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NAME JANEWAY 615 JANVRIN forming American medicine" (Osier). He stood with tiie new sciiool of clinicians in wed- ding patholog}' as closely as possible with clin- ical medicine. Janeway's "Clinical Study of Blood Pres- sure" was published in 1904, and "admirably illustrated the application of physiological methods to bedside problems" (Osier). He was an editor and contributor to the Archives of Internal Medicine. An elaborate work on diseases of the heart and blood ves- sels was nearly completed at his death ; it was to have been published early in 1918 but mili- tary duties interfered. As a public speaker, he began slowly and with hesitation but soon warmed up and pre- sented his subject in a clear, logical, convinc- ing waj' ; he became eloquent as he caught the sympathy of his audience, developing a high degree of oratory by simple force of earnest- ness and moral conviction. He won friends in his personal relations by an unusual charm of manner. His geniality and sympathetic traits of mind are seen at the best in the brief "Introductory Survey of French Medical Science" ("Science and Learning in France," 1917). In appearance Janeway was of slight, well- knit and alert figure with quick yet graceful movements. With a mobile expression, his face would light and his eyes sparkle with animation as he talked. His whole appear- ance, to the stoop of his shoulders, indicated the scholar combined with the man of wide public interests. In 1898 Dr. Janeway married Eleanor C. Alderson of Overbrook, Pennsylvania, who, with three daughters and two sons, and his mother, survived him. After less than a week's illness of pneumo- nia, he died at his home in Baltimore, Decem- ber 27, 1917. Howard A. Kelly. Lancet, 1918, vol. cxciv, 80. Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull, Baltimore, 1918, vol. xxix, 142-148. Portrait. Janvrin, Joseph Edward (1839-1911) Joseph Edwards Janvrin was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, January 13, 1839. He was the son of Joseph Adams and Lydia Ann Col- cord Janvrin, both of E.xeter. The first an- cestor of the name to settle in this country was John Janvrin, who came from the Isle of Jersey in 1705 and settled at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, marrying a Miss Knight of that place. Dr. Janvrin was a lineal descendant of the Adams family, of Brajntree, now Quincy, Massachusetts. After graduating from Phil- lips Exeter Academy in 1857 he taught school for two years and then began the study of medicine under Dr. William G. Perry, of Exeter. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, he enlisted in the 2nd New Hampshire Regi- ment, and eighteen months later was appointed assistant surgeon in the ISth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, with which he re- mained until mustered out of service in Au- gust, 1863. He attended courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth, and finally studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia Uni- versity), in New York, from which he grad- uated in 1864. He entered private practice in New York City, as an associate of Dr. Ed- mund R. Peaslec (q. v.), the gynecologist. On September 1st, 1881, he married Laura L. La- Wall, of Easton, Penna. They had two chil- dren,— Marguerite LaWall and Edmund R. P. Janvrin. From 1868 to 1872 Dr. Janvpin was visiting physician to the department of heart and lung diseases in the Demilt Dispensary. From 1872 to 1882 he was an assistant surgeon to the Woman's Hospital in the State of New York; he then became gynecologist to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. He was president of the New York Obstetrical Society in 1890 and 1891, of the New York County Medical Association in 1896 and 1897, a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine for five years, and president of the American Gyne- cological Society in 1903. Dr. Janvrin was a frequent contributor to medical journals, upon subjects connected with gn,'necolog3- and obstetrics. Among the more important of his papers were : — "The Surgical Treatment of Early Diag- nosed Cancer of the Uterus." (President's address before the American Gynecological Society at Washington, D. C, May 13, 1903.) "Immediate vs. Deferred Operation for In- tra-abdominal Hemorrhage, due to Tubal Pregnancy." (Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc, 1908). "A Clinical Study of Primary Car- cinomatous and Sarcomatous Neoplasms be- tween the Folds of the Broad Ligaments, with a Report of Cases" (Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc'y., 1891). "Vaginal Hysterectomy for Malignant Disease of the Uterus" (New York Jour, of Gynec. and Obsl., September, 1892). After a life of remarkable activity, he died December 21, 1911, at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, following an operation for acute appendicitis. Hermann J. Boldt.