History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

Otolaryngology 303Member of the Illinois State Medical Society. He translated a 656 pagemonograph on Diphtheria by Albert Sanne and added the surgical anatomyin 1887. His name appears in the Transactions of the Illinois MedicalSociety.Jacques Holinger, 1865-1934, University of Basel, 1890, was Professor ofpostgraduate courses there from 1891 to 1893. Coming to Chicago, he wasear, nose and throat surgeon at Alexian Brothers, Grant and St. JosephHospitals and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at the University ofIllinois in 1921. He was a member of the Chicago Laryngological andOtological, Chicago Pathological Societies, and the Institute of Medicineof Chicago. He translated Bezold's textbook on otology. Most of his contributionswere after 1900 and will be noted in the projected future volume ofthis history.E. Fletcher Ingals, 1848-1918, graduated from Rush in 1871. From 1871to 1873 he was Assistant Professor of Materia Medica, later becoming Professorof Diseases of Nose, Throat and Chest at Rush Medical College, alsoat Northwestern University and Woman's Medical School. In 1899 he wasthe organizer and first president of the Chicago Climatological and LaryngologicalSociety, which in 1905 became the Laryngological and OtologicalSociety. He was one of the important men in bringing about the affiliationof Rush Medical College with the University of Chicago in 1898. He wasperhaps the first one in the West to practice peroral bronchoscopy, and hisfrontal sinus technic and drainage tube are still in use. His contributions toliterature number about 150. His book "Diseases of the Chest, Throatand Nasal Cavities" went through at least four editions and was the textbookin use at Rush for many years. He was a charter member of theAmerican Laryngological Association (1878) and its president in 1886.For a number of years he was a senior associate Editor of the Annual ofthe Universal Medical Sciences, edited by Dr. Charles E. Sajous, himself aProfessor of Laryngology and Rhinology at Jefferson Medical College. Thiswas one of the earliest "systems" of medicine written by the outstandingmen of the time. Ingals was always active in organized medical affairs.The Illinois State Medical Society was the recipient of many of his reportsand papers. He served as its first vice-president in 1891 and as president in1893. He had, incidentally, married one of Dr. Ephraim Ingals* fourdaughters. His last contribution was on angina pectoris, of which he dieda month after it was written. In his last illness he continued to make notesthereon.Norval Harvey Pierce, 1863-1946, graduated from the College of Physiciansand Surgeons, Chicago (later taken over by the University of Illinois)in which he became head of the Department of Otolaryngology. He wasalso otologic surgeon at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary and at Michael