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456 History of Medical Practice in Illinoisand historians may utter can never express in fullthose original collectors.the debt they owe toPublication of medical textbooks in the United States by Americanauthors hardly began before 1800. Imported European works or Americaneditions of them comprised the sole medical literature at that time. Whenconsidering the medical books that may have been in circulation in Illinoisduring the early part of the 19th century, one cannot ignore the "domesticmedicine books" which were widely used, especially in the rural districtswhere a doctor was called only in case of dire need.Private Medical Libraries In Illinois Prior To 1850.When pecuniary reverses in1829 caused Dr. Elijah Deiuey Harmon atthe age of 47 to leave Vermont for the West, no thought would have seemedmore preposterous to him than that some day he would be called the"Father of Medicine in Chicago." 3 However, during that year he spentseveral months in Jacksonville, Illinois,seeking a suitable locality in thestate in which to begin practice anew. In 1830, he was installed at FortDearborn to look after the health of the two companies of soldiers whoconstituted the garrison, and in June 1831, his family joined him, bringingwith them from Vermont his stock of medicines and his cherished medicallibrary of more than 100 volumes. In 1833 he gave up entirely his militarycareer to devote himself to private practice. He had secured the famousKinzie House as a residence for his family and himself and as a place for hisoffice, library and store of medicines. It may never be known just what bookscomprised Dr. Harmon's library because of the likelihood that itwas entirelylost in the Chicago fire soon after his death in1869, especially sincethere is the statement of one of his sons that most of the family documentswere destroyed during that conflagration, among them "the diplomaof the University which conferred upon the doctor his degree ofmedicine."When Dr. Thomas Hall at the age of 32 settled in what is now StarkCounty, Illinois, in 1837, "he brought with him a library of choice medicalworks and surgical instruments of the most approved pattern then knownto meet every emergency." 4Dr. Alfred Castle, a contemporary of Dr. Hall in Stark County, arrivedin Stark County inwell-selected medical library. 41842. Like Dr. Hall, Dr. Castle brought with him aDr. Joseph C. Frye was a familiar figure on the streets and in the homesof Peoria from 1834 to 1887. Though he did not contribute to medicalliterature, no new work of value came to his attention but it must be added3Hyde, James Nevins: Early Medical Chicago. Fergus Printing Co., Chicago, 1879.4Stark County, Illinois: Documents and Biography pertaining to its Settlement andProgress. M. A. Leeson & Co., Chicago, 1887.
Medical Libraries in Illinois Preceding 1900 4-7to his library which, when he died in 1887, represented one ol the bestcollections of medical treatises in the state. 4Dr. Oliver Everett 5 lived and labored in Dixon, Illinois. I mm 1836 untilhis death in 1888. He was an accurate observer; his knowledge of botany,geology and paleontology became profound, and in later years he wasfrequently consulted in reference to these subjects by authors of worldwidereputation. He furnished many paleontological specimens to illustrate thevolumes of tire Illinois Geological Survey. He spent many hours in expanding,preparing, classifying and labelling his various collections, and in thedevelopment and growth of this library he spared no expense.Dr. Valentine A. Boyer came to Chicago in 1836, bringing with him whatwas said to have been then its finest medical library; he had assembled itat considerable cost and took great pride in it. The Chicago lire wiped outhis medical library and all of his other belongings.Medical Libraries Connected with Educational Institutions1. Illinois College at Jacksonville.—The medical school at Jacksonville,though short lived(1843-1848), left a deep impress on the medical historyof Illinois. In its first catalogue, issued in 1843, ll* s announced that "thereis a respectable medical library belonging to this Institution, embracingthe best modern works upon the various branches of medicine. Studentswill also have access to the private libraries of the Professors, which containthe best medical periodicals in the French, German and Englishlanguages." Further "it is recommended that each student provide himselfwith a medical dictionary; and some good modern work on each of thebranches which he wishes to pursue in connection with the lectures."With the closing of the doors of the medical department of IllinoisCollege in 1848, the fate of its library, for the growth of which much moneyand energy had been spent, assumed an increased interest. Contrary towhat usually happens to a virtually abandoned collection of that kind,the course of this one is fairly clear. For almost half a century it remained"stored away in dusty uselessness," as Dr. Black remarked,' 5 "in the oldlibrary in 'Beecher Hall.' " Then to make it serviceable "for physicians andstudents, it was turned over to the Morgan County Medical Society." Thistransfer, after a proper exchange of formalities, is revealed by the minutesof the meeting of the Society in June 1894. We learn further that thismedical library, which contained "many very old books, valuable historicallyand as book rarities, a number of them in Latin, was placed in theLibrary of the County Society, in trust." No record was found of the numberof volumes transferred.Illinois State Medical Society. Transactions, 1850-1900.6 Black, Carl E.: T/ie Morgan County Medical Society, i86-j-inij. Jacksonville, Illinois,
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