The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-19
DR.. ABRAHAM jacob

tend the congress and to enjoy at the
same time variation tour through En-
rope. There will bD also an international
exhibition in Rome devoted to medicin'
and hygiene.
The congress is held SO that the Lead,
ing physicians may be able to securr
full Information respecting new remedies
and new apparatus. Four languages
will be- employed in discussing subjects
Italian, French, Engllshand German
and the subjects will be divided into 10
classes. representing all the medical ana
surgical s~pecialtieS.
Among the attendants at the e
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 IL al 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 1892, and the New York
Academy Of Medicine, Of which he be-
came president in 1885.
DR.. jacob is visiting and consulting
physician to a great number of the nos
pltals and eleemosynary institutions of
New York and has been a professor in
all the most important medical colleges
Of that city. AS an author he has con
trlDutcd much to the enrichment Of med
zeal 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-
greSses-a fact which proves that his die
tun is accepted abroad as well AS in
America.
The personal history Of DIR. Jacob is
decidedly interesting. Few people know
that he was involved in the German rev
olution Of 1851, but it is So. He was
Fl years Of age in that year and had Just
received his degree of Nj. d. at the Bonn
university. He "a suspected and twice
arrested i'll Berlin and Cologne and was
finally convicted of treason and confined
for two years in the prisons Of MlnIen
and Bielefel1. After his release he went
to England ana in the autumn Of 1858
sailed for New York, where he has since
become SO famous. DR.. jacob is a ma
tive Of Westphalia and was born MAY g.,
1880.
No . of DR.. Jacob would be
complete without some reference to that
other famous DR.. Jacob, his wife. DR..
Mary Putnam Jacob is hardly less emf
nent han 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 a pro-
fessor in the Post Graduate Medical col
lege in New York. She was professor of
materia lnedica 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 Il
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 Hatriculating at the Paris col
lege and probably would not have sue
ceeded at all bat 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 Bovleston prize
: at Harvard in 1875.