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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-
