1. Hobart Ansteth Reimann was an American virologist and physician.
16 Facts About Hobart Reimann
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On completing his training at the University of Buffalo Medical School, Hobart Reimann worked as first as resident and then as chief house physician at the Buffalo General Hospital.
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Hobart Reimann spent a year at the Anton Ghon institute in Prague, as a specialist in infectious diseases, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tuberculous.
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Hobart Reimann then returned to the United States, where the Great Depression was manifesting, taking a position at the University of Minnesota as associate professor of medicine.
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Hobart Reimann was offered the Magee Professorship and the position of chairman of the Department of Medicine, at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
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In 1948, Hobart Reimann published Periodic disease; a probable syndrome including periodic fever, benign paroxysmal peritonitis, cyclic neutropenia and intermittent arthralgia.
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When Hobart Reimann came on to the staff at Jefferson, the medical staff consisted of 32 members.
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Hobart Reimann expanded the department of medicine and began its residency program.
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From 1951, Hobart Reimann took on a decade of international appointments.
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Hobart Reimann spent four years at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon as visiting professor of medicine.
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Hobart Reimann returned to the US as professor of medicine at Hahnemann Medical College in 1960, where he continued his research pursuits.
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Hobart Reimann became involved in the movement against the over-prescription and misuse of antibiotics.
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Hobart Reimann's conclusion was that most misuse was the result of bad doctoring, against which he believed there was little that could be effected.
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Hobart Reimann spent his final years traveling as guest lecturer.
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Hobart Reimann died in 1986, from a fall followed by pneumonia.
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Hobart Reimann's legacy is his students and the more than 300 papers he published as diagnostic achievements during the period of medical work in that preceded the age of cellular and computational study.