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Dr. Ingals was educated in the public schools of Lee Center, Illi- nois, in the State Normal School at Normal, and Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris, and as his medical studies were pursued in Chicago, his entire mental and professional training has been pursued in the state of Illinois.
When Dr. Ingals first came to Chicago, in 1867, he kept books for a year and afterward began the study of medicine with his uncle, Prof. Ephraim Ingals, who had already attained prominence as a practitioner and for his educational work in connection with the Rush Medical College. In 1871 he himself graduated from that institution with his professional degree, and was at once made a member of the spring faculty.
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Upon competitive examination Dr. Ingals secured an internship at Cook County hospital, and, after completing his practical course there of eighteen months, went abroad to obtain even a broader expe- rience in the hospitals of London and Paris. In 1873 he returned to Chicago, and for ten years engaged in general practice.
Since 1883 Dr. Ingals has devoted himself to diseases of the throat, nose and chest, and has become a national authority in these special- ties. His text book on "Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs" is a standard, and has passed through many editions, while his superior position as an educator and practitioner is indicated by his prominent connection with professional schools and societies. He now holds the office of comptroller of Rush Medical College and professor of dis- eases of the chest, throat and nose, professorial lecturer in medicine, University of Chicago, as well as the chair of laryngology and rhinol- ogy in the Chicago Policlinic, having been an incumbent of the latter since 1889. Dr. Ingals was formerly professor of diseases of the throat and chest of Northwestern University Woman's Medical School, and has been a member of nearly every international medical congress since 1880. He was also chairman of the section of laryngology of the Pan-American Congress in 1893 and of the same section of the American Medical Association, later. He has been president of the American Laryngological Association, the American Climatological Association, Illinois State Medical Society, American Medical College Association and the Chicago Laryngological and Climatological So- ciety.
On September 5, 1876, Dr. Ingals was united in marriage with Miss Lucy S. Ingals, daughter of Dr. Ephraim Ingals and Melvina R. Ingals. Their children are as follows: Francis E., Melissa Rachel, Mary Goodell, and E. Fletcher Ingals, Jr. The family residence is at 5540 Woodlawn avenue.
Although especially identified with the homeopathy of the west, there are few practitioners of either school who are more able or widely
CHARLES known than Charles Adams, M. D., who of late
ADAMS. years has devoted himself exclusively to surgery. He is an Englishman, born at Floore, Northampton- shire, on the 29th of May, 1847, being the son of John and Elizabeth (Clarke) Adams. He is of old yeoman stock, which may account for his sturdy, yet courteous aggressiveness, and the straightforwardness
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of his character. Until he was ten years of age he received his educa- tion in the grammar school at Wellingborough, England, when he came with his parents to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he continued his studies. In 1861 the family removed to Chicago and the youth became a bookkeeper for his father, who was engaged in the live-stock business. Eight years of experience in this line convinced him that a profession, especially that of medicine, which had in it the elements of science as well as humanity, was more to his liking than the mere accumulation of money.
Dr. Adams became a student at Hahnemann Medical College, Chi- cago, in 1869, and graduated three years later with his professional degree. After his graduation he spent a year in the Hahnemann Hos- pital as house surgeon, studied for a time in London, England, and in 1873 returned to Chicago to commence a continuous practice, which, during the intervening quarter of a century, has brought him generous and legitimate financial reward, and a broad, high and substantial pro- fessional reputation. From 1873 to 1896 he was a busy, progressive general practitioner, and since the latter year has given his attention solely to surgery, his leadership in that field having been widely and signally acknowledged.
From 1873 to 1875 Dr. Adams was professor of surgical pathology at Hahnemann Medical College, and from 1875 to 1884 professor of principles and practice of surgery, Chicago Homeopathic College. In recognition of his eminent abilities, Rush Medical College, although the stanch representative of another school of medicine, in 1898 con- ferred upon him a second degree of M. D. From 1882 to 1898 he was major and surgeon of the First Infantry, Illinois National Guard, was lieutenant-colonel and brigade surgeon in the state service in 1898-03, and in 1898 also filled the office of major and brigade sur- geon of United States Volunteers. There are few members of his profession who are more widely known in the ranks of the Illinois soldiery than Dr. Adams. As consulting surgeon he is attached to the staff of St. Joseph's and Evanston Hospitals and the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum. He is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and of the State of Illinois; also a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois and
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the Chicago Medical Societies, of the Chicago Surgical Society and the Academy of Sciences.
