Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-19

| tend the congress and to enjoy at the
same time Il vacation tour through Eu-
rope. There will be also an international
exhibition in Rome devoted to medicine
and hygiene.
The congress is held so that the lead
ing physicians may be able to secure
| full information respecting new remedies
and new apparatus. Four languages
will be employed IN discussing subjects
| Italian, French, English and German
| and the subjects will be divided into 10
| classes, representing all the medical and
surgical specialties.
Among the attendants at the congress
| there will 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 an acknowledged authority
on several branches of practice, notably
on obstetrics and diseases of women and
| children. He has been hOnored beyond
the most ambitious dreams of the aver
age medical man, having been elected
president of many most important sOcie-
! ties of physicians, including the New
! York State Medical society, over which
he presided in 1882, and the New York
! Academy of Medicine, of which he be-
| came president i'll 1885.
| DR.. jacob is visiting and consulting
! physician to Il great number of the hos
pitfalls and cltomosynary institutions of
/ New York and has been IL professor i'll
! all the most important medical colleges
! of that city. As an author he has con-
tributed much to the enrichment of med
ical literature, and several of his treatises
are accepted as the last words" to be
said on the subjects with which they
/ deal. He has had essays printed in the
transactions of former international con-
i gresses-a fact which proves that his die
tum is accepted abroad as we'll as in
| America.
The personal history of DR.. jacob is
decidedly interesting. Few people know
that he was involved in the German rev.
olution of 1851, but it is SO. He was
81 years of age in that year and had just
received his degree of NJ. 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 in the prisons of Minden
and Bielefeld. After his release he went
| to England and in the autumn of 1858
sailed for New York, where he has since
become so famous. DR.. jacob is 4 ma
! tive of Westphalia and was born May 6,
1880.
No account of DR.. jacob would be
complete without soms reference to that
! other famous DIR. jacob, his wife. DR..
Mary Putnam jacob is hardly less emf
nent than 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 in the profession was
indicated by her appointment as pro
| fessor in the Post Graduate Medical col
| lege in New York. She was professor of
materia medica in the Woman's Medical
college and dispensary physician in Mount
Sinai hospital in the metropolis for a
great many years and is the author of a
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 Woman's
Medical college in Philadelphia and at
the New York College of Pharmacy.
From the latter institution she was the
| first woman to graduate, as she was also
at the Ecole de Medicine in Paris, where
she took her degree in 1871. She had a
hard time matriculating at the Paris col
lege and probably would not have sue
ceeded at all but for the friendly inter.
vention of United States Minister Wash
burn. Mrs. jacob is and has been a
constant and valued contributor to the
current medical literature of the day.
An essay of hers took the Boyleston prize
| at Harvard in 1875.