Dr. Jules Blechschmidt

Jules Blechschmidt, 1937Dr Jules Blechschmidt, pediatrician, Bible student and missionary, was born in 1872.He was a class of 1908 graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and studied at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in London, England.From 1911 to 1913, he was a medical missionary at Carmel Mission in Haifa, the chief port city of Palestine, now Israel.He returned to Philadelphia, joined the staff of Jefferson, where he headed the Department of Pediatrics until his death on 6 September 1947, after an illness of two years.He had also been visiting chief of pediatrics at Philadelphia General Hospital from 1941, and medical director of the Baby Welfare Association.