page_title: Edwin Hartley Pratt
section_title: Medical career
hierarchical_section_title: Edwin Hartley Pratt / Medical career
caption_attribution_description: English: Edwin Hartley Pratt, founder of orificial surgery, from the Chicago Inter-Ocean company's [books.google.com/books?pg=PA425&amp;id=Y8wsAQAAMAAJ History of the City of Chicago], published in 1900.
context_page_description: Edwin Hartley Pratt, or E.H. Pratt, was a prominent American practitioner of homeopathic medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He originated the briefly popular practice of "orificial surgery", which sought to cure a variety of physical and psychological ills by surgical corrections to the various orifices of the body. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Orificial Surgery.
  Pratt served for 20 years as attending surgeon for Cook County Hospital, and also founded his own institute, the Lincoln Park Sanitarium. His ideas were extremely popular for a time, but fell into general disrepute by the early 20th century.
context_section_description: For his first ten years as a homeopathic physician, Pratt worked in general practice, only later moving into surgery.  He became a full professor of anatomy at Hahnemann in 1874, leaving to take a professorship at the Chicago Homeopathic College in 1877. In 1883, he resigned that position to take the chair of surgery, in which capacity he also oversaw the school's busy clinic.
  Pratt established the Lincoln Park Sanitarium in 1889, incorporating it in 1890. The Sanitarium occupied a six-story structure of Bedford limestone at the intersection of Lake View and Deming, overlooking Chicago's Lincoln Park.
  He closed the Lincoln Park Sanitarium in 1895 to open the "Pratt Sanatorium", which was a smaller operation located in a two-story building on west Diversey Avenue in Chicago. Pratt described his reason for closing the Lincoln Park Sanitarium as "purely a financial one", prompted by falling numbers of patients in the aftermath of the Panic of 1893.
  In 1902, Pratt served as president of the Illinois Homeopathic Association.
caption: Pratt in 1900
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