In memoriam : Frank Baker (1841-1918) / by Fielding H. Garrison.

  • Fielding Hudson Garrison
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[1918]
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Credit: In memoriam : Frank Baker (1841-1918) / by Fielding H. Garrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the Nezv York Medical Journal for November i6, igi8. IN MEMORIAM: DR. FRANK BAKER (1841-1918). By Fielding H. Garrison, M. D., Washington, D. C. Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, Surgeon General’s Office. ‘{Published by Permission of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army.) Dr. Frank Baker, professor of anatomy in Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., died at his residence on September 30, 1918. Although well past seventy. Doctor Baker had remained in full possession of all his powers until the year 1916, when his health began to break and he was obliged to sever his official relation with the gov¬ ernment. Symptoms of heart trouble began to develop, but his general health was vastly improved by a visit to the Pacific Coast shortly before his death. Doctor Baker was born at Pulaski, N. Y., on August 22, 1841. His ancestors, who came from Gloucestershire, England, were New Englanders who fought in the Revolutionary War, and his father, Thomas C. Baker, was a well read man. His schooling was private and local. When the Civil War broke out, he at once enlisted in the Thirty-seventh New York Volunteers in 1861, serving until 1863, when he was transferred to Washington, where he later entered the government service and began the study of medicine. On September 13, 1873, he married Miss May E. Cole, of Sedgwick, Me., who survives him with six chil¬ dren. His son. Colonel Frank C. Baker, M. C., U. S. A., is now in France. Doctor Baker took his M. D. degree at Columbian (now George Washington) University, and later received the degrees of A. M. (1888) and Ph. D. (1890) from Georgetown University. In 1883, he Copyright, 1918, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.
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