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SMITH ELY, an American neurologist, born in New York City , in 1866. He graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1886 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, in 1889. He took post graduate courses in Europe in 1903 and was appointed visiting neurologist at the City Hospital, New York. From 1903 to 1907, he was professor of mental diseases at Fordham University. He was also lecturer and professor of medical colleges and hospitals in New York. He became known as one of the leading experts in mental diseases. He paid special attention to psycho-analysis and became an authority on that subject. He was a member of many medical societies.
He wrote "Morphology and Histology of Plants" (1899) "Outlines of Pharmacognosy" (1904). He also edited and translated the works of many foreign writers on medical subjects, and contributed many articles on psycho-analysis and other topics to medical magazines.