Edgar P. Mannix Papers 1934-1988

Mannix, Edgar P.

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Born in New York City in 1913, Edgar Patrick Mannix, Jr. completed his college education at Fordham in 1934. He entered the medical profession upon graduating from the Long Island College of Medicine in 1940. Dr. Mannix interned at Brooklyn hospital until 1942 when he joined the Army Medical Corps. He was discharged with the rank of captain in 1946 and returned to Brooklyn hospital as a resident in surgery. He relocated to the University of Michigan in 1948, where he practiced as a resident in s...

St. Francis Hospital (Roslyn, N.Y.)

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Downstate Medical Center (N.Y.)

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In colonial New York, only a small number of almshouse infirmaries existed to care for the sick, while the mentally ill were usually imprisoned or placed in poorhouses. It was not until the early to mid-19th century, when the New York City area's dependent and poor population increased dramatically, that hospitals and other health services organizations, such as homeopaths and maternity wards, readily began to emerge. In Brooklyn specifically, the earliest hospitals included the Kin...