Dr. Julius H. Hess, well-known Jewish specialist in treatment of children’s diseases, was elected president of the Chicago Medical Society.
He is fifty-eight years old and has practiced in Chicago for thirty-five years. For twenty-one years he has been professor and head of the department of pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is the author of four books on medical subjects.
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