James Bryan Herrick, 1861-1954

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James Herrick, 1925.

Cardiologist James B. Herrick was born in 1861 in Oak Park, Ill. He received his A.B. from the University of Michigan and taught school in Peoria and Oak Park before beginning his medical education at Rush Medical College. He received his M.D. in 1888. Upon graduation, he served an internship at the Cook County Hospital, followed by private practice in Chicago and teaching at the Rush Medical College. Herrick believed that the teaching of medicine should not be confined to didactic lessons in the classroom and often taught by example in a clinical setting. He traveled to Europe on several occasions to further his own education.

[Image Credit: Rush University Medical Center Archives, Photograph Collection, P2332b.]

Frank Billings, 1854-1932

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Frank Billings, circa 1905.

Physician Frank Billings was born in Wisconsin, 2 April 1854. Upon completing high school, he taught in the Wisconsin schools from 1874 to 1876. In 1881, he received his medical degree from Northwestern University. He continued his medical studies in Vienna, Paris, and London, 1885-1886. Billings was an attending physician at Mercy Hospital, 1890-1898; St. Luke’s Hospital, 1890-1906; Cook County Hospital, 1890-1901;  and Presbyterian Hospital, 1898-1920. He served as Dean of Rush Medical College, 1900-1920. He introduced residents and the clerkship system to Presbyterian Hospital. 

[Image Credit: From the Rush University Medical Center Archives, Photograph Collection, #046]

Franklin Henry Martin, 1857-1935

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Franklin H. Martin in Uniform at His Desk, 1918.   

Image courtesy of the 

American College of Surgeons Archives,

Visual Materials Collection #101

Franklin H. Martin, born in Ixonia, Wisconsin, in 1857, attended Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He served as an intern at Mercy Hospital from 1880 to 1881. He was on the staff of the South Side Dispensary (1883-1888) and was Professor of Gynecology at the Policlinic of Chicago (1886-1888). Beginning in 1887, he was for many years a gynecologist at the Women’s Hospital of Chicago. Also in 1887, he organized the Charity Hospital of Chicago. In 1888, with Dr. W. F. Coleman, he organized the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago.