Background
King, Oscar A. was born on February 22, 1851 in on farm near Peru, Indiana, United States. Son of Timothy Lewis and Mary M. (Wright) King.
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Oscar A. King
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Doctor of Medicine Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York University), 1878.
Career
Second and 1st assistant physical Wisconsin Eastern State Hospital for Insane, 1879-1882. Attended lectures University of Vienna and clinics in Allgemeinen Krankenhausen, 1880-1881. Special studies in neurology and psychiatry under Meynert, Leidersdorf, Weiss and Benedict.
Professor mental and nervous diseases, 1882, and later of neurology, Psychiatry and clin, medicine, secretary, 1894, vice dean, since 1900, College Physicians and Surgical (University of Illinois), Chicago.
Pathologist and consulting alienist Wisconsin state charitable and penal institutions, 1895. Professor neurology, Post-Graduate Medical School.
Chief department of neurology West Side Free Dispensary. Associate member medical staff Cook Company Hospital Founded, 1883, the Oakwood Retreat, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a private sanitarium for care of the insane, of which became president and chief of medical staff
Founded, in 1896, Lake Geneva Sanitarium, and in 1901 the two sanitaria were united into one, of which remains director In 1896 applied the toxine of erysipelas effectively in the treatment of 23 nearly consecutive cases of mania and melancholia.
Home: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Achievements
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Member medical staff Cook Company
Connections
Married Minerva Guernsey, 1887.
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Nationality
American