CHAPTER XL 

 MAZYCK P. RAVENEL, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQII TO IQI2 



MAZYCK P. RAVENEL, son of Henry Edmund and 

 Salina E. R. Ravenel, was our seventh president, officiat- 

 ing from 1911 to 1912. He had already served the Asso- 

 ciation as vice-president from 1907 to 1908. 



Dr. Ravenel was born at Pendleton, S. C. His classical educa- 

 tion was obtained at the University of South Carolina, from which 

 he was graduated in 1881. He obtained his medical degree from 

 the Medical College of the state of South Carolina in 1884, and 

 then went to the University of Pennsylvania for post-graduate 

 work, obtaining the Scott fellowship in 1903. He became 

 lecturer on diseases of children to the Charleston Medical School, 

 and later assistant bacteriologist at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Dr. Ravenel went abroad for further post-graduate 

 work, devoting special attention to the study of bacteriology at 

 the Pasteur Institute of Paris and at the Institute of Hygiene at 

 Halle on the Saale. On his return he became director of the 

 Laboratory of Hygiene at Princeton, and bacteriologist of the 

 Live Stock Sanitary Board of Pennsylvania, which position he 

 held from 1897 to 1907. From 1898 to 1903 he was also lecturer 

 on bacteriology of the Veterinary Department of Pennsylvania. 

 With the founding of the Phipps Institute in 1903 he became 

 assistant medical director and chief of its laboratory. In 1907 

 Dr. Ravenel was called to the chair of bacteriology of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, and a year later became director of the 

 State Hygienic Laboratory. In 1914 he accepted the chair of 

 preventive medicine and of medical bacteriology at the University 

 of Missouri, and was also made director of the Public Health 

 Laboratories. 



Dr. Ravenel has enriched our knowledge of bacteriological 



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