History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

304 History of Medical Practice in IllinoisReese and St. Luke's Hospitals. He was fifth president of the ChicagoLaryngological and Otological Society and later honorary president. Hewas also president of the American Rhinological, Laryngological andOtological Society in 1903, of the American Otological Society in 1918,and the American Laryngological Association in 1919. He also held membershipin the Chicago Medical Society, the American Medical Association,the American College of Surgeons and the Institute of Medicine, Chicago.He served in the U. S. Navy during the Spanish-American War, and asMajor in the U. S. Army in charge of otolaryngology in Chicago, CampGrant and Vichy, France. [He retired in 1928 to indulge his hobby ofscientific gardening, at Delmar, California. He died in 1946.]George Fuller Hawley, 1844-1917, was a graduate of the New York Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons, 1868; he was a postgraduate student inLondon and Germany. Later he became private assistant to Sir MorrellMackenzie and of Woakes. In 1883 he came to Chicago, and became a staffmember of the Chicago Chest and Throat Hospital, at the Eye and EarInfirmary. He was editor of the Department of Laryngology of the WesternMedical Reporter.Edwin Pynchon, 1852-1914. By 1900 he had published 23 papers. Someof them were on general subjects. He was an ingenious inventor of instrumentsand new surgical technics; an early member of the Chicago Laryngologicaland Otological Society.John Edwin Rhodes, 1851-1925, graduated from the University of Chicagoin1876 with an A.B., and A.M., and from Rush Medical College in1886. He was laryngologist at the Crippled Children's Home, St. Mary ofNazareth and Cook County Hospitals. He was appointed professor ofLaryngology and Otology at Rush after having served a number of yearsas professor of Physical Diagnosis and Diseases of the Chest at Woman'sMedical College. He was a member of the American Medical Association,American Laryngological Association, Chicago Laryngological and OtologicalSociety, the Institute of Medicine. He also was a first lieutenant inthe M.R.C. Much of his work was in the 20th century.George E. Shambangh 1869-1947, graduated from the University ofPennsylvania School of Medicine in 1895. He made important contributionsto the embryology and histology and blood supply of the internal earand to the physiology of hearing. His most important work was in the 20thcentury. He was one of the charter members of the Chicago Laryngologicaland Otological Society and subsequently was president.Robert Tilley, 1843-1898, graduated from Chicago Medical College in1878. He was oculist and aurist at St. Luke's and St. Joseph's Hospitals, anda member of the American Otologic Society, the Chicago Ophthalmologicaland Otological Society.