Funeral services were held yesterday at the Free Synagogue for Dr. Abraham P. Zemansky, prominent Jewish physician of this city.
Dr. Zemansky succumbed at the age of eighty-one to pneumonia after having suffered fractured ribs and concussion of the brain after being struck by a falling business sign near his home.
In 1894, he was named the first attending physician of the Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx, holding that post until 1911 when he became consulting physician. For many years he was president and later secretary of the hospital’s medical board. For eleven years he served as instructor of physical diagnosis at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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