Background
Thompson, Loyd was born on June 5, 1882 in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Andrew Burgess and Eliza (Martin) Thompson.
Thompson, Loyd was born on June 5, 1882 in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Andrew Burgess and Eliza (Martin) Thompson.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1904. Student Yale University and University of Southern California. Doctor of Medicine, University of Arkansas, 1910.
Pathologist to Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Little Rock, 1910-1912. City bacteriologist, Little Rock, 1911-1913. Pathologist to Arkansas State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 1912-1914.
Instructor clinical diagnosis and director Clinical Laboratory, University of Arkansas Medical Department, 1912-1914.
Visiting physician, Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Hot Springs. Formerly consulting pathologist, Leo North. Levi Memorial Hospital and syphilologist to clinic of the Government Free Bath House Hot Springs, Arkansas Founder American Journal of Syphilis, editor, 1916-1920.
First Lieutenant Medical Reserve-Corps. February 5, 1915; major April 15, 1918.
Active duty, August 1916-March 1919.
Lieutenant colonel, March 20, 1920. Colonel May 1, 1926.
Fellow American College Physicians. Member American, California State, and San Diego County medical associations, Nu Sigma Nu.
Married Corinne Scull, August 16, 1911.