The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-23
DEATH OF DR. HENRY P. LOOMS
CARRIED OFF nj PNEUMONIA AS
MS FATHER WAS IN 1895.

Roth Specialists I'm Lung DIseases-The
son Attended tho Father I'm fEIs Last
mIness-Dr. "a. p. LOOmla Taken nm Last
1rueSday-FamIIY ~ the Deathbed.
DR.. Henry Patterson LOOMS died yester-
day at noon at his horne, So East Thirty
fourth street, Of pneumonia. He wa
taken i'll on Tuesday at noon. DIR. Joseph
T.. Winters and DR.. Warren Coleman were
called in. and on Friday, when DR.. Loomis
became worse. DR.. Gilman Thompson
was called In consultation. The patients
condition deteriorated all through Friday
evening and Saturday. At the time Of his
death his wife and two children were pres-
emit. The funeral lie 10 be on Tuesday at
10 o'clock in the morning from the Brick
Church.
DIR. LOOMS. like his father. DR.. Alfred
Lebbens LOOMS. who died in 1895. was a
specialist in pulmonary and heart diseases.
The father also died OF pneumonia and
was attended by his son. A further
marked similarity in the end Of The
careers OF father and son-the suddenness
and swiftness of advance OF the disease
is reflected in the words Of DIR. Henry p.
Loomis on the occasion Of the death of his
AdNntIs ~ wan hhuNt Dug thFtO WoS wv
hope: he had no chance from the first. It.
was as il one were walking in the street
and were suddenly shot down"
The elder LOOMS was known best a. n
brusque but expert diegnosticien end a
believer in hygiene rather than medicine.
Himself cured of a hung disease by
treatment in the Ssrenac region, he was
accustomed to send many patients there.
- l.. oF... L.,.ls ,,. tha A 1frouI,nl aa,ti,n
greatly. His son. DIR. Henry p. Loomis.
WIS born in this city April -. 1869.
He was educated at Princeton. being
graduated in 1890. He then entered the
medicay department Of the University of
New York and was graduated at the head
of his class Of 500 in 1888. lie studied ia
Berlin with Prof. Koch and also in Heidel-
berg and Vienna
In 1887 he married Julia }. Stimson in
New York He was appointed a visiting
physician at Bellevue Hospital in 1887 and
in that same year took the chair of profess
sOr of pathology Of the University of the
City of New York. This he held until 1885.
lie was visiting physician TO New York
Hospital in 1898 and consulting patholoGist
to the New York Board of Health in 1897.
He was professor Of therapeutics and elm
ical medicine from 1899 On in the Cornell
Medical College.
Er. LOOMS was a member Of the American
Medical Association. Of the American CHI
matOl Association. former president Of the
New York Pathological Society. of the
American Academy of Medicine and of
the New York State Medical Society.
To the American System of Practical
Medicine" he contributed he charters on
Bright's disease. In american JuTisVru-
denca and Toxicology" he contributed the
chapters ON ~IOst-Inortem examination.
He also wrote much for the medical maya
zines. DIR. LoomiS was a member of the
Union. Tuxedo, University and Princeton
clubs and belonged to the Society of the
Cincinnati.
Besides the New York no use he had a
country home at Tuxedo Park. n. Y. His
surviving children are Julia and Alfred
LOOMS. The son is a junior at Yale.
Henry St;mson Loomis, another son. then
= years old, died in March. 1853, of rabies
after having been bitten by a pet fox terrier.