Evening star., 1937-03-08

doctor and scientist Of international
fame.
Had Many Attractive Offers.
DIR. White came to Washington in
1903 at the invitation Of President
Theodore Roosevelt" said the Secre-
tary. During the intervening years
he received many attractive offers to
leave the Governments service, but
his devotion to the thousands Of men
tally sick and his Zeal 10 serve the
public kept him as superintendent of
st. Elizabeth's Hospital for 81 years
Besides being great doctor and
pre-eminent authority in psychia-
try and treatment of mental diseases
DR. White was a good and kindly
man. His untimely death is a severe
blow to the medical world in general
and to the Department of the In
terror in particular
DR.. William Mercer Sprigg, presi-
dent Of the District Medical Society,
expressed deep distress at the loss
of one Of the country's leading men,"
DR.. White was elected president Of
the International Congress on Mental
Hygiene in 1880 and was president Of
the Washington Academy Of Medicine
and the Washington Institute of Men,
tai Hygiene. He was a former pres
ident of the American Psychiatric As
sociation, the American Psychopath-
ology Association and the American
Psychoanalytic Association. He was a
member of all major medical societies
and many others and was honored
with several honorary degrees by lead
ing institutions.
Honored by Boston u.
Boston University conferred the de-
gree Of doctor Of science upon him last
year when he vas cited as "one of the
country's most generally approved au-
thorities in the field of psychiatry and
the psychic treatment of nervous dis
orders" He received the same degree
from Washington University tSt.
LOUIS in 1892. and Georgetown Uni
yerSity gave him an honorary M. A.
degree in 1925.
One of DR.. Whites most recent
of fellow scientists at George Wash
ington convocation on February %.
He also was presented with an hon.
orary degree on that occasion.
DR.. White weathered several storms
in Congress during his administration
at st. Eliza beth's. but always. Sanger
said, preached and practiced the rule
of try fn ol Ea
clean breast Of it
The death Of DR.. White brought
two noted medicos here yesterday
Dr. Jelliffe, who told of DR.. Whites
life and their long association together.
and DR.. Ross Chapman. head OF
Shepard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in
ToWson, Md DR.. Jelliffe returned to
New York City last night, but will
come back for the funeral
''Dr Whites DEATH" said DR.. Chap
man. has left a great gap in the
profession. He had a great power Of
attracting brilliant young men. set
ting them of to work and giving them
free rein"
An Outline Of Psychology" written
in 1909. is the most important of DR..
/ Whites books. 1t has gone into the
fourteenth edition to achieve the
greatest sale of any book on the sub
ject.
New York Lectures Published.
His latest volume, Twentieth Gen.
tury Psychology" was based on the
Salmon Memorial lecture series he de-
livered before the New York Academy
Of Medicine a few years ago.
As an alienist, DR.. White often was
called upon to testify as an expert. He
was witness at the famous Leopold
Loeb murder trial at Chicago and in
the case of Stanley Mccormick. Cali
fornia multimillionaire, whose wife
,, sought to set aside a special guardian
ship Of the estate
Speaking Of DR.. Whites career at
ST. Elizabeth's. DR.. Jelliffe said: His
| life was St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He
ate with it and slept with it. And
there can be no greater monument to
DR.. White than his institution, the
greatest of its kind In the world today
He took it when it was nothing. He
made it. He loved it."
DR.. Whites membership here in
cluded the Cosmos. Chevy Chase and
National Press Clubs.