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Dr. Stringfield is a native of Washington, District of Columbia, but spent the years of his early manhood in the west. In 1881 he removed to Chicago, from Topeka, Kansas, and soon afterward commenced the study of medicine. Finally entering the Chicago Medical College (medical department of the Northwestern Uni- versity) for a regular course, he graduated therefrom in 1889 with the degree of M. D., and at once became assistant to the chair of principles and practice of surgery in his alma mater. He was at- tending surgeon on the staffs of the Cook County and Baptist hos- pitals for years, and at one time was a surgeon of the United States Marine Corps. At the present time he is a physician to the Actors' Fund of America, and besides his identification with professional organizations already mentioned, enjoys membership in the Ameri- can Medical Association, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Illinois State Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society. In his fraternal relations he is a Mason and a life member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias, having been prom- inent in each order. In Masonry he is a member of Blaney Blue Lodge No. 271, Lincoln Park Chapter No. 177, R. A. M., Apollo Commandery No. I, and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and is past chancellor of Globe-Athol Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
On August 14, 1889, Dr. Stringfield married Miss Josephine Milgie, of Chicago. The Doctor is popular socially, as well as pro-
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fessionally, and is a welcome member in the Hamilton, Forty, Chi- cago Athletic, Chicago Yacht, South Shore Country and Chicago Automobile clubs.
William McIlwain Thompson, M. D., a promising younger mem- ber of the medical fraternity, is of good Scotch-Irish descent, and
WILLIAM M. was himself born in Ireland, at McGuire's Bridge,
THOMPSON. on the 28th of November, 1868. He is a son of Rev. L. H. Thompson, D. D., and his wife, form- erly Martha McIlwain, his father for many years having been a leading minister in the Presbyterian church.
Dr. Thompson's education was obtained at the public schools of Baltimore, Maryland, at McAllister College and Princeton Uni- versity -- that is, through these mediums he laid a broad foundation of general and literary knowledge and scientific attainments, which is the best possible preparation for the physician and surgeon of the day. His professional studies were pursued first at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1892, and a supplementary course, at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, of the same city, earned him a second degree of M. D. In his specialty of gynecology, Dr. Thompson is now acknowledged to be a leading authority and practitioner. He is consulting gynecolo- gist to St. Joseph's and Union hospitals, and has a large private clientele. In common with other up-to-date members of his pro- fession, he keeps in touch with the advanced literature and clinics of medicine and surgery by identifying himself with such organizations as the American Medical Association, the Illinois Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society.
Dr. Thompson's wife, to whom he was married April 25, 1901, was formerly Anna Carruth Hill, and the two children born to them were Anna Hill Thompson, deceased, and William McIlwain, Jr., born August 19, 1907. The family residence is at No. 1840 Wright- wood avenue, but an increasing practice requires an office in the cen- tral business district of the city, which is located at 100 State street.
Cassius Clay Rogers, A. M., M. D., for a number of years prom- inently identified with the progress of medical practice and education CASSIUS C. in Chicago, is an Illinois man, born in the year ROGERS. 1869, at Minonk, Woodford county, son of Alma and Johanna (Kerrick) Rogers. He comes of an
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old eastern family, his ancestors settling in America prior to the Revolutionary war. After passing through the district and high schools of his native locality, he entered the Valparaiso (Ind.) Uni- versity, receiving from that institution the degree of B. S. in 1890, and of A. B. in 1891. Soon afterward he was appointed assistant principal of the high school at Liberty, Missouri, and in 1892-3 held the principalship of the Greeley public school, at Streator, Illinois.
The details and routine of pedagogy, however, were ill adapted to Dr. Rogers' active and scientific temperament. He therefore re- signed his position at Streator, and was matriculated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which, after an assiduous course of study, he was graduated in 1896 with his M. D. Since June of that year he has continuously practiced in this city, and, either from a pecuniary or a purely professional standpoint, has no reason to regret his choice of a location. From 1898 to 1905 he served as assistant surgeon of the Chicago Clinical School; in 1903-4 coached the Cook county quiz class in surgery, for the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; was pro- fessor of clinical surgery of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1905-6; secretary of the west side branch of the Chicago Medical Society in 1905-6; since 1901 has been professor and head of the department of physical diagnosis, Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and since 1906 professor and head of the department of surgery of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (Medical department of the Valparaiso University). He is also surgeon to the Frances E. Willard hospital.
