The New International Encyclopædia/Ferris, Albert Warren

FER′RIS, Albert Warren (1856—). An American physician and educator, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He graduated at New York University in 1878, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1882. From 1883 to 1885 he was interne in the King's County Hospital, Flatbush, L. I.; from 1885 to 1891 resident and assistant physician in Sanford Hall, a private establishment for the treatment of insane and nervous patients at Flushing, N. Y., and in 1891 began medical practice in New York City. In 1893 he was appointed assistant in neurology at Columbia University, and in 1898 also assistant in medicine in the New York University medical department. He collaborated in the preparation of the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin (1894-96); became an editor of The Medical Critic (New York) in 1901; contributed medical articles to the International Year-Book, and was editor-in-charge of the medical department of The New International Encyclopædia.