BIO: James Craig SMALL, B.S., M.D., Sc. D., Kauffman, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 311
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JAMES CRAIG SMALL, B. S., M. D., Sc. D.

  James Craig Small was born in 1888 near Kauffman, Pa., a son of Hiram K. and 
Adeline (Hassler) Small.  He spent his early years on the home farm and for two 
years taught in the rural schools.  He was graduated from the Chambersburg 
Academy in 1906 and received his B. S. in 1911 from Pennsylvania College, 
Gettysburg, Pa.  He then began the study of medicine and after the usual course 
was graduated M. D. in 1917 from the University of Illinois, School of Medicine, 
being the valedictorian of his class.  In 1923 he received the honorary degree 
of Sc. D. from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa.

  After his graduation in 1917 he was for a time an intern in the Cook County 
Hospital and in December, 1917, entered the World War as a First Lieutenant, U. 
S. A., Medical Corps, and was discharged from the service in March, 1919.

  After spending some time at the Army Medical School, Washington, D. C., he was 
appointed a member of the U. S. Pneumonia Commission.  Since 1920 Dr. Craig has 
held a number of positions, some of which are here given:  1920 to 1927 
Bacteriologist at the Philadelphia General Hospital and since 1927 Director of 
Laboratories of this institution.  Since 1921 Assistant Professor of 
Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.  During 
this same period he has been engaged in the private practice of medicine in 
Philadelphia as a diagnostician and an Internist.

  Dr. Small in later years has engaged extensively in original research work 
which has yielded some important results.  He is co-author of Epidemic 
Respiratory Diseases 1921, and has written and published numerous articles in 
the Medical Press.  Outstanding among which were the description of the 
plasmodium in the blood of patients suffering from "Devils Grip", and the 
description of a new species of Streptococcus, Streptococcus Cardio Arthriditis, 
as a cause of rheumatic fever.  This latter discovery made possible his 
preparation of an anti serum, as a specific treatment of acute rheumatic fever,  
chorea and rheumatic-cardiac diseases.

  Dr. Small is a member of numerous local, state and national medical and 
scientific societies and fraternally is a Mason.

  He married October 19, 1920, Katherine Anna Welch of Creston, Ia.  They have 
one son, James Craig Small, Jr., born in 1922.