CHAPTER XXXVIII 

 EDWARD G. JANEWAY, M.D., LL.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM 1909 TO IQIO 



DR. EDWARD G. JANEWAY, the fifth president of the 

 National Tuberculosis Association, served in that ca- 

 pacity from 1909 to 1910. 



He was born in Middlesex County, New Jersey, August 31, 

 1841, received his preliminary education at Rutgers College, and 

 was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1860. He took his 

 medical course at the College of Physicians of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, from which he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 

 1864. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by 

 the Princeton University in 1904. 



Dr. Janeway's medical career began as intern in Bellevue 

 Hospital. From 1868 to 1873 he was curator and instructor of 

 pathological anatomy in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College; 

 from 1873 to 1886 professor of pathological anatomy and clinical 

 medicine; in 1886 he succeeded the late Dr. Austin Flint to the 

 chair of principle and practice of medicine and clinical medicine, 

 and later on, with the amalgamation of the University and 

 Bellevue Medical Colleges, he became dean of that institution. 



Dr. Janeway's interest in public sanitation, and particularly in 

 tuberculosis, was characteristic throughout his medical career. 

 Although perhaps the greatest fame he attained was because of 

 his unusual diagnostic skill as a general consultant, his activity in 

 the tuberculosis field was greater than the seemjng scarcity of his 

 publications on tuberculosis would indicate. Serving as health 

 commissioner of the city of New York from 1875 to 1882, he 

 showed a deep interest in the housing conditions predisposing to 

 tuberculosis, and maintained the then unpopular theory that tu- 

 berculosis was a transmissible disease. 



Among his first publications on the subject there are some of a 



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