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Dr. Eisendrath is the author of a large number of monographs upon surgical subjects. He is also the author of two very popular medical text-books upon "Clinical Anatomy" and "Surgical Diag- nosis."
John Clarence Webster, M. D., well known in Scotland, Canada and the western states as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, has
JOHN C. now been a practicing physician in Chicago for
WEBSTER. nearly ten years, and has also been prominently connected with Rush Medical College and various hospitals of the city. He is a native of Shediac, New Brunswick, born on the 21st of October, 1863, son of James and Roslin (Chapman) Webster. His paternal ancestors are Scottish and his maternal, En- glish, although his mother's family has been established in Canada for more than a century.
Dr. Webster's early education was obtained at the Westmoreland County Grammar School of New Brunswick, his first collegiate course being pursued at Mount Allison University, also in that province of the Dominion, from which in 1882 he received the B. A. degree. He afterward went abroad and for a number of years took advanced and · special courses at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, which hon- ored him with M. B. and C. M. in 1888 and M. D. (gold medallist) in 1891. In 1893 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and from 1890 to 1896 practiced in that city, holding also the position of first assistant in the department of obstetrics and dis- eases of women in the University of Edinburgh. In 1897 Dr. Webster
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located in Montreal, Canada, and during the two years of his practice in that city was also lecturer on gynecology at McGill University and assistant gynecologist in Royal Victoria Hospital.
Since 1899 Dr. Webster has been identified with professional work and education in Chicago, holding the following positions: Professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College, now affiliated with the University of Chicago; obstetrician and gynecologist to Presbyterian Hospital and Central Free Dispensary, and consulting gynecologist to Passavant and St. Anthony's hospitals. He is a mem- ber of the British Medical Association, Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. Royal Academy of Medical Science of Palermo (Italy), Italian Ob- stetrical and Gynecological Society, American Medical Association, American Gynecological Society (fellow), Chicago Medical Society and the Chicago Gynecological Society, and, as to non-professional organizations, he is identified with the University and Chicago Liter- ary clubs. The Doctor is also well known as the author of various medical and scientific books, monographs and papers. He was mar- ried in 1899 to Miss Alice Kessler Lusk, daughter of the late Dr. William Lusk, of New York, and the children born to them are Janet Sophia, John Clarence, Jr., and William Lusk Webster. Dr. Webster resides at 27 Bellevue place, and his office in the business district of the city is at 100 State street.
John Ellis Gilman, M. D., emeritus professor of materia medica, Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, and one of the oldest graduates
JOHN E. of that institution now engaged in practice, is also
GILMAN. one of the most prominent homeopathists in the west. He is of old Puritan stock, his progenitor com- ing over from old England and settling in New England in 1638. Dur- ing the Revolution Nicholas Gilman was a member of the Continental Congress and was subsequently chosen a United States senator from New Hampshire, while John Taylor Gilman was governor of the Granite state for fourteen years during the last portion of the eight- eenth and the first of the nineteenth century. Fisher Ames, a cousin of Dr. Gilman's grandmother, was also a member of the first Con- gress of the United States, his immediate ancestors settling at Exeter and Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in very early colonial days.
Bartholomew Gilman, the Doctor's grandfather, was among the
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first of the family to leave New Hampshire for the new Northwest Territory, locating at Belore, a few miles southwest of Marietta. He afterward removed to Kentucky, but not before the birth of John C. Gilman, the father of John E.
John E. Gilman was born at Harmer, a suburb of Marietta, Ohio, on the 24th of July, 1841, and his father was not only a physician, but married a Miss Fay, of an old historic Massachusetts family, three daughters of whom married physicians. His uncle, Dr. George Gil- man, was also for many years a leading member of the profession in Lexington, Kentucky, and his elder brother, previous to entering the ministry, practiced medicine for some time in Marietta. The tendency of John E. Gilman to adopt a medical career seemed to be inbred from all sides of the family.
