Early New York Neurology Part I Edward Constant

Early New York Neurology Part I Edward Constant Séquin MD 1843 -1898 • • • B. Paris, son of physician Edouard Séquin Father moved them in 1846 to USA College P&S-1864 Military time- Little Rock, Ark & New Mexico Paris 1869 -70 with Brown-Séquard & Charcot. Prof of Diseases of Nervous System at College of P&S 1870 Contributions: – Autopsy of multiple sclerosis – Spastic paraplegia – Introduction of medical thermometry Leader in foundation of the Neurology department of Vanderbilt Clinic, College of P&S, Director – Important place of training for neurologists and medical students until it closed in 1929 when College of P&S entered the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Editor of many journals, one with Brown-Séquard With Hammond, he founded the organs of Neurology in NYC

Early New York Neurology Mosses Allen Starr MD (1854 -1932) • • • B. Brooklyn; Princeton 1876, College P&S 1880 Bellevue Residency Europe –Helmholtz (Germany) Erb ( Heidelberg) ; Nothnagel, & Meynert (Vienna), Charcot (Paris) Prof of Nervous Disease; New York Polyclinic Medical school 1884 -1888 Prof of Nervous Disease, College of P&S 1888 -1918 (succeeded Séquin) Lived and worked on upper East Side NYC President of ANA 1897 Contributions: sensory tracts localization in CNS apraxia, Localization of brain tumors polyneuritis Books: Lectures on Diseases of the Mind (1891) Lecture on Disease of the Nervous System (1891) Familiar Forms of Nervous Disease(1903) Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases (1913) 10 editions New York Neurology Triumvirate: Star, Dana, Sachs

Moses Allen Starr MD Books

Early New York Neurology Charles Loomis Dana MD (1852 -1935) • • B. Vermont; Dartmouth in 1872 College of P&S 1877, Bellevue residency (Flint, Janeway) Then neurologist at Bellevue (Hammond there too) Prof of Dis of Mind & Nervous system, NY Post-Grad Hospital (1884 -1895) Prof of Dis of Nervous System, the new Cornell Univ Med College (1898 -1922) – Teaching Cornell med students neurology President of ANA 1892 & 1928 Contributions: – Brain damage in alcohol – Transverse myelitis – Spinal nerve relief section for pain spastic paralysis Books: Text Book of Nervous Disease and Psychiatry for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine 1892; 10 editions

Early New York Neurology Charles Loomis Dana MD (1852 -1935) • • Charaka Club; & Proceedings of the Charaka Club Founded with Collins, Sachs, Peterson 1892 -1947 Literary society of physicians: presented papers on philosophy , ancient medicine, history & literary aspects of medicine. Members- Mitchell, Pearce Bailey, Smith Ely Jeliffe, Foster Kennedy, John Shaw Billings, Fielding Garrison, and Harvey Cushing; Osler was an honorary member

Early New York Neurology Bernard Sachs MD 1858 -1944 • • • • B. in Baltimore; Harvard 1878 (influenced by William James) Medical school Strasbourg 1882 Studied with Meynert (Vienna), Jackson (London), Charcot (Paris), Westphal (Berlin) Practiced neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital NYC Translated Meynert’s text of psychiatry President ANA 1894 & 1932 Dept. of Neurology at MT Sinai established 1890 – Sachs head “On Arrested Cerebral Development with Special Reference to Its Cortical Pathology” (1887) – Tay in England described ocular blindness Prof of Nerv and Mental Dis New York Polyclinic till 1925 Prof Clin Neurology Columbia (1933) Dir Div Child neurology, NY Neuro Inst. (1934) Books; Nervous disease of Children (1894) Nervous and Mental Disorders from Birth Through Adolescence (1926)

Neurologic Institute of New York Founded 1909 by Pearce Bailey, Joseph Collins, Joseph Fraenkel, and neurosurgeon Charles Elsberg, • Dana and Sachs –consultants Letter from Dr. Collins 1909 “ Dr. Joseph Fraenkel and I have for a long time been nurturing plans for the establishment in New York of a small hospital for the study and treatment of nervous diseases, particularly the so-called functional varieties including brief and curable mental disorders” • Then: Frederick Peterson, Ramsay Hunt, Foster Kennedy, Smith Ely Jeliffe, Frederick Tilney. • 1929 moved to 168 th and Fort Washington Ave. Became affiliated with the College of P&S of Columbia Univ. and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center • Pearce Bailey MD Joseph Collins MD Frederick Peterson MD

Other New York Neurologist • • • • Smith Ely Jeliffe (1866 -1944) Diseases of the Nervous System: A text book of Nervous and Mental Diseases- 1915 James Ramsay Hunt (1878 -1937) B. Phili, U of Penn (studied under Mills) Studied in Europe: – Oppenheim, Marie, Dejerine, Babinski 1900 -Cornell with Dana 1907: Herpetic inflammation of the geniculate ganglion 1910 -College of P&S until retirement Frederick Tilney (1876 -1938) The Brain and Functions of the Central Nervous System 1920 The head of Neurological Institute 1920 -1930 Ambrose L. Ranney (1848 -1905) Prof of Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in the+ New York Post Graduated Medical School & Hospital Lecture on Nervous Disease: From the standpoint of cerebral & spinal localization: And the later methods employed in the diagnosis and treatment of these Affections