CHAPTER XXXV 

 HERMANN M. BIGGS, M.D., Sc.D., LL.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM 1905 TO K)O"J 



DR. HERMANN M. BIGGS was president of the National 

 Tuberculosis Association for two years from 1905 to 

 1907. 



The son of Melissa T. Pratt and Joseph Hunt Biggs, he was 

 born in Trumansburg, N. Y., September 29, 1859. He attended 

 Cornell University and was graduated in 1882. He received his 

 degree of M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 

 York, in 1883. He served as intern in Bellevue Hospital from 

 1883 to 1884. With the formation of the Bellevue Hospital 

 Alumni Association he became its first president. In 1910 New 

 York University conferred the degree of LL.D. upon Dr. Biggs, 

 and in 1917 he received the same degree from the University of 

 Rochester. In 1920 Harvard University conferred upon him the 

 degree of Doctor of Sciences. 



From the time of his graduation from Bellevue Hospital Dr. 

 Biggs has served as pathologist and visiting or consulting physi- 

 cian to many of our leading New York hospitals and tuberculosis 

 sanatoria. Dr. Biggs was also professor of pathological anatomy 

 at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1885 to 1894, professor 

 of therapeutics and clinical medicine from 1897 to 1907, associate 

 professor of medicine from 1907 to 1914. He now occupies the 

 position of professor of medicine of the University and Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical College. He is a member of the International 

 Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has been a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Scientific Donation of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research since its foundation. Dr. Biggs is an 

 honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 

 and of the Royal Sanitary Institute of Great Britain. He is now 

 president of the Association of American Physicians and of the 



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