Myer, Jesse S. (Jesse Shire), 1873-1913

St. Louis internist.

Jesse S. Myer was born in Salisbury, Missouri, in 1873. He graduated from the University of Missouri (AB, 1893) and from the Marion Sims College of Medicine (MD, 1896), He took postgraduate courses in medicine at German universities, notably Heidelberg (1897-1898), and a residency at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. In 1898 he entered the private practice of medicine in St. Louis and also taught in the Washington University Medical Department. He was among the first attending physicians of the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and for a time the acting director of the medical ward service there. His interest in William Beaumont resulted from his having been the physician of Sarah Beaumont Keim, Beaumont's daughter. Mrs Keim gave Myer exclusive access to her collection of her father's letters and notebooks. Source: The Book of St. Louisans, 1912, p. 435.

From the description of Jesse S. Myers" Life and letters" manuscript, ca. 1912. ca. 1912. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 191918281