Simon Baruch
Simon Baruch (July 29, 1840 - June 3, 1921) was a physician and a pioneer of hydrotherapy in the United States.[1]
Biography
After his youth in Prussia, he came in 1855 as a fifteen-year-old in the United States, where he lived in Camden, South Carolina[2] and attended medical schools in South Carolina and Virginia, graduating in 1862. He began his medical career as a doctor in the Confederate army and remained in the South until he moved to New York with his family in 1881.[3]
His medical work in New York included supporting the establishment of public baths as a hygiene measure and investigating the effects of medicinal springs (balneology), as well as the treatment of appendicitis and malaria.[4]
Family
Baruch was married to Belle Wolfe and was the father of the financier and stock speculator Bernard Baruch, physician and diplomat Herman B. Baruch, actor Hartwig Baruch and banker and stockbroker Sailing Baruch.
Legacy
Today in Manhattan a middle school is named after him,[5] and a green space is jointly named after him and his son.[6]
Literature
- Patricia Spain Ward, Simon Baruch, University of Alabama Press, 1994.
External links
References
- ↑ Blum, Nava.(2006). "The Development of PM&R in the USA", in ha -Shikum asah historia: maarakhot shikum refui be Yisrael 1940–1956.(Tsefat), pp. 25–26.
- ↑ Simon Baruch at whonamedit.com retrieved on 15 July 2010.
- ↑ 'S+FATHER+DIES+IN+N.+Y.&pqatl=google "Bernard Baruch's Father Dies In N. Y.". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-19. "Dr. Simon Baruch, noted physician and father of Bernard M. Baruch, financier died at 1:10 this afternoon from an of the lungs complicated by heart disease."
- ↑ BARUCH, SIMON jewish encyclopedia.com, English, accessed on 15th July 2010
- ↑ A SHORT HISTORY OF SIMON BARUCH MIDDLE SCHOOL on schools.nyc.gov, retrieved on 15 July 2010
- ↑ Baruch Playground to nycgovparks.org, retrieved on 15 July 2010