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Frank Billings Memorial Lecture

WILLIAM S. MIDDLETON, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1956;98(4):401-408.

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Appropriately, we are met today to honor the memory of a great clinician and medical statesman, Frank Billings, in Chicago, where his fine professional stature and eminence were attained. In 1878, a sturdy farm lad from Iowa County, Wisconsin, matriculated in the Chicago Medical College (now North-western University Medical School). Of splendid Anglo-Saxon stock, he was superbly endowed physically and intellectually. Upon completion of a common public school education, young Billings had attended the Platteville (Wisconsin) State Normal School for two years. Thereafter, he taught a country school in the town of Eden. His prompt advancement to the principalship of the Platteville High School was, in retrospect, a true forecast of his driving ambition and capacity.

Upon graduation from the Chicago Medical College, Dr. Billings served an internship in Cook County Hospital, a coveted post for the young physicians of that period. The investment of postgraduate studies in London, Paris, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Washington, D. C.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 12, 1956.

Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration.

This paper is being published simultaneously in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Read before the Section on Internal Medicine at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 12, 1956.

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