CHAPTER XLVII 

 DAVID R. LYMAN, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQlS TO 1919 



DAVID RUSSELL LYMAN was born in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 March 8, 1876, the son of Henry Leslie and Jane Ellen 

 Newman Lyman. He was the youngest man who ever 

 served as president of the National Tuberculosis Association. He 

 was elected to this honor in 1918, on his return from France, where 

 he had served with distinction as associate director of the Rocke- 

 feller Tuberculosis Commission. He had already served the Asso- 

 ciation as vice-president from 1917 to 1918. 



Dr. Lyman received his collegiate and medical education at the 

 University of Virginia, with the degree of M.D. in 1899. He be- 

 came instructor in histology and in anatomy at his alma mater, 

 and after serving in this capacity for one year he became assistant 

 resident physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1901 a slight 

 tuberculous trouble caused him to seek the Adirondack Cottage 

 Sanitarium, where he soon became assistant resident physician 

 and pupil of Trudeau. When the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium was 

 established and the directors looked longingly to Saranac Lake for 

 a competent physician-in-chief for their institution, they found 

 such a person in David R. Lyman, who took charge of the insti- 

 tution at Wallingford, Conn. It is the privilege of the author of 

 this biographical sketch to have been associated in the capacity 

 of honorary director of the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium from its 

 very beginning, and thus he has been able to watch the progress 

 of this wonderful institution under the able directorship of Dr. 

 Lyman. 



This is not the place to trace the development of any individual 

 institution, but since the success of the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium 

 as an institution for the treatment of tuberculosis has been almost 

 exclusively due to Dr. Lyman 's genius as a physician, organizer, 



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