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

  • Edebohls, George M. (George Michael), 1853-1908.
Date:
[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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    present recall as appointed to represent their various fatherlands. After all business had been thus satisfactorily disposed of, parting addresses were in order. Parvin, answering for America, made the welkin ring with a patriotic address commemorating the achievements of American gynaecology, and dwelt with manifest pride upon the names of McDowell, Sims, Emmet, Thomas, and others. As already stated, the Congress, on account of the cholera, turned out less international than it was intended to be. Indeed it was more like a French Gynaecological Congress with an attendance of delegates from other countries, than anything else. A speaker employing the English or German languages had no audience. So well was this understood that Germans, English and Americans all made use, as far as lay in each one’s power, of the French language. Under the cir- cumstances the French perpetrated was not always the most classical. I close this imperfect and fragmentary report on the First Inter- national Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics with the reiteration that, the unfortunate coincidence of the cholera considered, it was a great success. That the Second International Gynaecological Congress, Geneva, 1895, will be a perfect success, nobody who attended the first will hes- itate to predict. That the attendance of representatives from this country will be very much larger is equally certain. Respectfully submitted, George M. Edebohls, M.D.