The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical and the Chicago Medical societies, and the Tri-State Medical Society (Illinois, Iowa, Missouri). He is an honor- ary member of the A. K. K. fraternity, connected with the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons. His contributions to medical literature are numerous and highly valued, and in 1907 his profes- sional attainments were further strengthened and broadened by Eu- ropean travel and education. In the summer of that year he visited the leading hospitals and clinics of Europe, and returned to his prac- tice with the increased knowledge and confidence which come with such valuable experience. His practice is now limited to surgery and consultations.
Outside of his profession Dr. Rogers is a leader in several of
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the historic fraternities. He is identified with Landmark Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and in Masonry is a member of Wright's Grove Lodge, A. F. and A. M .; Oriental Consistory, Valley of Chicago (thirty-second degree), and Medinah Temple, Mystic Shrine. The Doctor's wife, to whom he was married in 1901, was formerly Miss Rena Belle Richards, and the family residence is at the corner of Warren and Homan avenues. The downtown office is at No. 72 Madison street.
Among the members of the medical profession who have located in Chicago within recent years and made the treatment of the eye and
DAVID ear their specialty in practice and educational dem-
FISKE. onstration, none better merit notice in a work of this character, both by reason of their thorough preparation and proficiency, than David Fiske, M. D. He is of English descent, and his family has furnished to this country numer- ous representatives who have become prominent in literary and pro- fessional fields. A native of Shelburne, Massachusetts, born in April, 1872, his parents are David Orlando and Isabelle (Hawks) Fiske, and the education of his boyhood and youth was obtained in the common schools of his native town and the high school at Green- field, Massachusetts.
Dr. Fiske obtained his fundamental professional education at Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1900, but, in , line with other advanced members of his profession, has pursued several post-graduate courses abroad-notably in Berlin and Vienna. After his graduation from Rush Medical College he at once began practice in Chicago, and is now well and favorably known as an oculist and aurist in private, clinical and educational circles. He is assistant professor of otology at the Chicago Policlinic, attending oculist and aurist at the German Hospital and attending oculist and aurist at the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, as well as assistant in ophthalmology and otology at Rush Medical College. He keeps in co-operative relations with his fellow practitioners and also in touch with the latest progress in scientific medicine and surgery through his membership in the American Medical Association, and the Illinois State Medical, the Chicago Medical, the Chicago Ophthal- mological and the Chicago Otological societies. Socially he is identi- fied with the Illinois Athletic, the Marquette Club and the Glen View
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Golf Club, and is not only recognized as an able specialist in a field which requires the most delicate skill and accuracy of knowledge, but a gentleman of broad and attractive personality. .
There is perhaps no profession in which the sciences and higher mechanics are so closely related as in that of medicine and surgery.
The chemist, the investigator in the realm of the
ROBERT H. GOOD. natural sciences, and the inventor and developer of some of the most delicate of instruments, are all brought into the service of the modern physician and surgeon. The member of the profession who makes the medical and surgical treat- ment of the intricate organs of the senses his specialty has especial need of scientific and mechanical attainments of the highest order. He must also have a broad medical education, in order that he may be able to trace special effects from general constitutional conditions, or remote causes in the human anatomy. The specialist of today is therefore everything but narrow; in fact his knowledge is usually wonderfully exact and thorough in his own field, and broader outside of it than the average so-called general practitioner. Of the specialists of the day none require greater accuracy or breadth that those en- gaged in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat-parts of the body which are so intimately related that it is often a severe test to the diagnostician to locate the primal cause of the trouble.
