Background
Spratling, William Philip was born on October 13, 1863 in Chambers Company, Alabama, United States. Son of William Philip and Mary Ann Spratling.
Spratling, William Philip was born on October 13, 1863 in Chambers Company, Alabama, United States. Son of William Philip and Mary Ann Spratling.
1 term at State Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama, and 1 term Moors’ Business College, Atlanta, Georgia. Medical student Vanderbilt University, 1 year. Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical, Baltimore, 1886.
Entered United States Marine Hospital Service, 1887, as medical interne. Next became assistant physical New Jersey Eastern State Hospital for Insane, Morristown, New York, for 5 years. Practiced medicine at New York 2½ years, as specialist in nervous and mental diseases.
Medical superintendent Craig Colony for Epileptics, the first institution of its kind to be built in the world, 1894-1908.
Ex-president National Association for Study of Epilepsy. Member New York Academy of Medicine, American Medico-Psychological Association.
Member New York Academy of Medicine, American Medico-Psychological Association.
Married Annie Gorton, of Brooklyn, December 11, 1901.
