John Goodrich Clark, 1867-1927 / by Charles C. Norris.

  • Norris, Charles C. (Charles Camblos), 1876-1961.
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[1927]
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Credit: John Goodrich Clark, 1867-1927 / by Charles C. Norris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ROy MOODIE COLLECTION. Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS, August, ig27, pages 241-243 JOHN GOODRICH CLARK 1867-1927 » By CHARLES C. NORRIS, M.D., F.A.C.S., Philadelpiiia JOHN GOODRICH CLARK was born in Wayne County, Indiana, June 4, 1867, the son of Nannie and Thomas E. Clark. He came from Quaker stock and was educated in public schools until 14 years of age and then entered the preparatory department of Earlham College, Rich¬ mond, Indiana, where he remained 2 years. He matriculated in the Ohio Western University and became a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. At the com¬ pletion of his sophomore year, he joined a U. S. civil engineering party detailed for the survey of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Northern Idaho. He later joined a party occupied in the survey of the Utah and Northern Railroad, holding the position of topographer and subsequently that of levelman. At the completion of this survey, he entered the school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated in the honor list in 1891. Dr. Clark served as resident in the St. Agnes and Children’s Hospitals of Philadelphia and in the surgical wards of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, and then entered the gynecological department of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, under the directorship of Dr. Howard A. Kelly. He served first as anaesthetist, next as assistant resident physician, and completed his service as resident gynecologist in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, after which he received the appointment of associate in gynecology in the Johns Hopkins University. In 1898, Dr. Clark entered the anatomical laboratory of the University of Leipzig a,s a special student and began research work under Professors His and Spalteholz on the life history of the corpus luteum and at the completion of this investigation, he went to Prague and published two additional papers upon research from Prof. Chiari’s pathological laboratory. Upon his return to the United States in 1900, he was elected professor of gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania and gynecologist in chief to the University Hospital. He sub¬ sequently became consultant gynecologist to the Woman’s College, Bryn Mawr, Germantown, Chestnut Hill, and other hospitals. As a surgeon. Dr. Clark had few equals, his delicacy of touch, knowledge of anatomy, and dexterity, were unsurpassed. His diagnostic ability was almost uncanny and this, backed by his large experience and personal charm, account