ABSTRACT
SIGMUND POLLITZER was born on Staten Island, New York, November 1, 1859. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York, with honors, in physics, astronomy, and mathematics. In 1882 he took his master’s degree at the same institution. His first publication, a manual of logarithmic computation, enjoyed considerable success. He next entered Columbia and took his M.D. there in 1884 submitting as his thesis an original piece of research, Temperature Sense, which was later published in the British Journal of Physiology. Following his graduation, Pollitzer went abroad where he worked in Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, and Berlin, doing research in physiology, bacteriology, and general medicine. When the war between Serbia and Bulgaria broke out, in 1885, he volunteered for service with the Serbians and after heading two of the base hospitals was discharged as a major at the close of hostilities.
