. One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions . ock Island &: Pacific Eailroad andexpert to the United States PensionOffice in his adopted city. Dr. Leonard is now (1900) pres-ident of the St. Joseph Medical So-ciety, a member of the MissouriState Medical Society and the Amer-ican Medical Association. BBAYSEOBD LEWTS. Dr. Bransford Lewis, a son ofJudge Edward A. Lewis, who fortwelve years was a member of theCourt of Appea
. One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions . ock Island &: Pacific Eailroad andexpert to the United States PensionOffice in his adopted city. Dr. Leonard is now (1900) pres-ident of the St. Joseph Medical So-ciety, a member of the MissouriState Medical Society and the Amer-ican Medical Association. BBAYSEOBD LEWTS. Dr. Bransford Lewis, a son ofJudge Edward A. Lewis, who fortwelve years was a member of theCourt of Appeals, was born in Mo., in 1862. He obtainedhis preliminary education in thepublic schools and Smith Academyin St. Louis, whither his parentshad moved shortly after his birth. Before entering the old MissouriMedical College, from which he MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 285 graduated with honors in 1884,young Lewis was for two years astudent in the academic departmentof the Washington University in Immediately upon his graduationfrom the Missouri Medical College,Dr. Lewis entered upon his profes-sional career as an interne in the City Hospital. He was con-nected with that institution for five. years, serving in turn as junior as-sistant, senior assistant and assist-ant superintendent. His conscien-tious application to the routine ofhis daily work won for him the ap-probation of his elders in the pro-fession. Upon entering private practice,Dr. Lewis made a specialty of geni-to-urinary surgery, and was in 1889made a lecturer on that branch ofsurgery in the Missouri Medical Col-lege. He resigned from that po-sition in 1894 to accept the sameprofessorship in the St. Louis Col-lege of Physicians and Surgeons. In1896 he resigned from the facultyof that college to accept the profes- sorship of genito-urinary surgery inthe Marion-Sims Medical College ofSt. Louis, which chair he still occu-pies. Dr. Lewis was for a while thegenito-urinary surgeon of the Bap-tist Sanit
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