Background
He was born on November 13, 1875 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Dr. Samuel Ruff Skillern and his wife, Sarah Hall Ross.
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He was born on November 13, 1875 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Dr. Samuel Ruff Skillern and his wife, Sarah Hall Ross.
He received his preliminary education in George F. Martin's academy, studied in the school of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, 1892-93, then entered the medical department, from which he was graduated in 1897. Later he studied rhinology and laryngology in Vienna for a year and a half.
After practising general medicine for several years with his father he began to specialize in laryngology. In 1905 he suffered an attack of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis which he had contracted from a patient. He recovered after a prolonged illness and then went abroad to study.
He returned to Philadelphia in 1907 and began giving private courses in the anatomy and pathology of the nasal accessory sinuses. In 1913 he was professor of laryngology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia and continued to serve in that capacity after the institution became part of the graduate school of medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in 1919.
His most famous work, The Catarrhal and Suppurative Diseases of the Accessory Sinuese of the Nose, was published in 1913 and reached four editions within ten years.
During the World War he served first as a major in the medical corps, chief of the division of surgery of the head, in the base hospital at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in July 1918, and acted as commanding officer of United States base hospital No. 89, American Expeditionary Force, in France.
In 1912 he organized and became the first president of the Philadelphia Laryngological Society. He was a president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1926; he was chairman of the section on otolaryngology of the American Medical Association in 1920, and president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society in 1929.
When the American Board of Examiners in Otolaryngology was organized in 1924, he was chosen as one of the delegates to represent the Association on the Board, a position to which he was reelected every year until his death. He was also a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and of other local medical societies. He died suddenly in Philadelphia.
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He was a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. He was a member of the American Laryngological Association.
He was an enthusiastic and gifted teacher, and an excellent operator, and his classes attracted many students.
He was married to Eliza Michler Porter, of Hackettstown, New Jersey, on June 3, 1903. They had two daughters and two sons.