When the boy was five years of age, the family removed to West- boro, Massachusetts, where he was educated and prepared for college, having in the meantime served an apprenticeship at piano making in Boston and obtained quite a knowledge of medicine and surgery. He had also become quite a musician, and, as his father died at about this time he turned his talents in this direction to practical account by teaching music for about three years. In 1861 he returned to Mari- etta and conducted a piano store, but continued his medical studies with his brother, and when he removed to Toledo to follow the same mercantile pursuit found a medical instructor in the person of Dr. George Hartwell. After thus employing three years of his time he embarked in several oil speculations in Marietta and then settled down in earnest to make a professional name for himself.
Contrary to the wishes and instruction of his father and his sev- eral instructors, the young man joined the school of homeopathy when its principles were in general disfavor, and often ridiculed by the "regulars." In 1867 he became a student at Hahnemann Medical College, which had been founded in Chicago seven years previously, and received his degree therefrom in the spring of 1871. He at once established himself in practice at the old Crosby Opera House, his abilities being quickly and substantially recognized. He was one of the originators of the art gallery which attracted so many to that . popular and fashionable resort, and Dr. Gilman shared materially in the benefits derived by the managers of the Opera House in this influx
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of wealth and culture. The great fire, however, swept away all his private possessions, and he was obliged, with thousands of his fellow- citizens, to re-establish himself in business and in life.
Dr. Gilman was the first physician in Chicago to offer his services to the Citizens' Relief Committee, and was appointed chairman of the medical department. In this capacity he organized the burnt ter- ritory into districts, appointed the physicians in charge, instituted the opening of hospitals and dispensaries, and attended personally to the relief of sufferers temporarily sheltered in three of the city churches until the management of the work could be assumed by the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. During. the following winter and spring, as secretary of that organization and physician of the Herrick Free Dispensary, he added to his laurels both as a physician and a man.
In 1882 Dr. Gilman was elected to the chair of physiology and sanitary science of Hahnemann Medical College, holding that profes- sorship until 1888, when he was transferred to the chair of materia medica. Resigning the latter in 1902, he has since been emeritus pro- fessor. Both as private practitioner and public educator, therefore, for more than thirty-six years his reputation has been continually growing until it now places him in the front rank of homeopathic physicians in the west.
Dr. Gilman's contributions to medical literature have been many and valuable. He is also well known in general and art literature, being a clear and strong writer on current topics, and having been for some time, in company with Joseph Wright, editor of the Chicago Art Journal. It follows, as a matter of course, that his association with the medical societies of the school of which he is so distinguished a representative is both wide and intimate.
On July 26, 1860, Dr. Gilman was married at Adrian, Michigan, to Miss Mary D. Johnson, of Westboro, Massachusetts. They have two children, William Tenney and Cora Edith May Gilman, the son also being a Chicago physician. The Doctor and his wife reside at the Kenwood Hotel, on the South Side. He is a member of the Chicago Press, the Palette and Chisel, Chicago Athletic and South Shore Country clubs, and a sociable, polished and companionable gentleman, as well as an eminent representative of his profession.
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The career of Robert Hall Babcock as a physician and surgeon has some special points of interest, especially owing to the fact that
ROBERT H. since thirteen years of age he has been blind, and
BABCOCK. pursued his subsequent studies and has gained dis-
tinction in his profession against the obstacles inter- posed by that physical disability. Dr. Babcock is a graduate, with bachelor's and master's degrees, of Western Reserve University, grad- uated in medicine in 1878 from what was then the Chicago Medical College (now the medical department of Northwestern University) and the following year from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City. Three years were spent in professional study in Europe, and since 1883 he has practiced medicine in Chicago. As a specialist Dr. Babcock has devoted much of his practice to diseases of the heart and lungs. His professional connections have been ex- tensive. Until September, 1891, he was attending physician in the chest department of the South Side Free Dispensary; from 1891 to 1905 was professor of clinical medicine and diseases of the chest in the College of Physicians and Surgeons ( Medical Department of the Illinois State University) ; has also been attending physician in Cook County Hospital, consulting physician to several local hospitals, and for a number of years professor of physical diagnosis in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School. He is a member of the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the Chi- cago Tuberculosis Institute; member of the Chicago University Club, the Chicago Medical Society, the Chicago Pathological Society, As- sociation of American Physicians, American Climatological Society (at one time its president), American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, corresponding member of the Medico-Chirur- gical Society of Edinburgh, and the International Tuberculosis Insti- tute, the National Congress of Physicians and Surgeons, and honorary member of the Colorado State Medical Society. He is author of nu- merous articles contributed to medical journals, and of "Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System," (D. Appleton & Co., 1903), and "Diseases of the Lungs," (D. Appleton & Co., 1907).
