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DR. EDWARD GAMALIEL JANEWAY, a distinguished New York consulting physician, was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, on August 31, 1841. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and qualified in 1864. He spent some time after qualification at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in the study of morbid anatomy, which formed an excellent foundation for his clinical work. In 1872 he was appointed professor of morbid anatomy and in 1881 of psychiatry and neurology at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he succeeded Austin Flint in 1886 in the chair of internal medicine and held this post until 1892. From 1898, on union of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College with New York University, until 1907, he was clinical director of the amalgamated institution. In addition to general medicine he took a keen interest in public health, especially in the campaign against tuberculosis, and was for some time president of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. He died at Summit, New Jersey, on February 10, 1911. He made numerous contributions to periodical literature, but was not the author of any book. His son, Dr. Theodore Caldwell Janeway (1872–1917), professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, was the author of a book entitled “The Clinical Study of Blood–Pressure” (1914), which was a pioneer work on the subject.
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Edward Janeway (1841–1911). Nature 148, 254 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148254a0
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