CHAPTER LXXV 

 ALFRED MEYER, M.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQlS TO 



1919 



A.FRED MEYER was born in New York city June 18, 

 1 854, a son of Isaac and Mathilda Langenbach Meyer. He 

 received a liberal classical education in Columbia Univer- 

 sity, graduating in 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He 

 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 

 1877, and entered at once upon post-graduate work as an intern 

 in the Mount Sinai Hospital, N. Y. Completing his internship, he 

 spent over two years in clinical and laboratory work, mainly in 

 Leipzig and Vienna, with visits to the hospitals of London, Paris, 

 Frankfort, Rome, and Amsterdam. 



In 1 88 1 Dr. Meyer engaged in general private practice in New 

 York, and for the past twenty-five years has limited himself to 

 consultation work. Besides being clinical professor of medicine 

 at the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 

 lege, he is consulting physician to the Mount Sinai Hospital, the 

 Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases, and the Bedford Sana- 

 torium for Consumptives. 



Dr. Meyer has long been identified with the anti-tuberculosis 

 movement in New York city and state, and with the national 

 movement throughout the country. For many years he has been 

 a member of the board of directors of the New York City Tuber- 

 culosis Association. He served on the original small committee 

 that prepared for the International Congress on Tuberculosis in 

 Washington, 1908, going abroad in 1906 to stimulate interest in 

 the Congress, and visiting many countries. In the Parliament 

 Building at The Hague Dr. Meyer delivered an address on the 

 plan and scope of the Congress, receiving a silver medal for his 

 exhibit of a dairy illustrating the sanitary production of milk. 



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