C. Jeff Miller / [Alton Ochsner].

  • Ochsner, Alton, 1896-1981.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: C. Jeff Miller / [Alton Ochsner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Tennessee in 1893 and interned at the Nashville City Hospital in 1894. On January 30, 1896, he married Ada Parker, of Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1912 their only daughter, Elizabeth, was born. From 1899 to 1904 he served as chief of clinics at the Charity Hospital, New Orleans, under Dr. Ernest S. Lewis. In 1911 Dr. Miller became professor of gynecology at Tulane University, which posi¬ tion he held until his death. He was chief of the Gynecological Services at the Charity Hospital and Touro Infirmary, New Orleans. Dr. Miller was officer of many organizations. He served both as secretary and as president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. From 1926 to 1936 he was a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons and was president in 1930-1931; in 1912 he was chairman of the Section on Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Abdominal Surgery of the American Medical Association; presi¬ dent of the Gynecological Club in 1927; president, American Gynecological Society, 1928-1929; presidentof theSouthern Surgical Association in 1922; presidentof the Southeastern Surgical Congress in 1936; and president of the Howard Memorial Library, New Orleans. During the World War Dr. Miller was a Major in the Medical Corps. In June, 1930, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from his Alma Mater, Sewanee. He was author of two textbooks, An Introduction to Gynecology and Clinical Gynecology as well as of innumerable articles on scientific subjects. Dr. Miller was truly a Southern gentleman and in every way typified Jeffer¬ sonian principles. He had the pioneering instinct of Lister, the judgment of Solomon, the technique of Halsted, the tenderness of Florence Nightingale, the perceptive powers of Osier, the determination of Noguchi, and practiced the ethics of Hippocrates.