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NAME JANEWAY 614 JANEWAY Summit, N. J. Among the many biographic notices which voice the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues, the following are characteristic : Theodore C. Janeway. Med Rec, N. Y., 1911, vol. Ixxix, 684. N Y. Med. Jour., 1911, vol. xciu, 331. Ibid., 1912, vol. xcv, 105. Amer. Med., 1911, vol. xvu, 107. . Boston iMed. and Surg. Jour., 1911, vol. clxiv, 240 Columbia Univ. Quart., "H, vol. xiil, 309. Munchen. med. Wochnschr., 1911, vol. Iviii, 1, 582, Reference Handbook of the Med. Sci., N. Y., 1915, 3rd ed., vol. v, 679. Janeway, Theodore Caldwell (1872-1917) Theodore Caldwell Janeway was born in New York City, November 2, 1872, son of Professor Edward G. Janeway (q. v.), Ameri- ca's leading clinician, consultant and teacher, and Frances Strong Rogers. Developing in such a highly charged medical atmosphere, Theodore Janeway also became eminent as a physician, a leader in scientific work and a teacher. Beginning at the Cutler School, he graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale (1892). He graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1895) ; practised with his father and was instructor in bacteriology in Columbia (1895-1896); interne in St. Luke's Hospital (1897); instructor and lecturer in the University and Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College (1898-1906); associate in clinical medicine in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Columbia (1907-1909); and upon the retirement of Dr. Walter Belk- nap James (1909) he became professor of medicine, until his resignation in 1914 to go to the Johns Hopkins University and Hospi- tal. Janeway as a young man was conscientious, persevering and serious, and matured early . always studious and a hard worker, but light-hearted and keen among his fellows, and cheerfid and well liked (Howland). In his medical training under the constant supervision and guidance of his father, he re- cevied a continuous intensive training, absorb- ing medicine at every pore, and as far as it is ever possible for one man to transfer his abilities, the extraordinary skill of the elder Janeway was engrafted into the heart and mind of the son. Theodore Janeway was the first in New York City to teach medicine from the stand- point of disease as a departure from the nor- mal physiological basis, and with Oertel he introduced at the City Hospital the clinical pathological conference. The clinical study of blood pressure in this country began with him, and he devised the first instrument readily available at the bed- side. When he went to the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island, the service was wretched, but in a short time he reorganized it with an active efficient staff and with men competing for the positions on his service. While in New York he advised and assisted the charitable organizations caring for those incapacitated for work by accident or disease ; he was also closely identified with the Charity Organization Society and organized the bur- eau for the handicapped, a work which he considered his most original contribution. He informed the writer personally that it was a matter of serious regret that the press- ing duties at the Hopkins Medical School pre- vented his active co-operation in this kind of work in Baltimore. While in New York he was visiting physi- cian to St. Luke's, the City, and the Presby- terian Hospitals ; he was active in the Asso- ciation of American Physicians, and in other medical societies; at the time of his death he was on the governing board of the Rockefel- ler Institute of Medical Research. In 1914, under the grant from the Rocke- feller Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Univer- sity adopted a whole-time basis for three chairs in the medical school, and Janeway was called as the first whole-time professor of medicine under the William Welch Endow- ment. His predecessors in the medical school were Sir William Osier and Lewyllys F. Bar- ker. This decision to place these chairs on a full-time basis was a "new departure in medi- cal education in the English-speaking world." Janeway took part in establishing the Post- graduate School for the Study of Tubercu- losis at Saranac Lake, in memory of Edward Trudeau ; and for three years he was presi- dent of the Laennec Society, organized by Sir William Osier at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, for the study of tuberculosis. A member of the Army Medical Corps, he was called into active service in April, 1917, intending to go to France with the Johns Hop- kins University Unit in June, 1917, but was persuaded that his best service could be ren- dered in this country. He entered the service as a member of the United States Reserve Officers' Corps, safeguarding the health of the soldiers, a work temporarily interrupting his teaching activities. As an organizer and as a clinician Janeway excelled, and was the leader of "a younger group of physiological clinicians who have been quietly but surely upbuilding and trans-