History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

Neuropsychiatry 327Jurisprudence. In 1893, he was appointed Professor of Mental Diseasesand Medical Jurisprudence in Northwestern University Medical School.He served in this division for twenty-five years, in the later years as Chairman.He was also at this time Professor of Neurology at the Chicago Polyclinicand Hospital. His hospital connections included St. Luke's, MichaelReese, Wesley Memorial, Chicago Lying-in, Cook County and St. Bernard's,and he rendered special service as a consultant in neuropsychiatryto the U. S. Public Health Service.Dr. Church contributed numerous scientific articles to the many societiesin which he held membership, and to medical literaturethroughout theworld. His writings encompassed the whole field of neurologic study. Probablyhis greatest contribution was the textbook on "Nervous and MentalDiseases," which has gone into its ninth edition.Dr. Church's interest in civic affairs included membership on a specialcommittee of inspection of the Cook County Institution for Mental Diseases,a committee of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology,as an adviser to the Commissioner of Health of Chicago, andduring World War I as a member of the Advisory Board of the SelectiveService System.In addition to his many great services to Northwestern University, Dr.Church, by means of his vision,practical assistance and continued interest,made possible the development of one of the greatest medical librariesof the country, which now bears his name. 16Dr. Hugh T. Patrick was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, May 1 1, i860and received his M.D. degree from the Bellevue Hospital Medical Collegein New York in 1884. He began his practice in Chicago in 1886, afterinternship at Randall's Island Hospital, New York City. During 1891-94,he took post-graduate work in nervous and mental diseases in Europe, andthroughout his life continued a friendly and scholarly contact with theleaders of English and European neurology. For a time Dr. Patrick wasProfessor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at the Chicago Polyclinic. Hewas appointed to the faculty of Northwestern University Medical Schoolin 1895 as instructor, then advanced to Associate Professor, Professor, andin 1919 Emeritus Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 17Since most of Dr. Patrick's distinguished career falls in the years after1900, it is expected that Volume III of this series will devote some ofits pages to the further details of his accomplishments.This record of the history of neuropsychiatry in Illinois in the years19Quarterly Bull. Northwestern University Med. School, Vol. 26, 1952; and Proc. Instituteof Medicine of Chicago, October 1952.17 Proc. Institute of Medicine of Chicago, 12:^2^, 1938.