Dr. Edward Sidney Hyman

Edward Sidney Hyman March 14, 2004 NEW ORLEANS, LA - Dr. Edward Sidney Hyman, 79, a physician-scientist, of New Orleans, La., died Thursday, March 9, at his residence. Graveside services will 12:30 p.m. today in Riverdale Cemetery with Rabbi Tom Friedmann officiating according to Striffler-Hamby Mortuary, Columbus. Dr. Hyman, born in New Orleans in 1925, the son of the late Dr. David Lewis Hyman and Mary Newstadt Hyman. He graduated from Louisiana State University and the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1946. He was an intern at Barnes Hospital at Washington University, a resident and the Sterling Fellow in Medicine at Stanford University, and a resident and teaching fellow in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at Harvard University. He was a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve from 1943 until 1952 and on active duty from 1947 until 1949. Over forty years, he developed and tested a method of measuring exertion of bacteria from the bloodstream, which led to new usage of antibiotics in treatment of various chronic diseases which he grouped under the title Systemic Coccal Disease. Most recently he applied this to the "Gulf War Syndrome" and demonstrated in double-blind study the only treatment of that disease that is proven successful. Survivors include his wife, Jean Simons Hyman; three daughters, Judity Ladden; Sydney Hyman; Anne Fierman; a son, Edward David Hyman; four grandchildren, Justin Ross Ladden; Matthew Todd Ladden; Sara Hadley Ladden and Reis Weston Fierman; son-in-law, Stuart Aaron Fierman; a sister, Lillian Hyman Goldsmith; a brother, Albert Lewis Hyman. f+z