Dr. Babcock was born at Watertown, New York, July 26, 1851. His family is of New England Puritan stock. His father, Robert Stanton Babcock, a native of Stonington, Connecticut, died in Kala- mazoo, Michigan, where he had been a merchant and banker. The
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mother, Emily Hall Babcock, who is still living, is a native of New York City. Among the direct ancestors who lived and gained reputa- tion in Revolutionary days were Dr. Joshua Babcock and Col. Harry Babcock, both residents of Westerly, Rhode Island. On the mother's side also were men who fought in the Revolution, as the records of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of Military Orders of Foreign Wars show, Dr. Babcock being a member of both of these societies. Robert Hall Babcock was taken by his parents to Kalamazoo, Michigan, when one year old, and in that town, which then had about five thousand people, he grew up, an accident depriv- ing him of sight when he was thirteen. From September, 1864, to June, 1867, he was a pupil of the blind in Philadelphia, and the two years following in a preparatory school at Olivet, Michigan. In Sep- tember, 1869, he entered Western Reserve College (then located at Hudson, Ohio, but since removed to Cleveland). Never a robust boy, his student life was several times interrupted by periods of ill health. The suggestions of two medical friends led him to the choice of a pro- fession, in which his honors and attainments have been notable. Dr. Babcock is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Fourth Pres- byterian church of Chicago. June 12, 1879, he married, at Montclair, New Jersey, Lizzie Clinton West. Her genealogy is noteworthy be- cause it includes the name of George Soule of the Mayflower, and various other prominent personages connected with the early history of the American colonies. Dr. and Mrs. Babcock have two children : Eleanor Clinton Babcock, born in Chicago, December 31, 1888; and Robert Weston Babcock, born in Chicago, May 9, 1893.
The actualities and possibilities of the X-ray as applied to sur- gery and medical diagnosis have attracted the profound attention and NOBLE M. investigation of the fraternity for several years
EBERHART. past. Dr. Noble Murray Eberhart is one of the few who have become so absorbed in it scientifically and as an instrument of immeasurable value in the progress of medi- cine as an exact science, that he is now concentrating all his abilities to the exposition and development of the phenomenon. The result is that he is attaining national repute in his specialty.
Dr. Eberhart is of ancient and noble German ancestry, being de- scended on the paternal side from a line of Wurtemberg kings who were in power from the twelfth to early in the nineteenth century.
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The maternal forefathers were Scotch and English. The son of Isa Amend and Melissa (Jacobs) Eberhart, he is a native of Benton Harbor, Michigan, where he was born on the 21st of April, 1870. Later the family removed further west and Noble was educated in the common branches by attendance at the public schools of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. He was also a student at the University of Illinois, Lombard University and Racine (Wis.) College, graduating from the last named institution at the age of eighteen, with the degree of B. S. In 1891 Hedding College conferred M. S. upon him, and upon his graduation from Bennett College, Chicago, in 1894, he became an M. D. Later (1901), he graduated from the medical department of the University of Illinois.
