Charles Horace Mayo

Charles Horace "Charlie" Mayo ( born July 19, 1865 in Rochester, Minnesota, † May 26, 1939 in Chicago) was an American surgeon and physicist. He was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Biography

After Mayo had successfully completed in 1888, his medical degree at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago, he began the practice of his father, William Worrall Mayo and his brother William James Mayo participate. By teaching Containment in the U.S. and Europe and the collaboration with his father to Mayo appropriated early on current and very advanced for the prior term treatment methods. The practice built the Mayos further and opened in October 1889 " St. Mary's Hospital ", the first hospital of southern Minnesota. Due to the novel treatments, Mayo Clinic grew, as it is called later, to the turn of the century continues and is still regarded as one of the leading hospitals in the world. Charles Horace Mayo specialized in the aftermath of thyroid and eye diseases as well as diseases of the nervous system. Four years after the death of his father Charles Horace founded in 1915 together with his brother, the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

In 1928, Mayo went into retirement, leaving his son Charles William Mayo, the continuation of his work at the Mayo Clinic. Until his death, the clinic had already treated over one million patients.

Together with his wife Edith Mary Graham Mayo had nine children.

On September 11, 1964, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp with his brothers Charles and William Horace James to their remembrance.

Memberships

Charles Mayo was from 23 December 1888 Member of the Association of the Freemasons, his box was the Rochester Lodge No.21 in Rochester.