Milton Charles Winternitz February 19, 1885-October 3, 1959

Bibliography of Milton Charles Winternitz

1905 1. Ueber die Adenase. Z. physiol. Chern. Strassb., 1905, 44, 1-10 (with W. Jones (1)). 1908 2. Tuberculosis of the stomach; tuberculous cavities of the liver; with report of a case. Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull., 1908, 19, 223-228. 3. A case of sigmoid kidney. Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull., 1908, 19, 229-230. 4. Changes in the pancreatic ducts, and their relation to chronic pancreatitis. Johns Hopk. H...

Milton C. Winternitz

Dean Winternitz and the rebirth of the Yale Medical School in the 1920's.

This account does not pretend to be a biography of the late Milton C. Winternitz (1885-1959), or an attempt to go into either his early career or his last years when he had left New Haven to occupy an important position with the Division of Medical Sciences at the National Research Council in Washington. Its objective is to describe his successful efforts to place a second-rate medical school o...

Early psychiatry at Yale: Milton C. Winternitz and the founding of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene.

Yale's current department of psychiatry was created by Dean Milton C. Winternitz in the 1920s as part of a broader effort to combine mental and physical components of medical care. This effort, which spurred the founding of Yale's institute of Human Relations, was the basis of Winternitz' interest in mental health. Although the institute soon closed because of interdisciplinary squabbling, this...

A Challenging Leader

Milton Charles Winternitz received his B.A. degree from the Johns Hopkins University at the age of eighteen years and thereupon entered the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At this early age he began what was to be a brilliant career as a student of medicine, teacher, administrator , scientist, humanitarian, and philosopher. Rarely is one individual endowed with outstanding proficie...