush graduate of 1900, and an associate professor of surgery at the college named.
With the death of Christian Fenger, March 7, 1902, the surgical profession of the west and the United States lost one of its most skilful
CHRISTIAN diagnosticians and operators ; more, he was an ideal
FENGER. of faithfulness to the highest code of professional
ethics, and beneath a brusque exterior concealed one of the warmest and tenderest of hearts. When the name of Christian Fenger was spoken either by fellow surgeons or students it carried an admiration and an affection seldom accorded one of his profession.
Dr. Fenger was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the year 1840, and graduated in medicine from the university of his native city in 1867. He then served as an assistant in Meyer's Ear Clinic, and after leaving that institution was an interne for two years in the Royal Fredericks Hospital. At the conclusion of that service, he established himself in private practice in Copenhagen, and thus continued until the breaking out of the Franco-German war, through which he served as surgeon in the International Ambulance Association.
At the conclusion of the war Dr. Fenger returned to Copenhagen and for three years filled the position of prosector of the City Hospital, a large and leading institution of one thousand beds. In 1874 he pre- sented his thesis for lectureship in the university upon "Cancer of the Stomach," and was thereupon appointed lecturer on pathological anat- omy. His early investigations in this field were continued throughout his life, and as a medical and surgical specialist on cancer he attained a rank with the foremost in the United States. In 1875 Dr. Fenger left Copenhagen and went to Egypt, being recognized within the succeed- ing two years as among the leading authorities on public hygiene in the country. First made a member of the Sanitary Council of Alex- andria, in 1876 he removed to Cairo, where he served, by appointment of the khedive, as medical officer of the famous Khalifa quarter. By reason of ill health, he was obliged to leave Egypt, and in 1877 located in Chicago.
Dr. Fenger's career in this city was a steady progress in the highest regards both of his professional co-workers and his rapidly increasing patrons. At various times he held the professorship of principles of
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surgery and clinical surgery in the Northwestern University Medical School and the chair of surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic ; was also sur- geon-in-chief of the German Hospital for many years, attending sur- geon at the Passavant Memorial Hospital, and consulting surgeon to the Cook County, Provident, Tabitha and Baptist hospitals. He was an active member, and served for one term as vice president, of the American Surgical Association, and was identified with the American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, Chicago Medical Society, Physicians' Club, Chicago Gynecological Society and the Scan- dinavian Medical Society.
Dr. John B. Murphy, A. M., M. D., LL. D., is one of the notable surgeons in the country, and among his fellow practitioners he is
JOHN B. freely recognized as a man not only of decision and
MURPHY. a presence which justly inspires confidence, but as
a member of the profession of remarkable skill and originality. His work has brought him into national prominence as an operator, and his identification with the medical institutions of the city has materially added to Chicago's advancing reputation as a great center of professional education and clinical instruction.
Dr. Murphy was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, on the 21st of December, 1857, and, after obtaining a public and a high school edu- cation in his native city, commenced his medical studies under the preceptorship of Dr. J. R. Reilly, one of the leading surgeons of that place. With this preliminary training he came to Chicago and was matriculated at the Rush Medical College, from which he gradu- ated in 1879. He served as an interne in Cook County Hospital from February, of that year, until October, 1880, and after engaging in private practice in Chicago for two years, went abroad for study, observation and practice in the medical centers of the old world. During the period from September, 1882, until April, 1884. he worked in the universities and hospitals of Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg, broadening both his theoretic and practical knowl- edge of medicine and surgery.
In the spring of 1884 Dr. Murphy returned to Chicago, being soon elected lecturer on surgery in Rush Medical College, and in 1892 professor of clinical surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; in 1890 professor of surgery in the Post-Graduate Medi- cal School, and during the same year attending surgeon to the .Alex-
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ian Brothers Hospital, having served. in a similar capacity in the Cook County Hospital prior to his departure for Europe. He became president of the medical staff of the Cook County Hospital in 1891, and was chosen to the presidency of the National Association of Railway Surgeons in 1895. Dr. Murphy is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Surgical Society of Germany; the Surgical Society of Paris, and of numerous other medical and surgi- cal organizations of less note. Among the late honors bestowed upon him for eminent scholarship and practice in surgery is the Lae- tare medal, received from Notre Dame University, Indiana, March 9, 1902.
Dr. Murphy has been a frequent contributor to the standard lit- erature of surgery, his papers being of unusual value, based, as they are, upon the results of actual practice. He has a world-wide reputa- tion in surgery of the abdominal tracts, and his invention and won- derfully successful application of the anastomosis button has greatly reduced the fatalities incident to injuries to the intestines, extend- ing his name and fame throughout the medical world. He was also the first in America to recognize the disease in man, which, under the popular name of "lumpy jaw," has made such ravages among cattle. Both as an original investigator and an eminent operator, Dr. Murphy is now second to none in the country, his services as a surgeon being in demand from coast to coast.
