William Alexander Hammond

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Portrait of William Alexander Hammond, MD (1828-1900). Dr. Hammond received his MD from University Medical College in 1848. He served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1864. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Diseases of Mind and Nervous System from 1867 to 1874, and Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics from 1872 to 1874. He then taught at University Medical College as Professor of Mind and Nervous System from 1874 to 1882. A pioneer in nervous and mental diseases, Dr. Hammond published A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System in 1871, the first textbook of its kind in the English language.

John Frederick Erdmann

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Carte de visite portrait of John Frederick Erdmann, MD (1864-1954). Dr. Erdmann received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1887. He taught as Professor of Practical Anatomy at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1895 to 1899.

Menas S. Gregory

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Portrait of Menas Sarkas Gregory, MD (1872-1941). Dr. Gregory taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Medical Diseases (1918-1924) and Professor of Psychiatry (1924-1937) before becoming Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at New York University College of Medicine (1937-1941).