SECTION K OTOLOGY AND LARYNGOLOGY 



(Hall 7, September 21, 10 a. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR WILLIAM C. GLASGOW, Washington University, St. 



Louis. 



SPEAKER: SIR FELIX SEMON, C. V. O., Physician Extraordinary to His Maj- 

 esty the King, London. 

 SECRETARY: DR. S. SPENCER, Allenhurst, N. J. 



RELATIONS OF LARYNGOLOGY, RHINOLOGY, AND 

 OTOLOGY WITH OTHER ARTS AND SCIENCES 



BY SIR FELIX SEMON 



[Sir Felix Semon, K.C.V.O., Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty King Edward 

 VII of England, b. December 8, 1849, Danzig, Prussia. M.D. Berlin, 1873; 

 German States Diploma, 1874; medical education at Berlin and Heidelberg 

 Universities; F.R.C.P. London, 1885; M. 1876. Royal Prussian Professor; 

 Post-graduate, Vienna, Paris, and London; Physician, Hospital for Diseases 

 of the Throat, Golden Square, London, 1879-83; Physician, Diseases of the 

 Throat, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, 1882-97; ibid, for National Hospital 

 for Epilepsy and Paralysis, since 1887. President, Laryngological Section, 

 British Medical Association, 1888 and 1895; Fellow of Royal Medical Clinical 

 and Medical Societies, London ; Member of Pathological and Neurological 

 Societies, London; Hon. Fellow, Berlin, Munich, Italian, and Vienna Laryngo- 

 logical Societies; Corresponding Member of American Laryngological Asso- 

 ciation, Imperial and Royal Society of Physicians, Vienna, and Swedish 

 Medical Societies; Knight Prussian Red Eagle (3d Class); German War Medal, 

 1870-71 (5 Clasps); Commander of Order of Isabella la Catolica; Grand Officier, 

 Order of Medjidjie. Author of many books relating to diseases of the throat.] 



WHEN Professor Newcomb's extremely flattering invitation reached 

 me to deliver an address before the Section of Laryngology and Oto- 

 logy of the Congress of Arts and Science held in connection with 

 this wonderful Exhibition, my first feeling was naturally one of 

 sincere gratitude for the great honor done to me. This feeling was 

 enhanced by the information contained in Professor Newcomb's 

 letter that the invitation was extended on the nomination of a 

 number of American representatives of medicine, whose names are 

 household words on the other side of the Atlantic. I am deeply 

 sensible, believe me, of the exceptional distinction thus conferred 

 upon me, and my pleasure in accepting it is only marred by the 

 consideration that I cannot pretend to be an aurist, and that the 

 otological part of my task would no doubt have been infinitely 

 better fulfilled by many European representatives of that branch. 

 I dutifully mentioned this fact to the organizers of the Congress, but 

 it was not considered an insurmountable obstacle to my undertaking 



