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Notes for Morris Wistar III STROUD
Morris Wistar Stroud III, a physician who developed new ways to help elderly patients recover from illness, died Monday of cancer at age 76.
Dr. Stroud was among the first physicians in the 1940s to form teams of professionals to work with families to improve a patient's life.
He was director of the Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital in Malvern in the 1970s.
He was co-author in 1985 of "Rehabilitation of the Elderly: A Tale of Two Hospitals."
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Thursday, May 3, 1990
Deceased Name: DR. MORRIS W. STROUD 3D, A PIONEER IN GERIATRIC CARE
Georgia Farm in West Chester is one of the most scenic spots in Chester County, where the Brandywine Creek runs through 330 acres of rolling pastureland.
The owner of the property, Morris Wistar Stroud 3d, wanted to ensure that the farm would be preserved as open space. So Dr. Stroud, 76, a physician who died Monday of cancer at his home, has willed his farm to the Natural Lands Trust and the Brandywine Conservancy. The will also allows the Academy of Natural Sciences to use the land for scientific research.
According to Dr. Stroud's wishes, his land will be "used for educational purposes and for long-term research on water quality, and how watersheds work," said Michael Clark, president of the Natural Lands Trust.
With his will, Dr. Stroud saw "an opportunity to do something unique for both ecology and conservation," said Bernard Sweeney, director of the Stroud Water Research Center of the Academy of Natural Sciences.
The research center was founded by Dr. Stroud's brother, William Boulton Dixon Stroud.
Dr. Stroud's novel gift to future generations did not surprise his patients and colleagues, who remembered him as a caring physician and a pioneer in geriatric medicine.
Beginning in the 1940s, Dr. Stroud was one of the first physicians to assign teams of professionals, including counselors, to work with patients'
families to improve a patient's life.
"He believed the family was the center of life," said his daughter, Marion Boulton Stroud. "His whole policy was to get the patient back into the home as a functioning member of the family household. He wanted the family to accept the patient as a vital member of the family, even with a disability."
Said a colleague, Sidney Katz: "He believed the patient's overall well- being was more important than a cardiogram."
In 1989, Dr. Stroud, along with fellow physicians Katz and Barry Gurland, established the Morris W. Stroud 3d Center for Scientific Approaches to the Quality of Life in Health Care and Aging at Columbia University in New York City.
Drs. Stroud and Katz, along with Sister Barbara Anne Gooding, also wrote a book about their approach to geriatrics, Rehabilitation of the Elderly: A Tale of Two Hospitals, published in 1985.
Dr. Stroud was a graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After interning at Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Stroud served in the South Pacific with the Pennsylvania Hospital Medical Corps, and was awarded the Silver Star and the Soldiers Medal for bravery in action.
During the 1940s and 1950s, he also was instrumental in physiological studies for the development of diving equipment. He also co-wrote and edited the book Diseases of the Heart.
Throughout the 1960s, Dr. Stroud was associate medical director of Highland View Hospital in Cleveland. During the 1970s, he was director of the Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital in Malvern, a 600-bed hospital.
He was married for more than 50 years to Marion S. Rosengarten, who died in 1988.
Besides his daughter and brother, Dr. Stroud is survived by his wife, Patricia; stepsons, John Tyson 2d and Peter H. Tyson; stepdaughter, Lisa Tyson Ennus, and three sisters.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. today at St. David's Episcopal Church in Wayne.
Contributions may be made to the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 19th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia 19103.
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