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Dr. Wood is a member of the International Medical Congress, the. American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Pan- American Medical Congress, "Die Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft," the Illinois and Chicago Medical Societies, the American Medical Association, the Chicago Neurological, Medico-Legal and Ophthal- mological Societies, and is also a fellow of the American and Chicago Academies of Medicine. In addition to the offices in the various medical societies already mentioned, he has held the presidency of the American Academy of Medicine, and in 1905-6 was president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. He is also a member of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion, and of the Union League, University, Calumet and Caxton Clubs, of Chicago.
As a contributor to the science and literature of his specialty Dr. Wood has earned a reputation which is more than national. For many years he acted as editor-in-chief of the Annals of Ophthalmol-
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ogy, and now has charge of the department of Italian literature in Oph- thalmology. He is also one of the principal editors of the Ophthalmic Record. Among other journals with which he has been connected are the Chicago Medical Standard and the Anall de Oftalmologia, City of Mexico. He wrote "Wayside Optics" for the Popular Science Monthly; a series of illustrated papers on the Eyes and Light-Sight of Printers for the Inland Printer, and since 1900 has contributed many other articles to scientific journals. Dr. Wood has edited the ophthalmic section of the Practical Medical Series, an annual review of medicine and surgery by prominent writers; has published "Les- sons in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Diseases" and "The Toxic Amblyopias : Their Pathology and Treatment"; has translated numerous ophthalmological works from German, French and Italian writers, and has written chapters for the "Posey-Wright Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye, Far, Nose and Throat," the "Hansell-Sweet Manual of Diseases of the Eye," the "Posey-Spiller Treatise on the Neurology of the Eye," the "Randall and DeSchweinitz American Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye and Ear," "Hare's Therapeutics," and other publications of a similar nature. In conjunction with Dr. T. A. Woodruff he has written a book on "The Commoner Diseases of the Eye," which has passed through three editions. With the late Dr. Frank Buller, of Montreal, he was engaged for several years in collating statistics bearing on the ravages of wood alcohol on the American population. Several hundred cases of death and blindness were made the basis of a number of articles contributed, in 1904, to the Journal of the American Medical Association. The agitation at- tending these investigations contributed not a little to the passage of the Industrial Alcohol and the Pure Food bills by Congress, Dr. Wood, upon invitation, giving his testimony before a committee of the House having the matter in charge. His original and most recent addition to our knowledge of comparative ophthalmology is con- tained in a monograph on the "Eyes and Eyesight of Birds," a zoological study mostly carried on in the gardens of the London Zoological Society, of which Dr. Wood is an active Fellow.
In 1903 the University of Bishop's College, his alma mater, con- ferred on him the honorary degree of D. C. L., for distinguished liter- ary services. In 1905 he was granted by McGill University the "ad
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eundem" degrees of M. D., C. M., chiefly on account of his noteworthy contributions to medical literature.
More recently (1908) he has completed a large work, entitled "A System of Ophthalmic Therapeutics," the only complete treatise of its kind in the English language.
On the resignation of Dr. Frank S. Whitman from the superin- tendency of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane, a successor
VACLAV H. was chosen whose previous experience and acknowl-
PODSTATA. edged ability in the fields of medicine and adminis-
tration at once insured his fitness for the new duties and the confidence of his subordinates and the public. Since the date of his appointment on July 1, 1906, Dr. Podstata has made a record fully in keeping with the high expectations entertained at the time.
