John Osborn Polak / [Franklin H. Martin].

  • Martin, Franklin H. (Franklin Henry), 1857-1935.
Date:
1931
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Credit: John Osborn Polak / [Franklin H. Martin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS August, 1931, Vol. LI 11, 262-263 JOHN OSBORN POLAR Born March 12, 1870—Died June 29, 1931 IN the passing of John Osborn Polak the American College of Surgeons shares with the medical world the loss of one of the great gynecologists and obste¬ tricians of our day. He was a Founder and Life Member of the College, a Governor 1913-16 and 1926-31, and a Regent since 1927. During eighteen years, since the organization of the College, he was active in its work. He aided in formulating its ideals, in its vision and support of the scien¬ tific specialist in surgery, in its effort to better the environment of surgical prac¬ tice, in its practical research, and in its stand for ethical transactions among physicians and surgeons. Doctor Polak was wise in counsel, and he was uncompromisingly for safe ad¬ ministration. He was an ardent supporter of our partnership with the public, and ungrudgingly gave of his time at our annual congresses, and at our numerous sectional meetings throughout the United States and Canada, so many of which he attended. The officers, Regents, and administrators of the College will miss his friendly greeting, his companionable spirit, and his staunch advocacy of those things that are right. This friend, so suddenly and prematurely taken away, was ever loyal to the past, confident of the present, and trustful for the future. He possessed great strength of character, and many fine human attributes. It is difficult to realize that our personal friendship of many years has ended. Franklin H. Martin. DOCTOR POLAR was born in Brooklyn, New York, home of four genera¬ tions of his family, on March 12, 1870, the son of Rarl T. and Mary E. (Osborn) Polak. In 1896, he married Bertha L. Pitkin, of Brooklyn, who died in 1924. There is one daughter, Mary Osborn Polak. He received his early education in the public schools of New Brunswick; B.Sc., Rutgers College, in 1889; M.D., Long Island College Hospital and University of Vermont, 1891, at which time he received the Dudley Medal for Surgery; M.Sc.,