Background
Benjamin Knox Rachford was born on November 28, 1857 in Alexandria, Kentucky, the son of Hugh Knox Rachford and Elizabeth Jane (Beall). Both his father and his grandfather were physicians.
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Benjamin Knox Rachford
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Education
After attending grammar school at Alexandria and Hughes High School in Cincinnati, he entered the Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, and received the doctorate of medicine in 1882, together with the Joseph Ransohoff gold medal for excellence in descriptive anatomy.
Career
After a year as interne in the Cincinnati General Hospital, he began practice with his father.
In 1888, however, he moved to Newport, Ky. , across the river from Cincinnati, and entered practice for himself. A year later he went abroad to study and spent some time in the laboratory of Professor Gad in Berlin. While there he began his work on the digestive action of the bile and pancreatic gland.
In April 1891, in the Journal of Physiology, he published a paper, since become a classic, entitled "The Influence of Bile on the Fat-Splitting Properties of the Pancreatic Juice. " In subsequent years he published papers on the influence of bile on the proteolytic action of the pancreatic juice and also on its influence on the starch-splitting action of that secretion. These papers, together with other contributions along the same line, established for him an international reputation in physiology.
In 1894 he removed to Cincinnati and became professor of bacteriology in the Medical College of Ohio. He had published in 1888 a paper on the cause of the epidemic of typhoid fever in Cincinnati, and had succeeded in isolating the typhoid bacillus from the reservoir of the public water supply.
About 1894 he became greatly interested in auto-intoxication and published several experimental investigations into the cause of migraine, which he attributed to toxic products of xanthine nature formed from the bacterial decomposition of proteins. His practical experience as a physician also caused him to experiment on the absorption of drugs from the skin, and he showed that guaiacol when combined into a salve with lanolin and fat and rubbed on the skin appeared in the urine in one and a half hours.
In 1895 he became professor of physiology in the Medical College of Ohio, but retained this professorship only until 1898. He published a series of articles in 1895 in the Archives of Pediatrics (New York) which were collected and published as a book under the title, Some Physiological Factors in the Neuroses of Childhood (1895). His investigations into the activity of various toxins related to uric acid in producing symptoms, and the appearance of these substances in more than normal amount in the urine of patients in these states, led him to recognize a distinct disease which he named "Lithemia. "
Besides various papers on this subject published in medical journals, he contributed a chapter on it to the American Text Book of the Diseases of Children (1894), edited by Louis Starr. In 1897 he was elected director of pediatrics in the Cincinnati General Hospital and at once reorganized the handling of the children patients by establishing a children's ward. He also established in this hospital one of the first outdoor wards in America for the treatment of tuberculosis and pneumonia of children.
In 1898 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics and three years later, professor of pediatrics, in the Ohio Medical College, which by that time had become a part of the University of Cincinnati. The latter professorship he held until 1920.
In 1909 he initiated the enterprise which became his greatest philanthropy, the Babies Milk Fund, a charity which has grown in Cincinnati into a great, beneficent, and widely diversified philanthropic work. Its success led Mrs. Mary M. Emery to donate money to endow the chair of pathology in the medical school, to give liberally to its building fund, and to establish in the University of Cincinnati the Benjamin Knox Rachford department of pediatrics.
Rachford published Neurotic Disorders of Children in 1905, and seven years later, his well-known textbook, Diseases of Children (1912). In the later years of his life he had a great influence in formulating the plans for the medical department of the University of Cincinnati.
He died at Cincinnati from septic poisoning.
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He brought to the medical center the Children's Hospital, and was instrumental in arousing the interest of William Cooper Procter, who endowed the magnificent Institute for Research in Children's Diseases now attached to that hospital. He took a prominent part also in founding the School of Nursing and Public Health under the auspices of the medical department of the University.
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Neurotic Disorders of Childhood: Including a Study of Auto and Intestinal Intoxications, Chronic Anaemia, Fever, Eclampsia, Epilepsy, Migraine, Chorea, Hysteria, Asthma, Etc (Classic Reprint)
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Diseases of Children: A Practical Treatise on Diagnosis and Treatment for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine (Classic Reprint)
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Some Physiological Factors of the Neuroses of Childhood (Classic Reprint)
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Neurotic Disorders Of Childhood: Including A Study Of Auto And Intestinal Intoxications, Chronic Anaemia, Fever, Eclampsia, Epilepsy, Migraine, Chorea, Hysteria, Asthma, Etc
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Diseases of Children;
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Membership
He was a member of various medical societies and was president of the American Pediatric Association.
Connections
In 1897 he married Gretchen Louise Wherry, daughter of William Wherry, United States Army; they had no children.
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