Frederic Shepard Dennis

Carte de visite portrait of Frederic Shepard Dennis, MD (1850-1934). Dr. Dennis received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1874. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Adjunct Professor of Surgery (1881-1883) and Professor of Surgery (1883-1898). Dr. Dennis introduced Lister's antiseptic methods in operative surgery in the United States. His friendship with Andrew Carnegie is said to have influenced the gift of the Carnegie Laboratory to the College of Medicine. Built in 1884, this was the first laboratory in the country established for teaching and investigation in bacteriology and pathology. Dr. Dennis was made one of its directors.