Stanhope Bayne-Jones

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Stanhope Bayne-Jones

Stanhope Bayne-Jones (born November 6, 1888 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † February 20, 1970 in Washington, DC ) was an American bacteriologist , military doctor , medical officer and medical historian .

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Bayne-Jones was an orphan early on. His father was a doctor, his grandfather Joseph Jones was a professor of medicinal chemistry and microscopy at Tulane University in New Orleans and had served as a military doctor in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War .

After graduating in chemistry from Yale University (1910), Bayne-Jones studied medicine at Tulane University Medical School and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and graduated with an MD in 1914 . He then worked with Hans Zinsser at Columbia University in New York City and then as a Rockefeller fellow as a lecturer in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School . In 1916 he worked there under William Henry Welch as a lecturer in bacteriology. During the First World War , Bayne-Jones served as a military doctor from the beginning of 1917 , first in British field hospitals, then in the US, and finally with the rank of major . After the war, he continued to serve in the army as head of hygiene and epidemiology in the occupied Rhineland - together with Alan M. Chesney - and worked here again with Hans Zinsser, who also served in the American Expeditionary Force .

After the end of the military service in May 1919, Bayne-Jones returned for a short time to the Johns Hopkins Medical School , became an associate professor in 1920 , but received a newly established professorship in bacteriology at the University of Rochester in 1923 . In 1929 he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago . From 1930 he worked for the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, DC for a short time and was co-editor of the seventh edition of Hans Zinsser's A Text Book of Bacteriology . In 1932 Bayne-Jones became professor of bacteriology at Yale University and head of Trumbull College . During his time as dean of Yale University School of Medicine (1935-1940), the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research ( cancer research ) was founded and an Institute of Human Nutrition ( nutritional medicine ) was lavishly planned due to the planned funding from various companies However, the food industry was ultimately rejected by the university administration. Bayne-Jones also prepared the establishment of an extensive medical history library, which was architecturally planned by Grosvenor Atterbury and opened in 1941. Together with Francis G. Blake , Bayne-Jones ran one of the first departments for preventive medicine. He also established the subject "epidemiology" in medicine at Yale University.

From 1940 Bayne-Jones worked on the staff of the US Surgeon General , including the rank of Brigadier General as deputy head of the department for preventive medicine . The US Army prepared for epidemics such as the Spanish flu (1918–1920); In cooperation with Yale University, the Board for the Investigation and Control of Influtenza and other Epidemic Diseases in the Army was founded in 1941 , later the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board (AFEB). The young Jonas E. Salk and his teacher Thomas Francis junior as the first head of the influenza commission were among the members of the working group.

After the Second World War, Bayne-Jones worked for a short time as a professor of microbiology at Yale University before he became dean of the Medical School at Cornell University , which is located at New York Hospital , in 1947 . From 1953 he worked for the Army Medical Research and Development Program in Washington, DC, and in other management positions for the US Army, the United States Public Health Service , the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine . As a member of the HEW Committee under Luther Terry , Bayne-Jones was involved in the report " Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States, " which disclosed the harmful effects of smoking.

Other academic positions that Bayne-Jones held were that of the President of the Association of American Bacteriologists (1929/1930), the American Association of Immunologists (1930/1931) and the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists . Bayne-Jones was involved in the planning and execution of an extensive edition of the medical history of World War II , to which he himself wrote articles on the medical care of prisoners of war in the United States.

Bayne-Jones was married to Nannie Smith (1891-1976) since 1921; the couple had no children. Stanhope Bayne-Jones worked in the United States public health service until his death at the age of 81. His grave is in Arlington National Cemetery .

Awards (selection)

There is a Stanhope Bayne Jones Professorship in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University . Current job holder (as of 2012) is David L. Thomas .

literature

  • JR Paul: Stanhope Bayne-Jones (1888-1970). Medical Dean, Military Hero, Microbiologist and Epidemiologist, and Medical Historian. In: The Yale journal of biology and medicine. Volume 45, Number 1, February 1972, pp. 22-32, ISSN  0044-0086 . PMID 4552532 . PMC 2591761 (free full text).
  • Morris C. Leikind: Stanhope Bayne-Jones: physician, teacher, soldier, scientist-administrator, friend of medical libraries. In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Volume 48, Number 3, April 1972, pp. 584-595, ISSN  0028-7091 . PMID 4552376 . PMC 1806644 (free full text).
  • Albert E. Cowdrey: War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine. Louisiana State Univ. Pr .; 1992 ISBN 978-0-8071-1717-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Extract from Medical Department, United States Army at the US Army Medical Department (army.mil); accessed on February 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Stanhope Bayne-Jones at arlingtoncemetery.net; accessed on February 18, 2016
  3. ^ Stanhope Bayne-Jones at the American Philosophical Society (amphilsoc.org); Retrieved August 5, 2012
  4. ^ Valor awards for Stanhope Bayne-Jones. In: valor.militarytimes.com. Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
  5. ^ Recipients of the Passano Laureate and Physician Scientist Awards. In: passanofoundation.org. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Stanhope Bayne-Jones Professorship in Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu); accessed on May 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bayne-Jones, Stanhope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American microbiologist and military doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1970
Place of death Washington, DC