Henry Swartley Ruth

Background

Ruth, Henry Swartley was born on August 12, 1899 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry Laban Swartley and Carrie Anders (Kindig) Ruth.

Education

Student Swarthmore College, 1917-1918. Student Hahnemann School of Science, 1918-1919, Bachelor of Science, 1921. Doctor of Medicine Hahnemann Medical 1923.

Career

Anesthetist Hahnemann Hospital, since 1924, Street Luke’s and Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, 1927-1941. Clinical professor anesthesia, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 1933-1940, professor and head department Anesthesiology since 1942. Chief, division of anesthesia Philadelphia General Hospital, 1933-1940, consulting anesthetist since 1940.

Chief, anesthetic service, West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, Camden, 1941-1942.

Civilian consultant United States Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1948-1952.

Achievements

• Henry Swartley Ruth has been listed as a noteworthy physician, anesthesiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served in South.A.T.C., 1918. Director courses in anesthesiology, United States Army and Navy, World World War World World War II On American Board of Anesthesiology, 1937-1952 (president 1943-1944). Fellow International College of Surgeons, American Medical Writers Association.

Member Society of Anesthetists, Incorporated.

(president 1938); Mason. Clubs: Union League, Rotary, Penn, Merion Golf, Bachelor’s Barge, Merion Cricket (Philadelphia).

. Member editorial board, American Journal of Surgery.

Connections

Married Lola Althouse Zendt, July 16, 1924. Children: Patricia Anne (Mistress James C. Straus, 3d), Henry Swartley, Junior.

Father:

Henry Laban Swartley Ruth

Mother:

Carrie Anders (Kindig) Ruth

Spouse:

Lola Althouse Zendt

child:

Henry Swartley Ruth

child:

3d) Ruth

child:

Patricia Anne (Mistress James C. Straus Ruth

child:

Junior Ruth