Frederic A. Besley

Title: Frederic A. Besley
Description: Portrait of American military doctor Frederic A. Besley.
Contributor: Painting by Frederick Roscher in the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium, Chicago
Creator: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Format: 22 x 30 cm
Publisher: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Source: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories. No. 24 in the series
Subject: Besley, Frederic A., 1868-1944.
Type: reproduction
Birth Date: 1868
Death Date: 1944
Occupation: American military doctor
Biographical Text: Surgeon and organizer. A founder of the American College of Surgeons. Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School. Attending surgeon, Victory Memorial Hospital, Waukegan. Member: American Surgical Association, Lake County and Illinois State Medical Societies, American Medical Association, Chicago Surgical Society. President, American College of Surgeons (1937-1938). Rendered outstanding medical military service during World War I as Organizer and Director, Army Base Hospital Unit No. 12 (Northwestern University)
Tag: American physicians.; 20th-century physicians.