The evening world., 1911-02-10
DR.. JANEWAy DIES
At SUMMIT HOME
N HIS FIST YEAR
Dean of Medical Profession in
New York and World
Famous Diagnostician.

Or. Edward Gamaliel Janeway. long
considered the dean OF the medical pro-
fession in New York. and noted ne one
Of the worlds foremost diagnosticians.
died to-day at his home near Summit.
y. !. DR.. Janeway was seventy years
OF are. He wa noted not only for
his skill and learning In his profession.
hut for many works OF philanthropy.
DIR. Janeway was born In New York
city, Aug. 81, 1sn. He was graduated
from Rutgers College in 1850, and
from 1852 until 1884 was an acting
medical cadet in the United States
Army hospital in Newark. N. 7. A
year later he was graduated from the
college of Physicians and Surgeons.
after which he began the practice OF
medicine in New York City.
Long at Bellevue.
In 1855 ne became attached TO Bellevue
Hospital in the capacity OF curator. The
year 1877 found him IN the chair Of
physiology and pathological anatomy in
the New York University. After a year
In this institution he returned TO Belle
vie as professor OF materia medlca and
flNItDthllkFs NV AA'f1 WIS 1pFAhAVAA NAA
III 1875. when he took the chair of ner-
vous diseases. clinical medicine and
pathology. In 1881 he added The practice
and principles of medicine TO his already
busy course.
DR.. Janeway became Health Commits
sloner of the city OF New York in 1876.
holding this position until Use. lie was
visiting physician at the Charity Hos
pital from 1868 until 1871. TO the Hospital
Tor, Epileptlcs from 1870 until 1874. to
Bellevue Hospital since 1871. His n
sultlng practice was large.
nc w.s q member of the leading mod
zeal societies. Vice-President OF the New
York Pathological Society, President of
the New York Medical Journal Associa-
ton and was at one time President or
the Academy OF Medicine.
In 1907, when Mrs. Russell Sage
added $4,000 to the fund given by hcr
ate husband fo- the establishment OF
the Russell Sase Institute OF Path
ology. an adjunct to the New YorS
CIV Hospital. Or. Janeway was asked
TO take change OF the organization OF
tho nov institution.
Fought for v~ivlsectlon.
When the hottest fight sve made oil
>iyisec,ion came before the Legislature
he headcd. in 1908, q delegation OF doc
tors which told the legislators that all
OF the dogs on earth were not as valu-
able as Cme human hfe.
lie also led a fight TO ally the ioca'
hospitals with universities plan thai
ls now maturing to some extent. Hs
demanded thorough reform In the hos
pital system of the city. which he in
sisted had become addicted TO obsolete
methods.
DR.. Janeway figured in the chief
cases OF his time. He was publicly
THANKED for his work. which was do
clared 10 have saved to literature tn,
life of Rudyard Kipling. He was on,
of the physicians who attended former
President Mckinley after he was sho'
in Buffalo. for which services ne re
ceived tho comparatively modest fee
OF $1,000.
Marshall Yields estate paid him s2.
40 for atten ding that millionaire mer
chant during his last allness. He wa
a medical advisor for the late Edwar'
H. Hartman. and ne attended DR.. W
n. Bull and many other noted men.
The stan house for internes on Black
wells Island. a four-story grant
buuding, was named Janeway Hall a
ha honor. DIR. Janeway was an exten
aivs holder of real estate. and leaves
comfortable fortune.