The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/White, William Alanson

WHITE, William Alanson, American neurologist and alienist: b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 24 Jan 1870. He studied at Cornell University in 1885-89, and was graduated M.D. at the Long Island College Hospital in 1891. He was assistant physician at the New York State Hospital for the Insane at Binghamton in 1892-1903, and since 1903 he has been superintendent of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane at Washington, D. C. He has also held the chair of nervous and mental diseases at Georgetown University since 1903 and at George Washington University since 1904, as well as lecturing at the United States Naval and Army Medical School. He has collaborated with Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe (q.v.) in preparing different medical treatises. Author of “Mental Mechanisms” (1911); “Outlines of Psychiatry” (5th ed., revised 1915), etc.