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Baltimore, where he has since resided. He was present at the 

 opening of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in May, 1889, and soon 

 became attached to the dispensary service of that hospital under 

 Dr. William Osier, the physician-in-chief. In 1896 he was made 

 associate in medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, and was 

 engaged in teaching the early classes in the medical school in 

 physical diagnosis and in therapeutics. 



With the departure of Professor Osier to Oxford in 1905, Dr. 

 Jacobs resigned his position in the medical school and soon after- 

 ward was made a trustee of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since 

 then he has devoted his time largely to public health and educa- 

 tional matters. He is a trustee of the Peabody Institute, of the 

 Maryland Institute, of the Church Home and Infirmary, and of 

 the Hospital School for Children ; president of The Hospital for 

 Consumptives of Maryland, and president of the Maryland Tu- 

 berculosis Association. He was one of the original directors of the 

 Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and with Dr. H. 

 Warren Buckler chose the site and matured the plans of this 

 institution. Dr. Jacobs is also a director of the Baltimore 

 Museum of Art, a member of the executive committee of the 

 Baltimore Society of the Friends of Art, and of the Newport Art 

 Society. He has collected extensively prints illustrating medical 

 portraiture, and also medals illustrating the same subject. Books 

 too have interested him and he serves on the library committee of 

 the Peabody Institute, and Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, and 

 the Redwood Library, Newport. Since he gave up his teaching at 

 the Johns Hopkins Medical School Dr. Jacobs has not engaged in 

 practice, but he has retained his membership in various medical 

 societies, and together with the crusade for the suppression of 

 tuberculosis, medical history has held his special attention. For 

 a number of years he was president of the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 Historical Society, as well as the Laennec Society, also the Book 

 and Journal Club of the State Medical Society, which was a 

 medical historical club. He is still a member of the Medical 

 Historical Society of Paris, and one of the associate editors of the 

 Annals of Medical History. 



Dr. Jacobs until his resignation was a faithful attendant at the 

 executive committee and board meetings. He rarely failed to 



