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History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

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Medical Journalism <strong>in</strong> Ill<strong>in</strong>ois 487from the Medical Department <strong>of</strong> Lake Forest University. Stilllater camethe Bullet<strong>in</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Rush Medical College Alumni Association. The sophomoresat Rush issued The Pulse <strong>in</strong> 1894-95.From 1890 to 1893 the Annual <strong>of</strong> Eclectic Medic<strong>in</strong>e and Surgery was published,first under the editorship <strong>of</strong> Dr. F<strong>in</strong>ley Ell<strong>in</strong>gwood and then Dr. J.V. Stevens. The Health Monitor was a popular bimonthly for electrohomeopathy<strong>in</strong> America from 1891 through 1897.Here is another record <strong>of</strong> a periodical that somehow refused to die:The Chicago Medical Recorder began <strong>in</strong> 1891 as a bimonthly with Dr.Archibald Church as editor. It passed through various phases as theMississippiValley Medical Journal and the Radiological Review, and itwas the organ <strong>of</strong> the Medico-Legal <strong>Society</strong>, the Tri-State Medical <strong>Society</strong>,and the Chicago Medical <strong>Society</strong>.The Journal <strong>of</strong> Orificial Surgery was edited from 1893 to 1901 by aproctologist named Dr. E. H. Pratt.The American Journal <strong>of</strong> Cl<strong>in</strong>ical Medic<strong>in</strong>e f<strong>in</strong>ally became Cl<strong>in</strong>icalMedic<strong>in</strong>e edited by Dr. George B. Lake. The Cl<strong>in</strong>ical Review from 1892 to1907 was edited by Drs. George Henry Cleveland and Albert I. Bouffleur.The Hahnemann Pulse was the <strong>of</strong>ficial organ <strong>of</strong> the students <strong>of</strong> HahnemannCollege. The Chicago Journal <strong>of</strong> Health was born and died after one issue<strong>in</strong> February, 1893. Then homeopathy contributed some numbers <strong>of</strong> theMedical Advance and the Medical Century.The Interstate Medical Journal began <strong>in</strong> 1894 as the organ <strong>of</strong> the TristateDistrict Medical Association, cont<strong>in</strong>ued under the Interstate PostgraduateMedical Association <strong>of</strong> North America and was cont<strong>in</strong>ued <strong>in</strong>May, 1919 as Modern Medic<strong>in</strong>e.American Alkatometry was published from 1894 to 1901.The Railway Surgeon, first issued <strong>in</strong> 1894 by Dr. W. B. Outen, was takenover with Volume 5 by Dr. L. J.Mitchell. It then became the RaihuaySurgical Journal, and <strong>in</strong>Medic<strong>in</strong>e and Surgery.1929 merged <strong>in</strong>to the International Journal <strong>of</strong>Plexus was the name given to a periodical <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Physiciansand Surgeons (Medical Department <strong>of</strong> the University <strong>of</strong> Ill<strong>in</strong>ois). Seventeenvolumes were published and the publication lived from 1895 to 1913.The Ill<strong>in</strong>ois Medical Journal (non-state) appeared <strong>in</strong> DeKalb from 1895to 1896. In 1899 tms same name was given to the <strong>of</strong>ficial organ <strong>of</strong> the Ill<strong>in</strong>oisState Medical <strong>Society</strong> and Dr. Charles J.Whalen was established as itseditor. He became dist<strong>in</strong>guished as a leader <strong>in</strong> local, state and national<strong>medical</strong> affairs and was one <strong>of</strong> the first to anticipate the danger <strong>of</strong> state andsocialized medic<strong>in</strong>e.As the Bible records the begats, I pause to mention the Medical Missionaryand Gospel <strong>of</strong> Health from Battle Creek, 1897 to 1901 ;the Chicago

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