After serving as an interne in Cook County Hospital Dr. Eber- hart commenced general practice in Chicago, but gradually limited his work to special surgery. In 1901 he became greatly interested in the X-ray and finally relinquished all other work to specialize in this line. Prior to entering this field he had served for five years on the attending staff of the Cook County Hospital and for two years was attending surgeon at the Baptist Hospital. For three years he was in charge of the X-ray department of the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and is now professor and head of the department of electro-therapy and secretary of the faculty, Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, as well as attending surgeon and director of the X-ray laboratory of the Frances Willard Hospital.
Dr. Eberhart is a contributor to the standard medical periodicals, among his noteworthy papers being a series in the Medical Standard entitled "Practical X-Ray Therapy." He is also the author of a condensed guide to "X-Ray and High Frequency Technique," "Brief Guide to Vibratory Technique," a text-book issued in 1907, and of a series of three text-books on entomology and one on zoology. It should also be stated that he has been breveted captain for services in connection with Reed's Regiment, in the Spanish-American war.
The Doctor is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Med- ical Societies, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Life Insurance Examining Surgeons, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, also an honorary Life Fellow of Society of Science, Letters and Arts of London, England. He is a Mason of high degree, being a member of Garden City Lodge No.
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141, Oriental Consistory and Medinah Temple of Mystic Shrine. Dr. Eberhart's marriage to Miss Margaret Freeman occurred December 15, 1906, and their pleasant home is at No. 1139 Sheridan Road.
Albert Goldspohn, M. S., M. D., who has been an active prac- titioner of medicine and surgery in Chicago for the past twenty years,
ALBERT has a high record for thoroughness and efficiency, which is so characteristic of his ancestry. Care- fully educated, both at home and abroad, and hav-
GOLDSPOHN.
ing the advantage of the best clinics of Europe and America, it is safe to say that there are few physicians and surgeons in the city who have been more faithfully prepared for their professional work than Dr. Goldspohn. He was born in the township of Roxbury, Dane county, Wisconsin, on September 23, 1851, and is the son of William and Fredericke (Kohlmann) Goldspohn, both of whom were natives of Germany, where they were educated, but came to America before their marriage. His paternal grandfather was chief of police at Neu Strelitz, Mecklenburg, and was one of the few survivors of Napoleon's army in its memorable retreat from Moscow in 1812. Very wisely his parents did not adopt the English language in their domestic circle, nor retain any of the German provincial dialects. but taught their children the proper German ("Hochdeutsch") as their mother tongue. This was of great value to Dr. Goldspohn while pursuing his literary and professional studies, especially while taking his post-graduate course of two and a half years in Germany.
As the eldest child of a pioneer farmer, Albert's boyhood days were thoroughly schooled to industry. He cared little for games, but had a natural inclination for books and thorough intellectual investigation. This trait of conscientious thoroughness he carried with him through the district school, the village high school and his experience of two years as a drug clerk. It was while engaged in the latter capacity that he determined upon a collegiate course and the ultimate study of medicine. After completing his preliminary education he entered the Northwestern College at Naperville, Illi- nois, graduating in 1875 from the Latin Scientific course, which carried with it the degree of Bachelor of Science. Since then his alma mater has conferred upon him the M. S. degree. The Doctor looks back to. his early college days with affectionate gratitude, which does not rest with mere sentiment, as is evident by his donation of
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twenty-five thousand dollars, in 1906, for the erection of a science hall as an attractive and useful feature of the Northwestern College.
Dr. Goldspohn at once entered Rush Medical College, Chicago. and after three years of faithful study, taking also the full winter and optional courses, he graduated with his medical degree in 1878. The succeeding eighteen months which he spent in the Cook County Hospital as an interne were of vast importance to his future, opening as they did a field of wide and vital experience. This was followed by six years of general country practice at Des Plaines, Illinois, after which he again evinced his unfailing determination to develop his professional abilities to the utmost by going abroad for a post-grad- uate course at the famous German universities. For two and a half years he pursued his studies with characteristic method and energy at Heidelberg, Strassburg, Wurzburg, Halle and Berlin, chiefly de- voting himself to pathology, bacteriology and general surgery, par- ticularly to gynecology, in which specialty he has since acquired well merited distinction.
