The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-09-08

birth. mailing from that cradle of Jew
! ish life and learning Kovno. Meltzer
like several other prominent Jewish
and even studied for the Rabbinate
Later he studied in Berlin for the NJ.
!. d. and Phi. d. degrees. Upon coming
here. he devoted himself with infinite
love to physiological research, was pre-
sident of the Society of Experimental
Biology and Medicine and of the
American Castro archaeological associa-
ton. At the st. Louis Exposition he
was honOred by being made chairman
of the physiological section. He wrote
over 200 publications on biology.
physiology, on scientific and practical
medicine. There is no physiological
textbook that does not draw on his
vast researches and is not under very
great obligation to his pathfinding
work.
Ringer, the originator of Ringers So
luton, for a while at Cornell, is also
Jewish.
The science of hygiene, closely re-
lated to that of physiology, in fact
taught in many schools by the same
professor, has as one of its foremost
representatives i'm the world and in the
Milton J. Rosenau. Rosenau studied
at the University of Pennsylvania, at
Berlin. at the Pasteur Institute, in
Vienna. Upon returning to this co,m-
try he entered the United States Marine
Hospital Service, and later during the
cholera epidemic of 1893. became sani-
tary attache to the United States con-
suls in Hamburg and Antwerp. Then
he became United States quarantine
officer at San Francisco. While in Cuba
he established quarantine system
based on original ideas.
He represented the United States in
medical congresses. was sanitary ex-
pert in Mexico in 1902. and was chair
man of the section of EtiolOgy of
Yellow Fever of the Institute of the
United States. He made researches in
TO the cause of yellow fever at Vera
Cruz. wrote copiously on disinfection.
toxin. and incubation. Lately. he
wrote the standard textbook on hy-
Siene, used in every section of the
United States.
Among other prominent sanitar
ians is George Moses Price. horn in
Poltava. Russia. He was sanitary in
Spcctor and wrote n handbook on SAM
tation and tenement house inspection.
He is also the author of "Tlie Rus
sian Hebrews in America" and "'rhc
Sanitary Laws of Moses" Another
prominent hygienist is Arnold Abra-
hum D'Ancona. horn in Brooklyn in
! 1850. He was professor of hygiene and
physiology Mt the University of Cali
fOrnia and late became dean of its me-
dical department.
The next group of prominent Jewish
names we find in bacteriology and
pathology. The chief bacteriologist,
the father of the science in America.
was for along time SternDerg, assidu-
ods finder of countless bacteria, many
of which failed of identification at the
hands of others. He was an enthusi-
INST carried away by boundless zeal.
He was professor of bacteriology in
New York, wrote very important
textbook on bacteriology. and devised
many methods of bacterial cultiva-
ton.
Another professor of bacteriology
and pathology at Flower College. New
York. was Emanuel Baruch. scion of
burgomastcr of a town in the princi-
pality of Waldeck. He studied both
here and in Germany. Besides his post
ut Flower College he also held n pro-
fessorship ut the New York Postgradu-
ate Hospital.
! Albert Abrams professor of patho-
logy at Cooper Medical College, was
born in San Francisco. and studied eX-
teasively abroad He investigated
Iheliotherapy. psychotherapy, and di-
seases of the heart and discovered the
tiny rcflexes that hear his name. lie
is the author of Synopsis of Morbid
Renal Sccretions." of n Manual of
Clinical Diagnosis.
\ most prominent name in the field
of medici ne is that of Simon FleXncr.
director of the laboratories of the
Rockefeller Institute. He was born in
Louisville. KY. and studied at Johns
Hopkins and abroad. For nineteen
years he was professor of pathology at
Hopkins to the Philippines and by the
Government TO San Francisco to combat
bubonic plague.
We can only mention by name the
promnCnt Denver pathologist. Hike