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Edward Emmet Montogomery
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For his great scientific and philanthropic accomplishments he was elected Senator of ItaIy and received from the Italian government a11the honors usuahy conferred
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passing on ApriI seventeenth of Edward Emmet Montgomery, at the age of seventy-eight, American gynecoIogy loses an outstanding figure-a man of originaIity, resource, forcefuIness and conviction.
upon the most eminent men. His Iife, however: was a modest one, entirely devoted to his work as student, operator and teacher. PAOLO DE VECCHI. MONTGOMERY@ abiIity was not at first appreciated by his AIma Mater, but by a competing schoo1, and in I 886 he became professor of gynecoIogy in the Medico-ChirurgicaI CoIIege in PhiIadeIphia, and in 1891-r 892 he occupied the doubIe chair in that institution.
Edward Emmet Montgomery
Born in Newark, Ohio, in 1849, he was graduated from Dennison University, Ohio, in I 871, and from Jefferson MedicaI CoIIege, Philadelphia, in 1874. During Dr. Montgomery’s fifty-three years of practice in PhiIadeIphia, he was identified with the deveIopment of obstetrics and gynecoIogy in this country and his influence was of a nationa character. Yet, as so often happens, his pedagogic
(1849-1927).
In 1892 he was caIIed to the chair of gynecoIogy at Jefferson, first in the capacity of Clinical Professor, and then as Professor, a position which he heId untiI his retirement from practice in 1917. Dr. Montgomery’s training in obstetrics and obstetric pathoIogy was the resuIt of his Iong service as obstetrician to the PhiIadeIphia Hospital, which afforded him an opportunity to deveIop his rare diag-
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nostic acumen and courageous operative resourcefulness. It was in this institution that he performed the first successfu1 oophorectomy before a pubIic cIinic in Philadelphia. He served at various periods as Attending Gynecologist to St. Joseph’s and the Jefferson HospitaI and as Consultant to the Kensington Hospital for Women, the Lying-In, Charity and the Jewish HospitaIs. Dr. Montgomery_was a proIific writer,
American
Journal
of Surgery
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an impressive teacher, a keen diagnostician and a great operator. He was aIways master of the situation. No emergency unnerved him. Warmly esteemed by his coIIeagues, he was elected to the presidency of almost every IocaI, state and nationa medica society to which he belonged. Montgomery was one of the giants of the passing generation in medicine-seIf-trained and reaching a leading r81e by persistence, courage and an iron physique.--JOHN OSBOKN POL.AK.
Subscribers to THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY visiting New York Citv are invited to make the q%ce of THE JOURNAL (76 Fijtb Avenue, New York) tbeir beadgu&ters. Mail, packages or bundles may be addressed in our care. Hotel reservations will gladlv be made for those advising us in advance; kindty not_[v us in’detail as to requirements and &-ices. List of operations in New York hospitals on file in our o&e da&.
American Journal of Surgery
EditoriaIs
For his great scientific and philanthropic accomplishments he was elected Senator of ItaIy and received from the Italian government a11the honors usuahy conferred
Nthe I
@EDWARD
EMMET
passing on ApriI seventeenth of Edward Emmet Montgomery, at the age of seventy-eight, American gynecoIogy loses an outstanding figure-a man of originaIity, resource, forcefuIness and conviction.
upon the most eminent men. His Iife, however: was a modest one, entirely devoted to his work as student, operator and teacher. PAOLO DE VECCHI. MONTGOMERY@ abiIity was not at first appreciated by his AIma Mater, but by a competing schoo1, and in I 886 he became professor of gynecoIogy in the Medico-ChirurgicaI CoIIege in PhiIadeIphia, and in 1891-r 892 he occupied the doubIe chair in that institution.
Edward Emmet Montgomery
Born in Newark, Ohio, in 1849, he was graduated from Dennison University, Ohio, in I 871, and from Jefferson MedicaI CoIIege, Philadelphia, in 1874. During Dr. Montgomery’s fifty-three years of practice in PhiIadeIphia, he was identified with the deveIopment of obstetrics and gynecoIogy in this country and his influence was of a nationa character. Yet, as so often happens, his pedagogic
(1849-1927).
In 1892 he was caIIed to the chair of gynecoIogy at Jefferson, first in the capacity of Clinical Professor, and then as Professor, a position which he heId untiI his retirement from practice in 1917. Dr. Montgomery’s training in obstetrics and obstetric pathoIogy was the resuIt of his Iong service as obstetrician to the PhiIadeIphia Hospital, which afforded him an opportunity to deveIop his rare diag-
Nrl\SERVES VOL.II, No.6
EditoriaIs
nostic acumen and courageous operative resourcefulness. It was in this institution that he performed the first successfu1 oophorectomy before a pubIic cIinic in Philadelphia. He served at various periods as Attending Gynecologist to St. Joseph’s and the Jefferson HospitaI and as Consultant to the Kensington Hospital for Women, the Lying-In, Charity and the Jewish HospitaIs. Dr. Montgomery_was a proIific writer,
American
Journal
of Surgery
603
an impressive teacher, a keen diagnostician and a great operator. He was aIways master of the situation. No emergency unnerved him. Warmly esteemed by his coIIeagues, he was elected to the presidency of almost every IocaI, state and nationa medica society to which he belonged. Montgomery was one of the giants of the passing generation in medicine-seIf-trained and reaching a leading r81e by persistence, courage and an iron physique.--JOHN OSBOKN POL.AK.
Subscribers to THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY visiting New York Citv are invited to make the q%ce of THE JOURNAL (76 Fijtb Avenue, New York) tbeir beadgu&ters. Mail, packages or bundles may be addressed in our care. Hotel reservations will gladlv be made for those advising us in advance; kindty not_[v us in’detail as to requirements and &-ices. List of operations in New York hospitals on file in our o&e da&.