Background
Knapp, Philip Coombs was born on June 3, 1858 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Philip Coombs and Sally Harriette (Moore) Knapp.
Knapp, Philip Coombs was born on June 3, 1858 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Philip Coombs and Sally Harriette (Moore) Knapp.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1878, Master of Arts, 1883, Doctor of Medicine 1883.
Specialist in nervous and mental diseases at Boston, since 1884. Visiting physical diseases of nervous system, Boston City Hospital, since 1885, Boston Dispensary, 1886-1888. Instructor diseases of nervous system, Harvard Medical School, 1888-1913.
Consulting physical, Massachusetts Eastern State Hospital for Insane Criminals, since 1895.
Trustee Boston Insane Hospital, 1897-1902. President American Neurological Association, 1895, North.E. Society of Psychiatry, 1905-1908, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1901.
Author: The Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Introcranial Growths, 1891. Joint author: A System of Legal Medicine, 1894.
Textbook of Nervous Diseases by American Authors, 1895.
Joint translator and editor: Strümpell’s Textbook of Medicine, 1887, 93, 1901, 11.
Married Isabel Williams Stebbins, December 12, 1893.