Simon R. Blatteis

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Simon R. Blatteis in 1925.

Simon Risefeld Blatteis (March 27, 1876 – June 11, 1968)

Brownsville and East New York Hospital, for which he also served as the first President of the Medical Board.[2] He was engaged in the practice of medicine for over 50 years.[3]

Early life and education

Blatteis was born in Teschen,

Bellevue Hospital Medical College in June 1898.[6][7][8][9] In preparation for a laboratory career, he also took "special courses at the Carnegie, the Cornell, the New York Post Graduate and Hoagland Laboratories".[9]

Career in medicine

On May 14, 1898, Blatteis became an inspector of medical schools for the

Journal of the American Medical Association noted his election as president of that society in 1912.[13][6]

Response to contagious diseases

Portion of a June 1916 newspaper article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle describing Blatteis' work in response to the epidemic.

In 1914, Blatteis led a team that investigated an outbreak of 27 typhoid cases in

Kings County District Attorney.[17]

Organizing and teaching

In 1920, Blatteis was one of the leading organizers of New York City's

Long Island College Hospital,[6] becoming a full professor in 1930,[9] and remaining in that post until 1941.[3] One Bellevue yearbook recited an anecdote in which Blatteis called on a student in class to answer a question. The student responded very quietly, prompting someone from the back to call out "Louder!", to which Blatteis replied, "You haven't missed anything".[19]

At the 25th annual meeting of the Second District Branch of the Medical Society of the State of New York, Blatteis spoke on the question on how much the patient should be told, concluding that the answer was "as little of possible", a view that was prevalent in that era.[20] He also served for a time as president of the Brooklyn Pathological Society.[6] Blatteis was also affiliated for many years with the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital and Medical Center.[21] A 1938 article notes that he was then "chairman of the interne committee of the medical board" of that hospital, then a newly established program introducing medical internships to the facility.[22] He also served as chief of the medical staff.[23] During World War II, he served as secretary of the Medical Advisory Board.[7]

Blatteis was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.[9] In 1935, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia honored Blatteis as one of twelve doctors from the Jewish Hospital to receive a Certificate for Distinguished and Exceptional Service to the city.[9]

Personal life

Blatteis married Minnie Levinson on November 4, 1900, in Brooklyn.[6] They had one son, Victor, and one daughter, Eleanor.[1][21][7]

Interviewed in his home in 1948, having practiced medicine for over 50 years, Blatteis said that "pessimism and a sour outlook on life" were more harmful than diseases, and that "work, coupled with sufficient relaxation and diversion" were the keys to longevity.

Brooklyn Jewish Hospital.[23] As of 1957, Blatteis—then 81 years old—continued to be listed as an actively certified medical specialist,[25] remaining so until his death at the age of 92.[5][1]

Publications

Throughout his career, Blatteis was the author of "numerous articles in professional journals",[7] including:

  • "An Unusual Legion of the Large Intestine", Proceedings of the New York Pathological Society (1908), p. 102.
  • With Max Lederer, "An Analysis of Four Hundred and Twenty-Six Cerebrospinal Fluids from Various Pathologic Conditions", Journal of the American Medical Association (1913), Vol. 60, p. 811.
  • With Max Lederer, "The Bacillus of Typhus Exanthematicus isolated from a Case of Typhus Fever (Brill's Disease)", Long Island Medical Journal (1915), Vol. 10, p. 169.
  • "Transient Myelosis in the Course of an Acute Infectious Disease", address to the 115th meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York on May 5, 1921, reported in New York State Journal of Medicine (1921), Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 63.

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e "SIMON R. BLATTEIS, PATHOLOGIST, 92; Retired Internist Is Dead -In Practice Since 1898". The New York Times. June 13, 1968.
  2. ^ a b Samuel Philip Abelow, History of Brooklyn Jewry (1937), p. 226.
  3. ^
    Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    (November 21, 1948), p. 41.
  4. ^ a b Miloslav Rechcigl Jr., American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots (2018), p. 309.
  5. ^ a b c Jacob Rader Marcus, ed., The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography (1993), p. 58.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Jewish Biographical Bureau, Who's Who in American Jewry (1926), p. 61.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g American Jewish Literary Foundation, American Jews: Their Lives and Achievements: A Contemporary Biographical Record, Volume 2 (1958), p. 496.
  8. ^ University of the State of New York, College Department, First Annual Report, (1898) Vol. 1, p. 84.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g "Hospital to Honor 12 Veteran Doctors, Serving During Its 28 Years of Work", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (January 13, 1935), p. 14A.
  10. ^ New York Department of Health, Annual Report (1898) p. 24.
  11. ^ A 1910 record of city services in New York shows Blatteis as having continuously served as a medical inspector since May 14, 1898.
  12. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    (June 14, 1902), p. 22.
  13. JAMA
    (1912), Vol. 58, p. 205.
  14. ^ "Test of Water Not Completed; All Park Slope Awaits Results of Health Commissioner's Investigation", The Standard Union (September 11, 1914), p. 16.
  15. ^ The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1916), Vol. 175, p. 29.
  16. ^ "Fifty-six Epidemic Cases Reported in Borough", The Brooklyn Citizen (July 8, 1916), p. 3.
  17. ^ Report of the Civil Service Commission of the State of New York, Volume 1 (1918), p. 492.
  18. ^ Frank Smithies, Ed., Annals of Medicine: With Abstract of the World's Literature (1920, 1921), Vol. 1, p. 34, 177, 187, 353, 363, 511, 521.
  19. ^ The 1929 Bellevue Violet (1929), p. 131.
  20. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    (November 20, 1931), p. 23.
  21. ^ a b Leo M. Glassman, Biographical Encyclopaedia of American Jews (1935), p. 46.
  22. ^ "23 Internes Dined by Jewish Hospital". Brooklyn Eagle. July 2, 1938.
  23. ^ a b "Couple Mark 50th Anniversary", The Jewish Floridian (November 4, 1955), p. 13B.
  24. ^ a b "SOUR OUTLOOK HELD A PHYSICAL HARM; Dr. Blatteis, 73, for 50 Years in Medicine, Sees Eventual Defeat of Cancer". The New York Times. November 21, 1948.
  25. ^ Advisory Board for Medical Specialties, Directory of Medical Specialists Certified by American Boards (1957).
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