The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11

Max Unborn, r. H. Sayre and J. Mount
Bleyer.
This will be the eleventh congress, the
others having been held in previous years
at Berlin. Washington. Copenhagen, Lon
don, Amsterdam Brussels. Paris, Vienna,
Madrid and Bolosna. At Berlin six thou
sand physicians were gathered together
This year at Rome, it is believed, that
this ngure will be surpassed by at least
thousand
DR.. A. Jacob, who was Americas lead
ing representative at The Berlin, London
and Copenhagen congresses, has this TO
say of the purposes of these gatherings:
"A man not being ubiquitous, may not
take with him many things new, bat what
he carries home IS a new stimulus and en-
enlargement. IN these congresses You see
a great many men whom you thought you
knew, but since YOU listen to
them, and watch them while YOU
listen and take their measures, you
know better. You see and hear the lfv-
ing objects of your admiration, the mould
ers of professional thought in all cOun-
tries; discoveries, teachers laboratory
workers, practitioners; those who, after
hard work, create books by spontaneous
generation out of their brains, and those
VINO compile them out of their pigeon
holes the eagles the bees and the mOles
also the parrots and that class of en-
viOus CuCkOos who transfer other birds
eggs into their own nests. You find there
IS room in our great army for many men,
and many classes Of men. You gather en-
enlargement from learning that even
truly great men are still men, and human;
and that some degree OF greatness is
within the grasp of any many, in town or
village, who will work for it intelligently,
bravely and honorably. All this is what
a congress will teach those who consent
to learn.
There is another lesson that is taught
by q congress: The separation into nine
teen or twenty sections proves the endless
and diversified branching of the grand
old tree of medical science. Their work
ing under the same roof, however, and I'M
der the same adminstra ton; their occa-
slOnal com DluatiOn for common purpose;
their gathering in general meetings and
their listening 10 the same addresses
with the same interest and prott-all
this, in spite of the fact that some of the
nineteen or twenty appear 10 be threat
ened with the dangerof degenerating into
mere handicraft, proclaim louder than
steeple bells that medical science is one
ana lndlvlslble. now and fOreVern
The congresses convey to me great
lesson, and furnish an elevating spectacle.
Imagine thousands of medical men from
all parts of the world, and speaking a
NO vi NllALtItuU ltuR QdGtS, uQL. perhaps,
endowed with the same eruditiOn, or
mental or moral power, but moved by the
same instincts and interests, and as
sem bling at the same call and for the
same special purpose The great and the
lovely, the old and the Young, meet as
brethren on the same platform, if not of
equality, still OF fraternity and solidarity.
National jealousy and prejudice are
shelyed for at least week. and the lesson
: ic a
peaceably under the same roof, an
example to the nations both of the
present and the future. The man and the
man of science are appreciated and loved ,
| though political adyersaries. Applause
takes the place of Kisses. The contest is
no longer against each other, but with
each other, side by side, arm in arm, with
the same weapons of the brain and soul
against the common enemy OF science and
mankind, physical deterioration and
social misery" Thus. the cosmopolitan
spirit of coming centuries is foreshadOwed
and initiated by the cooperation of the
men arrayed in the army of the MODEST of
all sciences and professions"
| But word as to the great men of the
world who win be there, and whose
| papers will this year again, as in the past,
| furnish the leading features of
| the five or six volumes of transactions
| which willcontain the work of the con
! sress Vienna sends Prof. Nothnag6l,
! the scientist, who will open the congress
with its first notable paper. He is re-
! garded as the most famous of living
! pathologists. Amsterdam sends DR.. j. B.
! StOckers.
From Bucharest comes Prof. Baby, and
| from Turin, Prof Guilio Bizzozero. DR..
! Nirchow, the greatest Of German scien-
fists, will read a paper on his latest
| researches. Others who will present
papers are: DIR. Brouardc, of the Univer-
sity Of Prague; DR.. S Laache, of Chris
tina; Prof. Ramon Cajal, of Madrid; DR..
/ A. J. Danilewski. of st. Petersburg; Prof
and DR.. Theodore Kocher, Of the Univer-
sity of Berne.