HORWITZ, PHINEAS JONATHAN
- HORWITZ, PHINEAS JONATHAN
- HORWITZ, PHINEAS JONATHAN (1822–1904), U.S. physician.
Horwitz was born in Baltimore, son of a physician, Jonas Horwitz (d.
1852). He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and
became a naval medical officer, serving as an assistant surgeon at the
Naval Hospital in Tobasco during the Mexican War. With the outbreak of
the Civil War, Horwitz was promoted to the rank of surgeon general
(equivalent to lieutenant commander), and was commended by Congress. In
1865 he was appointed chief to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and
while serving in this position made a complete tabulation of medical and
surgical statistics during the war. He was appointed medical director of
the Bureau in 1873.
(Abram Kanof)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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