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The material presented to the profession in this form was collected with a view of furnishing, through the pages of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, a simple record of interesting cases, a portion of which, as an introduction, appeared in the number for October, 1867.
It was soon apparent, however, that this could not be sufficiently condensed, within the allotted space of a journal, to do justice to the subject. Had the change been contemplated in the beginning, a different arrangement might have been adopted, with a review at some length of the literature bearing on the subject.
I am fully satisfied that an analytical digest would have been an addition of great value, in tracing the labors of Jobert (de Lamballe), Follin, Verneuil, Herrgott, Desgranges, Bourguet d'Aix, Duboue, and Courty, of France; Deroubaix, of Belgium; Metzler, and G. Simon, of Germany; Gosset, Simpson, Spencer Wells, Baker Brown, Mathews Duncan, and Lane, of Great Britain; M. Collis, of Dublin; Heyward, J. B. S. Jackson, Mettauer, Sims, Bozeman, and Agnew, of the United States; together with many others.
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SO great have been the advance and change of views during the past four years in gynaecology, that the preparation of this edition has necessitated almost as much labor as rewriting the volume. Every portion has been thoroughly revised, a great deal left out, and much new matter added.
The chapters on the relation of education and social condition to development; those on pelvic cellulitis; on the diseases of the ovary on ovariotomy; and on stone in the bladder, have been nearly rewritten.
The chapters on prolapse of the vaginal walls; on lacerations at the vaginal outlet and through the sphincter ani and perinaeum; on the methods of partial and complete removal of the uterus for malignant disease on the surgical treatment of fibrous tumors; on diseases of the Fallopian tubes and on the diseases of the urethra, are essentially new, containing the views and experience of the author in a form which has not been presented to the profession before. To these chapters no fewer than one hundred and seventy-five pages of new material have been added.
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Thomas Addis Emmet was an Irish and American lawyer and politician. He was a senior member of the revolutionary republican group United Irishmen in the 1790s and New York State Attorney General 1812–1813.
Background
Thomas Addis Emmet was born in Cork, Ireland. His parents were Robert Emmet (1729 - 1802), a physician of Dublin, and Elizabeth Mason. Of their large family, three sons grew to manhood. The eldest, Christopher Temple, died in 1789, and the youngest, Robert, was executed on September 20, 1803, for participating in an uprising in Dublin.
Education
Thomas Ad dis entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1778, graduating four years later; received the Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1784; was resident physician at Guy’s Hospital, London; practised medicine in Dublin; and became state physician in conjunction with his father.
Career
In January 1797, Emmet became a director of the Society, and on March12, 1798, he was, with others, arrested and imprisoned in Newgate Prison, Dublin.
He was released on condition that he leave the Empire, was put on board the ship Ariadne, and with his family landed in Holland on July 4, 1802.
They spent the winter of 1802-03 in Brussels, and that of 1803-04 in Paris, where he represented the United Irishmen.
On October 4, 1804, he and his family sailed from Bordeaux, and landed in New York on November, 11.
Within three days, he made application for naturalization papers.
At first he thought of returning to the practise of medicine, but persons to whom he had letters of introduction, among them Governor George Clinton, persuaded him not to forsake the law.
When he petitioned for permission to practise, much opposition was shown by Federalist lawyers and judges.
Eventually a special act of the legislature, waiving the required three years of study within the state, admitted him to the bar of all state courts.
Thereafter he quickly won the respect of his colleagues and drew to himself a clientele, financially very profitable according to the standards of his time.
In 1812, he was appointed attorney-general of the state, the only office that he ever held, but resigned within a year to return to private practise.
Two incidents well illustrate both his character and his professional career.
When, as attorney-general, he was prosecuting a criminal case, the defendant’s counsel insinuated that the prosecution was actuated by political motives and that Emmet was paying the price of his appointment by conducting it.
Emmet’s response was that the accusation was false, as the counsellor well knew.
In the year 1815, he argued four prize cases before the United States Supreme Court.
In the first of these, the Mary, 9 Cranch, 126, he and William Pinkney were on opposite sides.
While Emmet was speaking, Pinkney showed great impatience, and at the close of Emmet’s address, leaped to his feet and said that on the morrow, on which the case was to be continued, he would show that his predecessor was mistaken in every statement of fact and every conclusion of law which he had enunciated.
