1895 New York MEDICAL SOCIETY Signed Document / HARVARD Dr. Reynold W. Wilcox

Description

- 1895 New York MEDICAL SOCIETY Signed Document -
- HARVARD Dr. Wilcox Made a PERMANENT Member -
Partly-printed document from the
MEDICAL SOCIETY
of the State of New York,
dated
February 7th
1895
at Albany,
informing “Reynold Webb Wilcox M.D.” that he was elected “A PERMANENT MEMBER”
of the society.  The document is genuinely
SIGNED
along the bottom by the Secretary of the Society, F.C. Curtis M.D.
There is a blind embossed seal of the Medical Society of the State of New York in the bottom left corner.   This document would frame up and display nicely in a doctor’s office or some other suitable situation.
REYNOLD WEBB WILCOX
(1856 - 1931)
was a noted, New York City physician and a successful medical editor and writer.   A graduate of the Harvard Medical School (1881), Wilcox was appointed a professor of medicine at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital (1886 – 1908).   He was a Major in the U. S. Medical Reserve Corps in 1917 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1924.  Wilcox was a “President” of the American Therapeutic Society (1901 – 02), the American College of Physicians (1915 – 21), and the Harvard Medical Society (1894 – 95).
CONDITION:
document measures about 8 1/2 x 11 inches in size and is fine overall condition with some horizontal folds and some creasing along the bottom.  There are NO rips / tears or loss of paper (see scans).
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