William Sydney Thayer
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| Born | June 23, 1864 Milton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 10, 1932 (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) |
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Susan Chisolm Read (m. 1901) |
| Relatives | Ezra Ripley Thayer (brother) Ralph Waldo Emerson (second cousin) |
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William Sydney Thayer (June 23, 1864 – December 10, 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 clinician's clinician.
Thayer was born in
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 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921 and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.[3][4]
Thayer married Susan Chisolm Read, a student of nursing from Johns Hopkins, in 1901.
References
- PMID 17730029.
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- ^ "William Sydney Thayer". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. February 9, 2023. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
Other sources
- Reid, Edith Gittings (1936) The Life and convictions of William Sydney Thayer, physician. Oxford University Press.
External links
Media related to William Sydney Thayer at Wikimedia Commons- The malarial fevers of Baltimore (1895)
- Lectures on the malarial fevers (1899)
Medical ethics] (1935)
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