Allergy Pioneer Dr. Theron G. Randolph
Dr. Theron Grant Randolph, a pioneer in the field of environmental medicine and proclaimed by his peers to be the Father of Clinical Ecology, died Friday in Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva. He was 89.
An author of several books and papers on environmentally related and chemically induced illnesses, Dr. Randolph was an internationally recognized authority in the field of ecological medicine.
"Dr. Randolph through his writing was the medical counterpart of (environmentalist and author) Rachel Carson," said Lynn Lawson, an Evanston author and former patient of the physician.
He was called "the most exceptional and outstanding physician in the entire field of allergy" by Doris J. Rapp, a Buffalo allergist and author.
Dr. Randolph first documented the effects of foods, chemicals and other substances on human health in 1951, and he treated more than 20,000 patients in a six-decade medical career.
Among the books he authored or co-authored are "Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment," "An Alternative Approach to Allergies" and "Environmental Medicine-Beginnings & Bibliographies of Clinical Ecology." More than 400 of his articles appeared in scientific journals and magazines.
former president of the Chicago Allergy Society, he participated in the formation of the Society for Clinical Ecology, later renamed the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He established the Human Ecology Research Foundation, based in Batavia, and was instrumental in organizing the Human Ecology Action League and the Human Ecology Study Group. He was the original founder of the medical clinic bearing his name now located in Arlington Heights.
A plaque from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency commemorated his achievements.
Born in 1906 in Jerome, Mich., Dr. Randolph obtained his undergraduate degree from Hillsdale (Mich.) College and subsequently graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He later became a research fellow in allergy and immunology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also founded the Allergy Clinic at Milwaukee Children's Hospital.
Further affiliations include Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge and Northwestern University Medical School and Henrotin Hospital in Chicago. He returned to head the Allergy Department at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1944-45, then moved to Chicago, where he practiced medicine until his move to Batavia. He retired from practice in 1994.
Survivors include his wife, Janet Mitchell Randolph; three sons, Jonathan, Wardner and Bruce; a brother; two sisters; and two grandchildren.
Services were pending.
[Source: Chicago Tribune Oct. 3, 1995]
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Dr. Theron Grant Randolph, a pioneer in the field of environmental medicine and proclaimed by his peers to be the Father of Clinical Ecology, died Friday in Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva. He was 89.
An author of several books and papers on environmentally related and chemically induced illnesses, Dr. Randolph was an internationally recognized authority in the field of ecological medicine.
"Dr. Randolph through his writing was the medical counterpart of (environmentalist and author) Rachel Carson," said Lynn Lawson, an Evanston author and former patient of the physician.
He was called "the most exceptional and outstanding physician in the entire field of allergy" by Doris J. Rapp, a Buffalo allergist and author.
Dr. Randolph first documented the effects of foods, chemicals and other substances on human health in 1951, and he treated more than 20,000 patients in a six-decade medical career.
Among the books he authored or co-authored are "Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment," "An Alternative Approach to Allergies" and "Environmental Medicine-Beginnings & Bibliographies of Clinical Ecology." More than 400 of his articles appeared in scientific journals and magazines.
former president of the Chicago Allergy Society, he participated in the formation of the Society for Clinical Ecology, later renamed the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He established the Human Ecology Research Foundation, based in Batavia, and was instrumental in organizing the Human Ecology Action League and the Human Ecology Study Group. He was the original founder of the medical clinic bearing his name now located in Arlington Heights.
A plaque from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency commemorated his achievements.
Born in 1906 in Jerome, Mich., Dr. Randolph obtained his undergraduate degree from Hillsdale (Mich.) College and subsequently graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He later became a research fellow in allergy and immunology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also founded the Allergy Clinic at Milwaukee Children's Hospital.
Further affiliations include Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge and Northwestern University Medical School and Henrotin Hospital in Chicago. He returned to head the Allergy Department at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1944-45, then moved to Chicago, where he practiced medicine until his move to Batavia. He retired from practice in 1994.
Survivors include his wife, Janet Mitchell Randolph; three sons, Jonathan, Wardner and Bruce; a brother; two sisters; and two grandchildren.
Services were pending.
