Evening star., 1897-05-05
MEDICAL CONGRESS
Honors to Be Paid to the Memory of
DR.. Gross. r'is'''.
His STATUE 10 Be UNVEILED TODAY
The Physicians Held Their Banquet
Last Night.
niue TO Be UNVEILED TODAY
ESSION THIS EVENIN e

The Congress Of American physicians and
surgeons. whose fourth triennial session be-
gan yesterday afternoon at the Columbia
Theater, decided, after the close of the re-
port of their proceedings in The Star of
last evening, to adopt Washington as the
permanent meeting place for the congresses
OF the future. The names of several other
cities were mentioned in this connection,
but the friends of Washington secured the
honor with comparative ease.
The second days meeting of the congress
began this afternoon at o'clock in the
National Theater. Until o'clock the gen.
eral meeting of the congress will be under
the joint participation of the Association of
American Physicians, the American Physio-
logical Society and the American Pediatric
Society. The subject of discussion will
be internal Secretions Considered in
their Physiological, Pathological and Clin-
ical Aspects" On this theme DR.. William
II. Howell of Baltimore. Md, and Prof.
Russell H Chittenden of New Haven,
Conn.,, will speak in behalf OF the American
Physiological Society DIR. ]. George Adams
of Montreal Canada; DIR. James ]. Putnam
of Boston, Mass, and DR.. Francis P. Kinni-
cutt of New York city, in behalf of the As
sociation of American Physicians, and DR..
William Osler of Baltimore, Nd, in behalf
".
Pers will be followed by discussion.
UnveilinE the GROSS Statue.
At o'clock the members of the congress
and their friends will accompany the
American Surgical Association and the
Alumni Association of the Jefferson Medi-
cal College, to the Smithsonian grounds,
where the statue Of the late Professor
Samuel D. Gross will be unveiled
The order of exercises which will he oh
served there are as follows: Prayer by Rev
b. L. Whitman, president of Columbian
University; presentation Of the statue to
the United States government by CIaudius
H. Maston, DID; unveiling of the statue
by Miss Adele Horwitz. a granddaughter
OF Professor Gross; reception of the statue
on the part of the government by Brig.
Gen. George NJ. Sternberg ND surgeon
general U. S. A.; address by DR.. William
Keen: benediction
The indie ations point to a great demon
stra ton on this occasion, as the exercises
will. 1T is expected be attended nv many
OF the most distinguished medical men of
the country, number of whom are now
mere at the session of the trienniaI con-
gress, and hosts of citizens President Nc
klnley, with his cabinet, the members Of
the senate and House of Representatives
nave been invited and, 1t is hoped, will be
present
Visiting Guests.
number Of invited guests of the con-
gress came to Washington especially to
be present at the ceremonies of dedica-
tion and reached here this morning in spe-
clal cars placed at their disposal by GEN
eral officers Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company They We're the surviving men,
bers of the family OF the late DR.. Gross
ana many eminent physicians of Philadel-
pn1a. Besides these, but on other trains
were about one hundred members of the
alumni of Jefferson Medical College and
undergraduates. who will. it is expected,
be present at the exercises.
the list of those specially invited to at
tend the exercises besides the officers Of
the United States government above men,
toned comprise the trustees, faculty ard
chief demonstrators of Jefferson Medical
College and officers of the alumni; the
members of the family of Dr. Gross, Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin p. Horwitz of Balti-
more. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Haller Gross and
Mr.. and Mrs. William c. Builitt of Phila-
delphia; ex-President Cleveland and ex-
Secretary of War Lamont
Mrs. Orvile Horwitz, a daughter of DR..
Gross. who is now in Europe, intended to
also be present, but was prevented by the
Illness of her daughter.
DIR. Gross was born near EaSton, Pa,
July 8, 1905, and died in Philadelphia May
q, 1884. He was graduated IN 1S2S, and i'll
1883 entered on his career as a teacher.
He went first to Cincinnati, where he be-
came demonstrator of anatomy in the Ohio
Medical College. Two years later he be-
came professor of pathological anatomy III
the Cincinnati Medical College, and in 1910
he went to the University of Louisville as
professor of surgery, where be remained
for sixteen years, with the exception of one
year. during which he was professor of
ST rgery in the University of New York In
1856 he went to Jefferson Medical College,
where he remained until his resignation
tweHty-Six years later.
AS stated by one. of those who has been
prominently connected with the movement
% inn re
inception, 1.-The monument was erected a
mark of loving appreciation of America s
foremost surgeon, jointly by the Alumni
Association of the jefferson Medical Col
lege and by the American Surgical Asso-
citation, for the fame of DR.. Gross exists
not alone in the college in which he taught,
but throughout the nation"
The money for the erection of the testi-
mcnial was raised by subscriptions from
every part Of the country, gathered by
these two associations. but Congress, as a
testimonial of the national fame of DR..
Gross, voted the sum of 81. $50 for the erec-
ton of the granite pedestal
The congress will have an evening meet
irg at SIS o'clock, at the Columbia Tt eater
for the purpose of listening to the address
by the president of the congress, DIR. VIII
Fam H. Welch of Baltimore. whose, ,subjec,
will be Compensatory and Protective
Pathological Processes" which will be fol-
lowed by reception at the Arlington
Hotel.
The triennial banquet of the members OF
the congress took place last evening at the
Arlington Hotel, the banqueting room of
which was beautifully decorated with the
flags of the United States and Great Brit
| ain. At intervals along the tables there
were placed large vases Of American
beauty roses. portrait of the president
of the congress. DE-. William H. WEIGH
was surrounded with a circle of electric
lights. The principal address of the even
| ing was by DIR. Welch, who congratulated
those present upon the success attained by
the congress. He also pronounced a glow
| ing eulogy on the late DR.. Samuel D. Gross
| Of Philadelphia. whose monument is to he
unveiled today. Others who spoke were
DIR. John 8. Billings of New York, Dr. vii.
| liam Pepper of Philadelphia, Dr. William
Polk of New York. DIR. Alvan Jacob of the
same city and others. Nearly all Of those
named referred in eloquent terms to Dr.
Gross. of whom, among other things, II
was said that he 'recast surgical science
as taught In North America. formulated
anew its principles, enlarged its domain
and impaired fresh impetus to its study