Background
Frederick Byron Robinson was born on a farm near Hollandale, Iowa County, Wisconsin, where his parents, William and Mary Robinson, English immigrants, had settled in 1845.
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Frederick Byron Robinson was born on a farm near Hollandale, Iowa County, Wisconsin, where his parents, William and Mary Robinson, English immigrants, had settled in 1845.
After elementary instruction in the log school house of Hollandale he attended Mineral Point Seminary and later worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1878.
He taught school to finance his course through Rush Medical College, Chicago, receiving his medical degree in 1882.
He practised medicine at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, for six years broken by study trips to Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Birmingham. A course under Lawson Tait at Birmingham had a lasting influence upon his career. In 1889 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he was made professor of anatomy and clinical surgery in the Toledo Medical College.
Two years later he took up his residence in Chicago and was appointed professor of gynecology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School.
Later, he was professor of gynecology and abdominal surgery successively at the Illinois Medical School and the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery.
For many years he served on the staff of the Woman's Hospital and of the Mary Thompson Hospital. Though always a busy practitioner of surgery, his chief claim to distinction rests upon his researches and writings in the field of anatomy.
For years he frequented the morgue of the Cook County Hospital, where he made a study of the material which came for autopsy.
He confined his studies to the abdomen and pelvis and their contents.
He is credited with having written over five hundred articles, in addition to several large volumes devoted to surgery and anatomy.
His books include Experimental Intestinal Surgery (1889), Practical Intestinal Surgery (2 vols. , 1891), Landmarks in Gynecology (2 vols. , 1894), The Peritoneum--Histology and Physiology (1897), and Abdominal and Pelvic Brain (1906).
Many of his articles are but slight variations of the same theme. As might be expected, their literary quality suffered much from this overproduction. His writings are marked by poor arrangement and faulty diction and are seriously marred by a bizarre technical terminology.
That his investigations were in the main sound is evidenced by their frequent citation in the standard works on anatomy.
He confined his studies to the abdomen and pelvis and their contents. Most notable were his investigations upon the physiological anatomy of the peritoneum, but they included the anatomy and pathology of the ureters, the seminal vesicles, the biliary and pancreatic ducts, and the abdominal sympathetic nervous system. Of particular interest to the practising surgeon were his investigations upon the pathology of the psoas muscle and its relation to appendicitis. His untiring industry and enthusiasm brought to him an astonishing wealth of material. Equally notable is the quantity of his literary output. He is credited with having written over five hundred articles, in addition to several large volumes devoted to surgery and anatomy. Another of his important achievements was a lifesize chart illustrating the sympathetic nervous system. His name is carried by several anatomical eponyms.
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Personally he was short and heavy-set, an intense person with tireless nervous energy, egotistical, and intolerant of criticism or of the opinions of others.
He had developed highly the "gentle art of making enemies. " The glaring faults of his literary style and his unattractive personality doubtless account in some measure for the fact that his books never had the backing of a leading publisher, that his articles seldom appeared in the more substantial journals, and that he never achieved the highest recognition as a teacher.
In 1894 he married Dr. Lucy Waite, head surgeon of the Mary Thompson Hospital, and they were thereafter associated in hospital and office work.
