Background
Reik, Henry Ottridge was born on May 23, 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Henry A. and Mary A. (Neilson) Reik.
lecturer medical editor author
Reik, Henry Ottridge was born on May 23, 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Henry A. and Mary A. (Neilson) Reik.
Graduate in Pharmacy, Maryland. College of Pharmacy, 1888. Doctor of Medicine, University Maryland, 1891.
Post-graduate work, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, London and Glasgow.
Practiced surgery (eye, ear, nose and throat), at Baltimore, 1891-1917. Associate in ophthalmology and otology, Johns Hopkins, 1896-1912. Lost use of right hand through sepsis, 1916, and abandoned active practice.
Executive secretary New York Association for Medical Education, 1919-1920.
Managing editor International Medical and Surgical Survey, March 1921-April 1924. Editor New Jersey State Medical Journal, and Executive officer Medical Society of New Jersey, since 1924.
Entered United States of America as volunteer, August 1917. Commissioned captain M.R.C., October 1917.
Major, April 1918; lieutenant colonel, February 1919.
Served at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. Sailed for France, July 8, 1918. Appointed commanding officer of Base Hospital 67, American Expeditionary Force, October 18, 1918.
Honorary discharged, May 13, 1919.
Re-commissioned lieutenant colonel, M.R.C., July 12, 1919. Commissioned colonel, June 2, 1924.
Author: Surgical Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear, 1906. Diseases of Ear, Nose and Throat, 1911.
Safeguarding the Special Senses, 1912.
Tour of America’s National Parks, 1920. Lecturer on travels, with illustrations made entirely by true color photography. Address: New York, New New York
Married Mary Watson, June 17, 1896 (divorced March 1930). Married second, Helen B. Calhoun, June 21, 1930.