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Biography of Abraham and Mary Putnam Jacobi
Name: Abraham and Mary Putnam Jacobi
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Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicians, humanitarians
Abraham and Mary Putnam Jacobi
Abraham (1830-1919) and Mary Putnam (1834-1906) Jacobi, husband and wife, were foreign-born American physicians and humanitarians who greatly improved medical care in the United States.Abraham Jacobi was born into a poverty-stricken family in Westphalia, Germany. With work and sacrifice, he was able to begin studying medicine at the University of Greifswald in 1848. He continued at the University of Göttingen but received his medical degree from the University of Bonn in 1851. Involved in the revolutionary movement in Germany in 1848, he was a friend of Karl Marx; his outspoken support led to imprisonment, but he escaped to England, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish a practice. In 1853 Jacobi arrived in Boston. He finally settled in New York City.First American PediatricianJacobi had always been concerned about diseases of infants and children. In 1857 he became a lecturer on the pathology of infancy and childhood at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1860 …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…rightly diagnosed as a brain tumor in 1906.Abraham Jacobi's eminence in American medicine made all the more tragic the fire at his home that burned his life's records, including diaries, notes, and letters, when he was in his 80s. He died in 1919. His writings were numerous; most were gathered in Collectanea Jacobi by William J. Robinson (1909). He had helped found the American Journal of Obstetrics in 1862. His monographs include The Intestinal Diseases of Infancy and Children (1887), and The Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood (1896), which went through several editions. Further Reading For a good popular work on Abraham and Mary Putnam Jacobi see Rhoda Truax, The Doctors Jacobi (1952). Useful studies are Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi, edited by Ruth Putnam (1925), and Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D.: A Pathfinder in Medicine, with Selections from Her Writings and a Complete Bibliography, edited by the Women's Medical Association of New York City (1925).
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