Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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)