The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-12

| benoVue ana Allied HOSPITALS since 1873
and held this position at Mt Sinai Hos
pital from 1850 to 1888. He had been
tconsulting physician to the Hebrew Or
phan Asylum since 1868, and occupied
similar place In the Isabella Heimath,
society which gives care gratuitously
to aged persons
Headed Medical Societies.
DR.. jacob received his LID. from the
University Of Michigan in 1898 and this
| degree was conferred on him also by
Columbia. Yale. Harvard and Washing
ton and Jefferson. At various times he
was president OF the New York Academy
OF Medicine, New York Obstetrical So
| ciety, New York Pathological Society,
New York County Medical Society. New
York State Medical Society, German
Medical Society, Association of American
Physicians and the American Pediatric
Society. besides the American Medical
Association.
There Is no page of medicine in this
city on which the name Of DR.. jacob is
not inscribed" said a fellow practitioner
a few years ago. In 1892, when there
was cholera scare and eleven cases
actually developed, there was apprehen-
sion lest the country should Quaratine
against New York. In the emergency
DR.. jacob was asked to read a paper
before the Academy of Medicine on the
seriousness Of the situation. He did 80
and as a result a committee was ap-
pointed to cooperate with the Board Of
Health, the first time the Health De-
parment had worked with the medical
profession of the city.
When tuberculosis became a national
menace. letters touching upon the grav-
ity Of the outlook were written to
twenty-five leading physicians. OF the
three who responded one was DR.. jacob.
who, although In Europe sent by the
first mail the outline Of a campaign to
stamp out the disease by preventive
measures.
To DR.. jacob the most important
thing In the world was the work of
saving the babies. In one Of his ad-
dresses he said: I'VE build hospitals for
the diseased. municipalities and drunk
ards nurseries and schools for cpl
Ileptics and idiots sanatoria for incipient
tuberculosis. and refugees, all too few,
for the dying consumptives. withal con-
scious Of the fact that our only hope Of
finally extermining tuberculosis lies in
the perfect but comfortable isolation Of
hopelessly advanced cases. Surely we
try to cure and to prevent.
Sought to Aid Babies.
do We not begin at the wrong end?
1
idiots are permitted to propagate their
own curse, both what Is called legiti
mately and illegitimately. Human society
should have pity on itself and It's future.
We have come to this. that half of lis
| are obliged to watch and nurse and sup
port the other half, many of whom
should never have been born. The only
protection for the nation. for mankind. Is
to assure healthy uncontaminated
progeny. Strict laws are required to ac-
complish that"
And it was the care OF babies, the
study of the problems of mothers, the
constant effort to improve the condition
of children, with his eye always single
| to the future welfare of the human race,
that kept DR.. jacob young. Despite the
fact that he was always being called
upon as a practitioner. the wealthy and
the poor alike demanding and receiving
the benefit of his services. he found time
to write ten or a dozen books on medical
| subjects. The Collectanea jacob, con-
tanning several Of the most notable OF
these, was published in eight volumes In
1909.
He was constantly being invited to
!. make commencement addresses and to
speak before gatherings Of every kind.
and when he responded he spoke with a
, characteristic fearlessness. Addressing
a woman's club a few years ago he free
| ly criticised wOmanS dress II was not
women who put low shoes and thin stock
inEs on their little children. he said. but
, women who ought not to have children.
Thin soled shoes and thin hose are such
factor in producing cold, he asserted.
that without them many throat special
lists and Southern hotel keepers would be
bankrupt
= Known as Humanitarian.
u AS has been limited. each recurring
. birthday anniversary for many years
had been celebrated with dinner given
, by other leading physicians. On these
/ occasions he was the recipient OF
, watches, canes or other tokens of the es-
! TEEN of his fellow practitioners and
, assistants" At his eighty-sixth birth
. day dinner DR.. jacob said:
TT means more to be honored for my
y small contribution to the effectiveness Of
medicine, for the little I have done for
institutions founded TO relieve the suffer
| ing Of the afflicted and the needy. to be
known as a humanitarian scientist. than
,, II would be to be given the medal of
the Legion Of Honor or the insignia OF
. the Iron Cross"
Just a year before. on the eighty-ffth
: anniversary, DR.. jacob said: Il am
glad TO have lived to be eighty-ive. just
for tonight hope you may all live as
long. You can IL you make up your
, minds to Il. I did and that's why I'm