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Theodore Caldwell Janeway

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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Janeway 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.


Janeway is famous for first describing the Janeway lesions seen in infective endocarditis. The Janeway firm of the Osler Residency program at Johns Hopkins Hospital is named after him.

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