Robert Hosea Good, M. D., whose prominence in the field men- tioned is a certainty that he possesses the modern requisites for ad- vancement, is a Canadian by birth, but received his higher and pro- fessional education in the United States. He was born in Waterloo, province of Ontario, on the 3Ist of December, 1873, the son of Joel and Agnes (Hosea) Good. On the paternal side he is of Ger- man blood, his ancestors coming from the fatherland to the United States in 1737, while his maternal forbears were of good Scotch stock, his mother coming to Canada in 1839. Until he was sixteen years of age the youth attended the Canadian schools, for two years after- ward attending an American high school, and in 1896 graduating from the academic course of the Northwestern College, at Naper- ville, Illinois. Soon thereafter he entered the Albion (Mich. ) Col- lege, completing his course and receiving his degree of B. S. in 1899. In 1902 Dr. Good completed his professional studies at Rush Medi- cal College, entitling him to an M. D., and the same year received
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also an M. S. from Northwestern College. In 1906 he pursued a post-graduate course at the University of Vienna, Austria, for which he received a regular certificate. It will thus be seen that along literary, scientific and professional lines Dr. Good has had a most thorough mental training, and since he commenced his practice and educational work in Chicago, in 1902, his advancement has been so rapid as to be a signal proof of the wisdom of such a radical prep- aration.
From 1903 to 1905 Dr. Good served as clinical assistant in the eye and ear department of Rush Medical College; is assistant in- structor in physical diagnosis at the Chicago College of Dental Sur- gery, in 1904; assistant in eye at the Chicago Policlinic, in 1905 ; sur- geon in eye, ear, nose and throat to the Evangelical Deaconess Hos- pital ; staff member in ear, nose and throat at Frances Willard Hos- pital, and is now head professor in ear, nose and throat at the Chi- cago College of Medicine and Surgery. The Doctor keeps in line with modern progress and in close touch with the members of his pro- fession by his identification with the transactions and publications of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago Medical Society and the Chicago Laryngological and Otological Society.
Dr. Good was married June 26, 1900, to Ella Bell Wagstaffe, and of this union has been born two children-Palmer Wagstaffe and Grace Madeline. The Doctor's residence is at River Forest, where, as in Chicago, he is known as a leader in his specialty, and a cultured, affable and popular gentleman.
William Sheriff Orth, M. D., a well-known practitioner, long con- nected with the staff of Alexian Brothers Hospital, is a native of
WILLIAM S. Illinois, born at Keithsburg, September 21, 1864.
ORTH. His parents are Calvin Siechrist and Mary Frances (Sheriff) Orth, and, as the name indicates, he comes of substantial German ancestry. From the public schools he graduated finally into Monmouth College, and in 1887 received from the latter the degree of B. S. Soon afterward he came to Chicago and was matriculated at Rush Medical College, from which he ob- tained his professional degree in 1890. Still desirous of greater ex- perience before entering practice, he secured an interneship at Alex- ian Brothers Hospital, under competitive examination, and remained
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there during eighteen months of 1890 and 1891. At the conclusion of that term of service he was appointed attending physician at the hospital, and has filled the position since. This long official connec- tion, with his growing private practice, has made the doctor a most familiar figure on the northwest side of the city. His residence is at 1764 Wrightwood avenue, and his downtown office is in the Schiller building.
On June 23, 1898, Dr. Orth was married to Miss Anna Catherine Tempel, and their three children are Dorothy Frances, Calvin Wil- liam and Richard Edgar Orth. The doctor is professionally identi- fied with the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and his fraternal relations are with the A. F. and A. M.
In the specializing of medicine no department has received more earnest attention, or made greater advances within the past twenty
ISAAC A. years than that devoted to the treatment of chil-
dren's diseases. The reason lies neither deep nor
ABT. obscure, for it was early recognized by general prac- titioners that many troubles and weaknesses of the human body, if taken in hand at an incipient stage, could either be eradicated, or at least be prevented from becoming chronic and life-long burdens to the flesh. The wisdom of prevention has, in fact, had as much to do with raising pediatrics to its present plane of importance as the natural parental anxiety for a cure when a disease is actually fixed or at an acute stage. The successful practitioner among chil- dren must be of an especially sensitive, observant and sympathetic nature, and yet of great self-control so as not to communicate his perplexities or fears to those who are, perhaps, unduly concerned in the welfare of their young. Not having the assistance of a mature patient in diagnosis, he is thrown with particular emphasis upon his own resources. Such noteworthy success as has come to Isaac Ar- thur Abt, M. D., is, therefore, a special evidence of professional penetration and skill.
