surgeon, professor, author, b. Plover. He was the son of Alexander S. McDill (q.v.). He graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago (M.D., 1885), and interned at Cook County Hospital (1885-1887). Except for two years of graduate study in Germany (1890-1892), he practiced medicine in Milwaukee (1887-1898). During the Spanish-American War, McDill served as major and surgeon with the 7th Army Corps in Cuba (1898-1899). He was chief operating surgeon in Manila, Philippine Islands (1900-1903); while in Manila, he organized the Woman's Hospital (1902), and served as chief surgeon at St. Paul's Hospital (1905-1910) and at the Philippine General Hospital (1910-1912). From 1906 to 1912 he was professor of surgery at the Univ. of the Philippines. In 1912 he resumed his practice in Milwaukee, and also served as associate professor of surgery at Rush Medical College (1913). He did medical relief work in Germany (1916- 1917), and during World War I served as a major in the U.S. Medical Corps (1917-1918). From 1918 to 1919 he was consultant in reconstruction to the Surgeon General, and was chief medical officer for the Federal Board of Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers with the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (1919-1921). He was chief medical consultant to the U.S. veterans' bureau (1922-1923), and from 1925 to 1932 was in charge of the U.S. veterans' hospital in Waukesha. He left Wisconsin in 1932, moved to the East, and died in Cornwall, N.Y. He was the author of Tropical Surgery and Diseases of the Far East (1918) and Lessons from the Enemy (1918). Who Was Who in Amer. (1943); E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); Milwaukee journal, Sept. 16, 1934.Learn More
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