RT Journal
A1 Rabson SM
T1 THe romance of charles h. liebermann, md
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD June 9
VO 208
IS 10
SP 1908
OP 1908
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160100098027
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160100098027
AB To the Editor:— 
    May I add to "The Romance of Liebermann," JAMA 75 years ago (207:1601, 1969). Dr. Charles H. Liebermann was born in Riga, Russia, Sept 15, 1813, and died in Washington, DC, March 27, 1886. Although he was not a member of local Jewish organizations, his neighbors regarded him as of that faith. He was one of the nine physicians at Lincoln's deathbed and is pictured among the many figures in Alonzo Chappel's painting (1867), "The Last Hours of Lincoln."The year he emigrated to the United States, 1840, he is said to have performed the first operation for strabismus in this country. He spent his entire American professional life in Washington, DC. One of the founders of Georgetown University's medical school, he was professor of surgery on two occasions, 1849-1853 and 1857-1861.2