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Harold Jeghers
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Harold Joseph Jeghers
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Date Country, City of Birth
September 26, 1904, Jersey City, USA
Date City of Death
September 21, 1990, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
History of Life
Harold Joseph Jeghers was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on September 26, 1904. As a teenager, he was interested in sports and amateur radio, and his interest in mechanical and electrical concepts led him to study electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (Caccamo). There he was exposed to Professor Archie Bray, who persuaded him to study biology. He received the school’s first Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1928. After graduation, he worked in a local hospital as a laboratory technician and then went on to study medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
Being awarded a Crile scholarship in research has resulted in the publication of a scientific paper (Stecher and...
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Jeghers, H. (1954). Vitalizing medical education in hospitals. Hospital Progress, 35, 60.
Jeghers, H. (1964). Medical care education and research: Philosophy and technics of self education for the medical student and physician. New England Journal of Medicine, 271, 1297–1301.
Jeghers, H. R., Houghton, J. D., & Foley, J. A. (1935). Weil’s disease. Archives of Pathology, 20, 447–476.
Jeghers, H., McKusick, V. A., & Katz, K. H. (1949). Generalized intestinal polyposis and melanin spots of the oral mucosa, lips and digits. New England Journal of Medicine, 241(26), 993–1005. 1031-1036.
Jucker-Kupper, P. Harold Jeghers on http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1087.html. Last accessed 20 Sept 2016.
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Peutz, J. L. A. (1921). Very remarkable case of familial polyposis of mucous membrane of intestinal tract and nasopharynx accompanied by peculiar pigmentations of skin and mucous membrane. Nederlands Maandschrift Geneeskunde, 10, 134–146.
Stecher, R., & Jeghers, H. R. (1931). The dextrose levels of the arterial and venous blood in arthritis. Archives of Internal Medicine, 48, 801–807.
Thomas, M. A., Seth Septer, D. O. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/182006-overview. Last accessed 26 Sept 2016.
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Bury, Y.A. (2016). Jeghers, Harold Joseph (1904–1990). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4059-1
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