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Title
Abraham Jacobi letters relating to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York [7]
Subject
Correspondence
Hospitals -- United States -- Administration
Reports
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Description
Correspondence between Abraham Jacobi and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, N.Y.
Abraham Jacobi, pediatrician, was born in Westphalia on 6 May 1830. He was married three times; his third wife, Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) was also a physician. Jacobi died on 10 July 1919. Jacobi received his M.D. from the University of Bonn in 1851. After imprisonment for revolutionary activities, Jacobi came to the United States and began a medical practice in New York in 1853. In 1857, he was Attending Physician to the German Dispensary and lectured at the College of Physicians and Surgeons on the pathology of infancy and childhood. From 1860 to 1864, he was Professor of the Diseases of Children at New York Medical College and established the first pediatric clinic there in 1862. From 1865 to 1870, Jacobi was Professor of the Diseases of Children at the Medical School of the University of the City of New York. From 1870 until his retirement in 1902, Jacobi was Clinical Professor of the Diseases of Children at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was noted for his studies of diptheria, infant hygiene, and dysentery and advocated the boiling of milk. Jacobi also organized pediatric departments at Mount Sinai Hospital and the German (later Lenox Hill) Hospital in New York. He became an Associate Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1891.
Creator
Jacobi, A. (Abraham)
Source
Original Image in: MSS 2/040, Archives of The College of Physician of Philadelphia
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1879
Contributor
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Language
eng
Type
Text
Identifier
MSS_2-040_F1_7a
MSS_2-040_F1_7b
Date Created
2018
Temporal Coverage
19th Century
Spatial Coverage
New York, N.Y.
Citation
Jacobi, A. (Abraham), “Abraham Jacobi letters relating to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York [7],” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 21, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/7012.