Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968

Stanley Cobb, 1887-1968, MD, 1914, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School; Cobb taught neurology at Harvard Medical School from 1919 to 1954. Cobb served as Chief of the Neurology Service at Boston City Hospital from 1925 until 1934 when he was appointed Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. During a trip to Europe, 1924-1925, as a Rockefeller Fellow, he made a wide range of professional contacts and visited clinics and laboratories in Oxford, Paris, and Berlin. Cobb established a Neurological Unit at the Boston City Hospital in the late 1920s, where electroencephalography and the drug Dilantin for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy were developed. At Massachusetts General, he established the first psychiatric service with beds in a large general hospital. He was also a pioneer in developing psychosomatic medicine and in treating the patient as a whole.

From the description of Papers, 1898-1982 (inclusive), 1901-1968 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281427999

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