Married in 1875 to Mary Curtis, daughter of Thomas S. Curtis. of Wellingborough, England, Dr. Adams' first wife died in 1887, the mother of one child, Cuthbert Clarke Adams, who survives. His pres- ent wife, whom he married in 1888, was Mrs. Elizabeth ( Mitchell ) Gaylord, widow of Henry Gaylord and daughter of W. H. Mitchell, vice president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, of Chicago.
John Milton Dodson, A. M., M. D., professor of medicine at Rush Medical College and dean of students of the same institution, is one of the general practitioners and educators in Chi- cago.
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Born at Berlin, Wisconsin, on the 17th of Feb- ruary, 1859, Dr. Dodson is the elder of two sons born to Nathan Mon- roe and Elizabeth (Abbott) Dodson. Graduating from the high school of his native city in 1876, he entered the University of Wis- consin for a literary course and graduated therefrom in 1880, with the degree of A. B., being honored with the degree of A. M. from the same institution eight years later. After his graduation from the Wisconsin State University he removed to Chicago, and was matricu- lated at Rush Medical College, from which he received his profes- sional degree in 1882, obtaining a second degree of M. D. from Jeffer- son Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1883.
After graduating from Rush Medical College, for three years he practiced his profession in Berlin, Wisconsin, removing thence to Madison, that state. In January, 1889, Dr. Dodson located in Chi- cago, having been appointed demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on osteology in Rush Medical College, occupying that position until 1891, when he became professor of physiology and demonstrator of anatomy, thus continuing until 1898, soon after being appointed to the chair of medicine, department of diseases of children, his present professorship. In 1899 he was also appointed junior dean of the col- lege, and held the office for two years, having been dean of students since 1901, as well as dean of medical courses of the University of Chicago.
In addition to this continuous and honorable connection with his Chicago alma mater, Dr. Dodson has been professor of pediatrics of the Northwestern University Woman's Medical School ( 1894-7) ;
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member and distributor of the Illinois Demonstrators' Association since 1889; trustee of the Chicago Medical Society (1898-1902) ; member of the board of directors of Physicians' Club from 1896 to 1903 (president in 1902-3), and has long been identified with the following organizations : Association of American Anatomists, American Medical Association, Association of American Naturalists (central states), Illinois State Medical Society, Wisconsin State Medi- cal Society, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Pathological Society, Chicago Pediatric Society and American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. It should be added that, in the midst of an active practice and the duties connected with his college offices and profes- sional organizations, the Doctor has found time to contribute not a little to the medical literature of the day.
July 1, 1884, Dr. Dodson was united in marriage to Miss Marie Van Slyke, of Madison, Wisconsin, who died June 17, 1887. On November 12, 1890, Dr. Dodson was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Palmer Kasson, of Milwaukee, and with their two children, a son, Kasson M., age sixteen, and a daughter, Elizabeth P., age ten, they reside at No. 5806 Washington avenue. His down-town office is in the Venetian building. He is a member of the Quadrangle Club and of the Westward Ho Golf Club.
Joseph Pettee Cobb, M. D., one of the leading homeopathic physi- cians in the country and an especially high authority on pediatrics, is a native of Abington, Plymouth county, Massachu-
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COBB. setts. His parents, Edward White Cobb, of his na- tive town, and Elmina Howard Cobb, of Bridge- ยท water, Massachusetts, were representatives of families directly descend- ed from the English colonists who liad been established in the Old Bay state for many generations.
