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Frederic Shepard Dennis (S&B 1872)

Surgeon. Cornwall and Winchester (Conn.) academies and Phillips-Andover*. Member Linonia (second prize in debate), Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon. Yale University. Skull and Bones.

Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons, London (1899), of American College of Surgeons (1925), and of Royal Chemical Society.[4]

Member Clinical Society of London, German Congress of Surgeons, International Congress of Surgeons, New York Surgical Society, New York Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association, New York and Connecticut State Medical societies, and New York County Medical Society.[4]

Attended clinics of Lord Lister at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and King’s College Hospital, London, and worked in Tyndall’s laboratory, London.[4]

A founder of Harlem Hospital; first surgeon in this country to demonstrate Lister’s theory and practice of antisepsis.[4]

author: A System of Surgery (four volumes, 1895) and Selected Surgical Papers (1876-1914), two volumes published 1934, which also contains a bibliography of his writings (82 items); president of American Surgical Association in 1894.[4]

Consulting surgeon to New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured and Crippled, and to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Yonkers, N. Y.[4]

WW1 - 1917 to 1918, member Medical Reserve Corps, US Army, had an estate at Norfolk, Conn., where he raised and trained fine horses; an organizer of Norfolk Agricultural Society.[4]

Since 1910, visiting surgeon to St. Vincent’s Hospital since 1882 and consulting surgeon.[4]

Since 1902, consulting surgeon to Litchfield County (Conn ) Hospital.[4]

1898 to 1910 - Professor of Clinical Surgery at Cornell University.[3

Since 1888, consulting surgeon to Montefiore Home, New York.[4]

1884 - with aid of Andrew Carnegie developed first constructive pathological laboratory in America, the Carnegie Laboratory at Bellevue Hospital.[4]

1881 to 1883, Adjunct professor of surgery at New York University, 1883 to 1898, Professor of surgery, 1898 to 1910, Professor of clinical surgery at Cornell University Medical College and Since 1910, professor emeritus.[4]

5 Feb 1880 - Married in Brooklyn, N Y., Fannie, daughter of James Sydney Rockwell No children. Mrs Dennis died December 5, 1919.[4]

1877 to 1881 - Demonstrator in anatomy at Bellevue Hospital.[4]]

1876 - studied in laboratories of Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin.[4]

Went abroad with William Henry Welch (S&B 1870).[4]

1874 to 1875 - Interned at Bellevue Hospital.[4]

1874 - M D Bellevue Medical College, New York University.[4]

1874 - M.D. Bellevue Hospital Medical College.[3]

1872 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 8 Mar 1934, from thrombosis. Age 83

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen