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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

M. B. CAMPBELL, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet, was born in Williston, Vt., 
Nov. 29, 1843; he received his preparatory education at the Williamston Academy, after 
which he studied medicine in the office of Dr. E. A. POND, of Rutland, Vt., who has 
since become famous as the inventor of the American Sphygmograph, for measuring and 
tracing the pulsations of the heart; from his office he entered the medical department 
of Harvard University, where he graduated and received his degree; March 7, 1866; during 
his course of studies he served one year as medical cadet in the regular army; after 
graduating, he spent one year in practice with Dr. POND, in Rutland, and then came West, 
and located in Wilmington, IL; he practiced medicine there until 1874, when he removed 
to Joliet; Dr. CAMPBELL was thoroughly educated as an allopathic physician, but, in 1872, 
having become fully convinced of the superiority of the law of "Similia similibus curantur," 
or so-called homeopathy, after thorough preparation he joined the Illinois State Homeopathic 
Medical Association, and, in 1874, was elected a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.