For a number of years Dr. Podstata has been known in the pro- fessional and public service in Chicago and the state. Of Austrian birth, born at Hohenbruck, April 24, 1870, son of Vaclav and Anna Koblizek Podstata, educated in the high school at Braunau and in the college at Chrudim, he arrived in America from his native land in 1889, and until 1892 was associate editor of the missionary paper Pravda, published in Chicago by Rev. E. A. Adams. He continued more or less his connection with this paper during the following years when he was engaged in his medical studies. He was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic College in 1895, and in the same year took the interne examinations for Illinois State Hospital positions and was appointed to the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. Receiving his appointment on June Ist, in the following September he was promoted to the regular staff as assistant physician. He continued at Kankakee until October, 1899, when he received a leave of absence and entered upon post-graduate work in the University of Illinois. In May, 1900, he returned to Kankakee, and in February, 1902, was promoted to chief of the medical staff. A few months later he re- signed and became physician in charge at Oakwood Sanitarium, a private institution in Geneva, Wisconsin. In June, 1903, on the recommendation of a number of persons engaged in the regeneration of the Cook County Institutions at Dunning, President Foreman of the county board appointed Dr. Podstata to the position of general superintendent of Cook County Institutions. A thorough reorganiza- tion at Dunning was a task requiring the highest degree of profes-
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sional skill and administrative ability. The improvements of service and methods and the erection of numerous buildings and additions have been so many that Dunning no longer has its former reputation as a plague spot on the civic body. The success that attended his work in Dunning brought his name at once to the attention of the trustees of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane when Dr. Whitman resigned, and his appointment came as an honor thoroughly merited. Dr. Podstata is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, the Ameri- can Medical Association, and the Illinois State Medical Society. He is Republican in politics. January 12, 1903, he married Miss Mary Gra- ham Porter.
William Patterson MacCracken, M. D., one of the leading physi- cians and surgeons in Chicago and prominent in fraternal circles, is a
WILLIAM P. native of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, born May 20,
MACCRACKEN. 1863, son of Isaac and Isabel Elizabeth (Caldwell)
MacCracken, respectively of Scotch and English- American descent. During his business life the father was a merchant in that city, his death occurring in Spokane, Washington, in the year 1898, and the mother is still living in Allegheny.
Dr. MacCracken obtained his preliminary education in the public and high schools of his native city, and subsequently, for three years, was a student at the Western University of Pennsylvania. He then dropped his studies for some four years, being then engaged in the wholesale dry goods business at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Although his systematic education had been thus interrupted, the Doctor had continued his readings along various lines, which gradually had cen- tered in things medical and surgical. In 1884 he commenced the for- mal study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. L. H. Willard, of Pittsburg, and in the following year came to Chicago to enter the Hahnemann Medical College. Graduating from that institution in 1887, he has since been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession in Chicago, and not only has acquired a high standing as a physician but as an educator, through his connection with the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He was professor of physiology in 1892-95, of medical jurisprudence in 1895-97. theory and practice, 1897-99, and attending physician to the hospital in 1892-99. Outside the radius of Hahnemann College he has been attending physician to the Lakeside and Baptist Hospitals and lecturer on materia medica in the Baptist Training School for Nurses. The Doctor has had a long,
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close and influential connection with the Royal Arcanum, which brisk and growing fraternity has drawn upon his professional skill for many years. In 1890 he was appointed a subordinate medical examiner for Chicago, which position he filled for fifteen years, and in 1905 became supervising medical examiner for Illinois, as a just promotion for his long, faithful and efficient service and his deep devotion to the inter- ests of the order. Dr. MacCracken is president of the Royal Arcanum Medical Examiners' Association, and is a leader in the transactions and cooperative work of The American Institute of Homeopathy, Illinois Institute of Homeopathy, Clinical Society of Hahnemann Col- lege (of which he has been president), and the Chicago Homeopathic and Chicago Medical Societies.
Dr. MacCracken has been interested and periodically identified with military matters since his youth, his record in this line beginning in 1878, when he was captain of the cadet corps at the University of Pennsylvania. In his student years at that institution he received a thorough military training, which has since been utilized at various times. He is prominent in Masonic work, being past high priest of Fairview Chapter, R. A. M., and captain of the drill corps of Montjoie Commandery, K. T. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he tendered his services to the government, and in 1899 was appointed superintendent of the work incident to the care of returned soldiers who entered the Chicago hospitals. His connection with organizations not already mentioned extends to the Royal League and the Iroquois and Kenwood clubs. It should also be mentioned that his Masonic record dates from his membership in Landmark Lodge No. 422. In politics the Doctor is a Republican, but has never meddled with poli- tics except as a voter and an intelligent citizen.
