biography
pronunciation:
[jakohbee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1830–1919)
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| biography:
| Paediatrician, born in Westphalia, Germany. After taking his MD from the University of Bonn (1851), he was imprisoned for treason in the German Revolution of 1848. He escaped (1853) and eventually made his way to New York City, where he established a famous paediatrics practice. The first professor of diseases of children in the USA (1860, New York Medical College), he opened the first free clinic for children. He was a professor of paediatrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York (1870–1902), and in 1873 married the equally admired physician, Mary Putnam. He had published many articles and books, but a fire at his summer home (1919) destroyed valuable documents and notes and hastened his own death. |
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