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