Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Abraham Jacobi
Born: May 6, 1830
Died: July 10, 1919 (aged 89)
Bio: Abraham Jacobi was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States. To date, he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He helped found the American Journal of Obstetrics.
Known for:
- Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood (1896)
- A Treatise on Diphtheria (1880)