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Henry Martyn Bannister
American physician, born July 25, 1844, Cazenovia, New York; died May 1, 1920, Evanston, Illinois.
Associated eponyms:
Quincke's oedema
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Biography:
Henry Martyn Bannister received his doctorate in 1871 at the National Medical College (now George Washington University) in Washington. Following a scientific journey devoted to geological studies he settled in Chicago, where he published on both medical and geological topics. In 1874, with James Stewart Jewell (1837-1887) he founded the Quarterly Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. His death followed a sustained period of ailing health, long after he had retired from practice.
Bibliography:
- A practical manual of insanity etc.
Published with Daniel Roberts Brower (1839-1909).
Philadelphia and London, 1902.
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