JELLIFFE,
Smith Ely, American physician: b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 27 Oct. 1866. He was graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1886 and in 1889 the degree of M.D. was conferred upon him at Columbia University. In 1900 he received the degree of Ph.D. from the same university. He was instructor in materia medica in Columbia University and professor of pharmacognosy in the same uni versity. Later professor of psychiatry in Ford ham University, New York, and later adjunct professor of diseases of the mind and nervous system in the Post Graduate Hospital and Med ical School, New York. In his earlier academic work he was active in botany, chemistry, phar macognosy and materia medica. Of later years he has specialized more particularly in diseases of the nervous system. Some of his earlier published works included a
From 1900-05 he was editor of the Medical News, 1905-07, associate editor of the New York Medical Journal. In 1913 with D. W. A. White he published a 'Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Disease,) in 1915 with the same author a 'Textbook on Diseases of the Nervous System.) In 1907 these two authors founded the 'Nervous and Mental Disease Mon ograph Series,) of which 22 volumes have ap peared, and in 1913 they also founded a new journal, the Psychoanalytic Review, a journal devoted to an understanding of human conduct.
Since 1900 he has been the managing editor of the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. In 1915 he edited Medical DiCtionary,' was a contributor to the Dictionary' ; to Osler's Medicine' •, Forscheimer's Therapeutics,' and has contributed largely to the Americana.' Dr. Jelliffe is active in practice, limiting his medi cal work to diseases of the nervous sys tem, to which he has contributed a large num ber of smaller and larger studies, the larger of which are here briefly mentioned.