The next day, after Pinkney had spoken, Emmet, in a voice tense with emotion, said, “Of his success to-day the court alone have a right to judge; but I must be permitted to say that, in my estimation, the manner of announcing his threat of yesterday, and of attempting to fulfill it to-day, was not very courteous to a stranger, an equal, and one who is so truly inclined to honor his talents and learning.
It is a manner which I am persuaded he did not learn in the polite circles in Europe, to which he referred, and which I sincerely wish he had forgotten there, wherever he may have learnt it” (Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, 1876, I, 40-41).
Pinkney then replied only with a few words of “cold and inefficient explanation” but later in the case of the Nereide, 9 Cranch, 388, he offered a “gratuitous and cheerful atonement, —cheerful because, ” he said, “it puts me to rights with myself, and because it is tendered not to ignorance and presumption but to the highest worth in intellect and morals, enhanced by such eloquence as few may hope to equal—to an interesting stranger whom adversity has tried and affliction struck severely to the heart—to an exile whom any country might be proud to receive, and every man of a generous temper would be ashamed to offend” (Henry Wheaton, Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Speeches of William Pinkney, 1826, p. 500).
The most famous case in which Emmet appeared was that of Gibbons vs. Ogden, 9 Wheaton, I, in which he and Thomas J. Oakley were pitted against Daniel Webster and William Wirt.
Although Emmet’s contentions were not sustained by the court, “not even Pinkney at his best, ” says Beveridge, “ever was more thorough than was Emmet in his superb argument” in this case (Life of John Marshall, IV, 1919, p. 427).
Webster said after the trial that the erudition, talents, and eloquence of the Irish bar had made their appearance in America in the person of Emmet.
While engaged in the trial of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor case, in the United States circuit court, he was stricken with apoplexy, and died a few hours later, in his sixty- third year.
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Religion
Having allied himself with the Society of United Irishmen, he became the Irish national idol because of his defense of a member charged with treason for having taken the Society's oath.
Politics
Having allied himself with the Society of United Irishmen, he became the Irish national idol because of his defense of a member charged with treason for having taken the Society’s oath.
Views
Quotations:
"The office which I have the honor to hold, " he said, "is the reward of useful days and sleepless nights, devoted to the acquisition and exercise of my profession, and a life of unspotted integrity--claims and qualifications which that gentleman can never put forth for any office, humble or exalted" (Haines, post, pp. 113-14).
The next day, after Pinkney had spoken, Emmet, in a voice tense with emotion, said, "Of his success to-day the court alone have a right to judge; but I must be permitted to say that, in my estimation, the manner of announcing his threat of yesterday, and of attempting to fulfill it to-day, was not very courteous to a stranger, an equal, and one who is so truly inclined to honor his talents and learning. It is a manner which I am persuaded he did not learn in the polite circles in Europe, to which he referred, and which I sincerely wish he had forgotten there, wherever he may have learnt it" (Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, 1876, I, 40-41).
Pinkney then replied only with a few words of "cold and inefficient explanation" but later in the case of the Nereide, 9 Cranch, 388, he offered a "gratuitous and cheerful atonement, --cheerful because, " he said, "it puts me to rights with myself, and because it is tendered not to ignorance and presumption but to the highest worth in intellect and morals, enhanced by such eloquence as few may hope to equal--to an interesting stranger whom adversity has tried and affliction struck severely to the heart--to an exile whom any country might be proud to receive, and every man of a generous temper would be ashamed to offend" (Henry Wheaton, Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Speeches of William Pinkney, 1826, p. 500).
Membership
Thomas Addis Emmet was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was a member of the committee of the College Historical Society.
He was a senior member of the revolutionary republican group United Irishmen in the 1790s and New York State Attorney General 1812–1813.
Personality
Emmet’s gift for oratory and his nationalist sympathies made him prominent, and brought him cases involving political questions. His romantic history, the victory over opposition from the bar, and his brilliant talents, made him observed of all; and, according to Judge Story, he became “the favorite counsellor of New York. ”
Judge Story described him as a man quick, vigorous, searching, and buoyant, who kindled as he spoke, with a voice toned to suit his meaning, and who while easily moved himself had an instantaneous and sympathetic command over the passions of others.
Connections
On January 11, 1791, he married Jane Patten, daughter of the Rev. John Patten, a Presbyterian clergyman.