William Sydney Thayer
William Sydney Thayer (23 June 1864 – 10 December 1932) was a physician and professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School. He was an acclaimed teacher of clinical practice and known as the clinicians clinician.
Thayer was born in Milton, Massachusetts where his father James Bradley was a professor of law at Harvard University. His mother Sophia Ripley was a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. A younger sibling, Ezra, became dean of the Harvard Law School. William was educated at Harvard University, receiving a BA degree in 1885 after being briefly suspended for a prank. He received a medical degree in 1889. He then worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital and then went to Europe for further studies. He joined Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1896 becoming a professor of clinical medicine in 1905. In 1917 he served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He also travelled through Russia via Canada and Japan as part of the Red Cross. He was an acclaimed teacher of medicine at Baltimore and also conducted research.[1][2]
Thayer married Susan Chisolm Read, a student of nursing from Johns Hopkins, in 1901.
References[]
- ^ Barker, Lewellys F. (1932). "William Sydney Thayer". Science. 76 (1983): 617–619. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ Low, G.Carmichael (1933). "Professor William Sydney Thayer". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 26 (4): 404. doi:10.1016/S0035-9203(33)90044-9.
Other sources[]
- Reid, Edith Gittings (1936) The Life and convictions of William Sydney Thayer, physician. Oxford University Press.
External links[]
Medical ethics] (1935)
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