History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

274 History of Medical Practice in IllinoisClinical Professor. In his later years he left Chicago for Rockford, where hedied in 1923. He had served on the staffs of Cook County and Mercy Hospitals.Dr. Charles P. Pinckard graduated from Harvard in 1889. He was thefirst Secretary of the reorganized Chicago Ophthalmological Society, andwas attending ophthalmologist to the Michael Reese Hospital. He is saidto have had great love of fine paintings.Dr. C. Gurnee Fellows was a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College in1885, where he later served as senior professor of ophthalmology and otolaryngology.Two other homeopathic graduates who were well knownophthalmologists were Drs. Charles H. Vilas and William H. Woodyatt.Dr. Vilas was appointed the first Professor of Ophthalmology and Otologyat Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, later becoming Dean of theFaculty and President of the College. Dr. Woodyatt came to Chicago in1871, in which year he was appointed lecturer and the following year Professorof Ophthalmology and Otology in Hahnemann College. In 1876,he became Professor in the new Chicago Homeopathic College where heremained active, in spite of a large private practice, until his death in 1880.According to Dr. Wood, Dr. Woodyatt was regarded as one of the mostreliable diagnosticians and ophthalmic surgeons in the West.Among the other men to enter ophthalmology inChicago toward theclose of the century were Drs. William E. Gamble, Cassius D. Wescott,Frank Allport, William A. Mann, William H. Wilder, Oscar Dodd,William L. Noble, George F. Suker, Brown Pusey, Thomas Faith, G. F.Hawley and, at the very close of the century, Drs. E. V. L. Brown andEmanuel Snydacker. The work done by this group falls almost entirelywithin the twentieth century rather than with the period under discussionso it is left for Volume III of this series to make note of their accomplishments.In Chicago's early ophthalmologic days, it was not an uncommon thingfor a man to establish an infirmary in connection with his practice. The onefounded by Dr. Holmes along strictly ethical lines was to survive to becomethe IllinoisCharitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. Another such institutionwas established by Dr. John Burgess Walker who was born in England in1827 but came to America about 1830. He first practiced medicine inRochester, New York. An advertisement in a Rochester newspaper of 1858by J. J.Bausch and Company (later to become Bausch and Lomb), inrecommending the high quality of their optical products, lists amongtheir references Dr. J.B. Walker, Oculist. About 1862, Dr. Walker movedto Chicago, practicing alternately in Chicago and Ottawa, Illinois, at thattime larger than Chicago. Under the terms of the lease of his home inOttawa, it was required that the Indian tribe of Iroquois visit the home-