Jacob Goudsmit studied medicine in Amsterdam and sat for his medical finals on 12 February 1919. He took his PhD degree in Amsterdam on 17 December 1920 for his thesis 'Experimental investigations with trypan blue in connection with the intraspinal treatment of lues nervosa.' Jacob Goudsmit specialized in internal medicine. In 1922 he opened a practice at 41 Jan Luykenstraat in Amsterdam. He also ran the two in-patient departments of the Nederlands-Israëlitisch Ziekenhuis [Dutch-Jewish hospital] in Amsterdam. He wrote several monographs, including the winning answer to a competition (1930) of the Dutch medical society about epidemiological and bacteriological data for scarlet fever (published in 1932) and another, which was a description for practising physicians and students about diagnosis and treatment of blood diseases and blood count, with a foreword by Isidore Snapper (published first in 1938 and again in 1942).
J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 95
Jacob Goudsmit lived in the period 1922-1935 at different addresses in Zaandam. He worked there as adjunct-director of the municipal hospital.
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From 1922 Jacob Goudsmit worked as a specialist for internal diseases in the hospital in Zaandam. Till 1935 he lived with his family at various addresses in Zaandam, f.e. the Westzijde, Stationstraat and Botermakerstraat 76. In 1935 he settled in Amsterdam on the address Jan Luyckenstraat 41.
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