Frank M. Billings, M. S., M. D., dean and professor of medicine of Rush Medical College, Chicago, and a physician and pathologist of the highest standing, is a native of Highland, Iowa
FRANK M.
BILLINGS. county, Iowa, born in 1854 to Henry M. and Ann (Bray) Billings. In 1881 Dr. Billings graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School with his medical degree, and in 1890 the university conferred upon him that of M. S. For many years he served as consulting physician at the Cook County, Children's Memorial and Michael Reese hospitais, and attending physi- cian at the Presbyterian and St. Luke's hospitals. He is a member and ex-president of the Chicago Medical Society ; served as president of the American Medical Association in 1902-3, and is an active member of that organization, as well as of the Chicago Pathological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, Illinois State Medical Society and Asso- ciation of American Physicians. Other organizations with which he is
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identified are the Chicago Athletic Association, and Chicago, Univer- sity, Chicago Literary and Quadrangle clubs. Dr. Billings was mar- ried in Washington, District of Columbia, May 26. 1887, to Miss Jane Ford Brawley, and has become the father of one child, Margaret, born in Chicago, August 8, 1888.
In February, 1905, the invention of the "Ballenger Swivel Knife" for the sub-mucous removal of deformed cartilage of the nasal sep-
WILLIAM L. tum producing nasal obstruction, caused world-
BALLENGER. wide interest among the medical profession, and has since been recorded as among the most valuable modern inventions and discoveries by which surgery has been ele- vated to rank among the greatest and most exact sciences. The swivel knife, which the inventor at once gave to the profession with- out securing a patent, and which has since come into general use, re- duces the time of operation from half an hour to a few minutes, and at the same time simplifies the entire operation. Through the use of this instrument the name of Dr. Ballenger is spoken wherever surgery has become a distinct art, and this invention alone, so gen- erously given for the benefit of the world, is a broad basis for the most enduring fame that comes to members of the medical and surgical profession.
In his practice Dr. Ballenger is a specialist in the diseases of the ear, nose and throat, and in this special province, none of the younger generation has gained greater distinction. Like many others who have become leading specialists he commenced as a general practi- tioner, and is thus enabled to connect special symptoms with general causes, and to make a broad and thorough diagnosis of the cases which come to him for treatment. In addition to his practice, he oc- cupies the chair of rhinology, laryngology and otology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of Illinois.
Dr. Ballenger is a native of Economy, Indiana, and was born April 26th, 1861, a son of William and Lydia Ann ( Starbuck) Bal- lenger. The schools of his native place, both common and high, af- forded him his preliminary education, and he was also a student of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
He received his professional education at Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College, New York, which gave him the degree of M. D. in 1886,
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the three years prior to his entering that school being spent as a teacher in the public schools of Indiana.
Dr. Ballenger commenced the practice of his profession at Rich- mond, Indiana, immediately after his graduation, and continued it at that point from 1886 to 1893, and at Evanston, Illinois, for the suc- ceeding two years. In 1895 he centered his studies and his work on the subjects of rhinology, laryngology and otology, to which he has since confined himself as a practitioner, an educator and an author. Dr. Ballenger began his career as an educator when he was appointed instructor in his specialties at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1905, and has since been advanced to the full professorship of rhinology, laryngology and otology, which chair he had occupied since 1903. In 1896 he was appointed instructor in otology at the Chicago Polyclinic and in the following year professor of the same chair at the Chicago Eye and Ear College and Hospital.
The doctor's connection with organizations identified with his specialties has also been prominent. He served as secretary of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology in 1899- 1902, was its president in 1902-03, and has since been a counselor of the body. He is a leading member of the Chicago Medical Society, of which he was vice president in 1904, and is also a Fellow of the International Otological Congress; Chicago Laryngological and Oto- logical; American Laryngological Association; American Laryngo- logical, Rhinological and Otological Association (vice president 1905) ; Illinois State Medical Society, and the Chicago Academy of Medicine. He is a well-known contributor to the foreign and Amer- ican scientific and medical journals along the lines which he has so thoroughly investigated, and is the author of a standard text book on "The Surgical and Other Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear." Through the constant use of the name "Ballenger Swivel Knife," and his writings, his name is becoming as familiar to the profession as that of Dr. Murphy, the inventor of the famous "Murphy Button."
Dr. Ballenger was married at Richmond, Indiana, July 15, 1886, to Miss Ada Poarch. They have one child, Joanna, born October 22, 1905. The family home, "Wildermere," is at Hubbard Woods, Illi- nois, and his office is in Chicago. Aside from his connections with professional organizations, he has membership in the Winnetka Club,
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and the Chicago Athletic Association, and stands high socially, as he does in the ranks of the medical fraternity.
