David Tod Gilliam / [Robert M. Zollinger].

  • Zollinger, Robert M., 1903-1992.
Date:
[1930]
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Credit: David Tod Gilliam / [Robert M. Zollinger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ROBERT ZOLLINGER, M.D., Cleveland, Ohio DAVID TOD GILLIAM was born in Hebron, Ohio, April 3, 1844. After being educated in the common schools he enlisted at the age of seventeen for service in the Civil War. Within a short time he was wounded and captured by the Confederates, but he escaped to his father’s home. From there he went back into service at the parole camp in Columbus, Ohio. Here he became seriously ill and was discharged and sent home to die. He recovered, however, and after a-preliminary start toward educating himself for a business career in Cincinnati, Ohio, entered the Cincinnati Medical College from which he was graduated in 1871. For several years he practiced general medicine in Nelsonville, Ohio. Here he had married Lucinda Ellen Min tun, October 7, 1866. In 1877 he was appointed professor of pathology in the Columbus Medical College. Within two years he resigned to accept the appointment of professor of physiology in the Starling Medical College, also located in Columbus, Ohio. Six years later, in 1885, he be¬ came professor of gynecology and obstetrics in the same school. After the reor¬ ganization of the medical schools in Columbus, he was made professor emeritus in gynecology in the Medical College of Ohio State University. Few men have devised an operation so well known and extensively used as the Gilliam round ligament ventrosuspension of the uterus, or a modification of this operation. The names Gilliam and gynecology have been closely related for over thirty years. Gilliam lived at a time when surgery was making great strides and the speciali¬ ties were very young. Starting with general practice as a firm foundation, build¬ ing upward by teaching pathology and physiology, he was well qualified to pursue work in his chosen speciality of gynecology. Dr. Gilliam gave to gynecology im¬ proved methods of diagnosis and surgical technique, as well as many superior instruments. Dr. Gilliam was author of several books. The first was the Pocket-Book of Medicine in 1882. This was followed the next year by The Essentials of Pathology. During the next fifteen years he wrote many articles, the majority of which were 1Much of this material was obtained from “The Evolution of Gynecology” by Thomas S. Cullen in the Ohio State Medical Journal, August, 1924, 484.