A Text-Book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa: For Students of Medicine and Physicians

by Joseph McFarland

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916 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2010

About the author

Dr. Joseph McFarland was born in Philadelphia on February 9th, 1868. His education was occasionally delayed by health issues; however in 1889 he received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation McFarland spent a year as a Resident Physician at Philadelphia General Hospital, and then studied in Germany and Austria for an additional year.

In 1891 McFarland returned to
become the Assistant to the Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Assistant Demonstrator of Pathological Histology. In 1892 McFarland was promoted to Demonstrator of Pathological Histology, as well as Lecturer on Bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania. He left these positions after being elected to Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in 1896, a position he held until 1916. Also during this time, McFarland was made Professor of Pathology in the Woman’s
College of Pennsylvania, serving in that position from 1910 to 1914. During World War One, McFarland was commissioned Major in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and served at various bases throughout the United States until 1919. In 1920, after recovering from a case of pulsonary tuberculosis
acquired during his army service, McFarland returned to the University of Pennsylvania to become Professor of General Pathology at the Thomas A. Evans Dental Institute.

He retired from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940, and was granted Professor Emeritus status for full use of his laboratory room in perpetuity. That same year, McFarland accepted a position as Professor of General Pathology of the Dental School at Temple University, and was made consulting Pathologist to the newly-formed Tumor Clinic at University Hospital. In 1943 he was elected Visiting Professor of Pathology for instruction in Oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.

McFarland’s other career accomplishments include the granting of an honorary M.D. degree from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in 1898; overseeing the transition of the Medico-Chirurgical College’s merging with the University of Pennsylvania in 1916; election as Honorary Curator of the
Mutter Museum in 1936; and receiving the “Strittmatter Award” for being the “Outstanding Medical Man of Philadelphia” in 1941. McFarland wrote extensively on the subjects of pathology, bacteriology, and tumors. His major works include the books “Biology: General and Medical” published in 1910; “The Breast: Its Diseases, its Anomalies and their Treatment” published in 1917; “Fighting Foes too
Small to See” published in 1924; “Surgical Pathology” published in 1924. His first book, “Text Book of Pathology” was published in 1904 and reprinted for a second edition in 1910. By his own estimation, Dr. McFarland was also the author of “about two hundred contributions to current [as of 1943] medical literature.” On September 14th, 1892, Dr. McFarland married Virginia E. Kinsey, and they had three children: Helen J., Katharine A., and Joseph Jr. Dr. McFarland passed in 1945.