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Bailey, Drennen

  • Person
  • Circa 1922-1990

Drennan Bailey was a 1946 graduate of Washington University School of Medicine who served for more than 30 years on the staffs of Missouri Baptist and Deaconess hospitals.

Bain, Katherine

  • Person
  • 1897-1999

Katherine Bain was born September 1, 1897, in St. Louis, Missouri. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology at the University of Missouri in 1920 and was the sole woman in her 1925 medical school class at Washington University School of Medicine.

After an internship in San Francisco, Bain returned to St. Louis for a residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She then joined in private practice with her brother-in-law, Dr. Park J. White. Sharing a sense of outrage at the poor care given to African-American children, Dr. Bain and Dr. White ran the first racially integrated medical facility in St. Louis and fought to have African-American physicians admitted to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In 1940 Bain moved to Washington, D.C. to join the federal Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare as director of the division of research in child development. In her more than 30 years with the Children’s Bureau, Bain served as deputy chief and as assistant chief for International Cooperation. Bain was instrumental in alerting the public about the dangers of childhood poisoning, and her reports led to the development of child-proof safety caps. She also supervised the preparation of the best-selling government publication, “Infant Care,” of which over 50 million copies were distributed. In 1963 President Kennedy appointed Bain to represent the United States on the Executive Board of UNICEF. She served in that position until her retirement from government service in 1972.

Bain likely met her longtime friend and housemate Christine Glass in St. Louis, perhaps through Bain’s work with the Progressive Pre-School, where Glass served as the director. The two moved together to Washington, D.C., where they jointly owned a house until Glass’s death in 1977.

Bain died on January 10, 1999 at the age of 101.

Ball, James Moores

  • Person
  • 1863-1929

James Moores Ball was a physician and scholar who became an eminent member of the St. Louis Medical Society. Ball received his medical degree from Iowa State University in 1884, taking further post-graduate courses in New York and Europe. He served as professor of Ophthalmology at the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1894 to 1910, then served as dean and professor of Ophthalmology at the American Medical College.

Dr. Ball was active in local, state, national, and international medical societies, notably the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, the American Ophthalmological Society, and the American Oculist Society. He was also the editor of the Annals of Ophthalmology. Additionally, Ball was a well-known author, and his writings were crafted from his own extensive personal libraries on ophthalmology and general history of medicine. His three monographs reflect his scholarly and scientific interests: Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy (1910), Modern Ophthalmology (six editions between 1904 and 1927), and a study of the practice of body snatching, The Sack-em' Up Men (1928).

Ballinger, Walter F., II

  • Person
  • 1925-2011

Walter F. Ballinger II earned a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed surgical residencies at Bellevue Hospital and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. Ballinger accepted the position of Bixby Professor and head of the Department of Surgery at Washington University in 1967. He stepped down as the head of the department in 1978 and retired as a surgeon in 1991, but continued to teach in the Health Administration Program.

Banton, William C., II

  • Person
  • 1922-2016

William C. Banton, II was born in 1922 in Washington, D.C. He earned his medical degree from Howard University in 1946 and then interned at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. He received a master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public health in 1970. He served in the U.S. Air Force in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam War. In 1973 he was promoted to Brigadier General. He retired from the reserves in 1979.

Banton served as Health Commissioner for the City of St. Louis from 1970-1972. He then designed the St. Louis County Department of Community Health and Medical Care and served as its first director from 1973-1979. He successfully advocated for the creation of the Missouri Department of Health, and in 1985 was appointed as a medical consultant to the agency. Banton also taught on the faculties of both Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis University School of Medicine. In 1987 he was elected president of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, the first African-American to hold the position in the society’s 150-year-long history.

Barbee, Andrew B.

  • Person
  • 1819-1896

Andrew B. "A.B." Barbee was a physician and surgeon who practiced in St. Louis. He graduated from Kemper Medical College in 1843 and authored a history of Missouri Medical college from 1840 to 1861, published in 1914.

Barck, Carl

  • Person
  • 1857-

Carl Barck was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and received his M.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1880. He immigrated to the United States and settled in St. Louis in 1883. He was a professor of ophthalmology at St. Louis University and an ophthalmologist at Rebekah Hospital and Lutheran Hospital.

Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital

  • Corporate body
  • 1896-

The Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital was established following a devastating tornado that destroyed St. Louis City Hospital on May 27, 1896. The city set up temporary facilities for the City Hospital patients in the House of the Good Shepherd, but the overflow of patients resulted in cancer patients being turned away. Recognizing that cancer patients needed a facility exclusively dedicated to cancer treatment, the St. Louis Skin and Cancer Hospital opened on a trial basis in 1905 in the old Tuholske Private Hospital at 410 N. Jefferson Avenue. Having proved its worth, the hospital erected a new, 44-bed facility at 3427 Washington Avenue on December 20, 1910. George D. Barnard funded the construction of the new $135,000 building and consequently the hospital was renamed Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in his honor.

The hospital's three main purposes were treatment, research, and education. Patients were treated only if they were unable to pay for their care and this treatment was provided at no cost to the patients. Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital was a pioneer in public education about cancer and these efforts allowed the community to understand the need for early detection in cancer cases. In addition to its impressive educational contributions, the hospital staff also engaged in research to discover new ways of treating and preventing cancer. The first methods of conducting surgery to remove cancer in the shoulder and hip were developed at Barnard Hospital. Over time, more and more of the research aspect of the hospital was affiliated with Washington University.

In 1952, Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital officially affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine. On October 13, 1954, a new 40-bed building was dedicated on the Medical School campus for the hospital. That building still stands and is now a part of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The affiliation with Washington University caused the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital to shift from an independently organized free cancer hospital serving low income patients to a university-affiliated, research-oriented teaching hospital. In 2000, Alvin J. Siteman donated $35 million for the foundation of the Siteman Cancer Center, which incorporated the cancer treatment and research aspects of Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital.

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