Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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)