History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

272 History of Medical Practice in IllinoisPresbyterian Hospital and the Chicago Orphan Asylum. He translatedArlt's "Clinical Diseases of the Eye." According to one Chicago pioneeroptician, Dr. Ware was fond of prescribing a +0.25 sphere, which waschanged to a — 0.25 sphere if it did not help the patient.Dr. J. E. Colburn (1853-1927) came to Chicago following his graduationfrom the Albany (New York) Medical College in 1877. He joined the staffof the Cook County Hospital and the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, andbecame Professor of Ophthalmology at the Chicago Policlinic and theChicago, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. He wrote several books ondiseases of the eye, including "Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Eye."Dr. E. J. Gardiner (1856-1930) had his medical training at the CentralUniversity of Spain Faculty of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1878,at which time his father was Ambassador to Spain. During his long practicein Chicago, he was at one period on the staff of the Eye and Ear Infirmaryand St. Luke's Hospital. He emphasized the use of the ophthalmoscope inmeasuring refraction.Dr. William T. Montgomery (1843-1920) enlisted in 1861 in CompanyF, 33rd Indiana Volunteers, in which he served until the end of the CivilWar. He received his M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in 1871,interned at the Cook County Hospital for two years, and engaged in generalpractice in Chicago from 1873 to 1888. He was appointed oculist andaurist to the Cook County Hospital in 1875, Professor of Ophthalmologyand Otology at the Woman's Medical College in 1879, Surgeon to theEye and Ear Infirmary in 1880, and was on the staff of the PresbyterianHospital.Dr. C. H. Beard (1855-1916) spent six years in general practice inCannelton, Indiana, after his graduation from the University of Louisvillein 1877. In 1883, he took an internship at the Manhattan Eye andEar Hospital in New York, followed by study in England and on the continent.He began practice in Chicago in 1886, and for many years was oneof the head surgeons of the Eye and Ear Infirmary and oculist at PassavantHospital. In 1910, he published his textbook, "Ophthalmic Surgery." Asan artist he was able to illustrate his own work. In1908, he received amedal from the American Medical Association for his beautiful drawingsof the fundus oculi. He was the father of Dr. Hallard Beard.Dr. John E. Harper (1851-1921) received his medical degree from theUniversity of the City of New York in1878 and for many years was associatedwith the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago as Professorof Ophthalmology and Otology. He was at one time editor of theWestern Medical Reporter.Dr. Casey A. Wood (1856-1942) was one of the most colorful and outstandingfigures in ophthalmology of the period. He was born at Welling-