Leverett W. Babcock (1840–1906) was a Minnesota Republican politician and a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Babcock, a physician, came to Minnesota in 1879. He served as village council president for Wadena, Minnesota for seven years, and was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1898. He served three terms, his last as speaker. Babcock died in 1906.
babcock was a pulminologist
The context states he was a physician but his specific expertise is not clarified, it is therefore entirely possible that he specialized in some medical field and could have been a pulminologist