Janeway

for scientific and philosophical studies, and a
consuming interest in the progress of knowl-
edge.

[Frederic Janes, The Janes Family (1868); bio-
graphical sketch, MSS., in possession of the family;
Lewis G. Janes: Philosopher, Patriot, Lover of Man
(1902), a volume of memorial addresses, letters, and
other tributes; A. J. Ingersoll, Greenacre on the Pisca-
taqua (1900) ; New Eng. Mag., June 1903; Who's Who
in America, 1901-02; Boston Transcript, Sept. 5, 1901;
Boston Herald, Sept. 6, 1901.] J H H

JANEWAY, EDWARD GAMALIEL (Aug.
31, i84i-Feb. 10, 1911), a physician, medical
diagnostician and consultant, was born in New
Brunswick, N. J. Among his ancestors were
William Janeway, a British naval officer who
was stationed in New York in the late seven-
teenth century, George Janeway, a New York
alderman, and Jacob Jones Janeway, a clergy-
man of distinction. His father was George
Jacob Janeway, a physician, and his mother was
Matilda Smith, the daughter of Gamaliel Smith
of New York. Edward Janeway took a degree
in arts at Rutgers College in 1860 and at once
began the study of medicine at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, but dur-
ing 1862-63 ne served as acting medical cadet at
the United States Army Hospital at Newark,
N. J. Having received his medical degree in
1864 he settled in the metropolis and for some
years was junior partner of an established prac-
titioner. In 1866, with Francis Delafield and J.
W. Southack, he was appointed curator to Belle-
vue Hospital, the trio having begun jointly the
systematic keeping of the hospital records. In
1868 he received the appointment of visiting
physician to Charity Hospital and was made
chief of staff in 1870, resigning in 1871 to be-
come visiting physician to Bellevue Hospital.
In 1870 he had also been appointed physician to
the Hospital for Epileptic and Paralyzed. His
first teaching position was the professorship of
physiological and pathological anatomy in the
medical department of the University of the City
of New York, which he held for one year (1871-
72), resigning to accept the professorship of
pathological anatomy at Bellevue. There also he
lectured on materia medica, therapeutics, and
clinical medicine. In addition he served at Belle-
vue from 1872 to 1879 as demonstrator of an-
atomy and at about this time was giving special
courses to graduate students in physical diag-
nosis.

In 1875 Janeway was appointed health com-
missioner of New York City, serving until 1881,
in which year he was chosen associate professor
of medicine and professor of diseases of the mind
and nervous system at Bellevue. In 1883 he was

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appointed visiting physician to Mt Sinai Hos-
pital, an honor extended to but few physicians
who were not Jews, and in 1886, following the
death of the elder Austin Flint [q.v.]9 he suc-
ceeded to the chair of the principles and practice
of medicine and clinical medicine at Bellevue.
He was president of the New York Acad-
emy of Medicine during 1897-98 and on the
consolidation of the University and Bellevue
medical colleges in 1898 he was made dean, serv-
ing in this capacity for seven years. He served
as president of the American Association of
Physicians and was consulting physician to a
number of hospitals in New York and vicinity.
His death occurred from an acute ailment at
Summit, N. J., after several years of failing
health. His wife was Frances Strong Rogers,
the daughter of the Rev. E. P. Rogers; Theo-
dore Caldwell Janeway [q.v.~\ was their son.
During many years his practice was limited al-
most entirely to continuous consultation work
which made it difficult for him to take part in
the numerous professional and social activities
of the average successful physician, but his pub-
lic spirit was so great that he never neglected
charitable and welfare work.

Janeway's professional eminence was due
largely to his originality and to his intelligent
use of unusual opportunities. He owed so little
to others that he may almost have been termed
a self-taught man. He was entirely without the
advantages of European post-graduate instruc-
tion, then regarded as almost indispensable to
success, and even at home he seems to have owed
little to any professional prototype or master.
Doubtless as an undergraduate he profited by the
teachings of Alonzo Clark, who like himself was
both pathologist and diagnostician, but as Wil-
liam Welch insists, his real school of learning
was the wards and deadhouse of Bellevue, where
for many consecutive years he checked his clini-
cal with autopsy findings, utilizing to the full
his double role of pathologist and clinician. He
is supposed to have made few contributions to
medical literature but Welch was able to find a
record of sixty-six such communications. It is
known that he regarded the promiscuous publi-
cation of books and papers as much overdone
and too often motivated by the desire for pub-
licity. He dominated his colleagues less by his
personality than by his mental powers and his
high standards.

[H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage, Am. Medic. Biogs.
(1920); AT. Y. Medic. Jour., Feb. 18, 1911, Jan. 20,
1912; Medic. Record, Feb. 18, 1911; Boston Medic,
and Surgic. Jour., Feb. 16, 1911; Memorial Meeting to
Edward G. Janeway (1911)1 N. Y. Acad. of Medicine;
J. B. Clark, Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Jane-
way (1917); Medic. Pickwick, Nov. 1915; F- B. Lee,

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