Edward Janeway

Biography

• Born August 31, 1841 in New Jersey
• 1860 – A.B. Rutgers
• 1861 – Medical cadet in the U.S. Army Hospital in Newark, New Jersey
• 1864 – Graduated in medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City
• 1864 – Intern at the smallpox hospital, Blackwell’s Island
• 1866 – 1872 Pathologist and curator at Bellevue Hospital in New York
• Died February 10, 1911

Medical Eponyms

Janeway lesion (1899)

Janeway lesions are non-tender, small erythematous or haemorrhagic macular or nodular lesions on the palms or soles only a few millimeters in diameter that are indicative of infective endocarditis. To be differentiated from painful Osler nodes.

In trying to determine whether a given case is more probably due to endocarditis or to another malignant process I have found that attention to the position of the hemorrhages is at times very helpful. Several times I have noted numerous small hemorrhages with slight nodular character in the palms of the hand and soles of the feet, when possibly the arms and legs had but a scanty crop in malignant endocarditis, whereas this has not been my experience with processes likely to be mistaken for it.

Janeway, 1899

Major Publications

• Janeway EG. The necessity of post-mortem examinations. Medical Record 1872; 7: 536–540
• Janeway EG. Certain clinical observations upon heart disease. Medical News. 1899; 75: 257-262

References

• Libman E. On some experiences with blood cultures in the study of bacterial infection. Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin. 1906; 17: 215-228
• Janeway TC. Edward Gamaliel Janeway. In: American Medical Biographies (Eds. Kelly HA, Burrage WL) 1920: 610–614
• Prutkin JM, Fye WB. Edward G. Janeway, clinician and pathologist. Clinical Cardiology, 2006; 29(8): 376–377.