Quote of the day
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
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)







