History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

324 History of Medical Practice in Illinois"Cook County Crazy House." Early in 1881, he became assistant physicianat the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the insane at Kankakee where he remainedfor about two years. On his return to Chicago, he opened anoffice on West Madison Street and returned to Rush Medical College ina teaching capacity. Here in rapid succession he was appointed Lectureron Histology, Lecturer on and later Professor of Physiology and AssistantProfessor of Diseases of the Nervous System; Adjunct and later AssistantProfessor of Medicine. He was neurologist at the Central Free Dispensaryand then Chief of the Neurologic Clinic. In the meantime he was alsoLecturer on and later Professor of Nervous Diseases in the PostgraduateSchool, and Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the ChicagoClinical School. He was also neurologist to the Cook County Hospital andfor many years held clinics there. For a time he was Lecturer on RailwayMedical Jurisprudence in the Kent College of Law.In 1888, Dr. Moyer became County Physician, in which position he hadcharge of the Detention Hospital, now the Psychopathic Hospital. He neverlost his interest in this institution and its inmates, and at the time of hisdeath had been Chief of the Visiting Staff for ten years.Early in his career, Dr. Moyer became interested and active in medicolegalmatters. His temperament and tastes, his aptitude and training combinedto make him effective and successful in this work so that he was thebest and probably the best known medicolegal expert in Chicago. Withthe years, this work grew at the expense of his other practice and for sometime prior to his death it constituted the major part of his occupation.During the later years of his life, his function was largely that of medicaladvisor to large corporations; he seldom appeared on the witness stand.As he had acquired an extensive knowledge of law and a wide experienceof courts and juries, besides possessing an acute mind and a judicial temperament,he was an invaluable consultant in medicolegal cases.Dr. Moyer began to write early; he wrote much and he wrote well, mostof his articles being related to neurology, psychiatry and forensic medicine.For twelve years he was the editor of Medicine; his editorials invariablywere brief and clear; sometimes trenchant; instructive, interesting or amusing,always readable.From the time of his service at Kankakee, Dr. Moyer was known aspsychiatrist and neurologist, but he started as a general practitioner, acceptingall work which a young physician could obtain. He acquired agood general practice and in time a good consultation practice. Althoughhe became more and more renowned as a neurologist and psychiatrist,Dr. Moyer never lost interest in the problems and practice of generalmedicine.Dr. Sanger Brown was born February 16, 1852, at Bloomfield, Ontario,a