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He was born on October 31, 1844 in Buchs, Switzerland, to John and Magdelena Senn, who emigrated to America about 1852 and settled in the village of Ashford, Wiscosin.
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He was born on October 31, 1844 in Buchs, Switzerland, to John and Magdelena Senn, who emigrated to America about 1852 and settled in the village of Ashford, Wiscosin.
After graduating from high school in Fond du Lac in 1864, he taught school and read medicine until 1866, when he entered the Chicago Medical College, from which he was graduated two years later.
During 1877-78 he studied at the University of Munich, which conferred upon him the degree of M. D.
Following an internship of eighteen months in the Cook County Hospital he settled for practice in Elmore, Wiscosin, but in 1874 he moved to Milwaukee, where he was appointed attending physician to the Milwaukee Hospital.
Returning to practice in Milwaukee after studies in University of Munich, he was in 1884 appointed professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago; in 1890 he became professor of surgery and surgical pathology in Rush Medical College, and in the following year he succeeded Charles Theodore Parkes as head of the department of surgery there. Later he became professor of surgery at the Chicago Polyclinic and lecturer on military surgery at the University of Chicago.
For nine years he traveled between Milwaukee and Chicago to fill his lecture and clinic engagements, until in 1893 he removed his residence to Chicago. His practice was lucrative, and he was a liberal contributor toward the advancement of medical education. He gave a clinical building to Rush Medical College at a cost of about one hundred thousand dollars; and upon the death of Professor William Baum of the University of Gottingen, he purchased his library of old and rare medical books, the collections of fifty years, and presented it to the Newberry Library of Chicago.
He was a rapid and voluminous writer upon surgical subjects, military medicine, and travel.
From the beginning of his professional career he had been interested in military medicine. Surgeon general of Wisconsin for a time and later a brigadier-general in the National Guard of Illinois, he was the president of Association of Military Surgeons of the United States for the first two years.
During the Spanish-American War he saw service in Cuba as chief-surgeon of the VI Army Corps, with the grade of lieutenant-colonel. His pride in his uniform caused considerable amusement to his friends, but his teaching and example had a large influence in stimulating interest throughout the profession in medico-military knowledge.
In his later years he traveled much throughout the world. From South America he sent a series of letters to the Journal of the American Medical Association, and in 1902 he published the well-illustrated Around the World via Liberia.
In 1907 in South America he suffered an acute dilation of the heart, the result of a mountain ascent of 16, 000 feet; he was brought back to Chicago, where he died in St. Joseph's Hospital in a room he had endowed.
Nicholas Senn was one of the first, who systematically pursued experimental surgery upon animals, and he devised one of the earliest mechanical aids for intestinal anastomosis. His experimental work upon abdominal surgery, including gunshot wounds of the intestines, gave him a local preeminence in this field. His observations upon first aid on the battlefield and the conservative surgery of gunshot wounds are noteworthy and they are collected in his famous works: Surgical Bacteriology (1889), War Correspondence (1899), Medico-Surgical Aspects of the Spanish-American War (1900). He founded Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Senn is the namesake for Senn High School in Chicago, which was named for him on March 20, 1909 following his death.
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Quotations: Senn is also known for saying "The fate of the wounded rests with the one who applies the first dressing".
Physically he was short and heavy set, and quick and impulsive in speech and action. Though kindly and sympathetic by nature, he had a temper easily aroused, and at such times he was a formidable fighter. He was an indefatigable student and worker; even his holidays were filled with exacting activities.
Senn amassed a collection of 10, 000 volumes and 14, 000 pamphlets and articles dating from the 1500s onwards on medicine and surgery. He also purchased the 7, 000 volume collection of old and rare medical books left by a prominent doctor in Germany and donated the materials to the Newberry Library.
In 1869 he was married to Amelia S. Muehlhauser of La Crosse, Wiscosin, who with two sons survived him.
