Physician, born in New York City, New York, USA. The son of Edward Gamaliel Janeway, he followed in his father's footsteps, eschewing study abroad for work in his father's office. He is credited with pioneering the clinical use of a patient's blood pressure in The Clinical Study of Blood Pressure (1904), and with introducing sphygmomanometers.
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The neutrality of this article or section may be compromised by weasel words. You can help Wikipedia by improving weasel-worded statements. After interning, he served on the staff of City Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital in New York and was a faculty member at New York University and Bellevue Medical College and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Hopkins HospitalJaneway was recruited as the first full-time professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1914. In 1917, Janeway resigned his position at Johns Hopkins and entered the medical services of the U.S. Army.
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