Married September 17, 1887, at Aurora, New York, to Miss Elizabeth Avery, Dr. MacCracken has become by her the father of two children-William P. MacCracken, Jr., and Cornelia Isabelle MacCracken, who died in 1898. The Doctor's professional work has increased to such an extent that he not only has an office at his resi- dence, 4327 Greenwood avenue, but headquarters in the heart of the down-town district, at 100 State street. In 1887, when he first com- menced practice in Chicago, he opened an office at the corner of Forty- third street and Lake avenue, and since that year has always been lo- cated in the immediate vicinity.
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Oscar Oldberg, dean of the Northwestern University School of Pharmacy, and a founder of the institution as well, is one of the fore-
OSCAR most authorities of his day in all pharmaceutical OLDBERG. matters. He comes of a people famous for its bot- anists, chemists and pharmacists, being born in Alfta, Sweden, on the 22nd of January, 1846. His parents were Anders and Fredrika Oldberg, who provided him with a thorough edu- cation directed toward the realization of a scientific career. After re- ceiving a preliminary training in various public schools of Sweden and under the tuition of private teachers, he also pursued a course at the gymnasium, located at Gefle.
When he was nearly twenty-one years of age Mr. Oldberg emi- grated to the United States, and engaged in the practice of pharmacy at New York and Washington. In 1872 he served as vice consul of Sweden and Norway at Memphis, Tennessee. Subsequently he re- turned to Washington, District of Columbia, where for seven years he was identified with the United States Marine Hospital service as chief clerk and medical purveyor. While thus engaged he became a member of the faculty of the National College of Pharmacy, which conferred upon him the honorary degree of Pharm. D.
In 1884 Dr. Oldberg came to Chicago, and in 1886 became one of the prime movers in the founding of the Northwestern University School of Pharmacy and was elected dean of its faculty. This office he still fills with his old-time zeal and efficiency, his chair on the faculty being professor of pharmacy and director of the pharmaceutical lab- oratories. Since 18So he has served as a member of the Committee of Revision of Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and in 1893 was honored with the secretaryship of the Seventh International Pharma- ceutical Congress. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Pharmaceutical Association, the German Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society. and several state organizations devoted to that field.
As an author, both alone and in collaboration with others, Dr. Oldberg has an international reputation. In this line, he is the author of "Companion to the United States Pharmacopoeia," published by Oldberg and Wall in 1884; "Weights and Measures," 1885; "Labora- tory Manual of Chemistry" (with Professor John HI. Long), 1894:
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"Home Study in Pharmacy," 1890; "Fifteen Hundred Examples of Prescriptions and Formulas," 1892; "Inorganic Chemistry, General, Medical and Pharmaceutical," 1900. Besides being the author of such standard works, he is a constant contributor of valuable papers to the current medical press, on pharmacy, chemistry, pharmacopœias and metrology.
On May 17, 1873, Dr. Oldberg was united in marriage with Miss Emma Parritt, of Youngstown, Ohio, and the children born to them have been as follows: Arne, Olga (now Mrs. Thornton W. Small- wood) and Virgil. The family residence is at No. 7808 Union avenue.
Thomas Adams Woodruff, M. D., C. M., L. R. C. P. (London), is one of that increasing class of physicians who, commencing as THOMAS A. WOODRUFF. general practitioners, become especially attracted to some form of pathological condition, or affections which relate to special organs, and are impelled to devote their professional study and practice to a sharply defined field. Their previous training gives them such a broad foundation for their special investigations and practice that they are able to instinctively judge as to the relation of general conditions and remote pathological causes to the abnormal developments in special regions or organs, thus having an advantage as diagnosticians over fellow practitioners who may reach the same conclusions only after long and laborious study and research.
