Some
Personal Recollections
of
Dr. Janeway
By
James Bayard Clark
G. P. Putnam's Sons
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Edward Gamaliel Janeway was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, August31, 1841. He was graduated from Rutgers College in 1860, receiving thedegree of B.A. and M.A. from that institution. In 1864 he was graduatedfrom the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, receiving thedegree of M.D. Later in life, the degree of LL.D. was conferred uponhim, by Rutgers in 1898, by Columbia in 1904, and by Princeton in 1907.While in the medical school in the years 1862 and 1863, he was madeacting medical cadet in the United States Army hospitals at Newark, NewJersey.
He began to practise medicine in New York City where he continued andended his professional career. In 1869, he became professor of pathologyand practical anatomy in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, continuingin that capacity until 1876. From 1868 to 1871 he was visiting physicianto Charity Hospital. In 1871 he became visiting physician to BellevueHospital where he remained for many years and where, in the pathologicaldepartment, he won such distinction. He later became visiting andconsulting physician to other hospitals in the city.
In 1874 he was vice-president of the New York Pathological Society. From1875 till 1882, he was Health Commissioner of New York. In 1876 he waspresident of the New York Medical Journal Association. His principalcontributions to medical literature appear in the medical journals ofNew York.
He was president of the Academy of Medicine in 1897 and 1898 and atrustee from 1899 until 1903.
He died in Summit, New Jersey, on February 10, 1911.
IN MEMORIAM
On April 6, 1911, the Fellows of the New York Academy of Medicine met tohonour his memory and to give reverent tribute to the sum of his[Pg 9]accomplishments as Pathologist, Sanitarian and Physician.
Some
Personal Recollections of
Dr. Janeway
I
What it is that has kept urging me to write down these recollections ofEdward Gamaliel Janeway, the physician, would indeed be rather hard todefine, but the desire to record a little something of what I hadpersonally come to know of this unusual man made itself felt veryshortly after his death, now over five years ago. Since that time thisfeeling—steadily grow