Dr. Cobb received his education, primarily, in the Abington public schools, and afterward spent three years in fitting for college at Wal- tham New Church School. In 1875 he entered Harvard University, receiving his A. B. degree in 1879 and for one year thereafter teach- ing in the public schools of Bridgewater. Soon afterward he came west and located at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he entered a physi- cian's office and also engaged in the educational work of fitting boys for eastern universities. Removing then to Chicago to prosecute his professional studies, in 1881 he entered Hahnemann Medical College
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and Hospital, and in 1883 graduated therefrom with the degree of M. D., taking first honors in a class of one hundred and thirty-five. Since that year he has practiced medicine continuously in Chicago, and for nearly twenty years has been prominently identified with the ad- vancement of his alma mater as well as with the general progress of homeopathy.
In 1888 Dr. Cobb was appointed lecturer in physiology in Hahne- mann Medical College, and in 1891 elected senior professor of the de- partment of physiology, histology and bacteriology. In 1894 he was chosen senior professor of the department of pediatrics, in the Hahne- mann Medical College, and clinical professor in diseases of children in Hahnemann Hospital-which latter positions he continues to hold. It is in these fields, which include the care of children both in health and disease, which embrace the preventive and the curative process- es alike, that Dr. Cobb has acquired the greatest prominence, and enjoys the full confidence of the profession as well as a large clientele. He has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals of his school on topics which concern the welfare of children, has three times been chairman of the bureau of pedology in the American Institute of Ho- meopathy and always takes an active part in the same department of the State Society. In 1893 Dr. Cobb was elected business manager of the Hahnemann Medical College, which position he resigned at the end of the year to take the more important office of registrar of the college and business manager of its official organ The Clinique. The position of registrar he held from 1894 to 1900, and during that time was instrumental in developing in the college a consistent graded course, in broadening the scope of the laboratory work of the school, in establishing a business like method of attaining and filing scholastic records, and in putting the college in the front rank of medical schools.
The Doctor's breadth and prominence of reputation is emphasized by his election. in 1903, to the presidency of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the oldest national medical society in the country, and the only representative society of that school whose scope embraces the United States. The annual meeting for the year named was held in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the inception of the institute in 1844 four of its meetings have been held in Chicago-in 1857, 1870, 1893 (in connection with the Educational Congress of the World's Colum- bian Exposition) and in 1905. The office of president has also been
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filled four times by a member of the Chicago profession-in 1858, by Dr. D. S. Smith, the pioneer homeopath of Chicago; in 1869, by Dr. Reuben Ludlam, who was later president of the Hahnemann Medical College; in 1873, by Dr. Alvin E. Small, who was at the time presi- dent of that college, and in 1903 by Dr. Cobb. In addition to his prominent identification with the American Institute of Homeopathy, he is an active member of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Society, the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association, the Chicago Homeo- pathic Medical Society and the Clinical Society of Hahnemann Hos- pital.
In September, 1882, Dr. Cobb was married to Edith Helen Per- sons, at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have one son, Ed- mond P., born August 2, 1883, a graduate of Harvard University, and at present in the employ of the J. K. Armsby Company, Chicago. The Doctor is deeply and actively concerned in the work of the Sweden- borgian church, now serving as president of the Chicago Society of the New Jerusalem church. Exercise, especially out of doors, is one of his life tenets, and he is therefore identified with the Chicago Athletic Association, the South Shore Country Club, the Calumet Country Club and the Kenwood Club, all of Chicago.
Oscar Dodd, M. D., a resident of Evanston, with a Chicago office at 103 State street, is an eye and ear specialist of high standing and
OSCAR large practice. He was born at Rosendale, Wis-
DODD. consin, August 20, 1864. Of his parents, Bushnell
and Margaret (Murray) Dodd, his father was of English descent, and his mother, who was of Scotch parentage, came from Prince Edward Island.