Although an Illinoisan, born at Wilmington, December 18, 1868, the doctor's parents, Levi and Henrietta (Ilart) Abt, are natives of Germany. He obtained his elementary education from the public schools of Chicago, and was prepared for college at the old Univer- sity of Chicago. In 1889 he completed a preliminary medical course at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and in 1891 graduated
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from the full course of the Northwestern University Medical School, then known as the Chicago Medical College. During the following two years he had the advantage of serving as an interne at the Mi- chael Reese Hospital, Chicago, and from 1893-94 took post-graduate work in Berlin and Vienna.
He was professor of diseases of children at the Northwestern Uni- versity Woman's Medical School until it went out of existence, and at one time was instructor in physiology, histology and diseases of chil- dren at Northwestern University Medical College. He is now attending physician (diseases of children) to Michael Reese and Cook County Hospitals ; consulting physician to Provident Hospital and Home for Crippled Children, and associate professor of diseases of children at Rush Medical College. He has written numerous monographs on the diseases of infancy and childhood; is the editor of The Year Book on diseases of children, and is a member of the various medical associations.
On August 20, 1897, Dr. Abt was united in marriage with Lena Rosenburg, the children of their marriage being Arthur Frederick and Lawrence Edward. The family residence is at 4326 Vincennes avenue, and his office at 100 State street.
Benjamin Brindley Eads, M. D., dean and professor of surgery and clinical surgery, Illinois Medical College, graduated from Jef- ferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, in 1891,
BENJAMIN B. EADS. and in the same and following year was resident- in-chief at Jefferson Hospital, and also associate surgeon with Dr. Boardman Reed at Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1892 he passed his examination before the New York State Board of Health, at Albany, and the New Jersey State Board of Health at Trenton, and he is entitled, by registration, to practice in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois.
Dr. Eads first became known as an educator in Chicago in 1893, when he was appointed instructor in anatomy and assistant demon- strator of anatomy in Rush Medical College, holding the position until 1894. From 1895 to 1897 he served as professor of anatomy in Illinois Medical College; was professor of applied anatomy and operative and orthopedic surgery in the same institution in 1898- 1900, and since 1900 has been professor of surgery and clinical surg- ery, as well as dean of the faculty. Since 1894 he has also been
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surgeon to the Illinois Hospital; was professor of surgery and clin- ical surgery at Jenner Medical College in 1897-98, and was surgeon to Cook County Hospital in 1905-07. He was president of the ex- Resident Physicians and Surgeons of Jefferson Hospital for 1907-08, and is a member of the following professional organizations : Amer- ican Medical Association, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Patho- logical Society and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association.
Dr. Eads, whose professional career has been distinguished by rapid progress to such responsibilities and honors, was born at Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the 23rd of January, 1870, son of Darwin D. and Anna Frank (Adair) Eads. His father was also a physician, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, class of '69. The son was educated in the common schools of Bourbon county, also in private institutions and under private instructors, and completed his literary training in the college at Carthage, Missouri. On Septem- ber 6, 1898, he married Miss Elizabeth Douglas Stedman. Their children are Elizabeth, Benjamin Brindley, Jr., and Charles Stedman. Dr. Eads and family reside at No. 683 Washington boulevard. He is a member of the Illinois and Fort Dearborn clubs, and of Union Park Lodge, A. F. and A. M .; York Chapter, St. Bernard Com- mandery, and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
A leading physician and surgeon of Chicago for nearly twenty years, Illinois born and educated professionally in this city, William WILLIAM S. WHITE. Seymour White, M. D., is certainly entitled to an honorable place in the local history of his fraternity. He is a native of McHenry county, born December 30, 1864, and is the son of William Robert and Emily Adelaide (Cook) White. He traces his remote ancestry to the French and Dutch, but so far removed in time that he is content to say simply. with Patrick Henry, "I am an American."
