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ONE ILLUSTRATION
FREDERIC WHARTON RANKIN——
PRESIDENT—ELECT
Again a surgeon of international repute has been
elected by the House of Delegates of the American
Medical Association to the highest honor in the province
of scientific medicine. Again the House of Delegates
. recognized service to organized medicine: the physician
selected is one who has participated notably in the
affairs of the American Medical Association and of
many other scientific bodies. Dr. Rankin was born in
Mooresville, N. C., on Dec. 20, 1886. After receiving
his bachelor of arts degree from Davidson College in
1905 he received his degree of doctor of medicine from
the University of Maryland in 1909 and the degree
of master of arts from St. ]ohn’s College in 1913. He
was also made honorary doctor of sciéfigesiby Davidson
College, his alma mater, in 1937, and honorary LL.D.
by the University of Maryland in 1939. Following his
graduation in medicine he became a resident surgeon
at the University Hospital in Baltimore `ff*on·r1909 to
1912 and served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy
and associate in surgery at the University of Maryland
Medical School from 1913 to 1916. He then joined
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., acting as assistant
surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital, 1916-1923. He was
professor of surgery at the University of Louisville,
1922-1923, and served as surgeon to the Mayo Clinic
and as associate professor at the University of Minne-
sota Medical School, Mayo Foundation, 1926-1933. He
then removed to Lexington, Ky., where he became sur-
geon to St; ]oseph’s and the Good Samaritan hospitals,
with which he has been associated since jan. 1, 1934.
In the Wo1·ld War Dr. Rankin served as a major in
the Medical Corps for seventeen months and was _
attached to the First Army Corps, 4th and 26th divi-
sions in France, as commanding officer of Base Hos-
pital No. 26. He is now a colonel in the Medical
Reserve Corps. He has been honored by many medical
organizations, including the presidency of the Southern
~ Surgical Association and the Southeastern Surgical
Congress. He is a fellow of the American College of
Surgeons and a member of the American Surgical
Association, American Proctologic Society, Eastern and
Western Surgical associations, Southern Medical Asso-
  i ciation and many surgical clubs and medical fraterni-
ties. He was one of the founder members of the
American Board of Surgery, representing in that body
the Section on Surgery of the American Medical Asso-
ciation. His contributions to medical literature include
a monograph on “Surgery of the Colon ;" a work on
"The Colon, Rectum and Anus," published in 1932
jointly with Drs.   A. Bargen and L. A. Buie, and
a work on {Cancer of the Colon and Rectum," pub-
T lished with A. S. Graham in 1939. He has also con- i
tributed chapters on surgery of the colon, with
particular reference to carcinoma, in several systems
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