Packard, Francis R. (Francis Randolph), 1870-1950

Francis Randolph Packard was born in Philadelphia on 23 Mar. 1870. In 1899, he married Christine B. Curwen (d. 1901), then, in 1906, Margaret Horstmann. The Packards had four daughters. Francis R. Packard died on 18 Apr. 1950.

Packard received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1892. He did post-graduate work under Sir William Osler at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1892-1894), then became an intern at Pennsylvania Hospital. He opened his private practice in 1895 and specialized in otolaryngology. Packard was on the faculty of the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine (ca. 1897-1930), was Professor of Otology at the University of Pennsylvania (1902-1921), and Chief of the Laryngology Department at Pennsylvania Hospital. He was noted for his development of the mastiod periosteal elevator. Packard also founded and edited "The annals of medical history" and wrote a "History of medicine in the United States" (1901, revised 1931). He became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1897.

From the description of Letters, 1921-1936. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122689604