Charles A. L. Reed was an American medical doctor. He served as president of the

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from 1901-1902.

History

Charles Alfred L. Reed was born in

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, in 1856, the second son of Dr. Richard Cumming Stockton Reed and Nancy (Clark) Reed. He was educated in the schools of Ohio and held a master of arts from

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, Oxford. His medical education was received in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in which institution his father held the professorship of materia medica and therapeutics. Following graduation, he also studied in London and Paris. He practiced medicine in

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, specializing in surgery. He also practiced gynecology at several Cincinnati hospitals. He was President of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association in 1892. He later served as chairman of a committee on medical legislation within the AMA, circa 1905-1909. He was also a lecturer and promoter of public health initiatives and professor emeritus of the medical faculty at the

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. Reed was a prolific author of monographs and journal articles. He was an opponent of

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. He was married to the former Irene E. Dougherty. The couple had two children. He died of a heart attack on August 28, 1928, at the age of 72.

References

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