Dr. Louis Henry Levy, a distinguished physician of New Haven who has made valuable contribution to the literature of the profession, specializes in the treatment of diseases of the stomach and intestines and his work in this connection has been notable. He is a native son of New Haven, born April 9, 1883. His father, Marks [cq] Levy, came to the United States with his parents when but four years of age, the family settling in New York city, where he was reared and educated and in early manhood engaged in merchandising. In 1880 he removed to New Haven and has since been actively identified with its commercial interests, being one of the well known merchants of this city. He served as a member of the city council of New Haven in the early ‘90s and has been more or less active in public affairs. He married Dora Wittstein, a native of Warsaw, Poland, who in her childhood was brought to the new world by her parents, who settled in New York city, where she was reared, educated and married. She has become the mother of five children, of whom Louis H. is the eldest, the others being: Ida, the wife of Robert Jacobson, of Brooklyn, New York; Joseph, who is with the firm of Levy Brothers, merchants on Chapel street; Sarah, the wife of Oscar Poholinski, of Worcester, Massachusetts; and Edward, who is also with the firm of Levy Brothers.

  In the acquirement of his early education Dr. Levy passed through consecutive grades to the Hillhouse high school, from which he was graduated in 1901. He then entered Yale as a student in the Sheffield Scientific School and won the Ph. B. degree in 1904. Continuing his studies, the Master of Science degree was conferred upon him in 1906, and becoming a student in the medical department, he won his professional degree in 1911. Following his graduation he spent three and one-half years as interne in Mount Sinai Hospital of New York city, after which he entered upon private practice. From the beginning he has specialized in the treatment of diseases of the stomach and intestines and has won wide recognition for his notable ability in that professional field. He is now instructor in the New Haven Hospital upon the subjects of chemistry, anatomy and bacteriology and for two years he was instructor in chemistry in the New Haven high school. His professional duties, however, are increasing in importance as the years go on. He has carried his investigations far and wide and has brought many valuable truths to light constituting important elements in successful practice in recent years. He has made valuable contributions to medical literature as the author of a course on sex hygiene and has written various health articles for the Pictorial Review which were published in 1916. He prepared an article entitled, “The Double Salts of Mercuric Chloride with the Alkali Chlorides and their Solubility,” which was published in the American Chemical Journal of March, 1906. The same magazine of February, 1907, published an article by him on “The Double Ammonium Lead Chlorides” and in May, 1907, an article on “The Molecular Condition of Salts dissolved in a Fused Salt,” while in October of that year he prepared an article for the American Chemical Journal on “Researches on Thiocyanates and Isothiocyanates: Diphenylcarbomylthiocyanates.” He contributed an article on “Gastric Symptoms in Tuberculosis,” published in the Medical Record of 1915, and one on “Typhlitis or Chronic Appendicitis,” published in the New York Medical Journal of March 10, 1917. He is also the author of articles on “The Training of the Gastro-Enterologist”;  “The Role played by Fear in Disease of the Stomach and Intestines”; and “Diabetes; The complications and treatment, the Allen plan.” This appeared in the New York Medical Journal of December 11, 1915.

  Dr. Levy belongs to the Harmonic Club, also to the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith and he has membership in Olive Branch Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., and Pulaski Chapter, R. A. M. Along strictly professional lines he has connection wit the New Haven, the New Haven County, Connecticut State and American Medical Associations and the American Congress of Internal Medicine.