Abstract

Collection consists mainly of two items: a commemorative book given to John H. Hollister in 1907 by the Illinois State Medical Society for 50 years of membership and draft manuscript pages for Hollister's 1912 book on the history of medicine and surgery in Chicago.

Abstract Dr. Louis E. Schmidt had a distinguished medical career as a medical educator and surgeon, but is best known for a stormy controversy involving his Illinois Social Hygiene League and medical advertising, which resulted in his expulsion from the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The bulk of the papers relate to the expulsion controversy (1929-1930) but the collection also includes clippings, biographical files, and subject files reflecting Schmidt's interest in...