History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

3 i 2 History of Medical Practice in Illinoispleasing personality which made him deservedly popular. He died September6, 1910.Dr. Frank Hugh Montgomery was born at Fair Haven, Minnesota, onJanuary 6,1862. After completing his academic studies at the Universityof Michigan, he graduated from Rush Medical College in 1888, and soonbecame associated with Dr. Hyde. His postgraduate studies were undertakenat Johns Hopkins, Paris, London and Vienna. He became AssociateProfessor of Skin and Genito-Urinary Diseases at Rush and Professor ofDermatology at the Chicago Clinical School. He was attending dermatologistat Presbyterian, St. Elizabeth's, St. Anthony's and Kankakee StateHospitals.Montgomery was very active in the American Dermatological Association,serving as its Secretary and Vice-President. He was also President ofthe Chicago Dermatological Society.Besides close collaboration with Hyde in several books, as already mentioned,Montgomery made a number of important contributions. Amongthem were studies of German measles, pityriasis rubra of Hebra, white spotdisease, and especially blastomycosis to which he devoted a number ofpapers.A hard worker, an acute diagnostician and a skillful practitioner, hisaccidental death on July 14,1908 was a tragic loss.Dr. Joseph Zeisler was born in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, October 7, 1858.He entered the Medical Department of the Vienna University in 1876 andreceived the M.D. degree there six years later. He was an intern in the famousAllegemeines Krankenhaus where much time was devoted to dermatologyunder Kaposi, then at the peak of his career.Zeisler came to Chicago in 1884. Four years later he was Professor ofSkin and Venereal Diseases at the Postgraduate Medical School, remainingthere for seven years. In the spring of 1889, he was appointed Professor ofDermatology at the Women's Medical College of Chicago. Later that sameyear he was chosen Professor of Skin and Venereal Diseases at NorthwesternUniversity Medical School where he was active until 1917, when hebecame Professor Emeritus. During his active years he was attending dermatologistto Cook County, Michael Reese and Wesley Memorial Hospitals;President of the American Dermatological Association; Chairman of theDermatological Section of the American Medical Association; President ofthe Chicago Dermatological Society and of the Physicians' Club of Chicago.Zeisler contributed 36 articles to dermatological literature as well asseveral chapters in Morrow's "System of Dermatology, Syphilis and Genito-Urinary Diseases" which appeared in 1893. Other articles included thoseon multiple benign sarcoid of Boeck; prurigo nodularis; errors in diagnosingdiseases of the skin; hereditary transmission of syphilis; carbon dioxide