E. William Abramowitz, M.D. 1885-1949.

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Dr. E. William Abramowitz died June 13, 1949, at his home after a lingering illness. He was 63 years old. At the time of his death he was clinical professor at the New York PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital of the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. He had been connected with the former and its affiliate, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, since 1927. He was also attending dermatologist and syphilologist of the Israel-Zion Division of the Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and director of dermatology and syphilology at Gouverneur Hospital and the Jewish Memorial Hospital, New York city. Born in Jassy, Rumania, he was brought to New York as an infant. After studying engineering at Cooper Union he entered the New York University and Bellevue Medical College, from which he received his M.D. degree in 1907. He was an extern at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1908 and served as assistant house surgeon at the New York Lying-in Hospital that year and as house physician and surgeon at Har Moriah Hospital in 1909. In 1910 he began general practice in New York, and the following year he started to study diseases of the skin at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was an assistant in the skin clinic for several years. In 1914 he joined the staff of the skin department of Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia University, rising to the position of attending dermatologist. He was a member of the American Dermatological Association, a founder, past president and an honary member of the Brooklyn Dermatological Society, a former vice president of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, a former chairman of the skin section of the New York State Medical Society and a member of the New York County Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Abramowitz was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a former chairman of its section on dermatology and syphilology. He was also a former chairman of the Manhattan Dermatological Society ; a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology and a former corresponding member of the French Society of Dermatology. He was certified as a specialist by the American Board of Dermatology and Syphilology in 1933. He belonged to the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity. He was the author of more than 50 papers on skin diseases and related subjects. He was an ardent teacher and investigator. He lectured on pharmacol¬ ogy and drug eruptions at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and his work on dermatitis medicamentosa survives as an outstanding contribution. Dr. Abramowitz was a very modest and quiet man, loyal and very likable. He made friends easily and retained them. Early in his medical career he cultivated music as a hobby, became an excellent violinist and for many years entertained his friends with performance of the classic works for this instrument. Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Anne Perlman Abramowitz, and a daughter. Miss Florence Abramow-itz. Isadore Rosen