" BISHOP, Seth Scott, American physician: b. Fond du Lac, Wis., 7 Feb. 1852. In his boyhood he learned the printer's trade and edited and published a paper called The Pen while attending Pooler Institute, a private school, setting all the type andprinting it him self. Before graduating from Pooler Institute, he entered upon the study of medicine. Af te• his course at this school, he was a student at Beloit College for three years, took two courses at the University of the City of New York, medical department, and completed his undergraduate course at Chicago Medical Col lege, now the Northwestern University Medi cal School, from which he was graduated M.D. in 1876. Among other institutions which have conferred degrees upon him are the Chicago Law School and the Chicago School of Science. He did post-graduate work in Chicago and in Berlin, Germany. For a short time he practised his profession in his native town and in Rochester, Minn., after which, in 1879, he removed to Chicago where he has practised continuously since. For more than 15 years he was engaged in general practice, but afterward made a specialty of diseases of the nose, throat and ear. In order to meet
the necessities of his special practice he has devised over 50 instruments and surgical ap pliances, discovered camphor-menthol, which is in universal use now in various countries, and invented new methods in his chosen field of work; has taught in several medical col leges of Chicago and is now a professor of diseases of the nose, throat and ear in the Loyola University Medical School.
Dr. Bishop has written for a large num ber of medical journals and has been either editor or associate editor of the Illinois Medi cal Bulletin, the Medical Examiner, the Nev York Medical Times and others. He was the head surgeon of the ear, nose and throat de partment of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary and served on its staff for more than 15 years. He has written extensively in his special field, His publications include 'Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat and Their Accessory Cavities' (4th ed., 1908) and 'The Ear and Its Diseases' (1906).