Dr. Eli Moschcowitz, a prominent Jewish physician and an authority on vascular disease, died here yesterday at the age of 82. He was a former medical director of Mount Sinai Hospital here.
Born in Gralt, Hungary, he was brough to this country as an infant and earned his medical degree from Columbia University. In 1925 he described a vascular disease involving blood clots, which is named for him. He was among the first to work in the field of psychosomatic medicine.
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