Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2289

THEODORE CALDWELL JANEWAY (1872-1917) The clinical study of blood-pressure. D. Appleton 1904 xiii [3] 300 [4] pp., [6] plates, illus., charts (part col.). 21.7 cm.

Janeway completed his undergraduate education at Yale and received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1895. He lectured on medical diagnosis at New York University for eight years and was associated with Columbia University from 1907 until 1914, where he rose to professor of the practice of medicine. In 1914 Janeway was appointed professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and physician-in-chief of the hospital. He was the institution's first fulltime professor of medicine but died of pneumonia only a few years after undertaking his new responsibilities. Janeway is particularly noted for his introduction of the clinical-pathological conference (which was widely copied throughout the United States), adoption of the routine blood pressure check, and development of a popular version of the sphygmomanometer. Janeway's purpose in writing this book was to bring together the various physiological and pathological causes for variation in blood pressure, in order to enable practitioners to be more efficient and effective in their diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. He introduces his instrument and discusses its advantages and disadvantages in comparison to other sphygmomanometers of the day.

Gift of Mrs. Diana Stokes