Ellis Herndon Hudson

Ellis Herndon Hudson also in the spelling variant Ellis H. Hudson (born June 17, 1890 in Osaka , Japan , † January 6, 1992 in Duarte , California ) was an American doctor and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The come in Osaka in Japan to the world Ellis Herndon Hudson, son of Presbyterian missionary George Gary Hudson and its Spouse Delia Ann born Herndon, graduated in 1911 at the in Decatur in the state of Illinois located Millikin University for Bachelor of Arts . He then turned to studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his doctorate in 1919 as a Doctor of Medicine . In addition, Hudson earned a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1937 .

Ellis Herndon Hudson married on Saturday, July 2, 1921 Mary Bruce Young in Wentworth in the Canadian province of Ontario . From this connection came the son Bruce Herndon and the daughter Elspeth Gary. Ellis Herndon Hudson, who moved to Duarte, California after retiring from Cedar Grove, Wisconsin , died in early 1992 at the age of 101.

Professional background

Ellis Herndon Hudson got his first job as an instructor at the American University of Beirut in 1911 , and in 1914 he moved to Blackburn College in Carlinville , Illinois, in the same position . Hudson, who from 1915 devoted himself intensively to the study of medicine, between 1917 and 1918 participated in the First World War in the rank of private in the US Army , founded the Medical Center in 1924, which included a mission and a hospital, the Presbyterian Church in Deir-ez -Zor in Syria , which he has been entrusted with leading. In 1936 Hudson returned to the United States, where he took over a medical post at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium in Clifton Springs, New York . In 1939 he moved to Norris, Tennessee, as a community physician . The following year he moved to Athens in the state of Ohio , where he was at the Ohio University , the Chair for Hygiene and the Directorate of Health Service , who later in his honor in Hudson Health Center was renamed transferred. The 1955 emeritus was also deployed between 1950 and 1951 as head of the Bejel-Syphilis Project of the WHO in Iraq . From 1942 to 1946 he served as a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Naval Reserve .

The renowned physician Ellis Herndon Hudson, who stood out in particular as the author of articles on tropical medicine in leading specialist journals, was awarded the Balfour Scholarship and the Duncan Medal in 1937. He was a fellow of the American College of Physicians , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He was also a member of the Sigma Xi , the Alpha Omega Alpha, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Alpha Kappa Kappa.

Fonts

• together with Agnes L. Young: Medical and Surgical Practice on the Euphrates River, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1931
• together with Taufīq Bāz Ḥaddād, ʻAssāf G. Wahba: Medical syllabus in the colloquial Arabic of Syria and Palestine, Beirut , 1932
• Treponematosis, in: Oxford medical publications, NY Oxford Univ. Pr., New York, 1946
• Non-Venereal Syphilis. A Sociological and Medical Study of Bejel, Livingston, Edinburgh, 1958
• Examen histórico de la terminología de la sífilis, in: Anales chilenos de historica de la medicina, Santiago, Chile, 1962
• Christopher Columbus and the History of Syphilis, in: Acta tropica, Separatum, volume 25, number 1, Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft, Basel, 1968
• Reminiscences, 1890-1978, Archival Material: English, 1978

literature

• William Collin Levere: Who's who in SAE: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Members of the Fraternity , Evanston index Co., Evanston, Ill., 1912, p. 124.
• Who's who in the Midwest, volume I, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1949, p. 626.
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, volume VIII, Allen Press, Lawrence, Kan., Etc., 1959, p. 81.
• The Author's & Writer's Who's who, volume V, Burke's Peerage, London, 1963, p. 246.
• International Leprosy Association: International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, volume XXXII, International Leprosy Association, Greenville, SC, 1964, p. 424.
• Who was who in America: volume IX, 1985-1989 with world notables, Marquis Who's Who, Wilmette, Ill., 1989, p. 175.
• Anne L. Grauer: A Companion to Paleopathology, in: Blackwell companions to anthropology, 14, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2012, p. 478.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ellis Herndon Hudson in the WorldCat bibliographic database