CHAPTER XL VI 

 CHARLES L. MINOR, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQI7 TO IQlS 



CHARLES L. MINOR, our thirteenth president, was elected 

 for the term 1917-1918. He had already served the 

 Association as vice-president from 1908 to 1909. 



He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on May 10, 1865, the son of 

 James Monroe and Ellen Josephine Pierpont Minor. He received 

 his early education in private schools in Europe and in the United 

 States. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of 

 Medicine in 1888. Dr. Minor served as intern in the St. Luke's 

 Hospital, New York, from 1888 to 1890, then went abroad for 

 post-graduate study, chiefly in Vienna, but also in Munich, Ber- 

 lin, London, and Dublin. In 1892 he settled in Washington. His 

 interest in tuberculosis arose from being personally slightly 

 afflicted with the disease. In 1884 he moved to Asheville, N. C. 

 He soon recovered his health and became an enthusiastic phthisic- 

 therapeutist, and one of the leading physicians of his city and state, 

 where he is widely known. His medical skill, his high ideals, and 

 his attractive personality have endeared Dr. Minor to his count- 

 less patients and friends in the profession. His practice is con- 

 fined exclusively to the treatment of tuberculous diseases. 



Dr. Minor is a member of the Delta Psi Fraternity, of the Phi 

 Beta Kappa honorary fraternity, of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, of the North Carolina Medical Society, of the Buncombe 

 County Medical Society, a member and one of the founders of 

 the National Tuberculosis Association, a member of the American 

 Climatological and Clinical Association and its president in 1916, 

 a member of the Southern Medical Association, and a member of 

 the staff of the Asheville Mission Hospital. 



As the accompanying bibliography shows, Dr. Minor has been 

 a prolific writer on the subject of tuberculosis. His most im- 



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