The late Dr. Fernand Henrotin was one of the most skilled sur- geons, learned physicians and genial and useful citizens of Chicago and the west, and commenced to come into promi-
FERNAND nence at the time that his father was about to retire.
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Father and son, in fact, were representatives of the most cultured and successful element of the profession for a period of fully sixty years, and in 1907 the name was grandly perpetuated in this city by the opening of the grand Henrotin Hospital on LaSalle avenue, which had been erected as a continuation of the Chicago Polyclinic, in the founding of which twenty-one years before, the younger Henrotin had borne so great a part. Until the day of his death this institution had been the Doctor's professional pride, and he had contributed generously of his time, strength and professional and executive abilities. Dr. Henrotin did not live to see this cher- ished project realized, as the magnificent $1,000,00 hospital was not completed until six months after his decease. It was opened in No- vember, 1907, without formal celebration, as those who were so closely associated with him in the prosecution of the work did not care to celebrate without their leader and friend.
Dr. Henrotin was born in Brussels, Belgium, on the 28th of September, 1847, son of Dr. J. F. and Adele (Kinson) Henrotin, and soon after his birth the family came to Chicago, where the father commenced the practice of his profession and continued it almost uninterruptedly until his death in 1875. Fernand received his early education in Chicago, and after graduating from the high school commenced his preparation for the profession which had been honored both by his father and his grandfather. He was matriculated at Rush Medical College, and in 1868, after a three years' course, was graduated with his professional degree. For two years thereafter he was prosector at Rush Medical College, after which he served for a like period as county physician of Cook county. Then he became surgeon of the police and fire departments, being connected with the former for fifteen years and with the latter for twenty-one, for a number of years also serving as surgeon of the First Brigade, Illinois National Guard. He was surgeon and gynecologist of Cook County Hospital for several years, and at the time of his death was surgeon
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at the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, gynecologist at the Chicago Poli- clinic, consulting gynecologist at St. Joseph's Hospital and acting gynecologist at the German Hospital. Nothwithstanding that he held and filled all these official positions, and was so closely identified with the Chicago Policlinic in its educational work, he managed a large private practice (the bulk of which was surgical) with untiring faith- fulness and consummate skill.
The deceased was a member of all the local and of the most promi- nent societies connected with his profession; was for many years secretary general for America of the International Gynecological and Obstetrical Congress; served in 1896 as president of the Chicago Medical Society, and, although unanimously re-elected the following year, declined to serve. Dr. Henrotin's monographs on professional subjects, chiefly on gynecological matters, have also earned him wide prominence. Among numerous articles which have appeared in the medical press may be instanced "Pelvic Septic Diseases in Women," which has been quoted the world over; "Estopic Gestation," in "Prac- tice of Obstetrics by American Authors," and "Gynecology," in the "International Text Book of Surgery." One of his latest contribu- tions, and which attracted unusual attention from the fact, perhaps, that the subject was treated in a somewhat popular style, was the small work entitled "Democracy of Education in Medicine."
In 1873 Dr. Henrotin wedded Miss Emile B. Prussing, and, al- though no children were born to their union, their married life was an unusually happy one, gladdened, as it was, by the high regard and warm affection of numerous and congenial friends and with the most harmonious personal relations. They resided for many years at 353 LaSalle avenue, which is still the home of the cultured and beloved widow.
The patient, thorough, strongly-fibred German temperament is especially adapted to scientific investigation and progress, as well as
WILLIAM to the practical and conservative application of dis- coveries and developing principles. This scientific
L. BAUM. nature, this thoroughness of investigation and con- scientiousness in practice, make the typical German an ideal diagnos- tician and an ideal physician in the treatment of diseases, He is not satisfied with superficial methods or temporary results, but endeavors to reach the foundation of every disorder of the human body which
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comes before him for adjustment. This trait is reaping its profes sional rewards in the many honors which are continually being be- stowed upon physicians who are natives of the fatherland, and come to this country as to a field of broader opportunities, or to those of close German ancestry.
Dr. William L. Baum, who in May, 1907, was elected president of the Illinois State Medical Association, is the son of Henry and Eliza- beth (Zorrmann) Baum, and, as the names of both his parents imply. is of good Teutonic stock. He was born in Morris, Illinois, May 11. 1867, and before he assumed his professional studies received a thor- ough general education in the public and normal schools of his native place. Dr. Baum would doubtless have made a good teacher, but found that his call to the medical profession was too strong to resist. Having determined upon his specialty, he foresaw the advantages of a thorough knowledge of drugs, and he completed a course at the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy in 1887 with the degree of Ph. G. In the meantime he had become so far advanced in his general studies that, in 1888, he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College as a regular M. D.
