Hyman Isaac Goldstein (November 2, 1887 – 1954) was an American physician and medical historian born in
Baltimore, Maryland
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. He was the eldest son of Rose (sister of
Isidor Zuckermann) and Solomon Joseph Goldstein.
Background
After his family moved to
Camden, New Jersey
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, he attended
public schools
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in that city and earned his
M.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1909. This was followed by graduate work within the medical facilities of the
University of Vienna,
Austria. Dr. Goldstein specialized in
gastroenterology and was a member of numerous national and international medical organizations. He was known to his personal friends and family as, "Doc."
He is responsible for the discovery of
Goldstein's Toe Sign and involved with work on
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease.
Dr. Goldstein initiated a path in medicine also followed by his two younger brothers, all earning their M.D.s from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Leopold Z. Goldstein
Leopold Z. Goldstein (1899-1963), was an American physician and endocrinologist
Born in Camden, New Jersey, he graduated from Camden High School and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1922. He continued a path in medicine initiat ...
(1899–1963) specialized in
endocrinology, and was co-author of ''Clinical Endocrinology of the Female''.
[''Clinical Endocrinology of the Female'' by Drs. Charles Mazer and Leopold Z. Goldstein, W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1932.] Dr. Henry Z. Goldstein (1903–1975) specialized in
otolaryngology, and served during WWII in the Medical Corps, United States Army.
Their sister, Sadie (1895–1962), married David E. Cooper, who received his Doctorate in Dentistry from the University of Pennsylvania, Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, in 1916. Hyman I. Goldstein is interred in the New Camden Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey.
References
1887 births
1954 deaths
American gastroenterologists
American Jews
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Burials in New Jersey
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Vienna alumni
Writers from Camden, New Jersey
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