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faculty offered the "whole-time" chair to 

 Dr. Janeway, and he, after careful con- 

 sideration, accepted it. Though the re- 

 linquishment of private practise meant a 

 large financial sacrifice to him, and re- 

 moval to Baltimore entailed separation of 

 Mmself and his family from the great 

 city in which he had thus far spent his 

 life with all its personal relationships and 

 its special cultural opportunities. Dr. Jane- 

 way saw how great the opportunity was 

 and rejoiced that he could avail himself 

 of it. He found at the Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital, of which he became the physi- 

 cian-in-chief, a medical clinic organized 

 largely in accord with his ideals for the 

 care of patients, for laboratory work, for 

 teaching and for investigation, alongside 

 of other clinics similarly developed, and 

 associated with strong departments for the 

 promotion of the preclinical sciences. 

 Bringing with him Dr. H. 0. Mosenthal, 

 interested in metabolic studies, as associate 

 professor, he retained, either on his ' ' whole- 

 time" staff or on an associated "part-time" 

 staff, nearly all of the workers already in 

 the department, and quickly made the re- 

 adjustments necessitated by reorganization 

 on the "whole-time" basis. In this con- 

 genial atmosphere, where his work could 

 be carried on with a minimum of friction, 

 he had every expectation of a long period 

 of satisfactory hospital practise, of well- 

 organized departmental teaching, and of 

 leadership of a group of able young men 

 in quiet scientific productivity. It was 

 tragical that the period allotted to him 

 proved to be so brief, but in his three years 

 of service in Baltimore he made a deep 

 impression, winning the respect and esteem 

 of colleagues, of pupils, and of the com- 

 munity at large. The authorities of the 

 medical school, though deeply regretting a 

 loss that seems irreparable, may always 

 congratulate themselves on the choice of 



their first "whole-time" professor of medi- 

 cine, a man who combined large clinical 

 experience with unusual teaching ability 

 and with capacity for productive scientific 

 study, and one who was content to give 

 his whole time and energies to the work 

 of the institution recompensed by an aca- 

 demic salary, by large opportunity for 

 service, and by joy in the work — a pattern 

 that the reform movement in medical edu- 

 cation during the past three decades has 

 been trying to construct. 



At Johns Hopkins, Professor Janeway 

 helped to plan a new building for the 

 Hunterian Laboratory for Experimental 

 Medicine, improved the facilities for meta- 

 bolic studies, fostered researches in the 

 heart station, and secured a substantial 

 increase in the endowment for studies in 

 tuberculosis known as the Kenneth Dow 

 Fund. He was active in the Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital Medical Society, was iuter- 

 ested in the Historical Club, and acted as 

 president of the Laennec Society for the 

 Study of Tuberculosis. 



Dr. Janeway was a member of the Medi- 

 cal Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army, and 

 was the internist of the unit organized by 

 the Johns Hopkins staff for work in 

 France, now Base Hospital No. 18. When 

 this unit was ordered abroad, he prepared 

 to go with it, but at the last moment his 

 place was taken by Dr. T. R. Boggs, Sur- 

 geon-General Gorgas having decided that 

 Dr. Janeway's experience and powers could 

 be used to greater advantage in his own 

 office in Washington. As assistant to the 

 Surgeon-General, Major Janeway went on 

 active duty on June 30, 1917, and with the 

 help of his successor at Columbia, Major 

 Warfield T. Longcope, who acted as his 

 chief assistant, undertook a very important 

 task for the army, namely, the organiza- 

 tion of that part of the medical work that 

 had to do with diseases of the heart and 



