CHAPTER XXXIX 

 WILLIAM H. WELCH, M.D., LL.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQIO TO IQII 



WILLIAM H. WELCH, who was president of the National 

 Tuberculosis Association from 1910 to 1911, was born in 

 Norfolk, Conn., April 8, 1850. His father was Dr. Wil- 

 liam Wickham Welch, his mother Emeline Collins Welch. He 

 graduated from Yale with the degree of A.B. at the age of twenty, 

 and five years later, in 1875, took his degree of M.D. at Columbia 

 University. He served as intern in Bellevue Hospital until 1876, 

 when he went abroad to take post-graduate courses at the uni- 

 versities of Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, and Vienna, from 1876 

 to 1878. On his return he was made professor of pathological 

 anatomy and general pathology at the Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College, where he established a pathological laboratory and re- 

 mained until 1884. He then went abroad again to study a year 

 at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Gottingen, working 

 with Koch and Flugge in bacteriology. With the formation of 

 a nucleus for medical treaching in Johns Hopkins University 

 Dr. Welch became Baxley Professor of Pathology of that institu- 

 tion and pathologist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, which posi- 

 tion he occupied from 1884 to 1916. From 1893 to 1898 he was 

 dean of the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical School. 

 On the creation of the new School of Hygiene and Public Health 

 of the same university in 1916 he was made its director. 



The story of how Dr. Welch was called to Baltimore is one 

 which cannot fail to awaken a thrill of pride and patriotism in 

 every American. When Dr. Gilman, who had been placed at 

 the head of Johns Hopkins University, began to look for the right 

 kind of man to fill the chair of pathology he communicated with 

 leading German pathologists, among others with Professor 

 Cohnheim, then at Breslau, and later at Leipzig. "Why do you 



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