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in 1883. While a student he served his interneship in the Cook 

 County Hospital and upon graduation returned to Madison to 

 enter practice in association with his father. In 1894 he accepted 

 simultaneous calls to the Chair of Medicine at the Chicago Poly- 

 clinic, and the adjunct professorship of Medicine at Rush. His 

 private practice grew to be the largest in the city. In 1898 he was 

 appointed Ingalls Professor of Preventive Medicine and Thera- 

 peutics at Rush and eight years later was made professor of 

 Clinical Medicine. He became consultant and attending physician 

 at several hospitals and at the time of his death was President 

 of the Medical Board of St. Luke's. For several years he was 

 president of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute and because of 

 his keen technical ability, ranked among the foremost physicians 

 of the country. Dr. Favill was a big thinker and an astute 

 reasoner, and he found time to devote himself enthusiastically 

 to problems of civic and political purity. From 1907 to 1910 he 

 was president of the Municipal Voters' League, an organization 

 strongly and fearlessly opposing corrupt politics. He was presi- 

 dent of the City Club of Chicago from 1910 to 1912, having been 

 a director since 1905. For many years he was trustee of the 

 Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, and a director of the United 

 Charities. His membership in the professional societies of medi- 

 cine embraced all the leading organizations and he was the only 

 man without commercial connections ever elected to the Chicago 

 Commercial Club. In 1908 he dignified the new Medical Reserve 

 Corps movement in the U. S. Army by accepting a commission 

 as First Lieutenant. In 1915 the University of Wisconsin con- 

 ferred on him the degree of LL.D. 



In 1908 Dr. Favill extended his interests to agriculture, and 

 gave freely of his tireless energy to the upbuilding of Holstein- 

 Friesian cattle and the dairy industry. Until his death, most of 

 his spare time was devoted to the improvement of his dairy farm, 

 Milford Meadows, at Lake Mills, Wis. His professional train- 



