The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-02-19

tend the congress and to enjoy at the
same time q vacation tour through Eu-
rope. There VIII be also an international
exhibition in Rome devoted to medicine
and hygiene
The congress Is held 50 that the leads
ing physicians may be able to secure
full Information especting new remedies
and new apparatus. Four languages
VIII be employed I'D discussing subjects
italian. French English and German
and the subjects VIII be divided into 10
classes. representing all the medical and
surgical specialties.
Among the attendants at the congress
there viii be few personages more inter
esting than Dr.. jacob, the leader of the
American delegation. He ranks among
the most eminent of Americas medical
men and is I'D Acknowledged authority
on several branches of practice, notably
Oh obstetrics and diseases of women and
children. He has been honored beyond
the most ambitions dreams Of the aver
age medical man, having been elected
president of many most important socie-
ties Of physicians Including the New
ork State Medical society, over which
he presided ina 1892 and the New York
Academy OF Medicine of which he be-
came president ia 1888.
DR.. Jacob is visiting and consulting
physician to a great number Of the hos
pitfalls ana eleemosymary institutions Of
New q ork and mas been a professor in
all the most important medical colleges
of that city. As am author he has con-
tributed much 10 the enrichment of med
icaI literature. ana several of his treatises
are accepted IS the last words to be
said on the subjects with which they
DEAL lie has had essays printed ia the
transactions of former international con-
gresses-a fact which proves that his die
tum IS accepted abroad as well as ia
America
The personal history of DR.. jacob is
decidedly interesting Few people know
that lie was involved in the German rev
olution of 1851. but it is so. He was
q years of age IS that year and had just
received his degree of n. d. at the Bonn
university. He was suspected and twice
arrested In Berlin and Cologne and was
finally convicted of treason and confined
for two years ia the prisons of Ainden
and Bielefeld. After his release lac went
to England and iii the autumn Of 1858
sailed for New Ork, where he has since
become so famous. DR.. Jacob is a ma
tive of Westphalia and was born May g.
1880
No account Of Dr. Jacob would be
complete without some reference to that
other famous Dr.. Jacob, his wife. DR..
Mary Putnam Jacob is hardly less emil
msnt chan her husband, and on many
matters her opinions are accepted as
quite as authoritative as his. She easily
outranks all other women physicians
and her standing i'm the profession was
Indicated Isl her appointment as a pro-
fessor in the Pest Graduate Medical col
lege ia New YORK She was professor of
uateria medica Ia the Woman's Medical
college and alspe7lsslry- physician i'm Mount
Sinai hospital in the metropolis for
great many years and IS the author Of
number of valuable medical classics
DR.. Mary Jacob is the daughter Of the
late George p. Putnam the New York
publisher. She studied at the So oman's
Medical college in Philadelphia and at
the New York College of Pharmacy.
From tine latter Institution she was the
first woman to graduate. as she was also
at the Ecole de Medicine iii Paris. where
she took her degree in 18Th She had
hard time matriculafing at the Paris col
lage and probably would not have sue
ceaded at all but for the friendly inter
venti0n 0l United States Minister Wash
burn. AIRS. jacob is and has been
constant and valued contributor to the
current medical literature of the day.
Am essay of hers took the B0yleston prize
ct Harvard ia 1876.