OBITUARIES

BENJAMIN HALPERN COHEN (1913-19741

Dr. Benjamin Halpern Cohen, a member of the Ameri- ean Academy of Allergy since 1967, was born in Hamil- ton, Ontario, Canada, in 1913. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1939 and came to the United States to intern at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis in 1940; in 1941 he was resident in pathol- ogy. In June, 1941, Dr. Cohen enlisted in the Canadian Army and had au unusually colorful army career. He served as Captain in the Royal Canadian Army attached to the British Army from 1941 to 1946. He was in Great Britain for two years studying war medicine be- fore being sent east to Africa, Ceylon, India, and, finally, Burma, where he was part of that group that lived, fought, and marched in the jungle across Burma for a year.

Dr. Cohen became a pediatrician and pediatric aller- gist, taking his pediatric training in 1946 at Flower and Fifth Avenue, Seaview, and Manhattan Hospitals in New York City. His allergy training was under Dr. Leon Unger at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1948. He practiced pediatrics and allergy in Clayton, Missouri, from 1948 to 1973. He was on the staffs at Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital, Jewish Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital, St. John’s Hospital, Missouri Baptist Hospital, Deaconess Hospital, and St. Louis City Hospital. He was an instructor and later an assistant professor of pediatrics at St. Louis University. He was chief of pediatric allergy at St. Louis City Hospital. He had been active in civic and charitable affairs until he suffered a heart attack in 1958. He was a member of the St. Louis Pediatric Society, St. Louis Medical Society, The American College of Allergy, and the Pan-American Medical Association. He traveled extensively and collected art and built model ships as hobbies.

Dr. Cohen was a loyal and devoted member of the Allergy Clinic at Cardinal Glennon Hospital and will be missed by both his patients and his colleagues.

JESSE S. HARRIS (1895-19741

Dr. Jesse S. Harris died at the age of 78. He became a member of the American Academy of Allergy in 1938 and an emeritus member in 1971. Dr. Harris received his M.D. degree in 1922 from Yale University. He had residency training in internal medicine at Buffalo General Hospital and had experience in allergy with the late Dr. Robert A. Cooke at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and with the late Dr. Francis M. Rackemann in Boston.

Dr. Harris was a clinical instructor at Yale University School of Medicine from 1925 to 1939, assistant clinical professor from 1939 to 1945, and associate clinical professor from 1945 to 1963. He retired from the faculty in 1963. He was attending physician in medicine at the New Haven and St. Raphael Hospitals and chief of the allergy clinic at these hospitals. He served in World War I.

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