Samuel M.D. Clark / Rudolph Matas.

  • Matas, Rudolph, 1860-1957.
Date:
[1932]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Samuel M.D. Clark / Rudolph Matas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS May, igj2, LIV, 849-851 SAMUEL M. D. CLARK . RUDOLPH MATAS, M.D., F.A.C.S., New Orleans, Louisiana By birth, inheritance, education, and lifelong residence in his native state, Samuel Marmaduke Dinwiddle Clark was a thorough Louisianian. He was born at Devall, West Baton Rouge, on his father’s plantation, on July 28, 1875, and was approaching his fiftieth birthday when his career of great activity and usefulness was abruptly brought to a close by the fatal illness (dia¬ betes, cardiovascular disease), which ended April 26, 1925. Death came at a time when the splendid promise of his early years was being fulfilled and he was reaping the reward of a life of brilliant and constant service to his people, to his profession, and to the institutions with which he was con¬ nected. His father was William Lobdell Clark, of Clarkland Plantation, Louisiana; his mother, Mary Elizabeth Devall, of Smithfield Plantation, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and he inherited from each the qualities which were so dis¬ tinctive of his character and personality. Like the sons of most planters of the last generation, his early education was entrusted to private tutors. He was graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1895 with the degree of B.Sc., after having been captain in the cadet corps during his senior year. In the fall of the same year he entered the School of Medicine of Tulane University and served as undergraduate interne at the Touro Infirmary in 1897. He was also an interne at the Charity Hospital from 1898 to 1900, and was graduated M.D., Tulane, in 1900. In 1903, he was appointed assistant demonstrator of operative surgery under Professor Gessner in the Miles Laboratory of the Tulane School of Medicine. In 1904-1905 he was chief of clinic for Professor Lewis at the Charity Hospital, and in 1905 he was appointed lecturer and clinical instructor in gynecology and ob¬ stetrics. In the interim he was secretary of the Orleans Parish Medical Society and of the Charity Hospital Alumni Association of Louisiana. In 1907, he was elected assistant professor of gynecology in the School of Medicine under Pro¬ fessor Lewis. On the retirement of Professor Lewis, in 1911, his chair was divided. Dr. Clark succeeding him as full professor of gynecology and clinical obstetrics, and Dr. C. J. Miller, likewise, as professor of obstetrics and clinical gynecology. From 1911 to 1925, fourteen years. Dr. Clark served uninterruptedly as the effi-