This set of original test questions for the Spring Quarter 1905, at Rush
Medical College included three neurological questions and one question on
renal disease.
(Courtesy of the Rush Archives, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center)
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL
In 1859, a faculty rift over grading practices led to the
establishment of a second medical school, Lind University, that eventually became
the Chicago Medical College in the early 1860's and then the medical school of
Northwestern University in 1906. This school also absorbed the Women's Hospital
Medical College, originally established in 1865. Northwestern University established
a division of neurology in 1871.
In the 1890's Rush affiliated with the newly founded
University of Chicago but the legal documents included the clause that "the
University was left free to establish an independent medical school if that
should seem later the wiser thing to do." The university president, William
Harper, proposed full union in 1902, but his untimely death suspended the
closure of this process. The two schools eventually merged in 1923, but the
University of Chicago had already built a hospital and established a medical
department on its Southside campus. In 1941, the union dissolved and Rush
Medical College, with its celebrated Presbyterian Hospital began negotiations
with the University of Illinois. In 1971, Rush reopened as an autonomous
medical school.
EMBLEM OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
A predecessor of Northwestern University Medical School, Lind University, was housed between
1870 and 1893 on 26th Street and Prairie Avenues adjacent to Mercy Hospital. The building has
since been demolished, but at the time housed full lecture facilities and laboratories
for medical trainees.
The original Chicago Medical College was an autonomous school
but later affiliated with and then became absorbed as the Northwestern
University School of Medicine.
LECTURE TICKETS
A sampling of "tickets" of matriculation used by medical students (1866-7)
for admission to lectures at Chicago Medical College.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago was founded
in 1882 and was leased to the University of Illinois in 1887, becoming the state medical
school three years later in 1900.
EMBLEM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
This early photograph (prior to 1928) depicts the vastness of the Medical Department at the
University of Illinois.
PORTRAIT OF PERCIVAL BAILEY
Friends and pupils organized funding to have this portrait painted and a
lectureship established in honor of P Bailey's numerous accomplishments as
a teacher, investigator, surgeon and public spirited citizen. This portrait
was unveiled on October 5, 1957.
(Courtesy of the Natalie A. and Louis D. Boshes MD Library of the
Neurosciences, University of Illinois at Chicago).
LECTURE SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF NEUROLOGY
In 1993, Dr. and Mrs. Louis D. Boshes began hosting two concurrent lecture
series on the History of Neurology. These lecture series continue to be
held at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at Northwestern University
Medical School. This collage depicts a sampling of the speakers who have
had the honor of speaking at the lecture series. Also shown is a picture of
Dr. and Mrs. Boshes.
(Courtesy of the Natalie A. and Louis D. Boshes MD Library of the Neurosciences,
University of Illinois at Chicago).
PSYCHO-SURGERY TOOLS
A sample of the type of tools used at the University of Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute.
(Courtesy of the Natalie A. and Louis D. Boshes MD Library of the Neurosciences,
University of Illinois at Chicago).
At the University of Illinois, particularly close neurology
and psychiatry collaborations flourished with an emphasis on psychosurgery in the Department
of Neurology and Neurosurgery, headed by neurosurgeon, E. Oldberg.
PERCIVAL BAILEY
The close interaction of neurology and neurosurgery specialities in Chicago was
embodied in P. Bailey, an illustrious neurosurgeon, who was also intensely interested
in neurology and neuropsychiatry. He moved to Chicago after training with H. Cushing
in Boston and co-authored with his teacher the celebrated Classification of the Tumors
of the Glioma Group (1926). He worked closely with Paul Bucy and other members of
the University of Chicago neurological faculty, but later turned his interests to
psychiatry. In 1951, he became the Director of the Illinois State Psychopathic
Institute.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The University of Chicago was founded in 1892 with the support of John D. Rockefeller. In
1892, Harold Donaldson started a Neuroscience program at the University. The Sciences
building on the University of Chicago's campus (c1902) is shown below (second photo). The
University originally affiliated with Rush Medical College, but these ties were severed
in 1941 as the University established its own autonomous Medical School.
EMBLEM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
ROCKEFELLAR & HARPER
JD Rockefeller contributed a total of $35 million to the University of Chicago in
support of his intellectual partnership with WR Harper. The goal was to create a
university to rival Princeton and Yale. During a visit to the university, the
students hailed Rockefeller: "John D. Rockefeller, wonderful man is he/Gives all
his spare change to U of C." Rockefellar replied: "The good Lord gave me the money,
and how could I withhold it from Chicago?"
PAUL C. BUCY
PC Bucy was a particularly important political figure to the development of neurology
and as chairman for the National Committee for Research in Neurological Disorders, he
was instrumental to the development of neurological programs at the National Institutes
of Health. As a close collaborator of P Bailey, R Grinker, and H Klüver, he published
widely on brain tumors, temporal lobe lesions and cortical localization. He participated
in the international movement that culminated in the formation of the World Federation of
Neurosurgical Societies.
Chicago neurology especially burgeoned in the 1920's and 1930's with the
development of a large and multifaceted neuroscience faculty at the University of Chicago.
In this institution, neurology and neurosurgery teams were closely integrated. Throughout its
history, the University of Chicago has been the source of over 65 Nobel prizes among current
or formal faculty and students.
CHICAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL
Chicago Medical School opened in 1912, and Loyola University Stritch
Medical School was developed in 1915. The two schools originally stood next door to one another, but
moved to other locations in Chicago and eventually to suburban campuses.
EMBLEM OF THE CHICAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL FINCH UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
EMBLEM OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY STRITCH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Photograph of the Department of Medicine of Loyola University at its early location
prior to the relocation to the suburbs.
EARLY NEUROLOGY CLINIC
This photograph, taken from a lantern slide, depicts an early
neurology clinic at Rush Medical College.
(Courtesy of Rush Medical Archives, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center).
WOMEN IN NEUROLOGY
In the mid-1800's Chicago had a medical school for women which later
was absorbed by the Chicago Medical College of Northwestern University.
The well known Chicago physician, Mary Thompson was the first
and only female graduate from the Chicago Medical College (1869).
Along with many East-coast women, Emily Blackwell (below) came to Chicago
to study medicine and was accepted to Rush Medical College (1852). She
successfully completed her first year but her admission for a second year
was vetoed due to pressure by Illinois physicians.
Over the years the pressure lightened as the 1906 Class of Rush Medical College included
five women.
Of the six current medical schools in Chicago giving MD degrees, all have
free-standing Departments of Neurology and five have neurology residency training programs.
In 2001, there were 66 residency positions in these neurology programs and fellowships were
available in numerous areas, including movement disorders, cerebrovascular disease,
neurophysiology, and sleep physiology.
CURRENT CHAIRMEN
Of
THE DEPARTMENTS OF NEUROLOGY
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INSTITUTION:
Loyola University
Northwestern University
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's
University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
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CHAIRMAN:
Sidney A. Houff
John A. Kessler
Jacob A. Fox
Raymond P. Roos
Daniel B. Hier
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