Martin served as an intern at
Mercy Hospital in
Chicago. He would practice medicine at Mercy Hospital for the remainder of his life. In 1883, Martin founded the Chicago South-Side Medico-Social Society where medical papers could be presented. By 1905, Martin established the journal
Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, now called the
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, with other physicians. Martin wrote
Electricity in Diseases of Women and Obstetrics in 1892. He also wrote ''South America from a Surgeon's Point of View'' in 1922. ==Personal life==