Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15

The Old and New Code Men disagree
- 70 the Arrangements for the Inter.
national Medical Congress-.

The disagreements which have arisen IN the
medical profession In regard to the arrange.
ments for the meeting Of the 9th International
medical congress, which meets In this city In
1887, mention OF which has been made In THE
STAR. seems to increase. The medical journals
are oiled with discussion OF the matter, and the
contest, which II really one between the old
ana new code men, is going on with great
spirit. Inc old code men have the advantage.
ration for the meeting, which they obtained at
the New Orleans convention.
Ut. shoemaker, OF Philadelphia, q strong sup
Roiter OF Inc new committee, and who. with Ut:
Cole, Of San Francisco, started the Opposition at
New Orleans, said recently:
=, ns congress VIII surely meet In this country
IN 1851. AS Iast "a the designations OF men al
ready .. pointed to act in the congress are re-
.eiveo neG appointments will be made. There
: anty to be tsInd to ali the be- vacant places.
Inc ~, ,mmittee will meet again, In New YORK.
SIR JAMES PAaEr's OPINION.
The question whether the executive commit
tea OF the Copenhagen congress still exists fur
ther complexities the case. One or two medical
journals fatty state that It does not exist, and
That the next congress must be held In thus
Mds ss plan a. # 4 the now
stltuted. Sir James Paget, president Of the
London congress In 1881, ana who, upon the
Copenhagen Congress- MISS IN 1854, became mem
Der OF the International committee, has written
Q letter 70 Dr. Minis Hays, Of the Medical Neaos'
national committees advice and cooperation
should be sought. He says In his letter, dated
81 believe that principal question relates to
the authority, II any, which was given by the
congress at Copenhage 1884 to the gentle tie
next meeting should be held in the United
States OF America. believe that it nas never
been considered that the members Of one con-
hfnR n
part OF the organization of the next. At each
meeting some place has been named at which
IT was deemed desirable that the next
shoatd be held: and at the same time or soon
pute in that place have been asked to
Or most likely to promote . successful meeting.
1879, the president, Prof b Donaers, wrote, in
William Bow man, and by them, and those
whom they asked to act with them, the
first and all the principal a subsequent
the meeting in London. Sir Ksdon Bennett,
the chairman Of the executive committee, COM
sor Panum, Of Copenhagen, the desire that the
next meeting might he in one of the chief
cities OF Scandinavia; and those gentlemen,
the principal part In all the arrangements tor
the congress in Copenhagen. I fully believe
that 1t was understood at Copenhagen that the
ton of the congress to be held at Washington.
1 was at the general meeting at which, after
some discussion, the majority of the members
present expressed the wish that the next con-
gress should be in the United States and
have no doubt that it was expected shat the
distinguished American gentlemen there
present would obtain the cooperation OF
the most eminent of their professional
brethren, and would, with them, make all the
Certainly 1t was not supposed that the m
gress would be regulated with any degree of
exclusiyeness by the members of one medical
a h<rVU IL
quite as certain that If this b I'd been thought
possible the PR p ,sal that the next meeting
should be held in the United States would not
have been adopted 1 am sorry also to feel
sure that If the congress be not supported by
the eminent men who have now declared
that they will take no part in 1t the members
Of the profession in this country who will at
tend 1t will be very few. And in this opinion,as
we'll rs In all that have written here, have
the concurrence of several of the most influen-
tial Of the London congress, with whom, before
this writing. consulted"
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