William Henry Welch (S&B 1870)
Physician. Pathologist. Bacteriologist. Medical School Administrator. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi), Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull andBones, and Phi Beta Kappa. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D.
M.D.(honorary) University of Pennsylvania 1894; LL.D. Western Reserve 1894, Yale 1896, Harvard 1900, Toronto 1903, Columbia 1904, Jefferson Medical College 1907,Princeton 1910, Washington University 1915, University of Chicago 1916, University of Southern California 1930, University of the State of New York 1930; Sc D. Cambridge 1923, Western Reserve 1929, New York University 1932; Doctor honoris causa University of Strass-burg 1923; L.H.D University of Pennsylvania 1930; went to China in 1915 in connection with the founding of the Peiping Union Medical College and was present at its opening in 1921;
Associate Fellow of Trumbull College; decorated with Crown Order of Second Class (Germany) 1911, Third Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) 1915, Order of St. Olaf, Second Class (Norway) 1926, Distinguished Service Medal 1917, Order of Mercy (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) 1922, Cross of the Legion of Honor (France) 1923, Order of Benin (Africa); awarded gold medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences 1919, medal of honor of the University of Vienna 1922, first W. W. Gerhard gold medal of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia 1925, Kober medal for scientific research in medicine by the Association of American Physicians 1927, Harbin Plaque by the British Royal Institute of Public Health 1931; fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences and College of Physicians (Philadelphia); honorary fellow Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Sanitary Institute (London), Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Society of Medical Officers of Health (England); corresponding member British Association for the Advancement of Science; honorary member American Therapeutic Society, Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Physiological Society (Great Britain), Gesellschaft der Aerzte (in Wien), HufelandischeGesellschaft (Berlin), Berliner Mediimische Gesellschaft, Die Kaiser-hch Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (zu Halle); foreign associate Academie de Meclecine (Paris); foreign honorary member Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique, Societe Royale des Sciences Medicaleset Naturelles (de Bruxelles), Reale Accademia Medica di Roma, SocietaMedica Chirurgica di Bologna, Comite International d’Histoire des Sciences, Union Internationale contre la Tuberculose.[4]
Board of Directors of Maryland Society for the Prevention of Blindness.[4]
Member American Philosophical Society and National Advisory Health Council.[4]
Member of advisory boards of American Red Cross, hygiene laboratory of United States Marine Hospital Service, member of committee on medicine and hygiene of National Research Council, president Yale Alumni Association of Maryland 1917, member advisory council of Yale Medical Alumni Association 1921.[4]
Chairman National Advisory Committee of Human Welfare Group, Institute of Human Relations 1929 .[4]
Author of studies in pathology, preventive medicine, bacteriology, medical education, the relation of medicine to other sciences, and the history of medicine inthe United States and elsewhere; in honor of his seventieth birthday(1920) his associates and friends published a collected edition of his Papers and Addresses (3 volumes), including a bibliography of his writings 1875-1920 (411 items); in 1929 the William H. Welch Medical Library of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine was named in his honor; his eightieth birthday was celebrated in several foreign capitals and in many places in the United States; the Welch Bibliophilic Society honored him on his eighty-fourth birthday by reprinting The Interdependence ojMedicme with Other Sciences 0/Nature,delivered m 1907 before the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science; his biography is being written by Dr. Simon Flexner.Unmarried.Death due to carcinoma of the prostate and chronic pyelonephritis.Buried in Norfolk Cemetery. Survived by no immediate relatives.
