Ira C. Copley, newspaper publisher
and public utilities magnate of Illi
nois and California, gave $5,000 a
year for five years and former pa
tients brought up the amount of the
contributions to the cause until, in
1929, the gifts to the Bloodgaod Can
cer Research Fund totaled more than
$15,000 a year.
And into that fund constantly went
uncounted money from Dr. Blood
good himself, chiefly fees from pa
tients whose payments for treatments
were turned into the war chest of
a campaign aimed at freeing others
from fear, from suffering and from
death.
In 1917 Dr. Bloodgood offered his
talents to the country’s war service.
He was commissioned a Major in
the Medical Corps, made a member
of the medical section of the Na
tional Council of Defense and also
of the National Medical Commission
of the American Red Cross.
His worth was given recognition
when he was made a fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, in
1924 when he was chosen Vice-Presi
dent of the American Surgical So
ciety and in 1929 when he was given
the award of the gold medal of the
Radiological Society of North Amer
ica for his work in the study of bone
malignancy diagnosis and treatment
by X-ray and radium. Only 18 oth
ers had been given that medal pre
viously. t ■.