Thus strengthened by broad experience and a training under masters of world-wide fame, in October, 1887, Dr. Goldspohn began practice in Chicago, about six months later was appointed attending surgeon to the German Hospital, and in June, 1892, professor of gynecology in the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, of the city, the latter an especially flattering recognition of his profes- sional skill and originality. He is a member of the Chicago Medical, Medico-Legal and Gynecological Societies, Illinois State Medical So- ciety, Mississippi Valley Medical Association, American Medical Association, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the International Periodical Congress of Obstetricians and Gyn- ecologists. The Doctor keeps in line with the best medical and scien- tific thought not only through his leading identification with such organizations but through a liberal subscription to current publica- tions, especially those, both in German and English, which are de- voted to the diseases of women and general surgery. He has himself been a valued contributor along these lines, having written about forty monographs upon these subjects and medical sociology. Out- side of his professional field he is a member of the Evangelical Association, in religion, and a Republican in politics. But he is no politician, either political or medical, and has the utmost repugnance
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toward office seeking or office holding. Dr. Goldspohn's present wife, to whom he was married February 25, 1903, was formerly Miss Rosene II. Grasser, and his home has long been at No. 517 Cleveland avenue.
More delicate research and profound thought have been given to the medical and surgical diseases of the eye than to the disorders of any other of the special organs, for the very con-
CASEY A.
WOOD. clusive reason that blindness is the universal horror of mankind; and any physician or surgeon who can cure, or even alleviate, a serious defect of sight is considered by the patient in the light of a benefactor who can never be sufficiently rewarded. The scientific and clinical literature of ophthalmology is therefore of widespread interest and value to the professional and layman alike. This fact, combined with his remarkable abilities as a practitioner, his originality as an investigator and his distinction as a writer has made Casey Albert Wood, M. D., C. M., D. C. L., of Chicago, one of the most marked figures in the medical and surgical circles of America.
Dr. Wood is a native of Canada, born at Wellington, Ontario, on the 21st of November, 1856, son of Orrin Cottier and Louisa ( Leggo) Wood. His father was a well known physician, a native of New York state, and a descendant of Epenetus Wood: the latter born in 1689, in Berkshire, England, emigrated to America and settled near Newburgh, New York, in 1717. Samuel Wood, the great-grandfather, was an officer in the Continental army.
Dr. Wood received his education at the grammar school and col- legiate institute located in Ottawa, Canada, graduating from the latter as prize-man in 1872. After a year's residence in a French school at Grenville, Quebec, he began the study of medicine with his father, later entering the medical department of the University of Bishop's College, Montreal, and receiving clinical instruction in the Montreal General Hospital. After completing the course there lie was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and became a licentiate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. For several years lie practiced successfully in Montreal, most of the time holding the chairs of chemistry and pathology in the University of Bishop's College. He then retired from general practice to make a specialty of ophthalmology and otology, spending
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several months at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and two years in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London. In 1886 Doctor Wood was married to Emma, daughter of James Shearer, a prominent citizen of Montreal. .
Coming to Chicago, in 1889, Dr. Wood soon acquired a large practice, which has continually increased with the growth of his reputation. His prominent identification with hospital work is shown in that he has been ophthalmologist for two terms to the Cook County Hospital; ophthalmic surgeon for four years to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, and is now attending ophthalmologist to St. Luke's, Wesley, Passavant Memorial and the Post-Graduate Medical School Hos- pitals, as well as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to Cook County and St. Anthony's Hospitals. Since 1890 he has been professor of ophthalmology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, and in 1898 was appointed professor of clinical ophthalmology in the Uni- versity of Illinois. In 1906 he resigned this position on receiving the appointment of head professor of ophthalmology in the medical faculty of Northwestern University. He was elected chairman of the ophthalmological section of the American Medical Association, in 1899, and in 1902 became president of the Chicago Ophthalmo- logical Society. In 1903 he was chosen vice-president of the Medico- Legal Society.
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