After practicing about a year at Morris, Illinois, during which he served as coroner and county physician of Grundy county, Dr. Baum went abroad to take post-graduate work, spending the period from 1889 to 1891 at the medical schools of the Berlin and Vienna Univer- sities and in visiting the hospitals and clinics of those famous centers of medicine and surgery. A portion of the latter year he also spent in Paris, in study, observation and investigation. Coming to Chicago during the latter part of that year, in August ( 1891) he was appoint- ed professor of skin and genito-urinary diseases at the Chicago Post- Graduate School, and in 1894 attending physician to the Cook County Hospital. Since 1897 he has been treasurer of the Post-Graduate School, and is now dermatologist to the Baptist Hospital. In 1905-6 Dr. Baum served as chairman of the medical staff of Cook County, one of the most important positions in connection with hospital ad- ministration in the west.
Aside from the presidency of the Illinois State Medical Society, with which he has recently been honored, Dr. Baum has been an active and prominent factor in the progress of the professional organizations of the city and country. As to his official prominence, he was a meni-
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ber of the board of trustees of the Chicago Medical Society in 1901-5; president of the board, Chicago Academy of Medicine, 1900-1905; secretary of the Chicago Medico-Legal Society, 1900-06; treasurer of the Chicago Medical Society .1905-6; president of the Chicago Uro- logical Society, 1905-6; first vice president of the American Uro- logical Society, 1906, and chairman of the section of Cutaneous Medi- cine and Surgery, American Medical Association, 1899. Besides membership in the above he is connected with the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, Chicago Dermatological Society, Physicians' Club, Chicago Pathological Society, Chicago Urological Society and the German Medical Society, being a fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine. Since 1905 Dr. Baum has been commodore of the Chi- cago Yacht Club.
Dr. William Franklin Coleman, M. D., M. R. C. S., Eng., one of the leading oculists and aurists in the country and founder of the Chi-
W. FRANKLIN cago Post-Graduate School (the first in the city), is
COLEMAN. a native of Canada, where he was educated and where the Coleman family had been established since the Revolutionary war. The Doctor's great-grandfather loved the mother country too much to fight against it, and when the colonies declared their independence migrated to the Dominion and settled with his family at what soon became Coleman's Corners, near the St. Lawrence river, Upper Canada. He transformed the locality into an important manufacturing center, was honored politically and per- sonally, and brothers, sons and grandsons established various indus- tries in the same section, continuing them far beyond the limits of his days.
One of the most prominent of these manufacturers was Billa Cole- man, a grandson, who married Ann Eliza Willson, a native of New York and of English descent. A few miles distant from Coleman's Corners (afterward known as Lyn) was Brockville, the county seat, and here was born to this substantial couple a son named W. Franklin Coleman. As his honored and beautiful mother died two weeks after- ward, as an infant he was removed to the ancestral town, where he obtained his early education. The schools of Brockville and of Pots- dam, across the St. Lawrence river, in New York, furnished him with a grammar and academic education, and McGill College, Montreal, and the office of Dr. Reynolds, of Brockville, were the scenes of his
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early medical studies. Ill health forced him to abandon his profes sional education for about two years, but in 1863 he finally completed his course at Queen's College, Kingston, from which he obtained his degree with honors.
Dr. Coleman commenced the general practice of medicine at Lyn. and thus continued for seven years. During this period as a country physician he had a good opportunity to decide upon a specialty, and selected diseases of the eye and ear. His first preparatory step was to spend a year at the London Hospital, England, and at Moorefield's Eye Hospital, making such progress that in 1871 he passed the ex- amination by which he became a member of the Royal College of Sur- geons, England. Returning to Canada, he spent seven years in To- ronto, a portion of that time being in partnership with Dr. . A. M. Rosebrugh, a leading oculist and aurist, and serving during the entire period as surgeon to the Toronto Eye and Ear Infirmary. For a year he then attended the famous clinics of Vienna and Heidelberg, after which he located in St. John, New Brunswick, and, both in private practice and as oculist and aurist to the Provincial Hospital, estab- lished a wide and high reputation during the seven years of his resi- dence there.
Through his writings and his professional work, Dr. Coleman's name had preceded his coming to Chicago, and his advent was soon signalized by the establishment, chiefly by his initiative, of the Post- Graduate Medical School, which has been a powerful means of giving to the city a decided standing among the centers of higher medical education in the country. Coming to Chicago in 1885, Dr. Coleman organized the school two years later, and since 1891 has been its president and professor of ophthalmology. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Chicago Medical Society, the Chicago Ophthalmological Society and the Physicians' Club of Chi- cago.
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