remained for many years and where, in the pathological
department, he won such distinction. He later became visiting and
consulting physician to other hospitals in the city.

In 1874 he was vice-president of the New York Pathological Society. From
1875 till 1882, he was Health Commissioner of New York. In 1876 he was
president of the New York Medical Journal Association. His principal
contributions to medical literature appear in the medical journals of
New York.

He was president of the Academy of Medicine in 1897 and 1898 and a
trustee from 1899 until 1903.

He died in Summit, New Jersey, on February 10, 1911.

IN MEMORIAM

On April 6, 1911, the Fellows of the New York Academy of Medicine met to
honour his memory and to give reverent tribute to the sum of his
accomplishments as Pathologist, Sanitarian and Physician.

Some
Personal Recollections of
Dr. Janeway

I

What it is that has kept urging me to write down these recollections of
Edward Gamaliel Janeway, the physician, would indeed be rather hard to
define, but the desire to record a little something of what I had
personally come to know of this unusual man made itself felt very
shortly after his death, now over five years ago. Since that time this
feeling--steadily growing--seems irresistibly to have drawn me on to
this endeavour to add some little part to the perpetuation of his
memory--this man, who without pretence held the reputation of--one stops
to take a breath before writing it--the reputation of being the best
diagnostician in the world.

If by some happy chance these pen-pictured glimpses should bear some
likeness to the man--if they should bring out here and there a line or
colour which will recall some characteristic, show some quality, reveal
some trait which, for those who knew him, will help to keep his memory
fresh, they will have earned for themselves a very good reward. But
beyond this, if they should fall to the notice of a younger generation
and, more especially, to those choosing the profession of the physician,
and the reader can discern therein something of the man himself, can get
some glimpse of his life and its meaning, can gain some sense of the
sincerity, the simplicity, the self-sacrifice and singleness of purpose
which guided him and finally lifted him so far out of and above the
ordinary, then will the ple