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Shoemaker, John Vietch was born on March 18, 1852 in Cham-bersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lewis A. and Mary M. (Greenawalt) Shoemaker.
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John Vietch Shoemaker
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, 1872, Master of Arts, 1875. Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, 1874. Doctor of Laws, Dickinson, 1895.
Career
Demonstrator and lecturer on anatomy and lecturer on cutaneous affections, Jefferson Medical College, 1874-1886. Professor cutaneous diseases and professor materia medica and therapeutics, since 1886, president, since 1890, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia A founder of Medical Bulletin, 1879, Medical Register, 1887, and later editor Medical Times and Register. Was president American Medical Editors’ Association.
Fellow London Medical Society.
Delegate 9th, 10th and 11th International Medical Congresses. Surgeon general National Guard Pennsylvania, 1898-1902.
Commissioner state of Pennsylvania to Paris Exposition, 1900. President Board Charities and Corrections City and County of Philadelphia, since 1901.
Appointed surgeon Medical Reserve Corps United States of America, 1908.
Author: Poisons and Antidotes. Ointments and Oleates. Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
Heredity, Health and Personal Beauty.
A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, 1898.
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Married Jennie M. Logan, 1874.
