Stanhope Bayne-Jones (November 6, 1888 – February 20, 1970) was an American

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, medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of

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Early years

Bayne-Jones was born on November 6, 1888, in

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as the son of physician. His grandfather Joseph Jones was also a physician and served in the medical department of the

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during the

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. In this way, Bayne-Jones was influenced in his future career choice. Bayne-Jones attended the Dixon Academy in

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and then enrolled the

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. He graduated in 1910 with A.B. degree. Subsequently, Bayne-Jones matriculated at the

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, receiving his

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degree in 1914. He became a teacher and also a researcher in the fields of

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and

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. Bayne-Jones received a commission of First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army on August 7, 1915.

Notes

As a member of the United States Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, he had a significant role in the 1964 report linking smoking to cancer.The Stanhope Bayne-Jones Collection
Repository Guide to the Personal Papers Collections of Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, accessed January 13, 2013. Bayne-Jones was the subject of a biography in 1992."War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine", Albert E. Cowdrey, LSU Press, 1992, . Bayne-Jones Community Hospital at the US Army's Fort Polk is named in his honor, as is a professorship at

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...

. His papers were donated to the

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in the late 1960s. Bayne-Jones was the first master of Yale University's

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from 1932 to 1938.

Decorations

Shown below is the

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of Bayne-Jones as a

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References

External links

Generals of World War IIStanhope Bayne-Jones Papers (1852-1969)
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