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= John Herr Musser =

Dr. John Herr Musser (June 22, 1856 – April 3, 1912) was an American physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is known for inaugurating the social services department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as well as being the director of the department of research in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Early life
John Herr Musser was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania on June 22, 1856 to father, Dr. Benjamin Musser, and mother, Naomi (Herr) Musser. He came from a long line of physicians, with his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all practicing medicine in [[Pennsylvania. He attended the Millersville State Normal School before receiving his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1877.

Life as a physician
Dr. Musser trained as a resident physician at Philadelphia Hospital and then started practicing in West Philadelphia, where he acquired a large number of patients. In addition to this he became an assistant professor of clinical medicine at his alma mater from 1889 to 1898 and then professor of the same from 1898 until his death in 1912. Dr. Musser was also the director of the medical research department. He practiced clinically at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Hospital, and Blockley, and consulted at many other hospitals in the region.

He started and then was the director of the social services department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

He was pathologist to the Presbyterian Hospital, and a president of the Philadelphia Pathological Society from 1893 to 1897.

Dr. Musser was an active member of several organizations, and was elected president at one time or another of many. In 1899, Dr. Musser was president of the County Medical Society of Philadelphia. Dr. Musser was a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and was elected president of the American Medical Association 1904–05. In turn, he became the president of the American School Hygiene Association in 1909, and he was the president of the Medical Library Association at the time of his death.

Marriage and children
Dr. Musser married Agnes Harper in 1880, and had five children, with three of them surviving: Naomi Musser, Agnes (Musser) Eckert, and Dr. John Herr Musser, Jr. (1883–1947). Dr. Musser, Jr. also attended the school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and became a physician, co-authoring the fourth volume of the widely used textbook A Handbook of Practical Treatment.

Death
Dr. Musser had a weak heart, and died after a brief illness on April 3, 1912.

Books

 * A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students
 * A Handbook of Practical Treatment
 * "Diseases of the Lungs and Pleura," in Nothnagel's Practice, vol. IV
 * A System of Therapeutics, with A. O. J. Kelly.
 * ''Internal Medicine, its theory and practice

Honors, awards, and legacy
He was awarded an honorary LL.D. from Franklin & Marshall College in 1910.

In 1912, after the death of Dr. Musser and at the request of the original donor, the name of the medical research department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was changed to The John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine.

On April 15, 1914, a bronze memorial tablet with Dr. Musser's face was sculpted by Dr. R. Tait McKenzie and was initially hung in the waiting room of the department of social service in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, given his role in founding the department.