Lemuel Whittington Gorham

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Lemuel Whittington Gorham , in his publications mostly only L. Whittington Gorham , (born June 20, 1885 in Albany (New York) , † July 27, 1968 ) was an American internist .

Life

Lemuel Whittington Gorham was the son of physician George E. Gorham and his wife Jane R. nee Hopkins . In 1902 he graduated from Albany Academy and studied medicine at Yale University . In 1906 he became a Bachelor of Science there . He then moved to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , where he received his Medical Doctor in 1910 . He first worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital before traveling to Europe for a year. He then became an assistant pathologist at Boston City Hospital . In 1913 he went to the Albany Medical College in New York where he taught medicine. During World War I he served as a captain in the Medical Corps in Portsmouth . After the war Gorham came back to Albany and became chief physician there in 1937. In 1917 he married Elizabeth Varick Cushman, with whom he had two children (Elizabeth and George). From 1948 to 1951 he was Professor and Director of the Oncology Department at Albany Medical College. In 1951 Gorham retired and became director of the Public Health Research Institute in New York City. He then retired there in 1956. He worked in pathology at Cornell University Medical College until his death .

plant

In 1954, Gorham and Arthur Purdy Stout described a new disease in which a massive loss of bone mass ( osteolysis ) occurs. This disease is now called Gorham-Stout Syndrome after its discoverer .

literature

  • IS Wright: Memorial. L. Whittington Gorham, MD In: Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. Volume 80, 1969, pp. XLVII-XLVIII, PMID 4896317 , PMC 2440984 (free full text).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LW Gorham and AP Stout: Hemangiomatosis and its relation to massive osteolysis. In: Trans Assoc Am Physicians 67, 1954, pp. 302-307. PMID 13216840
  2. ^ LW Gorham and AP Stout: Massive osteolysis (acute spontaneous absorption of bone, phantom bone, disappearing bone); its relation to hemangiomatosis. ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume) 37, 1955, pp. 985-1004. PMID 13263344 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ejbjs.org
personal data
SURNAME Gorham, Lemuel Whittington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorham, L. Whittington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American internist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1968