History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

286 History of Medical Practice in Illinoisother luminaries. Dr. George F. Fiske was Professor of Otology, Moreau R.Brown Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology, E. Fletcher Ingals Professorof Laryngology and Rhinology and E. L. Holmes, who like the othersheld professorships elsewhere, he being professor of Eye and Ear at RushMedical, where Ingals was head of Rhinology and Laryngology. In thosedays Professor Brown gave a special course in Intubation of the Larynx,and George Fiske in Surgical Diseases of the Ear, including the "Mastoidand Brain Adjacent Thereto."In the12th annual announcement of the Chicago Medical College in1879, which was then the Medical Department of Northwestern University,there was no department of otolaryngology, but Dr. J.S. Hildreth waslisted as having "charge of the Ward set apart for Diseases of the Eye andEar, will give a Clinic in that Department every Saturday." This statementappeared in their catalogue from 1866 to 1870. This was apparently whatwas to become the County Hospital. In 1871, Dr. Samuel J.Jones was appointedProfessor of Ophthalmology and Otology, where he remained for20 years. In 1894 Dr. Henry Gradle had the title of Professor of GeneralEtiology and Hygiene and Clinical Ophthalmology and Otology.The Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital of Chicago was formedin or about 1889. In 1890 such names as F. E. Waxham, T. Melville Hardie,Boerne Bettman, Henry Gradle, J.Orlando Ducker, Alice Swing, NorvalH. Pierce, Seth Scott Bishop in Ear, and T. Melville Hardie, G. P. Head,James T. Campbell, F. D. Owsley, B. M. Behrens and George Morgenthauwere on its Nose and Throat faculty. J.Holinger, H. M. Ritter and EdwinPynchon were then listed as assistants. Pierce was listed as giving a clinicon Tuesday and Thursday from 4 to 5 and at Michael Reese on Monday,Wednesday and Friday at 10 AM.Harvey Medical College was established as a four year's graded coeducationalschool in 1891. J.Homer Coulter was Professor of Rhinology andLaryngology and Jacques Holinger was Professor and Demonstrator of OtologicalSurgery. Its first class graduated in 1895. The school became extinctin 1905.In its 2nd annual announcement catalogue, Hering Medical Collegeof Chicago in 1892 listed a quotation from Constantine Hering: "If ourschool ever gives up the strict inductive method of Hahnemann we are lost,and deserve only to be mentioned as a caricature in the history of medicine."Dr. L. A. L. Day was then head of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology.In an 1892 announcement of the Chicago Physio-Medical College, astatement under Ophthalmology and Otology reads: "There is nothingmore satisfactory to the general practitioner than to be able to treat thesimple so-called special diseases which generally fall into the hands of the