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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. FavitL 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. Favit 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- 
