Cohen, Solomon Solis. Physician. Born in Philadelphia, September 1, 1857. Son of Myer David and Judith Simirah (da Silva Solis) Cohen. Graduate of Central High School, A.B. 1872, A. M. 1877; graduate of Jefferson Medical College, 1883. Professor of clinical medicine and therapeutics, Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, 1887-1902; lecturer on clinical medicine, Jefferson Medical College, 1888-1902; professor of clinical medicine, Jefferson Medical College from 1902. Author: "Therapeutics of Tuberculosis," "Essentials of Diagnosis," and other medical writings. Editor: "System of Physiologic Therapeutics", "Philadelphia Polyclinic", department of "Treatment," in "American Medicine"; one of the editors of "The American Hebrew." Contributed poems and occasional essays to "Century," "Scribner's," "Lippincott's," "Arena," etc. Also a translator of poems from the Hebrew.

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