From: "The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benifactors and alumni: a history"
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JOSEPH MEYER, M. D.— 1877. 

Dr. Joseph Meyer, for almost a quarter of a century engaged in the 
active practice of medicine and surgery in Brooklyn, New York, was born 
in New York city, October 2, 1854. His literary education was acquired 
at St. Francis Xavier's College. He was graduated in the New York Col- 
lege of Pharmacy, class of 1872, having secured the prize for materia medica 
and botany. Having the talent and inclination for a professional career he 
began the study of medicine under the personal guidance of Dr. J. Fuhs as 
preceptor and subsequently matriculated in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of New York city, from which he was graduated in the class of 
1877. 

After securing his diploma Dr. Meyer served an internship of eighteen 
months, from 1876 to 1878, in the Charity Hospital of New York, after 
which he went to Europe and prosecuted his medical studies in Munich 
under the supervision of Professor Oertel, a famous laryngologist, and he 
also pursued a course of instruction in Strassburg, where he gave special 
attention to the ear, nose and throat. After his return to his native country 
Dr. Meyer established an office in Brooklyn, New York, where for fifteen 
years he conducted a general practice, but relinquished the same in order 
to devote his attention to diseases of the ear, nose and throat, for which 
particular branch of the profession he had a natural preference, and in 
which his sanguine anticipations were more than realized. The professional 
career of Dr. Meyer has been marked by his learning and skill, his proficiency 
in medical practice, his honorable adherence to medical ethics, his personal 
integrity and prudent benevolence. For twenty-four years he has been 
actively connected with St. Catherine's Hospital, being second in rank on 
the medical staff, and at the present time (1902) is acting in the capacity of 
visiting and consulting laryngologist to the same, and also acts in a similar 
position at the German Hospital of Brooklyn. 

Dr. Meyer is the author of a number of medical papers, the principal 
one being "Abortive Treatment of Peritonsilitis," published in the Brooklyn 
Medical Journal; he was also the inventor of a Post-Nasal Forceps. He 
is a member of the Kings County Medical Society, the Brooklyn Medical 
Association, the German Physicians' Medical Society of Brooklyn, and the 
Physicians' Mutual Aid Society. On November 17, 1880, he married Miss 
Maria Goetze, of New York, and the following named children were born 
to them: Albert, Charles, Josie, Martha, Lulu, Tillie and Walter Meyer.