History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

NeuropsychiatrygigAmong the earliest neuropsychiatrists in this state was Dr. Walter Haywho was a teacher and practitioner in Chicago for thirty-six years. Born inGeorgetown, D. C, on June 13, 1830, he was educated in private schoolsand in the Jesuit College at Georgetown, and was graduated from theColumbian Medical College of Georgetown in 1853. In 1857, Dr. Hay cameto Chicago where he taught and practiced until his retirement in1890. In1858, he was appointed physician-in-charge of St. James Episcopal Hospitalin Chicago; he was one of the founders of St. Luke's Hospital and itsfirst physician. In 1867, he helped to organize the Chicago Department ofHealth. The same year he became associated with Dr. J.Adams Allen inediting the Chicago Medical Journal. In 1871, Dr. Hay was Secretary of thecommittee that disbursed the Chicago Medical Relief Fund for those whosuffered from the great fire.At this time Dr. Hay organized the department of mental and nervousdiseases in Rush Medical College, and two years later he established asimilar department in St. Joseph's Hospital. In 1875, he helped to organizethe American Neurological Society, and from 1885 to1889 he served theChicago Medical College as Professor of Neurology. In 1890, Dr. Hay retiredto a farm near Annapolis, Maryland, where he died February 13,1893-°Dr. Daniel Roberts Brower received his degree from the medical departmentof Georgetown University, Washington, D. C, in 1864. He wascommissioned Assistant Surgeon immediately after graduation and continuedin hospital service until the close of the Civil War, when he becamesuperintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia at Williamsburg.He served in this position until 1875 when he resigned and came to Chicago,limiting his practice to mental and nervous diseases. In 1877, he wasappointed Professor of Nervous Diseases in the Woman's Medical College.In Rush Medical College he was a lecturer on the theory and practice ofmedicine from 1883 to 1889, and from 1889 to 1891, he lectured on mentaldiseases, materia medica and therapeutics. Dr. Brower was Professor ofNervous and Mental Diseases in the Postgraduate Medical School, andwas neurologist at St. Joseph's and Cook County Hospitals. During hislifetime, Dr. Brower was a voluminous writer on neurology. He died onMarch 1, 1909. 7Dr. Richard Smith Dewey, born in Forestville, New York in 1845, receivedthe degree of M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1869. Afterserving a year as resident physician at the Brooklyn City Hospital, he went6Semi-Centennial Anniversary Volume of the American Neurological Association,1924, p. 182.7History of Medicine and Surgery and Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, 1803-1922,p. 111.