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Notebook of neurological cases seen by Smith Ely Jelliffe at New York's City Hospital, located on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), 1906-1907. Information on each case varies but always includes name, sex, and age and often includes residence, ethnicity, and occupation. The patients' symptoms and past history are usually included, but diagnoses and outcomes are less commonly noted. For those cases that do include a diagnosis, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis seem to be the most prevalent illnesses.
History and Biography
A noted neurologist and psychiatrist, Jelliffe received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1889. He was visiting neurologist at City Hospital, 1903-1913, and later consulting neurologist at Manhattan State and Kings Park Hospitals. At various times, he served on the faculties of the Fordham University medical school, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School.
Jelliffe’s medical practice encompassed both neurology and psychiatry at a time when those specialties were not yet completely differentiated. He often testified as an expert psychiatric witness in criminal trials and was long-time editor of both the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases and the Psychoanalytic Review.
Jelliffe died at Huletts Landing, Lake George, N.Y. on Sept. 25, 1945.
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Unknown source though the cataloger's note in the volume indicates it was here by 1951.