Senn Nicholas 1844 1908 (13 results)

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8vo. vi, [2], [17]-317, [3], [30] pp. 26 figs. (some figs. With color tinting), index, ads. Original blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; front joint cracked and reinforced with kozo (stiff!). Bookplate of Northwestern University Medical School, gift of Louis Ernst Schmidt, with his rubber-stamps (pp. v, 65, 111). Good. First edition. Senn also wrote: Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints, 1893. / Nicholas Senn was a Swiss-born American surgeon, instructor, and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. "In 1884, he moved to Chicago where he was appointed professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1891, he was appointed professor of military surgery at the University of Chicago, an area where he would make some of his greatest contributions to medicine." - Beth Dippel. PROVENANCE: Louis Ernst Schmidt (1869-1957) "had a distinguished career as medical educator and surgeon. He specialized in dermatology and later in urology, uro-genital surgery and venereology and was an attending physician in urology at many Chicago hospitals over the years. His contributions to medicine and Northwestern University were numerous and vast. He was an instructor at Northwestern in clinical dermatology and syphilogy from 1898 to 1902 and in genito-urinary surgery from 1902 to 1939, serving as head of the department of urology from 1916 to 1939. Schmidt is often referred to as "the father of urology," conducting his practice as a training ground for urologists. He held a professorship at Northwestern in urology from 1939 until moving to emeritus status in 1946." [Northwestern University]. / Louis E. Schmidt had a distinguished medical career as a medical educator and surgeon, but is best known for a stormy controversy involving his Illinois Social Hygiene League and medical advertising (the League was an organization of physicians and local philanthropists dedicated to the fight against venereal disease), which resulted in his expulsion from the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association. …

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