page_title: Hobart Reimann
hierarchical_section_title: Hobart Reimann
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Hobart A. Reimann 1943, Magee Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Medical College
context_page_description: Hobart Ansteth Reimann was an American virologist and physician. Reimann made contributions to medicine with his 1938 landmark article on atypical pneumonia; and articles on periodic disease and the common cold. He was active in testing of streptomycin against typhoid, with "the first publicly reported successful experiments."
  From 1935 through 1962, he wrote The Journal of the American Medical Association's annual review of Significant Publications in the Field of Infectious Diseases, providing the AMA's synopsis of progress in the field, continuing this work in the Archives of Internal Medicine and the British Postgraduate Medical Journal through to 1975, "40 consecutive Annual Reviews."
  Post WWII, he was one of the early voices to speak against the overuse of and misuse of antibiotics, and he testified before the US Senate on this subject in the early 1960s.
context_section_description: Hobart Ansteth Reimann (1897–1986) was an American virologist and physician. Reimann made contributions to medicine with his 1938 landmark article on atypical pneumonia (the "first description of virus pneumonia"); and articles on periodic disease and the common cold (1948). He was active in testing of streptomycin against typhoid, with "the first publicly reported successful experiments."
  From 1935 through 1962, he wrote The Journal of the American Medical Association's annual review of Significant Publications in the Field of Infectious Diseases, providing the AMA's synopsis of progress in the field, continuing this work in the Archives of Internal Medicine and the British Postgraduate Medical Journal through to 1975, "40 consecutive Annual Reviews."
  Post WWII, he was one of the early voices to speak against the overuse of and misuse of antibiotics, and he testified before the US Senate on this subject in the early 1960s.
caption: Jefferson Medical, 1943
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