The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-01-12

Upon the occasion OF the comforting
of the Cross Of the Order Of st. Gregory
the Great upon DIR. Thomas Adds EN-
met, in the parlors OF st. Patrick's
archiepiscopal residence, DR.. James J.
Walsh, dean Of the medical school OF
Fordllam University, paid the following
tribute to his colleague, says the irish
World.
am asked by his Grace to give YOU
some account OF what Sir Thomas Ad-
dis Emmett Ito give him the title which
we have all hal the privilege to see
ing conferred on him this EVENING" has
done in medicine to deserve the honor
that our Holy Father, Pope Plus X,
has SO graciously determined to be-
stow upon him. If my personal es-
teen for the man We're capable of be-
ing transferred to you by anything
that l might say then would hope for
some success in the task. AS it Is
while feel succ that what l shall say
must be inadequate, my sincere ad-
miration for Doctor Emmett prompts
me to hope that I may ut least be able
, to make you realize something of the
merits which his brother members Of
tho medical profession have long rcc-
ognized in him.
| 1t is now nearly forty years since
just after the publication of his first
important work in his specially of
womcn's diseases. DIR. Emmett received
the honor OF membership in the Berlin
Obstctrical Society. During the same
year he was also made d member OF
the Medical Society OF Norway. This
was but the beginning of foreign re
cogniton Of the excellence and above
all the originality of his work. Before
many years had passed it became truc
that to have worked With Emmett, to
have been present at a series OF his
operations, even to have known tho
man was sufficient letter OF introduce
ton in most of the clinics OF Europe,
and assured the student kindly re-
ception.
| need scarcely tell you that half I,
century ago American medicine was
for European physicians and especially
for German tea achers Of medicine IL Ma
zareth, out of which nothing that wns
good might be expected.
Epmet was among the first effcctu-
ally to break down the barrier of this
chauvinistic prejudice and to make
foreign medical men realize how much
American enterprise. when it devoted
itself under favorable conditions, the
solution Of medical problems was goins
TO accomplish.
There had been others before Or.
Emmet who had attracted attention.
After him, however, it seemed to be
easier for. Europeans to expect good
original work in surgery over here,
and that condescension in foreigners
Of which Russell Lowell spoke, melted
before the genial rays of American
intelligence applying itself successfully
to medical questions that had been
deemed insolubIe.
Emmets great work insisted in the
alleviation Of certain pathological con-
tlitions which had been deemed hope
less and helpless and which made the
women who suffered from them the
subject of continuous discomfort and
made life almost not worth the living.
Certain OF the milder forms of these
conditions had been relieved by DIR.
Marion Simms, who is deservedly con-
sidered one OF the great pioneers in
his branch Of surgery. The severer
forms, however. even he deemed hope
less. Hundreds Of those that were af-
, terwards cured by DR.. Emmett had
, been sent away by DR.. Simms as ut
'terly hopeless. These conditions ad-
Ided a new penalty to the dangers Of
child bearing and made the patients
who suffered from them, in most cases