\"Father of Headache Research\" Harold Wolff Signed 3.25X5.75 Card For Sale
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\"Father of Headache Research\" Harold Wolff Signed 3.25X5.75 Card:
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Up for sale the "Father of Headache Research" Harold Wolff Signed 3.25X5.75 Card.
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Harold George Wolff (New
York, 26 May 1898 - Washington D.C., 21 February 1962) was He is generally considered the father of
modern headache research, and a pioneer in the study of psychosomatic illness. Harold
Wolff was born on May 26, 1898 in New York City, the only child of
Louis Wolff, a catholic illustrator, and Emma Recknagel Wolff, Lutheran. He was
educated at City College, from which
he graduated in 1918, aged 20. After graduating, he worked in a
government-supported fishery trying to improve drying fish. He considered
becoming a priest before deciding to take up medicine at Harvard Medical School,
where he received his M.D. in 1923. After
medical training at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Center,
he started to study neuropathology with Harry Forbes and Stanley Cobb. In 1928 he travelled abroad, spending a year
in Graz, in Austria, with Otto Loewi, and then with Ivan Pavlov in Leningrad, in Russia. Returning to America, he moved to the Psychiatry ward at Phipps
Clinic of Johns Hopkins University,
working with Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist). In
1932 he finally decided to come back in Boston and became the head of Neurology ward, supervised by Eugene Dubois. He later became also Professor of Medicine and
Chief Neurologist at New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center (NYH-CMC). In
1934 Dr. Wolff married the well-known painter Isabel Bishop, and had a son, Remsen N. Wolff. In 1958 he was
named the first occupant of the “Anne Parrish Titzel Chair” in Medicine
at Cornell University. During
his last years he devoted much of his energy to the work of the “Academy of
Religion and Mental Health” and, after a lifelong agnosticism, became a
member of “Christ Church (Episcopal)” in Riverdale, New York. Harold
Wolff died on February 21, 1962 in Washington D.C., of a cerebral vascular
disease.
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