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activities of this great institute of medical 

 research were very important. Janeway's 

 idealistic temperament, his firm belief in 

 the method of science as applied to the 

 problems of clinical medicine, his wide 

 knowledge of theory and thorough technical 

 training, his large experience in actual 

 practise, and, above all, his well-developed 

 critical faculty, made him a most helpful 

 and sound adviser in the field that he 

 represented in this board, and in the other 

 advisory boards to which he belonged. 



Professor Janeway's original inquiries 

 were related especially to diseases of the 

 circulatory apparatus and to disturbances 

 of metabolism. His researches upon blood- 

 pressure and upon renal function will be 

 especially remembered. Besides his mono- 

 graph on "The Clinical Study of Blood- 

 Pressure" (1904), he contributed to the 

 medical journals some twenty important 

 articles upon the subjects in which he was 

 interested. Several of these appeared in 

 the Archives of Internal Medicine, of the 

 editorial staff of which he was a member. 

 During the last years of his life, he was 

 engaged in writing a treatise on "Diseases 

 of the Heart and Blood- Vessels. ' ' He had 

 prepared a complete syllabus of the volume 

 and all internists must regret that the 

 production of the monograph has toeen 

 prevented by his untimely death. 



Besides the recognition that had come to 

 him in the form of academic appointments 

 and the other posts of responsibility that 

 have been mentioned, two honorary de- 

 grees had already been confered upon him, 

 that of Master of Arts at Yale (1912) and 

 that of Doctor of Science at "Washington 

 University, St. Louis (1915). Had he 

 lived, there can be no dOubt that he would 

 have received many other honorary de- 

 grees. Very few men of worth are in- 

 sensible to the acknowledgment of that 

 worth by those whose judgment they know 



to be valuble; it is weU that they should 

 not be. Dr. Janeway's character and 

 ideals were such that he cared little for 

 other support : 



La gloire 

 Ne compte pas toujours les voix; 

 Elle les p6se quelquef ois. 



The support of those who have the good 

 of internal medicine most at heart in this 

 country Dr. Janeway undoubtedly had. 

 But this was not indispensable to him as 

 motive, his desire to further the science of 

 medicine for the good of suffering man- 

 kind was to him an impelling force that 

 was all-sufficing. 



In his family life Dr. Janeway was par- 

 ticularly fortunate. Married in 1898 to 

 Eleanor C. Alderson of Overbrook, Pa., 

 he found in his wife a companion who 

 shared his ideals, who supported him 

 through difficulties, and who was prepared 

 to make whatever sacrifices were necessary 

 to permit the full employment of his ener- 

 gies to the attainment of any good that 

 he deemed worthy of his effort. She and 

 their five children, his mother, and two 

 sisters survive him. To his home, his 

 older friends and his students, of whom he 

 also made friends, were cordially welcomed. 

 He had a true and delicate ear for music 

 and though he had no extensive musical 

 training found pleasure and recreation in 

 playing the violin in the family circle. 

 Those who knew him best were charmed 

 'by his deep and ready sympathy, his quick 

 and thorough understanding of others, and 

 his unselfishness and generosity. His life 

 will be an outstanding example to in- 

 fluence young men entering upon a career 

 in medicine. His death, at a time when, 

 in the ordinary course of events, he might 

 well have been expected to give at least 

 twenty years more of the highest kind of 

 service to his country and to science, is 

 one of those losses that mankind laments, 



