Theodore C. Janeway

A noble life devoted to the advancement of medicine was cut short by the death of Theodore Caldwell Janeway in his forty-sixth year. From boyhood he loved and revered his father, Edward Gamaliel Janeway, and his manhood trod in the honored steps of that great physician. In industry, knowledge, and capacity the son became the father’s equal, pressing him close in usefulness and reputation. Both were men of piety and truth.

Theodore Janeway graduated from the Yale-Sheffield Scientific School in 1892 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Columbia University, in 1895. His life was to be devoted to medical instruction and organization, along with practice. He became lecturer in medical diagnosis at the New York University, and in time professor of the practice of medicine in the “P. and S.,” attending physician at St. Luke’s, secretary and treasurer of the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology, which he had induced Mrs. Sage to found. With his professorship in the “P. and S.,” he joined the appointment of visiting physician in the Presbyterian Hospital, and next became the head of its medical staff. In 1914 he was called to the chair of medicine at Johns Hopkins, and accepted the position, at great personal sacrifice, in order to carry out his principle of giving “full time” to the duties of medical teaching and research. Recently he had been fulfilling further tasks under appointment on the staff of the Surgeon-General of the United States. An attack of pneumonia suddenly ended this life in the fulness of its beneficent powers.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook