Alfred E. Cohn

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Alfred Einstein Cohn (* 1879 New York City ; † 1957 ) was a pioneer cardiologist in the USA.

Life

Cohn studied at the Medical Faculty (College of Physicians and Surgeons) of Columbia University with an MD degree in 1904. This was followed by postgraduate studies in Freiburg im Breisgau , Vienna and London from 1907 to 1909. After returning to New York City, he went to Mount Sinai Hospital . In 1911 he moved to Rockefeller Hospital at the Rockefeller Institute, where he stayed for the remainder of his career, becoming head of the Heart Disease Laboratory and retiring in 1944.

Cohn is considered one of the first cardiologists in the United States. In 1909 he brought the first electrocardiograph to the USA from London , technically a thread galvanometer, manufactured and invented in 1903 by Willem Einthoven in Leiden. Horatio Burt Williams soon followed in 1911 and initiated his own production of electrocardiographs in the USA. Cohn used the EKG to characterize the effects of pneumonia and rheumatic fever on the heart, doing basic research on the function of the heart.

He played a leading role in organizations such as the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Heart Association (he was on the Board of Governors), the Veterans Administration, the China Medical Board, and Asia Institute (since he was visiting professor at Union Medical College in 1925 Beijing), Sydenham Hospital, and the Committee for Displaced Foreign Scholars and Displace Foreign Physicians. His friends included Felix Frankfurter and Peyton Rous .

He also published essays and books on the role of medicine in society and its connection to art and science.

His library of 6,000 volumes went to the Rockefeller Institute .

literature

  • E. Stein The Electrocardiogram , WB Saunders 1976
  • George Burch, Nicholas DePasquale A history of Electrocardiography , Chicago, Year Book Medical 1964

Fonts

  • Cohn Auricular tachycardia with a consideration of certain differences between the two vagi , Journal of Experimental Medicine , Volume 15, 1912, pp. 49-62
  • with FR Fraser, RA Jamieson The influence of digitalis on the T wave of the human electrocardiogram , J. Exp. Med. Volume 21, 1915, pp. 593-603
  • with RA Jamieson The action of digitalis in pneumonia , J. Exp. Med., Volume 25, 1917, pp. 65-81
  • with HF Swift Electrocardiographic evidence of myocardial involvement in rheumatic fever , J. Exp. Med., Volume 39, 1924, pp. 1-36
  • Cohn Medicine, Science, and Art: Studies in Interrelations , 1931, new edition Kessinger Publishing, 2003
  • Cohn Minerva's Progress: Tradition and Dissent in American Culture , 1946
  • Cohn No Retreat From Reason and Other Essays , 1948

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personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Alfred E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohn, Alfred Einstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 1957