Biographical Sketch of Joseph Scribner GIBB, M.D. (b. 1859); Philadelphia Co., PA

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"Philadelphia, A History of the City and its People; A Record of 225 Years"
Publisher:  S. H. Clark; Philadelphia; 1912    
Author, Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
Vol. 4, page 31
 
JOSEPH SCRIBNER GIBB, M. D.
     The tendency of the age is toward specialization. So broad has been the 
realm of knowledge gathered through scientific research, investigation and 
experiment that it would be impossible for any individual to attain high rank 
in every department of medical practice, and with thorough understanding of 
the general principles and rules of health and disease, it is common at the 
present time for the practitioner to devote his efforts to a particular line, 
gaining skill therein which he could not hope to attain otherwise. Dr. Gibb, 
whose record is in harmony with this general tendency, is now devoting his 
attention to diseases of the nose, throat and ear, and has become recognized 
as an eminent specialist along these lines. Born in Philadelphia on the 11th 
of February, 1859, he is a son of Charles M. and Emily Gibb, a representative 
of Scotch Presbyterian ancestry on the father's side and of English Friends 
on the mother's.
     Having attended the public schools of his native city until he became a 
pupil in the Central high school. Dr. Gibb afterward entered Eastburn Academy, 
from which he was graduated, and then pursued his medical course in the 
University of Pennsylvania, where he won his degree in 1880. Following his 
graduation, he entered Blockley Hospital at Philadelphia, where he remained 
for a year, his varied hospital experiences constituting a splendid training 
school for his later professional labors. He then entered upon general 
practice, but is now devoting special attention to diseases of the nose and 
throat. After fifteen years spent in active general practice, he abandoned it 
to devote his entire time to the treatment of the nose, throat and ear, and 
has won distinction in this field. In 1892 he was elected professor of 
diseases of the nose and throat at the Philadelphia Polyclinic; was chosen 
aural and laryngeal surgeon of the Episcopal Hospital in 1893; and is 
identified with various medical societies including the American Medical 
Association, the American Laryngological Association, the American 
Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Association, the Pennsylvania 
State Medical Society, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the 
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He has likewise done considerable 
hospital work of an important character. In addition to his connection with 
the Blockley Hospital he was physician of the out-patient department of the 
Northern dispensary from 1881 to 1884 and the out-patient service of the 
department of charities and correction from 1882 until 1890. Since 1892 he has 
been physician of the throat and nose department of the Philadelphia Polyclinic 
and also of the Episcopal Hospital. He belongs to the Alpha Mu Pi Omega, a 
medical fraternity of which he was president in 1908-9.
     Aside from professional connection, Dr. Gibb is a member of the Union 
League and of the Historical Society. He also belongs to St. Paul's Protestant 
Episcopal church of Overbrook. Pleasantly situated in his home life he was 
married in Greenville, New Jersey, April 25, 1882, to Miss Jessie Hassell, a 
daughter of John Hassell, a prominent dentist of Newark, New Jersey. Their 
children are: Joseph Scribner, deceased; William Hassell; and Mary Elizabeth 
Gibb.
 

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