Dr. Woodruff, so widely known as a specialist in ophthalmology and otology, is a Canadian, born in St. Catharines, Province of On- tario, on the 4th of June, 1865, his parents being Samuel De Veaux and Jane Caroline (Sanderson) Woodruff. He is a descendant of Matthew Woodruff, who settled in Connecticut in 1640 and was one of the original proprietors of Farmington, Connecticut. His great- grandfather, Ezekiel Woodruff, was born in Litchfield, that state, graduated at Yale University in the class of 1779, and was a lawyer by profession. In 1795 he moved to Canada, settling in the Niagara district. The paternal grandfather, William Woodruff, was a native of Litchfield, but when very young was brought to Canada by his parents, and afterward became a leading merchant and man of affairs in the Dominion, at one time serving as a member of the assembly of Upper Canada. His father, Samuel De Veaux Woodruff, was a well known and prominent resident of St. Catharines and the Niagara
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Dr. Woodruff received his early education in the schools of St. Catharines and Niagara and pursued his higher literary studies at the Upper Canada College, located at Toronto. After matriculating at the University of Toronto he entered McGill University, at Mon- treal, from which he graduated in 1888, with the degrees of M. D. and C. M. The succeeding two years he spent in Europe, attending the hospitals in London, Berlin and Goettingen and obtaining an experience of incalculable benefit to him in his future practice. While abroad, he was also house physician in the Nottingham General Hos- pital, England, and in 1890 took the degree of L. R. C. P. in London.
It was during the latter year that the Doctor became a resident physician of Chicago, and for four years engaged in a most successful general practice. In 1894 his attraction to ophthalmology and otology had grown so intense that he formally retired from general practice to take up these specialties. The years 1894-5 were spent in attend- ance upon the eye and ear hospitals of Vienna, Berlin and London, and in the fall of the latter year he returned to Chicago and has since confined himself to his special field,' establishing both a lucrative prac- tice and a broad reputation among his fellow specialists for signal skill either in diagnosis or medical and surgical treatment.
For many years Dr. Woodruff has been prominent in connection with professional organizations and in the literature devoted to his specialty. He formerly held the chair of ophthalmology at the Chi- cago Post-Graduate Medical School, and is ophthalmic surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, St. Anthony de Padua Hospital and the Post- Graduate Hospital. In 1906 he served as vice-president of the Chi- cago Ophthalmological Society, of which he is a leading member, as well as of the following: American Medical Association, American Academy of Ophthalmology (Fellow), American Academy of Med- icine (Fellow), Illinois State and Chicago Medical Societies, Chicago Ophthalmological Society, Physicians' Club and Die Ophthalmo- logischen Gesellschaft. Dr. Woodruff is editorial secretary of the Ophthalmic Record and collaborator of "Ophthalmology." In con- junction with Dr. Casey A. Wood he has written a book on the "Commoner Diseases of the Eye," which has passed through three editions. Individually he is author of a number of papers on ophthal-
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mology, which have attracted the close attention of the fraternity, and materially extended his already broad reputation as a skillful and learned specialist in the field which he has elected to occupy- and in which aim he has met with such marked results. Dr. Wood- ruff is also president of the McGill Alumni Association, which num- bers in Chicago quite a number of prominent practitioners, and has served as president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society in 1908 and third vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1908. Outside of the organizations identified with his profession he has membership in the Calumet Club, of which he was first vice- president in 1906-7-8 and president in 1908-9. He is also a member of the South Shore Country and University clubs. He is also identi- fied with the Zeta Psi fraternity and is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and is, in every sense of the word, a man of intense and broad activity, believing, with other physicians of the modern school, that the way to attain greatest usefulness in the world is to get into the most intimate touch with the greatest possible number of its people.
Henry Stevens Tucker, M. D., dean of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, president of the staff of the Frances Willard
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TUCKER. tioner, especially well known as a gynecological surgeon, is a native of Illinois. He was born at Campton, Kane county, on the Ist of May, 1853, and is a son of John Richard and Margaret (Thompson) Tucker, his English and Scotch ancestry bringing to him the industry, persistency and thor- oughness which mark him as a man and have signalized his profes- sional career. The foundation of his literary education was laid in the common schools of Campton and St. Charles, Illinois. Later he spent two years at Wheaton (Ill.) College, but received his literary degree from Oskaloosa College, of Iowa.