[Source: Chicago Tribune Oct. 3, 1995]
Contributed by Heartsong # 48040541
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Allergy Pioneer Dr. Theron G. Randolph
Dr. Theron Grant Randolph, a pioneer in the field of environmental medicine and proclaimed by his peers to be the Father of Clinical Ecology, died Friday in Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva. He was 89.
An author of several books and papers on environmentally related and chemically induced illnesses, Dr. Randolph was an internationally recognized authority in the field of ecological medicine.
"Dr. Randolph through his writing was the medical counterpart of (environmentalist and author) Rachel Carson," said Lynn Lawson, an Evanston author and former patient of the physician.
He was called "the most exceptional and outstanding physician in the entire field of allergy" by Doris J. Rapp, a Buffalo allergist and author.
Dr. Randolph first documented the effects of foods, chemicals and other substances on human health in 1951, and he treated more than 20,000 patients in a six-decade medical career.
Among the books he authored or co-authored are "Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment," "An Alternative Approach to Allergies" and "Environmental Medicine-Beginnings & Bibliographies of Clinical Ecology." More than 400 of his articles appeared in scientific journals and magazines.
former president of the Chicago Allergy Society, he participated in the formation of the Society for Clinical Ecology, later renamed the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He established the Human Ecology Research Foundation, based in Batavia, and was instrumental in organizing the Human Ecology Action League and the Human Ecology Study Group. He was the original founder of the medical clinic bearing his name now located in Arlington Heights.
A plaque from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency commemorated his achievements.
Born in 1906 in Jerome, Mich., Dr. Randolph obtained his undergraduate degree from Hillsdale (Mich.) College and subsequently graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He later became a research fellow in allergy and immunology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also founded the Allergy Clinic at Milwaukee Children's Hospital.
Further affiliations include Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge and Northwestern University Medical School and Henrotin Hospital in Chicago. He returned to head the Allergy Department at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1944-45, then moved to Chicago, where he practiced medicine until his move to Batavia. He retired from practice in 1994.
Survivors include his wife, Janet Mitchell Randolph; three sons, Jonathan, Wardner and Bruce; a brother; two sisters; and two grandchildren.
Services were pending.
[Source: Chicago Tribune Oct. 3, 1995]
Contributed by Heartsong # 48040541
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Dr. Theron Grant Randolph, a pioneer in the field of environmental medicine and proclaimed by his peers to be the Father of Clinical Ecology, died Friday in Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva. He was 89.
An author of several books and papers on environmentally related and chemically induced illnesses, Dr. Randolph was an internationally recognized authority in the field of ecological medicine.
"Dr. Randolph through his writing was the medical counterpart of (environmentalist and author) Rachel Carson," said Lynn Lawson, an Evanston author and former patient of the physician.
He was called "the most exceptional and outstanding physician in the entire field of allergy" by Doris J. Rapp, a Buffalo allergist and author.
Dr. Randolph first documented the effects of foods, chemicals and other substances on human health in 1951, and he treated more than 20,000 patients in a six-decade medical career.
Among the books he authored or co-authored are "Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment," "An Alternative Approach to Allergies" and "Environmental Medicine-Beginnings & Bibliographies of Clinical Ecology." More than 400 of his articles appeared in scientific journals and magazines.
former president of the Chicago Allergy Society, he participated in the formation of the Society for Clinical Ecology, later renamed the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He established the Human Ecology Research Foundation, based in Batavia, and was instrumental in organizing the Human Ecology Action League and the Human Ecology Study Group. He was the original founder of the medical clinic bearing his name now located in Arlington Heights.
A plaque from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency commemorated his achievements.
Born in 1906 in Jerome, Mich., Dr. Randolph obtained his undergraduate degree from Hillsdale (Mich.) College and subsequently graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He later became a research fellow in allergy and immunology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also founded the Allergy Clinic at Milwaukee Children's Hospital.
Further affiliations include Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge and Northwestern University Medical School and Henrotin Hospital in Chicago. He returned to head the Allergy Department at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1944-45, then moved to Chicago, where he practiced medicine until his move to Batavia. He retired from practice in 1994.
Survivors include his wife, Janet Mitchell Randolph; three sons, Jonathan, Wardner and Bruce; a brother; two sisters; and two grandchildren.
Services were pending.
[Source: Chicago Tribune Oct. 3, 1995]
Contributed by Heartsong # 48040541
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