Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
DR., BYRON ROBINSON,

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We take the liberty of copying from
1.-THE Michigan Medical News" the
following biographical sketch of Dr..
Byron Robinson, who practiced in this
city some s years Though he left our
city II years ago he will be remem-
bered by many citizens.
DR.. Byron Robinson prizes himself
on being country born and bred His
father and mother William and Mary
Robinson, came to this country from
England in 1915, and located on farm
in central Wisconsin, near Hollandale,
where they lived together over fifty
years. Here his father died and here
his mother still resides on the old
homestead.
DR.. Robinson'S early life was spent
on the farm and his education was
commenced in the classical log school
house. He afterwards worked. his
way through the Mineral Point semi
nary, and later through the Wisconsin
university, where he was graduated in
1878 with the degree of B. S.: being
assistant to the professor of chemistry
during his senior year at the univer-
Sity. The two years following gradu-
alton, and while principal of high
school, he studied medicine with DIR.
Z. 7. Stair, and then entered Rush
medical college, completed the course
in 1882 and located in Grand Rapids.
Wis, where he entered on the prac.
tice of his profession.
In 1884 Dr.. Robinson gave up his
practice and spent two years in
Europe, studying surgery, and gyne-
COlogy in Heidelberg, Berlin and Lon
don. In 1887 he again went abroad
this time spending an entire year in
Vienna in the study of his chosen
speciality, gynecology. In 1889 he was
appointed to the chair of anatomy and
| clinical surgery in Toledo medical
| college, which he occupied for two
years and there gained the reputation
| of fine clinical teacher. In 1890 he
| crossed the ocean again and spent SiN
months with Mr.. Lawson TAFT OF
Birmingham, England.
In 1891 he came to Chicago and was
elected to the department of gynecol
Ogy in the Post Graduate medical
school. In 1887 DR.. Robinson began d
series of original Investigations in in
testinal surgery. He made over two
hundred experiments on the inteStineS
vi uOSDs anu q lCOuIU. Wv lOCu III
intestinal anaStOmOSiS, the cartilage
the rawhide and the segmented rub
Der plate, and the rawhide anaStOmOSis
button, which can be employed with
| out Sutures. He originated the ''StOve
| pipe" operation to displace circular
| extraordinarily without Sutures, also
| two methods of preventing intestina
| imagination subsequent to operations
| n nh nd OF lnr
which is OF more value, the suturine
| bowel meSentery.
DR.. Robinson has been for years {
liberal contributor to the leading
medical journals of this and foreign
countries. He is the author Of
intestinal surgery" automatic
menstrual ganglia, =" ''urachial cysts, ,
1.-The abdominal brain and automatic
visceral ganglia," landmarks ir
gynecology," and 1.-THE peritoneum, ;
published in 1897. He has published
a life sized chart of the sympathetic
nerve drawn from nature.
| DR.. Robinson is attending gynecol
ogyiSt to the Woman's Hospital, anC
consulting surgeon to the Mary
Thompson hospital of Chicago. He is
professor of gynecology and abdominal
surgery in the Illinois medical college
and the Chicago Post Graduate schoo
of gynecology and abdominal surgery
In 1894 DR.. Robinson was married tC
DR.. Lucy Waite of Chicago.
| DR.. Robinson is eminently an inveS-
| tigatOr. He is close student, and is
unknown to the social clubs of bis
city. When not actually engaged ir
| his practice he is to be found at his
| desk, or in his den, where all the
materia Is for the dissections and ex
! periments which have founded the
| basis for all his writings. Here he
| takes his recreation and finds his
| pleasure in his work. In preparing
| the first volume Of 1.-The Perito2eum, ;
he diSSeCted the peritOneum anC
viscera of one hundred different species
of fish. He is now engaged in the
dissection of the peritoneum of am
phiblanS, birds and mammals, for the
second volume of 1.-THE PeritOneum OF
NertebrateS, which is to be des
| criptive and comparative. Some have
doubted that all this work could be
done personally and practically by one
engaged without assistance in such a
| large surgical practice as DR.. Robinson
| is known to have, not being able tC
realize the enormous amount Of work
which can be done by one man in
perfect health. who does not frequent
clubs, nor waste one hour of the
twenty-four in any kind of dissipation
1t is no exaggeration to say that DIR.
Robinson has the reputation in the
profession of being one of its most
| conscientious and arduouS workers.
His reputation as writer is moi
confined to this one country, and his
articles have been published in the
Journal Of Anatomy and Physiology
of Edinburg, and copied in the British
| French and German journals. DR.
| Robinson has contributed his share tC
the development of gynecology anC
| abdominal surgery in America. HI
was the first to announce 1894 thai
| appendicitis was due to trauma Of the
psoaS muscles, and that gonorrhoea is
a cause Of rectual structures. DR.
Robinson is born teacher, as his
many post graduate students scattered
all over the United States, can testify
| His forcefEl manner in demonstration
whether it be a dissection, or a sur
gical operation on the living subjecr
| impreSSes the student and becomes {
picture in the mind which is not eaSil,
erased.
Prof. Henry Lyman says of DR.
Robinson, "a man Of ability IL
original research. He is remarkable
for industry in department that il
not ordinary cultivated by practicins
physicians"