As to his education, the doctor is, primarily, a product of the Chicago public schools, and received his professional degree from the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, being a graduate of the class of '88. For five years before entering college Dr. White en- joyed a good business training-a decided advantage to any profes- sional man. In 1879-81 he was connected with the wholesale grocery house of John A. Tolman and Company, and in 1881-85 was en-
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gaged in the fire insurance business with D. S. Munger and Com- pany. This valuable experience proved the stepping-stone to his pro- fession, and he entered the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College in 1885. As stated, he graduated in 1888. The, following eighteen months he served as interne in the Cook County Hospital. From the time of his graduation until three years before the consolidation of his alma mater with the Hahnemann Medical College, Dr. White was upon the teaching staff of the Chicago Homeopathic College. He held successively the position of demonstrator of anatomy, adjunct professor of physiology, and clinical assistant in medicine and derma- tology, associated with Dr. John R. Kippax. Upon the retirement of the latter he became professor of skin and venereal diseases. From 1893 to 1904 Dr. White was also attending physician at the Cook County Hospital, and is attending physician to Monroe Street Hos- pital at the present time, being also consulting dermatologist at the Chicago Day Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum. Since 1894 he has been treasurer of the Demonstrators' Association of Illinois, and for a number of years has been assistant surgeon Illinois National Guard, with the rank of captain, assigned to the First Regiment. During the Spanish-American war he had charge of the hospital train of that command from Montauk Point to Chicago.
Dr. White is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, the Asso- ciation of Military Surgeons of Illinois and the Association of Mili- tary Surgeons of the United States. He is also identified with the Improved Order of Heptasophs and Knights of Maccabees, and the Illinois, Fort Dearborn, Westward Ho Golf and the Chicago Motor clubs. The doctor was married October 5, 1892, to Miss Isabelle Stone, and his family residence is at No. 831 Washington boulevard, his downtown office being in Marshall Field and Company's building. on Washington street.
Few latter-day physicians and surgeons of the United States con- sider that they have not commenced to master their profession, in a
HELIODOR broad and deep sense, until they have enjoyed a post-
SCHILLER. graduate training in some of the great universities,
hospitals and polyclinics of Europe. This interna- tional contact has also been the means of acquainting many of the rising European physicians with the advantages of the United States
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as a fertile field for their practice and advancement. For centuries the universities of Vienna and Prague have been noted centers of med- ical education, and their hospitals have become famous resorts for clinical experience. With other large cities of the country Chicago has sent her full quota of physicians to the medical institutions of Austria, and has welcomed not a few natives of that country to the professional ranks. Among those who have come within quite re- cent years, Dr. Heliodor Schiller is noticeably qualified, by education and experience, to make a name for himself in his adopted city and country.
Dr. Schiller was born in Luck, Austria, of German ancestry, on the 16th of July, 1871, his parents being Dr. Wolf and Anna Schil- ler; so that, from natural aptitude and paternal example, he adopted the profession of medicine and surgery. As became one of his par- entage and station in life, he received a thorough literary training prior to assuming his professional studies. He first graduated from the high schools at Eger and Karlsbad, and from the college in Prague, Bohemia, and then entered the university at the latter city, to pursue his medical course. Graduating from the latter May 15, 1895, he was subsequently physician of the department of pathology and general medicine (in the latter under Professor A. Pribram), then surgeon of the surgical clinic, under Professor Woelfer, from May, 1897, to October, 1898, and of the obstetrical and gynecologi- cal clinic, under Professors Von Rosthorn and Saenger, from Octo- ber, 1898, to July, 1899, all of the above positions being held at the University of Prague. From the fall of 1899 until the spring of 1902, he served as head surgeon of the Rothschild Hospital at Wit- kowitz, near Vienna, spending the following summer in the patholo- gical institute of Professor Paltauf, in Vienna. Soon afterward the doctor came to Chicago to commence active practice, and is esteemed a skillful and valuable addition to the scholarly members of the pro- fession. In addition to the positions already noticed which Dr. Schil- ler has held in his native country, he was officially known as military surgeon of the Austrian army. Since becoming a resident physician of Chicago he has been enrolled as a member of the American Academy of Medicine, of the Chicago Medical Society, the German Medical So- ciety of Chicago and the Illinois Athletic Club.
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