Early Medical School Faculty

Frank C. Todd

Todd, Frank C. born 1869 in Minneapolis;  two  years work in the college of science, literature and the arts; D. D. S. '91; M. D., '92; graduate work in eye, ear, nose and throat in America and Europe; clinical assisting and ear.  1894-98; clinical professor eye and ear, 1898-1902;  professor  diseases of  eye and ear, 1902 to date; in charge of division; author of many articles in technical and professional  magazines  dealing with  his specialty.  See first edition.

William Alexander Jones

William Alexander Jones born 1859 at St. Peter Minnesota was an early faculty member. He was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York in 1881.  He was an assistant physician at the St. Peter hospital for insane for four years and member of the board of trustees. He became instructor of mental and nervous diseases when the College of Medicine and Surgery opened in 1888. He advanced to adjunct, then full professor of nervous and mental diseases in 1909, and retired from the faculty in 1913, after the reorganization by President Vincent, as Professor Emeritus.  Dr. Jones was active in medical affairs, and was president of the Hennepin County and Minnesota State Medical Association and vice-president of the American Medical Association and member of the State Board of Health.  He was an attending to City Hospital and chief of staff at Northwestern, St. Mary’s, Asbury, Norwegian and Swedish hospitals. He was editor of the Northwestern Lance the Journal of the Minnesota Medical Association, renamed Journal Lancet from 1901 to 1931.

Charles Lyman Green

Green,   Charles  Lyman was born on Sept. 21, 1862, in Gray, Maine.  Educated at Portland High School, in   Portland, Maine; Ann Arbor, Michigan University; M.D., 1890;  graduate work in London. 1890-91; Johns Hopkins, 1893; Harvard. 1894. Home physician.  city and county physician, St. Paul, 1891; attending physician. City and county hospital, St. Luke’s hospital, St. Paul free dispensary; medical director of the Minnesota mutual life insurance company; member of the State board of health; instructor in applied anatomy. University of Minnesota, 1891-93;  physical  diagnosis  and clinical medicine,  1893-97;  clinical professor  1897-1903;  professor of theory  and practice of medicine, .1903 to 1907. Professor and chief of the department to date; Specialist, internal medicine; member of the Association of American physicians; American medical association. Author of "New Method of Controlling- Pernicious Vomiting-," "Widal Reaction;" "Diago Reaction;"  "Early Recognition of Aneurism of the Arctic Arch;"  "New- Fluoroscopic and Percussion Sign of Unilateral Pleuritic Exudate." Textbooks "Medical Examination for Life Insurance and its Associated Clinical Methods; "A Manual of Medical Diagnosis."