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charge of a medical board, and Dr. Emmet became visiting surgeon, and he contiiiued on duty until his resignation in 1902, having given a continuous service of nearly forty- seven years to the institution. Dr. Emmet served as consulting surgeon or physician to the Roosevelt Hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital, the Foundling Asylum, and other institutions in the city of New York. He published in 1868 an original surgical work. ■'Vesico Vaginal Fistula," which was the foundation of this form of plastic surgery. His chief professional work, and one em- bodying the experience of a lifetime, was "The Principles and Practice of Gynaecol- ogy," issued in 1879, going through three editions in this country, and translated into German and French, of each a single edition. It has been estimated that Dr. Emmet con- tributed to the medical journals, at home cr abroad, over seventy original monographs bearing chiefly on the surgical diseases of women, and his modes of operating and treatment have generally become the ac- cepted practice. Many of these papers were translated abroad, and one treatise describ- ing an original operation which has proved of incalculable value in laceration of the ctrvix uteri was translated and printed in Chinese characters for circulation in Japan. Dr. Emmet is the author of various essays and addresses upon subjects connected with American history. On the inception of the Irish National Federation in Ireland for gaining home rule by constitutional means, he was chosen president of that organiza- tion in America, and during his service of eight )'ears he produced a number of papers and addresses on subjects connected with Irish history. One, "Irish Emigration Dur- ing the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen-

turies," the result of considerable research, \i as read January 19, 1899, before the Anien- cun-Irish Historical Society, and published in its "Transactions." He issued in 1899, in a limited edition, an extensive work, "The Em- met Family, and with some incidents relating 10 Irish History, and a Biographical Sketch cf Professor John Patten Emmet, M. D., Lie." octavo, pp. 411, with over one hundred jiortraits and other illustrations. Dr. Em- met's "Ireland Under English Rule, or a Plea for the Plaintiff," was issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1903. two volumes, octavo, pp. 333 and 359, in which the political and commercial relations oi Ire- land arc treated in detail for the past three hundred years. The title of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Dr. Emmet by the trus- tees of the Jefferson Medical College. Phila- delphia, the governing power of the Jeffer- son University, Pennsylvania. Dr. Emmet is a member of the principal medical socie- ties of New York, and has been president of the New York Obstetrical Society, president of the American Gynaecological Society, twice vice-president of the Medical Society of the County of New York, a permanent member of t'ne State Medical Society, and himorary member of the State Medical So- ciety of New Jersey and Connecticut. He has been an honorary member of various societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, Nor- way, Belgium, Germany and France, and of nearly every gynaecological society in the L'nited States. He was the recipient of the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame. As a pioneer, his chief professional vvork was devoted to the development of the surgery and treatment of the diseases of women as a distinct branch, and from 1861 his practice was devoted exclusively to gy-