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470 History of Medical Practice in IllinoisFather August Reyling, the librarian at Quincy College and a memberof the Board of Directors of the Quincy Free Public Library, reported thathe had no knowledge either of Dr. Rooney's or Dr. Byrd's library, and ifsome of their volumes were included in the collection from the QuincyMedical and Library Association he would have no way of verifying thisfact. 24Nicholas Senn, a familiar figure in American medicine, was a noted bookcollector. A description given by Dr. Bayard Holmes 17 gives a conceptionof the magnitude of Senn's library. Alluding to Christmas-time of 1885idea of medical literaturewhen Dr. Holmes visited Dr. Senn's home in Milwaukee, he said:. . . ."There I saw his enormous collection of medical books and got my firstHe had bought a fine old mansion in Milwaukeeof the vintage of 1865, but the foundations of this structure were notequal to the carload after carload of books he placed on the walls of everyroom and hall—the kitchen and a few bedrooms alone excepted. Greatrents broke the plaster here and there as if the place had been bombarded,and supports filled the cellar, reminding one of a coal mine."This library which Dr. Senn had been assembling for years in the pursuitof his studies and his professional practice was a select one, containing thebest medical and surgical literature in English, German and French. Laterhe acquired the extensive and famous personal library of Dr. WilhelmBaum, professor of Surgery in the University of Gottingen and one ofthe founders of the German Congress of Surgeons.This great collection was given to the Newberry Library for public usein 1894, and, at that time, it was said, represented a monetary value of$50,ooo. 30 Dr. Senn had become anxious for the safety of its priceless possessionsbut it was Mrs. Senn, appreciating the value of her husband'slibrary, who emphasized the insecurity of a private house from fire andother casualties. In April 1894, this accession to the medical departmentof Newberry Library commenced to be received, and in a short time a totalof more than 7000 books, volumes and rare sets of periodicals were theresafely stored and shelved. By the terms of the donation they were to beknown as the "Senn Collection," were to be kept together on the shelves,retained as a library in their entirety and separately catalogued. In 1906,this collection was conveyed to the John Crerar Library.The Senn Collection leads one to inquire further about the fate of theprivate medical libraries which were assembled in Chicago between thetimes of Elijah Dewey Harmon and the Great Fire of 1871. Because therewas no appreciable concourse of books in any public library, zealous physiciansto gain access to medical literature had to build up their own libraries,and we may assume that many such collections—most of them, perhaps of30 Stone, R. French (editor): Biography 0/ Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons.Carlon and Hollenbeck, Publ., Indianapolis. 1894.
Medical Libraries in Illinois Preceding 1900 471modest proportions—existed in the city before that conflagration consumedthem. We know that such illustrious men as Nathan Smith Davis,Hosmer Allen Johnson and Edmund Andrews had interesting collectionsof medical books and that Ralpli N. Isham had "found time to gratify hisliterary tastes" by gathering "one of the largest private libraries in Chicago."Without doubt, similar statements can be made about the early leaders ofRush Medical College, especially Daniel Brainard, James Van Zandt Dlaneyand Joseph Warren Freer.After the fire of 1871 we hear more about private medical libraries inChicago during the late 1880's and the i8go's, at the time when the publiclibrary movement was getting under way throughout the country. ThenChristian Fenger, 31 William E. Quine, Frank Billings, Bayard Holmes,Ludvig Hektoen, George Weaver, Mortimer Frank and many others werecollecting books.Any student of medical history who looks for an animated picture of thetraining and life of the general practitioner in our Middle West duringthe latter half of the nineteenth and the early part of the present centuryshould read from cover to cover the book "Sixty Years inMedical Harness"— by Charles Beneulyn Johnson, in which he tells of the many booksand periodicals accumulated by him during a long professional life: "I havealways aimed to have up-to-date standard works on every subject pertainingto medicine."Among the physicians at the turn of the century who owned, it is said,notable medical libraries were the following: /.B. Chatham of Xenia inClay County who "had one of the best medical libraries in the county"; 32Frank M. Harrison, a widely known and highly successful practitioner nearBryan in Fulton County; 33 Archie Tilden Gibson, a leading doctor inMorrisonville, Christian County, 18 and William Barnes of Decatur andMacon County Hospital. 34 It is likely that Carl E. Black, too, who wasinterested in the library of the Morgan County Medical Society, had begunto assemble his own extensive working collection of books shortly after hisentrance into medical practice.Medical Books of the Chicago Public Library, 1870-1890It may never be possible to determine exactly when, what and by whomthe first contributions of medical books were made to the Chicago PublicLibrary.31Bay, J. Christian: Dr. Christian Fenger, The Man and His Work. Address deliveredNov. 4, 1940, before the medical faculty of Northwestern University on the occasion ofthe lootb anniversary of Dr. Fenger's birth, November 3, 1840.82History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois. Globe Publ. Co., Chicago, 1884.33 Hevlin, Jesse (Editor): History of Fulton County, in Historical Encyclopedia ofIllinois. MunseU Publ. Co., Chicago, 1908.31Neece, I. H.: Personal communication, November 26, 1951.
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