Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, New York City. [Volume: 2, Issue: 9, June, 1896, pp. 469-474]

MIss AMELIA SIMON, MIss MILLIE E. LESSER,
Hon. Secretary. Vice-President.
M.D., Max Rosenthal, M.D.; Secretary Medical Staff-Felix Cohn, M.D.;
Resident Physicians-Clemens Bloch, M.D., Joseph Fraenkel, M.D.; Druggist-Leo Basy; Dentist-D. Feigensohn, D.D S.
These physicians are banded together with one distinct purpose-that of proving to the world that incurable diseases, regarded generally as such, may under certain well-defined conditions be as thoroughly subject to amelioration as illnesses of insignificant types. With this end in view the most advanced
system of treatment was introduced; rooms were specially prepared in iwhich these apparently hopeless cases might be treated
under the most favorable conditions; and a department was devoted entirely to the treatment of extreme cases by water, using it
as a tonic and as a therapeutic assistant to the ordinary methods
of attendance. This last department of the Institution made it
remarkable, inasmuch as the Home then became the only hospital
in the country, and probably in the world, where hydrotherapy
was carried out with perfect machinery. The various medical
journals of the country have described, from time to time, the
advantages which Dr. Baruch and his assistants at the Montefiore
Home have secured. Of course, the longer the treatment is used
the more widely it becomes known, and this is shown by the fact
that the hospital is now regarded as the chief institution in this
country where water is used with any degree of scientific skill.