Harvey Medical College
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Harvey Medical College was a co-educational night school in Chicago, Illinois that offered training in various medical fields. [1]
Harvey Medical College was one of over 20 medical schools that opened in Chicago between 1890 and 1910, but unlike many of these it offered a real education and was not just a diploma mill.
Frances Dickinson served for periods as president, secretary and chair of ophthalmology at the college.[2]
Notable alumni
[edit]African-American physician Isabella Garnett obtained a premedical certificate from Harvey Medical College in 1899.[3]
Australian dentist Victor Ratten obtained a medical diploma from Harvey Medical College in 1907 and subsequently practised as a surgeon in Australia. His medical qualifications were the subject of a Tasmanian royal commission in 1918 following the objections of the local medical profession to his appointment as superintendent of Hobart General Hospital.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Robinson, Byron (November 23, 1896). "The Controversy over the Harvey Medical College of Chicago". Journal of the American Medical Association. 27.
- ^ Sperry, F. M. (1904). "Frances Dickinson, M.D.". A Group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago (Public domain ed.). J.H. Beers. pp. 150–154.
- ^ Dreger, Marianne; Wishart, Patricia C. (1990). "Garnett Butler Talley, Isabella Maude". In Schulz; Hast (eds.). Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990. Indiana University Press. p. 303. ISBN 0253338522.
- ^ Rimmer, Gordon (1988). "Victor Richard Ratten (1878–1962)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Melbourne University Press.