Dr. Dodd's early education was obtained in the schools of Rosen- dale, and in pursuance of the higher branches he attended Ripon Col- lege, Wisconsin, after which he came to Chicago to take up his medical studies. Matriculating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he pursued his professional course with credit and gradu- ated in the class of '90. His undergraduate work was such that he received appointment as interne at the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary after his graduation, then for about a year was en- gaged in general practice at Negaunee, Michigan. He then went abroad and in the noted schools and hospitals of London, Vienna and Heidelberg attended clinics and engaged in the special studies of
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ophthalmology, otology and laryngology for a year and a half. Thor- oughly equipped and benefited by a broad and varied experience, he returned to America.
When Dr. Dodd located in Chicago in 1893 he was, therefore, a thoroughly educated and experienced physician and surgeon in his chosen specialties, and has succeeded in establishing both a fine prac- tice and a high reputation. For a long time he has been identified with the staff of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, for the past eight years having served as surgeon in the eye department. He is also oculist and aurist at the Augustana and the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Hospitals. His professional connections include membership in the American Medical Association, the Chicago Med- ical Society, the Chicago Ophthalmological Society and the American Academy of Opthalmology and Oto-Laryngology.
Married to Agnes T. Sheldon, May 18, 1898, Dr. Dodd is the father of three children, Dorothy, Charles Ward and Margaret. The family home is at 1419 Chicago avenue, Evanston, both he and his wife being identified with the cultured society of that city. The Doctor himself is a member of the Evanston Club.
Of the thoroughly educated and scientific members of the medical profession who have transferred the scene of their labors from the old to the new world, and, more particularly, to the
FILIPP KREISSL. newest world's metropolis, Filipp Kreissl, M. D., of Chicago, has achieved unusual prominence within the past twelve years. Coming from Vienna, one of the great capitals and educational centers of Europe, and finely equipped with both learning and clinical experience, he was admirably fitted to meet the professional conditions of the newer and more aggressive western metropolis, with the result that his abilities were at once recognized and his advancement has been rapid.
Born in Vienna, in the year 1859, Dr. Kreissl's parents were Jacques and Elisabeth Kreissl, who first gave him a good education in the public and high schools of his native city. His professional education was obtained in one of the most eminent institutions of Europe, the Imperial Medical College of Vienna, from which he graduated in May, 1885, with the double degree of Doctor of Medi- cine and Surgery. He had shown such marked ability in scholarship and operative skill during this period that he was appointed assistant
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to the clinics of surgery, obstetrics and genito-urinary diseases, and held that position for four years after his graduation. Then, after three years of creditable private practice, he came to the United States, joining the ranks of the local fraternity in the following year. Before putting a period to the Doctor's European career, it should be stated that his first practical experience in the medical world was as a member of the hospital corps of the Austrian army in 1881-2.
Since becoming a resident practitioner of Chicago in 1892 Dr. Kreissi has established a good private practice in his specialty, and has been signally recognized as a physician and surgeon of high character and attainments. In 1897-8 he served as president of the medical board of the Chicago Civil Service Commission; was attend- ing surgeon of the Cook County Hospital in 1902-3, and has held the chair of genito-urinary surgery in the Chicago Clinical School from 1897-1904. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, Phy- sicians' Club, Illinois State Medical Society, American Medical Asso- ciation and American Urological Society, and is also identified with the Chicago Athletic Club and the Chicago Yacht Club. Dr. Kreissl was married in Vienna to Miss Bertha Faber and he has a son, Hans George Kreissl.
Dr. Burwash has practiced medicine in Chicago since 1884. He was for several years surgeon to Cook County Hospital, and his pro-
HENRY J. fessional connections are of the very highest, mark- BURWASH. ing him an able and successful physician. He has written numerous monographs on medical subjects, and has membership in the following professional organizations : McGill Alumni Asociation, of which he is an ex-president ; the Ameri- can Medical Association, the Chicago Medical Society, and the Chi- cago Pathological Society.
Dr. Burwash was born at St. Andrews, province of Quebec, No- vember 17, 1854, son of Albert and Jane (Jefferson) Burwash; of English ancestry, but his paternal grandfather was born in Vermont. He attended the public schools at St. Andrews and the La Chute Academy, and obtained his medical education in McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, graduating in 1879, M. D., C. M .; also licentiate of Royal College of Physicians, London, England, in 1879; and during the same year did post-graduate work at St. Thomas' Hos- pital, London. In 1880-81 he practiced in Manitoba and in the
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Northwest Territory, then spent three years in Minneapolis, after which he came to Chicago, in 1884. Dr. Burwash was the first phy- sician in Rapid City-then the Northwest Territory. He is upon the surgical staff of the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home Hospital.
Dr. Burwash married, at Minneapolis, May 3, 1883, Margarita A. Meyer, a native of Hanover, Germany. Their children are Elvira and Florence, the latter deceased. He is a Knight Templar, Mason, member of Chicago Commandery No. 19. He was created a Mason at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Cataract Lodge No. 2, in 1883. He is also a member of the new Illinois Athletic Club. His resi- dence is at 721 North Hoyne avenue.
Of the younger members of the medical profession in Chicago, Norman Kerr, M. D., is a steadily rising representative, being already well known as a surgeon both in the operative and
NORMAN KERR. the demonstrating fields. He is of Scotch descent and comes from our Canadian neighbor, who has con- tributed to the local fraternity not a few valuable additions to its working, progressive and successful members. Dr. Kerr is a native of Harrington, province of Ontario, where he was born on the 12th of August, 1867, and is the son of Norman McLeod and Catherine (Mackenzie) Kerr. Educated, in his earlier years, in the public school at Holyrood, and the high school at Kincardine, both Ontario towns, he graduated from the latter institution in 1884, and then commenced the preparation for his medical career.
After pursuing a thorough course at McGill Medical College, Montreal, he graduated therefrom with the degrees of M. D. and C. M., on the 31st of March, 1889, and about a month afterward came to Chicago to engage in practice. Since that time the attrac- tion has been so mutual that he has resided here and practiced and taught continuously. In 1891 he was appointed assistant in sur- gery at the Chicago Policlinic, instructor in 1895 and assistant pro- fessor in 1902. Since 1898 he has been attending surgeon at the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital for Children. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago Medical Society, and the Surgical, Orthopedic and Pathological societies. As will be inferred, Dr. Kerr's specialty in surgery is the prevention and treatment of deformities in the
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young, caused by malnutrition, constitutional causes or accidents, and his success along these lines has been marked.
On the 3d of November, 1897, the Doctor was united in marriage to Lottie M. Austin, daughter of Dr. John Austin, and they have become the parents of two children, John Austin Kerr and Norman Archibald Kerr (deceased). Fraternally, Dr. Kerr is identified with the St. Andrew's Society and the United Order of Foresters. He votes the Republican ticket and in his religious belief is a Presby- terian. His residence and office are at No. 275 La Salle avenue, while his downtown office is at room 612, 100 State street, and he is known as one of the most skillful practitioners in his specialty in that section of the city.
Dr. John Martin Littlejohn, since 1900 president and professor of theory and practice of osteopathic therapeutics, American College
JOHN M. of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, is a native of
Scotland. He was born in Glasgow, February 15,
LITTLEJOHN. 1867, and is a son of Rev. James and Elizabeth Walker (Scott) Littlejohn.
Dr. Littlejohn is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. He studied for the ministry and was ordained in 1886, following which he taught theology for one year, and then resumed his higher studies, receiving the degrees of A. M., B. D. and LL. B. After coming to the United States, he continued his studies as a Fellow at Columbia College, in 1892-3. He received the degree of Ph. D. in 1894, and has since been the recipient of the honorary degrees of D. D. and LL. D. The degree of M. D. has been conferred upon him by both Dunham Medical and Hering Medical colleges, by the former institution in 1902. His career as an educator commenced as a tutor at Glasgow University, and in 1890 he was elected president of the Rosemount College of Glasgow, four years later being chosen presi- dent of Amity College, College' Springs, Iowa. From 1898 to 1900 he was professor of physiology and psychology and dean of the faculty at the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri; has also been professor of physiology at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, and now holds that chair at Hering Medical Col- lege, of that city.
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