24 Facts About Simon Baruch

Simon Baruch was a physician, scholar, and the foremost advocate of the urban public bathhouse to benefit public health in the United States.

Simon Baruch was a medical officer for the Confederate States army and medical specialist in New York City.

Simon Baruch, the son of Jewish parents Bernard and Theresa, was born in Schwersenz, Kingdom of Prussia.

Simon Baruch attended lectures at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, and enrolled at the Medical College of Virginia, in Richmond, Virginia, where he received a medical degree in 1862.

Simon Baruch advocated for the smallpox vaccination for the children of the state, and he helped to reactivate the South Carolina State Medical Association, serving as president.

Simon Baruch held a position on the faculty of the South Carolina State Medical College, and he was chairman of the Board of Health, later renamed South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

However, Simon Baruch grew increasingly dissatisfied with the indiscriminate use of unproven medical remedies.

Later, Simon Baruch credited Wilhelm Winternitz for his pioneering work in hydrotherapy.

Simon Baruch would go on to introduce medicinal spring therapies, known as balneology, and hydrotherapy to the United States of America.

In 1881, Simon Baruch took up residence in New York City with his wife Belle, and their four sons, Hartwig Nathaniel, Bernard Mannes, Herman Benjamin, and Sailing Wolfe.

Simon Baruch became known as an active public health advocate and medical writer.

Simon Baruch gained professional credibility for diagnosing the first case of perforating appendicitis successfully operated on, and in the widely publicized "child cruelty" case involving the musical prodigy Josef Hofmann, Baruch was the consulting physician.

In 1892, Simon Baruch became a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Simon Baruch resigned when hydrotherapy was made an elective subject of study.

In 1910, Simon Baruch wrote Lessons of half a century in medicine.

Ever since his trip in the 1880s to study the public bath system of Germany, Simon Baruch was a tireless advocate for free public baths in New York City, during a period of immigration in American history when newcomers flooded cities.

Simon Baruch worked tirelessly to educate public officials and the medical community about the importance of water to public health.

Simon Baruch wrote numerous journal and newspaper articles on the medical utility of water, including first article published in America on public baths for the Philadelphia Medical Times and Register on August 24,1889.

Simon Baruch reported on the structure, functioning, and health benefits of a public bath systems to the New York's Committee on Hygiene, in his role as chairman.

Simon Baruch delivered addresses on the topic to medical and scientific societies.

In 1912, Dr Simon Baruch was appointed the founding president of the American Association for Promoting Hygiene and Public Baths, a position he held until his death.

On November 27,1867, Simon Baruch married Isabelle "Belle" Wolfe, daughter of cotton farmer Sailing Wolfe of Winnsboro, South Carolina.

Hartwig Simon Baruch was an actor, and Sailing Simon Baruch was a banker and stockbroker.

Simon Baruch died at his home in New York on June 3,1921.