New-York tribune., 1902-05-11
SETON HALL COLLEGE WAS THE SCENE OF ARCHBISHOP
CORRIGANS FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE WORK.
A MEDICAL HALF CENTURY
PROGRESS WHICH DIR. Jacob HAS SEEN
AND IN WHICH HE HAS HAD
\ LARGE SHARE.

After thtrty-two years service as professor Of
the diseases of children in the faculty Of the Col
+ Iege OF Physicians and Surgeons DR. Abraham
Jaconi has resigned his clinical work although he
VIII not entirely sever his connection with the
faculty Of the college He is now in his seventy
| second year and recently completed his fftv-frst
year as a physician His whole life has been given
up TO study OF children and their diseases. and
an effort to force universal recognition of podi-
atrics as Il distinct branch Of medicine lie feels
that the time has come for him to give lIp mart
of the work which he has carried on so long The
clinics will probably be taken by DR. l.. Emmett
Holt. who has long been associated with Dr.
jacob
For more than half of the century in which the
science of medicine it's greatest DEVELOPMENT
Dr. jacob has been active student the heal
| ing vocation. His efforts along special lines
nave helped materially in the development He
began his work about the time experimcntaI in
vestlgation Of disease of the distinguish
ing features of the medicine of the nineteenth cen
turN came INTO vogue through the growth of re-
search laboratories. The result was a more inti-
mate knowledge of the organs of the body and the
perversiOn OF their functions caused bv disease
Especially was this true of the nerves and brain
The serious study Of physiology and pathology I'm
the same period did much TO free medical practice
from routine
The science of bactcrology had It's modern
growth in his time. beginning with the overthrow,
of the theory Of spontaneous generation by Pas
teur in 1861, and the experiments which demon
srted the presence OF bacteria in l"proSy typhoid
fever. Asiatic cholera, reapsnE fever tuberculosis
ana many other diseases \ new art of healing dis
ease by curative or protective serums worked
ouI Among the results is the use of antitoNic
Serum for diphtheria, a discovery which is re-
sponsible for great reduction i'm the prevalence
of this disease and in the mortality from IT,
As remarkable any other feature of this
medical development IL Is said the battle which
waged against the of a large number
Of drugs During the first half Of the last century
patients were 'bIed. blisered. purged and vomitcd
and dosed with mercury. autimony and other com
pounds 70 meet special symptoms until il "a
wonder that auv of them recovered.
The list Of important discoveries. other than
those mentioned. that have been made since Dr
Jacob began tha study of medicine is % long one
In lS47 Sir James Simpson. Of Edinburgh first
used chloroforrn an;csthctIc. and J. Parker
Maynard. OF Boston. first applied collodou TO sur
gical purposes. In 1851 Louis Pastcur dcmoustrat-
ed that Fermentation and pUtrefactIon were caused
by the vital processes Of lower organisms In
1885 Pasteur inocuated successfully Tor hydropho-
bia and Gv, years later Or. Robert Koch
nounced his discovery Of a lymph for checking no
growth Of tubercuous bacillus in consumption.
Besides there have been scores OF Inventions Of
mechanical aids. including the y rays and other
electrical apparatus
After a long series or courses In the universities
Of Creifswald G6ttngcn and Bonn and an
citing experience as a German rcvolutiouis;. DR.
Tacohi came to New York in 1853 Four years later
ne pressed the button which the pedatric clinic
q, motion He was surprised the slight 8tt"n-
tion which American medical schools paid 10 tho
diseases Of children In spite OF the fact that in
general practice a large majority of the patients
which come TO physician arc children. There WAS