Hyman Isaac Goldstein (November 2, 1887 – 1954) was an American physician and medical historian born in

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. He was the eldest son of Rose (sister of Isidor Zuckermann) and Solomon Joseph Goldstein.

Background

After his family moved to

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, he attended

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in that city and earned his

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from the

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in 1909. This was followed by graduate work within the medical facilities of the

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. Dr. Goldstein specialized in

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and was a member of numerous national and international medical organizations. He was known to his personal friends and family as, "Doc." He is responsible for the discovery of Goldstein's Toe Sign and involved with work on Rendu-Osler-Weber disease. Dr. Goldstein initiated a path in medicine also followed by his two younger brothers, all earning their M.D.s from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Leopold Z. Goldstein (1899–1963) specialized in

endocrinology Endocrinology (from ''endocrine system, endocrine'' + ''wikt:-logy#Suffix, -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the ...

, and was co-author of ''Clinical Endocrinology of the Female''.''Clinical Endocrinology of the Female'' by Drs. Charles Mazer and Leopold Z. Goldstein, W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1932. Dr. Henry Z. Goldstein (1903–1975) specialized in

otolaryngology Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...

, and served during WWII in the Medical Corps, United States Army. Their sister, Sadie (1895–1962), married David E. Cooper, who received his Doctorate in Dentistry from the University of Pennsylvania, Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, in 1916. Hyman I. Goldstein is interred in the New Camden Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey.

References

1887 births 1954 deaths American gastroenterologists Jewish American historians American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Vienna alumni Writers from Camden, New Jersey Jewish American scientists {{US-physician-stub