Dr. Israel Strauss, president and founder of Hillside Hospital and of the Committee for Mental Hygiene among Jews, died in his office here yesterday. He was 81 years old.
One of the most prominent neuro-psychiatrists in the world, Dr. Strauss was the author of many papers and monographs dealing with head injuries, brain tumors, and other conditions of the nervous system. He was a member of the American Neurological Association, of which he was president in 1934; the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, of which he was a past president, and of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Strauss, who was born in Pawtucket, R.I, was graduated in 1894 from Brown University and is said to have been the first member of the Jewish religion to get a degree there. He was graduated in 1898 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and studied neurology and psychiatry in Vienna. He was instructor in neurology and psychology at Polyclinic Hospital in 1902 and 1903 and then was professor of neural anatomy at Cornell University Medical School. After 1938, when he retired from hospital staff work, he remained as attending neurologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Montefiore Hospital and Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn.
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