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1886- Cubit feet ? 7 boxes This collection comprises six scrapbooks (plus one box of miscellaneous items) of letters, newsclippings, and photographs documenting major milestones in the career of Lexinngton, Kentucky surgeon Fred W. Rankin, M.D. archival material English unknown This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Physical rights are retained by the owning repository. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws. For information about permissions to reproduce or publish, contact the Special Collections Research Center. Fred W. Rankin, M.D. Scrapbooks Correspondence –– Rankin, Fred W. (Fred Wharton),
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RANKIN WILL ADDRESS
BRITISH, IRISH SURGEONS
Dr. Fred W. Rankin, Lexington,
international authority on cancer of
. the colon, who was inaugurated
yesterday as president of the Amer-
ican College of Surgeons at its an-
nual meeting in Chicago, will
go to England next May to address
the Associations of Surgeons of
Great Britain and Ireland. s
_ A `The new ACS president is the
author of 300 papers on operative
— `and clinical surgery and of many
s monographs and textbooks on sur-
gery of the colon and rectum.
He is the third iperson in medical
history to be elected to the presi-
dency of three major medical
groups-—the American Medical As-
, sociation, the American Surgical
Association and the College of Sur-
. geons. The other two are Dr. Wil-
liam J. Mayo and Dr. Charles H.
_ Mayo. . ‘
Dr. Rankin is a veteran of both
World Wars. During the first, he
I served 17 months with the Army
» Medical Corps as a major attached
to the First A. C., Fourth and 26th
~ Divisions in France. He was com-
manding officer of a base hospital
with the rank of major, and at the
i end. of the war he became a colonel
. in the Army Medical Reserve
Corps.
, During World War II he was
called to active duty in the Surgeon
General’s office with the rank of
‘ brigadier general. He served as
chief consulting surgeon to the
Armies of the United States.
Military citations held by Dr.j
Rankin include·World War I vic-'
tory ribbon, World War II Dis-
tinguished Service medal, Victory
ribbon, ETO ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific·
ribbon, American Theater ribbon
and Cross of Chevalier of -the
Legion of Honor.