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EDWARD ANTHONY, an American physician, born in New York, in 1876. He was educated in the College of the City of New York and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

From 1904 to 1906 he was demonstrator of anatomy; from 1906 to 1914 professor of general anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; acting also from 1911 to 1914 as director of the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy, Philadelphia. In the latter year he began the private practice of medicine in New York, specializing in nervous and mental diseases. He has made exhaustive studies of the brains of eminent men, as well as those of criminals. He was a member of several scientific societies, and during the World War served with the Medical Reserve Corps, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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