The First International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics : delegate's report to the New York Obstetrical Society.

  • Edebohls, George M. (George Michael), 1853-1908.
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[1893]
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Credit: The First International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics : delegate's report to the New York Obstetrical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS. Delegate’s Report to the New York Obstetrical Society. Mr. President and Fellows, The First International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstet- rics was held, according to programme, at Brussels, September 13-17, 1892, under the high protectorate of His Majesty Leopold II, king of the Belgians, and under the patronage of the Belgian government. In spite of the great drawback of the simultaneous appearance of the cholera scare it was a decided success; without this only drawback it would have been a perfect success. The cholera scare affected the attendance in several ways. First of all, a great many intended meetings, medical and otherwise, arranged to be held in various parts of Europe during September, were declared off. The presumption with many who proposed to attend the Interna- tional Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics was that this meeting would also fail to realize, especially as during the week preceding the Congress sporadic cases of cholera were reported in uncanny numbers from the Belgian capital and its vicinity. Many, therefore, did not go because they felt sure the meeting would be postponed. Many more dreaded the prospective annoyances and hinderances of travel, and the quarantine phantom, and remained away on that account. Among the latter was Professor Hegar, as Dr. Sonntag informed me at Freiburg the week before the meeting, and a number of other great and shining lights in the gynaecological firmament whose names appeared on the original prospectus of the undertaking. As it was, the owners of about 250 of the originally inscribed 400 names appeared upon the scene and participated in the proceedings of the Congress. As was to be expected under the circumstances, the ratio of absentees was greater among the foreign members than among the home contingent, in which latter I include the Belgians and French. Prominent Germans, English and Americans were rarce aves. Reprinted from The New York Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics for January, iFgj.