Dr. A. E. M. Pm . A DIRECTORY OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGES, HOSPITALS, INFIRMARIES, ASYLUMS, AND CHARITABLE Institutions, together with THE MEDICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIA TIONS OF THE ENTIRE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Published under the Direction and Supervision of the CHICAGO MEDICO-HISTORICAL SOCIETY. EDITED BY A. REEVES JACKSON, A.M., M.D. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION : THOMAS BEVAN, M.D. NORMAN BRIDGE, M.D. R. C. HAMILL, M.D. JOHN E. OWEWS, M.D. A. REEVES JACKSON, A.M., M.D. W. B. KEEN, COOKE & CO., 113 & 115 State Street, CHICAGO. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by A. REEVES JACKSON, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. RAND, MCNALLY & CO., CHICAGO. The above Obstetric " 'Ready Reckoner" consists of two columns, one of Calendar, the other of Lunar months, and may be read as follows: A patient has ceased to menstruate on the 1st of July; her confinement may be expected at soonest about 31st of March, (the end of nine Calendar months); or at latest, on the 6th of April, (the end of ten Lunar months.) Another has ceased to menstruate on the 20th January; her confinement may be expected on the 30th September, plus 20 days (the end of nine Calendar months) at soonest; or on the 7th October, plus 20 days (the end of ten Lunar months) at latest. (6) PREFACE. THE first volume of the CHICAGO MEDICAL REGISTER was issued in the latter part of the year 1872. It was edited and published by T. Davis Fitch, M. D., and Norman Bridge, M. D., who undertook the work" in the belief that such a book was both needed and desired by the medical profession of the State, and particularly of Chicago." The correctness of that belief was amply confirmed by the welcome accorded the book by the profession, whose members at once acknowledged its useful and influential character. Inasmuch as a prominent feature of the work consisted in the preparation and publication of a list of the regular physicians practicing in the city of Chicago, the editors, realizing the importance of accuracy in such a matter, submitted that portion of the book to the presidents of the regular medical (7) |