CHAPTER XLV 

 EDWARD R. BALDWIN, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQl6 TO 



A PER the sudden death of Theodore B. Sachs, Edward R. 

 Baldwin, the vice-president for the year 1915-1916, as- 

 sumed the function of president until the next election, 

 which was held at the regular meeting at Washington, D. C., May 

 ii and 12, 1916, at which time he was elected president of the 

 National Tuberculosis Association for the ensuing year. He 

 had already served the Association as vice-president from 1912 

 to 1913 and 1915 to 1916. 



Dr. Baldwin comes from an old New England stock, being the 

 son of the Rev. Elijah C. and Frances M. Hutchinson Baldwin. 

 He was born in Bethel, Conn., September 8, 1864, and attended 

 the New Haven high school from 1878 to 1882. His parents 

 destined their son for the clerical profession, wishing him to be 

 some day a congregational minister like his father. Edward, 

 however, did not take kindly to the career of a clergyman. In 

 spite of his father's illness and early breakdown, and consequently 

 impaired finances, young Baldwin started out early in life to work 

 his way through Yale Medical school, from .which he graduated 

 in 1890. This struggle and hard work had, however, impaired the 

 young man's constitution, which was at best not any too strong. 

 While serving in the Hartford City Hospital as intern he de- 

 veloped symptoms of tuberculosis, which were not fully recog- 

 nized. After leaving the hospital he entered general practice 

 in the office of his maternal grandfather, who had been deceased 

 for some years, but who had been a well-known physician in 

 the Connecticut Valley. Dr. Edward R. Baldwin remained one 

 year in the town of Cromwell in general practice, which was a 

 very valuable experience and an excellent preparation for the 

 future specialist. But after six months of practice symptoms of 



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