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MEDICAL HISTORY Previous Volume 353:2426-2428 December 8, 2005 Number 23 Next

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On a hot and steamy summer day in Berlin — August 4, 1890, to be precise — the 10th International Medical Congress opened with a flair and fanfare that few conference-weary doctors of the 21st century would recognize. At the invitation of Kaiser Wilhelm II, almost 6000 physicians from around the globe flocked to the city that represented the modernity and optimism of medical progress. Perhaps even more enticing was the jam-packed program of lectures delivered by a veritable who's who of medical greats, including Joseph Lister, Rudolf Virchow, and James Paget.

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Dr. Markel is director of the Center for the History of Medicine and a professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and the history of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.

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