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Abraham Jacobi letters relating to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York [3]

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Title

Abraham Jacobi letters relating to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York [3]

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_3a
MSS_2-040_F1_3b

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 [3],” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed March 28, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/7008.