Edwin Allen Locke | |
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| Born | October 15, 1874 Halifax, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 1971 (aged 96) West Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Edwin Allen Locke (October 15, 1874 – March 6, 1971) was was an American physician.
Locke was born October 15, 1874, in Halifax, Massachusetts. He was the son of Isaac H. Locke and Ellen Clarke. He grew up and was educated in Whitman, Massachusetts. He attended Brown University and was a member of the football, track, and baseball teams. He graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1896 and a Master of Arts in 1897. In 1901, Locke graduated from Harvard Medical School and began working at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Locke was president of the Brown Alumni Association in 1930.
Locke died March 6, 1971, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was buried at Vale End Cemetery in Wilton, New Hampshire.
Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, Association of American Physicians, American Society for the Advancement of Clinical Research, National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, International Tuberculosis Association, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association
- Born on October 15, 1874 Halifax, Massachusetts.
- 1896 – Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University.
- 1897 – Master of Arts, Brown University.
- 1901 – Graduated from Harvard Medical School.
- 1902 – Appointed ‘House Pupil’ at Massachusetts General Hospital. Awarded Dalton Scholarship to investigate ‘Osteitis deformans and allied affections‘.
- 1903 – Started work at Boston City Hospital as Physician to Outpatients.
- 1905 – Founding member of the Interurban Clinical Club
- 1918 – set up a special ward for the treatment of patients during the influenza pandemic at Boston City Hospital.
- 1921 – Part of the first organised group practice in Boston.
- 1923 – Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard.
- 1934 – President of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association.
- 1935 – Resigned from clinical duties to become Professor of Hygiene and Director of Health and Athletics at Williams College.
- 1942 – Retired and subsequently cared for his wife who suffered a severe stroke.
- Died on March 6, 1971 aged 96
Locke's son, Edwin A. Locke Jr., was an aide to President Harry S. Truman.
Publications and works
edit- The Blood in Scarlet Fever (1905), with Wilder Tileston
- The Organization of a Department of Clinical Medicine (1905), with Richard Clarke Cabot
- The Pathologic Findings in Two Fatal Cases of Mycosis Fungoides (1907), with Samuel Orton
- The Treatment of Non-Tuberculous Chronic Arthritis (1907), with Robert Bayley Osgood
- Tuberculosis in Massachusetts (1908)
- The Municipal Hospital for Advanced Consumptives in Boston (1909), with Simon F. Cox
- Food Values (1911)
- The Nutrition of Anaemic and Tuberculous Children (1913)
- Secondary Hypertrophic Osteo-Arthropathy and its Relation to Simple Club-Fingers (1915)
- The Clinical Aspects of the Recent Influenza Epidemic (1919), with George E. Rönne and Herman Lande
- Diseases of the Bones (1921)
- The Treatment of Type I Pneumococcus Lobar Pneumonia with Specific Serum (1923)
- Hematuria as a Symptom of Systemic Disease (1924), with George Minot
- Obesity (1924), chapter in George Blumer's edition of Forchheimer's Therapeusis of Internal Diseases
- The Serologic Treatment of Lobar Pneumonia (1924)
- Five Cases of Spontaneous Rupture of the Heart (1927)
- The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Lobar Pneumonia (1931)
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Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1929.[2]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4573635/
https://viaf.org/viaf/6596159248204304870002/
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/their-service[3]
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-6596159248204304870002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441247/[4]
- ^ "Massachusetts Medical Society: Edwin Allen Locke, M.D.". The New England Journal of Medicine. 284 (16). doi:10.1056/NEJM197104222841613.
- ^ "Member Directory: Edwin Allen Locke". American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
- ^ Ruder, Debra Bradley (Winter 2014). "At Their Service". Harvard Medicine. Harvard Medical School.
- ^ Stetson, Richard P. (October 1972). "Memorial: Edwin Allen Locke, M.D." Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. LXXXIII: xli–xlv. PMC 2441247.