GOODNO, WILLIAM COLBY – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     OODNO,
WILLIAM COLBY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, professor of medicine in the Hahnemann Medical College, and a valuable contributor to the literature of
the medical profession, was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, son of Rev. W. S. Goodno, a clergyman of the Baptist church. Dr. Goodno acquired his earlier
education in the high school at Dixon, Illinois, and also in Jersey City, New Jersey. He matriculated at Geneva Medical College, remained there two
years and then entered Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, where he came to the degree in 1870. Since that time he has practiced in Philadelphia,
and in connection with his professional career has taken an earnest interest in faculty work in his alma mater, in these capacities : demonstrator
of surgery, 1878-1880 ; lecturer on microscopy, histology and morbid anatomy, 1880-1883 ; professor of pathology and practice of medicine,
1883-1896 ; professor of practice of medicine, 1896 -his present chair ; and incident to his practice and pedagogical work he has served as
member of the staff of Hahnemann Hospital and consulting surgeon to St. Luke’s Hospital ; was one of the founders and for eight years physician to
the Pennsylvania Homœopathic Hospital for Children, until that institute was merged in Hahnemann Hospital. He is a member of the American Institute of
Homœopathy, the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia County Homœopathic Medical Society, the Clinical Society
of Philadelphia, etc. His contributions to the literature of the profession have been numerous, important and valuable, and he also figured as
collaborator on Arndt’s “System of Medicine,” for which standard work he wrote the section on diseases of the spleen.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King