Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Dedication TO LESLIE BENJAMIN HOHMAN, lVl.D. 19 61 AESCULAPIAN To know wisdom and instruction: To comprehend the words of understanding: To receive the discipline of wisdom. Justice, and right, and equityg To give prudence to the simple. To the young man knowledge and discretiong - Dedicated And the man of understanding may attain unto wise That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning. counsels. Pnovuuxs I, 2-5 These words of the author of Proverbs summarize the accomplishments of the man to whom we dedi- cate this yearbook. Dr. Hohman has devoted his L ' eshe B. Hohman, M. life to the study and practice of medicine. His ac- complishments have been many. 5522 E Q 'M P . t , ,U wx .Q sa' DR. HOHMAN AS A STUDENT AT HOPKINS DR. HoHM.AxN IN His Duma Ho,:PI1'.x1. OFFICI .KCI-

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if EX my W J 4 LESLIE B. HOHMAN, M.D

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,Ma v. 'Q.W-if DR. HOHMAN. IN 1946. Pkhshmss A PATILNT WITH STAMMERING TO A GROUP OF STUDENTS Dr. Hohman was graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1917. After a year of internship in Pediatrics. he was appointed a resident in psychiatry at the Henry Phipps Psy- chiatric Clinic at the Hopkins. under Adolph Meyer. His postgraduate training included a year in Vienna working in experimental neurology. His early work was primarily concerned with the psychotic mani- festations of epidemic encephalitis and the histopa- thology and eye signs in postencephaltic Parkinsons syndrome. He continued on at Phipps as a member of the faculty. Dr. Hohman then initiated his lifelong ixc is I0 study of the affective disorders, a field in which he has become a widely recognized authority. Signifi- cant contributions in this field included the recogni- tion of the usual benign course of affective disorders. He also showed that hypochondriasis and anxiety neurosis could be included in the affective disorders. ln addition to Dr. Meyer. two other men greatly inliuenced Dr. Hohman's thinking. They were John B. Watson. the father of behaviorism, and Horsley Gantt. probably the most important investigator in the field of the conditional reflex theory of Pavlov and the head of the Pavlovian Laboratories at Hop- kins. Child psychiatry is another field to which Dr.