William Councilman

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Councilman body - top right ( liver biopsy, HE stain ).

William Thomas Councilman (born January 1, 1854 in Pikesville , Maryland , † May 27, 1933 in York , Maine ) was an American pathologist at Harvard Medical School . He is best known for describing Councilman bodies in hepatitis and for classifying interstitial nephritis as an independent disease.

Life

Councilman graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in medicine in 1878 . He then went to the newly founded Johns Hopkins University as a research assistant and worked in various hospitals in the region during the summer months. Between 1880 and 1883 Councilman traveled to Europe, where he was trained in Vienna at the von Rokitansky school , in Strasbourg with Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen , in Leipzig with Julius Friedrich Cohnheim and Carl Weigert and in Prague with Hans Chiari .

Back in the United States, Councilman made a living doing a variety of jobs including autopsies at Bayview Hospital , lectures at local universities, and assisting John Shaw Billings in compiling his National Medical Dictionary . He was also a coroner for a year .

From 1886 Councilman worked with William Henry Welch again at Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in 1889, and received the position of associate professor . In 1892 Councilman received a professorship at Harvard University , from 1913 he was chief pathologist at the newly opened Brigham Hospital of Harvard Medical School . In 1922 he retired.

William Councilman was very interested in botany and did a great job of planting and caring for the rose garden at Brigham Hospital . He was a close friend of the director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston , Charles Sprague Sargent . Councilman accompanied Alexander H. Rice Jr. on his expedition to the Amazon basin . Even after his retirement, Councilman went on a world tour. One of his most recent publications deals with Epigaea repens , a plant of the heather family , and its threat to humans.

Councilman published specialist books on diarrhea , meningitis , diphtheria and smallpox , but also on arteriosclerosis .

Councilman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1895, the National Academy of Sciences in 1904 , the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1906, and the American Philosophical Society in 1918 .

Councilman was married twice. His first wife, Margaret Bruce, with whom he had been married since 1887, died in 1890. Councilman was married to Isabella Coolidge from 1894 onwards. He had three daughters.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b William Thomas Councilman (1854–1933). In: historiadelamedicina.org. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ William Councilman. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Councilman, William Thomas. In: aaas.org. February 9, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Member History. In: search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  6. ^ Councilman, William Thomas. In: The National cyclopaedia of American biography , 1898.
personal data
SURNAME Councilman, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Councilman, William Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Pikesville , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1933
Place of death York , Maine