1931 - Board of Directors of History of Science Society.[4]
1930 - Board of Directors of vice-president First International Congress on Mental Hygiene.[4]
1928 - Attended the Harvey Tercentenary and made many other trips abroad.[4]
1928 - Member Baltimore Revision Commission for revision of city charter and code.[4]
1926 to 1931 - First Professor of the history of medicine of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine; emeritus since 1931.[4]
Since 26 Feb 1925 - Brigadier General, Auxiliary Reserve , president Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland 1891 to 1892, Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons 1897, Maryland State Board of Health 1898 to 1922 (Member until 1929), Association of American Physicians 1901.[4]
1923 to 1924, Board of Directors, Since 1924, Honorary President of National Committee for Mental Hygiene.[4]
1921, Founder, 1921-27, Editor, 1927-1931, Honary chairman board of editors, American Journal of Hygiene.[4]
Since 1920, Chairman, Advisory board, Milbank Memorial Fund.[4]
WW1 - 16 Jul 1917 - Commissioned Major, Medical Corps, U. S. Army and assigned to active duty in office of Surgeon General in Washington; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel February 20, 1918, and to Colonel July 24, 1918;discharged December 31,1918; commissioned Colonel Medical
Officers’Reserve Corps February 24, 1919, and Brigadier General December 23.[4]
1916 to 1926 - First Director of School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.[3]
1916 to 1919 - Board of Directors, Since 1927, Honorary President of American Social Hygiene Association.[4]
1913 to 1916 - Board of Directors of National Academy of Sciences.[4]
1910 to 1911 - Board of Directors of American Medical Association.[4]
1910 to 1911 - Board of Directors, then Honary President of National Tuberculosis Association.[4]
1910 - Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO).[5]
1910 - President of American Medical Association.[3]
1907 - Appointed by President Roosevelt to commission to devise Federal meat inspection law.[4]
1906 to 1907, Board of Directors, 1902 to 1904, Vice-President of American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]
1906 - Trustee Carnegie Institutionsince.[4]
1902 - Delivered Huxley Lecture Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London, and William Thompson Sedgwick Memorial Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1924.[4]
1901 to 1934 - President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.[3]
Since 1901 - Board of Directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.[4]
1898 to 1922 - President of Maryland State Board of Health.[3]
1896 to 1904 - founder Journal of Experimental Medicine and editor.[4]
1893 to 1898 - Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University.[3]
1889 to 1916 - First pathologist-in-chief Johns Hopkins Hospital.[4]
1889 - Co founded Johns Hopkins - Sir William Olser, 1st Baronet (Canadian Physician.) Halsted, Welch and Kelly.
1884 to 1916 - First Baxley Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine.[3]
1879 to 1884 - Professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology Bellevue Hospital Medical College.[4]
1876 to 1879 - Went abroad with F. S. Dennis, ‘72, and studied in laboratories at the Universities of Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, and Berlin and during 1884-85.[4]
1875 to 1876 - Interne Bellevue Hospital, New York City.[4]
1873 to 1875 - studied medicine at Columbia University (M.D. 1875).[4]
1872 to 1873 - Took chemistry courses in Sheffield Scientific School.[4]
1871 to 1872 - Studied Medicine at home.[4]
1870 to 1871 - Taught Greek and Latin at Norwich, N. Y.[4]
1870 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch
Died 30 Apr 1934 from prostatic adenocarcinoma. Age 84
Flexner commented… For the first time in the history of American medicine, an able and highly trained young man had exchanged a brilliant future in practice for an academic professorship. Thus was the decisive step taken, a step as decisive for medicine as was the choice of Gilman to become president of the university.
Father, William Wickham Welch (MD. 1839, Fellow of Yale Corporation) Mother, Emeline (Collin) Welch; daughter of Henry and Nancy (McAlpine) Collin, of Penn Yan, N. Y.Yale relatives include: Benjamin Welch (honorary M.D. 1838)(grandfather); Benjamin Welch (MD 1823) (uncle); Ira W Pettibone, ‘54, John B. Welch, ‘60 M., Rev. Henry P. Collin, ‘65, Charles A. Collin, ‘66, Frederick Collin (S&B 1871), George Collin, ‘75, Edward H. Welch,‘76 M., William W. Collin, ‘77, William C. Welch, ‘77 M , and FrankMc A. Collin, ‘8o S. (first cousins); Frederic C. Walcott (S&B 1891), and William S. Walcott (S&B 1894) (nephews); and Stuart W. Kellogg, ‘20, Alexander G. Walcott, ‘32, William W. Walcott ‘33, and William S. Walcott, 3d, 1935 (grandnephews).Winchester (Conn.).[4]
[4] - Yale Obituary - William Henry Welch (S&B 1870) - Page 13
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