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Mayo (CHARLES HORACE surgeon born)

CHARLES HORACE, surgeon; born at Rochester, Minn., in 1865, was educated at Northwestern University, and graduated from Chicago Medical DR. CHARLES H. MAYO College in 1888. From that year he practiced in Rochester, and became surgeon to Mayo Clinic of St. Mary's Hospital.

With his brother donated $1,500,000 in 1915 to establish the Mayo Foundation for medical research at Rochester. President of Western Surgical and Gynæcological Society (1904), of Minnesota State Medical Society (1905), and chairman surgical sections American Medical Association (1907) and International Tuberculosis Congress (1908). Has won reputation in treating goiter, MAYO FOUNDATION and in collaboration with his brother, William James, has published "A Collection of Papers Published Previous to 1909" (2 vols. 1912).