Diary of Franklin Henry Martin

Collection

Identifier: MS C 284

Collection Summary

Mimeograph copy, signed by Franklin Martin, inscribed to a Mr. Hubbard and including signature of Isabelle Martin.

Dates

Creation: 1914-1919

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Martin, Franklin H. (Franklin Henry), 1857-1935 (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite.

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

Restrictions

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Biographical Note

Franklin Henry Martin, 1857-1935, graduated from Chicago Medical College (1880) and established a surgical practice in Chicago. Dr. Martin was a founder of the Society of Clinical Surgery (1903) and Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America (1910), a founder and director-general of the American College of Surgeons (1913), and spent two years as a member of the Council of National Defense's Advisory Commission during World War I. The Council was... established by President Wilson in 1916 to better facilitate resource allocation in both the government and private sector, increasing the nation's ability to respond to the possibility of war. The Council's General Medical Board addressed the issue of coordinating medical services between the armed forces, the federal government, and those in civilian life.

Dr. Martin wrote Electricity in diseases of women and obstetrics (1893), Treatment of fibroid tumors of the uterus (1897), A treatise on gynecology; being a guide book for practitioners (1903), South America from a surgeon's point of view (1922), Gorgas; a biography (1924), Australia and New Zealand; a monograph (1924), South America, amplified to include all of Latin America; the Vandyck cruise (1927), The joy of living; an autobiography (1933), and Fifty years of medicine and surgery; an autobiographical sketch (1934).