American Medical Biographies/Bauduy, Jerome Keating
Bauduy, Jerome Keating (1842–1914)
Jerome Keating Bauduy, a neurologist and medico-legal expert of St. Louis, Mo., was born on the Island of Cuba, Aug. 10, 1842. He received his classical education at Georgetown College, D. C., and at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Returning to America, he proceeded to study medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1863.
For a time he was surgeon in the Federal army, being attached to the personal staff of the commander of the Army of the Cumberland, serving in Tennessee and Georgia.
At the close of the War, having married Miss Bankhead of Nashville, Tenn., he settled in St. Louis, Mo., and soon had a very large practice. At one time he was consulting physician to the St. Louis Hospital for the Insane. For twenty-five years he was physician and chief to St. Vincent's Asylum for the Insane, St. Louis, and professor of nervous and mental diseases and of medical jurisprudence in the Missouri Medical College and Washington University for nearly thirty years. He wrote a number of excellent books and articles on neurologic subjects, and, at the time of his death, was professor emeritus of psychologic medicine and diseases of the nervous system in Washington University.
He died at Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1914.
Dr. Bauduy will long be remembered as a diagnostician. In this department of his work he had no superior. As a teacher he was fluent and rapid—perhaps too rapid—and certainly far too technical for the undergraduates to whom he spoke.