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History of medical practice in Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

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i3 Zvibxxtt to Br. 30. 3L ©abteTHISsecond volume <strong>of</strong> the history <strong>of</strong> medic<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong>Ill<strong>in</strong>ois isthe last great service to medic<strong>in</strong>e by the late David JohnDavis, M.D., <strong>of</strong> Chicago, Permanent Historian <strong>of</strong> the Ill<strong>in</strong>ois StateMedical <strong>Society</strong>. It may well serve as his last<strong>in</strong>g monument.Dr. Davis died suddenly December 19,1954, as the first galleypro<strong>of</strong>s <strong>of</strong> this volume were beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g to come from the pr<strong>in</strong>ter.On recommendation <strong>of</strong> this Committee on Medical <strong>History</strong> and bythe direction <strong>of</strong> the Council <strong>of</strong> the Ill<strong>in</strong>ois State Medical <strong>Society</strong>,he had served as editor <strong>of</strong> this volume. Without his service andcounsel, we believe, there would have been no Volume II.As Wilber E. Post, M.D., his friend <strong>of</strong> many years, po<strong>in</strong>ted out<strong>in</strong> a memorial published <strong>in</strong> The Ill<strong>in</strong>ois Medical Journal(February,1955), Dr. Davis* pr<strong>of</strong>essional activities resulted <strong>in</strong> manyimportant contributions to medic<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> research, <strong>in</strong> teach<strong>in</strong>g and<strong>in</strong> educational adm<strong>in</strong>istration.Dr. Davis, for <strong>in</strong>stance, performed the first tuberculosis test ona herd <strong>of</strong> cows <strong>in</strong> Wiscons<strong>in</strong> and one <strong>of</strong> the first <strong>in</strong> the UnitedStates. He was the first to be granted the degree <strong>of</strong> Ph.D. <strong>in</strong> pathologyat the University <strong>of</strong> Chicago. He was the first <strong>in</strong> Chicagoand one <strong>of</strong> the first <strong>in</strong> the United States to demonstrate the Negribodies <strong>of</strong> rabies <strong>in</strong> the bra<strong>in</strong>s <strong>of</strong> humans and animals. And, withDr. Joseph A. Capps, he established the cause <strong>of</strong> an epidemic <strong>of</strong>septic sore throat <strong>in</strong> Chicago as a bacterium later known as thestreptococcus epidemicus <strong>of</strong> Davis, which led to important changes<strong>in</strong> the control <strong>of</strong> Chicago's milk supply.In1913, Dr. Davis became Pr<strong>of</strong>essor and Head <strong>of</strong> the Department<strong>of</strong> Pathology <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Medic<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong> the University <strong>of</strong>Ill<strong>in</strong>ois. In 1924 he became Dean <strong>of</strong> that <strong>in</strong>stitution. He held boththese appo<strong>in</strong>tments until his retirement <strong>in</strong> 1943.

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