Dr. Tucker pursued his professional course at Bennett Medical College, Chicago, which conferred M. D. upon him in 1879. In 1904 he took a post-graduate course at the American College of Medicine and Surgery, having previously had a long and prominent experience in connection with the educational work of his alma mater. From 1879 to 1883 he was demonstrator of anatomy on the faculty of Bennett Medical College; professor of general and descriptive anat-
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omy in 1883-9, and professor of surgery and attending and consulting physician in the college hospital from 1889 to 1900. At the present time, besides being dean of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery and president of the Willard Hospital staff, he is professor of gynecology in the former institution and a member of the con- sulting staff of the Cook County Hospital. His fraternal connection with professional organizations are with the American Medical Asso- ciation and with the Illinois Medical and the Chicago Medical Soci- eties.
Dr. Tucker's wife, whom he married October 15, 1884, was for- merly Emma Kronenberg, daughter of Joseph Kronenberg, a hard- ware merchant of Hamburgh, New York, and they have a daughter, Inez.
The Doctor has long taken a deep interest in Masonry and has advanced high in the order, being a member of Ashlar Blue Lodge, Lafayette Chapter, Montjoie Commandery and Oriental Consistory. In religion he is a Presbyterian, in politics, a Republican, in profes- sional character, able and conscientious, and, as to his private traits, approachable, yet high minded and absolutely reliable.
Alexander Leslie Blackwood, M. D., senior professor of materia medica and professor of clinical medicine in Hahnemann Medical College, a practitioner of high standing, was born
ALEXANDER L. BLACKWOOD. in Huntington county, Quebec, July 28, 1862, son of John and Ann (Steell) Blackwood. He re- ceived his literary education in his home academy and at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and was subsequently matriculated at Hahnemann Medical College for the full course, graduating from that institution in 1888 with the degree of M. D. Not being satisfied with his professional attainments thus acquired, Dr. Blackwood pur- sued a course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School in 1889, and at the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University, Balti- more, Maryland, in 1902.
Notwithstanding these thorough courses in advanced work, Dr. Blackwood has been engaged in an active and prominent practice in Chicago since his graduation from Hahnemann College in 1888, and has also attained high standing in connection with the educational work of his alma mater. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society. American Institute of Homeopathy, Illinois Homeopathic Vol. I-25.
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Medical Association, Homeopathic Medical Society and the Clinical Society of Hahnemann Hospital. The Doctor is also widely known as a contributor to the literature of his profession, being the author of "Diseases of the Heart and Lungs," "Materia Medica Preparations and Pharmacology," "Diseases of the Liver," and "Diseases of the Intestinal Tract."
On August 16, 1891, Dr. Blackwood was married to Miss Helen A. Winslow, who died February II, 1903, leaving two children, Leslie Winslow and Howard C. Dr. Blackwood is a staunch member of the Congregational church. He is a Republican in politics ; has been a leader in educational affairs for years, and is now serving on the Chicago Board of Education, his term expiring in 1908. He is also a member of the Chicago Press Club and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
E. Fletcher Ingals, M. D., an eminent authority in diseases of the throat, chest and lungs, is a native of Lee Center, Lee county Illinois, where he was born on September 29, 1848. He comes of a family which was settled in the north of
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England during early historic times, the first Ameri- can ancestor coming to the United States in 1627. Various members located in Vermont at a pioneer period of American history, the grand- parents of E. Fletcher Ingals removing thence to Pomfret, Connecti- cut, where his father was born. Later, the family migrated to Lee county, Illinois, where Charles F. Ingals was a leading farmer and stockman for many years, but finally removed to Chicago, where he died at 85 years of age, and his wife is still living, aged eighty-eight.
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