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Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:715.

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VOL. XVIII.

JUNE, 1900.

NO. 6.

Original Communications.

THE GONOCOCCUS: A REPORT OF SUCCESSFUL
CULTIVATIONS FROM CASES OF ARTHRITIS, SUBCUTANEOUS
ABSCESS, ACUTE AND CHRONIC CYSTITIS,
PYONEPHROSIS, AND PERITONITIS.

BY HUGH H. YOUNG, M.D..

Instructor in Genito-Urinary Surgery, Johns Hopkins University; Head of
Genito-Urinary Surgical Clinic.

This article will also appear in the "Welch Festschrift."

J Cutan Genito-Urin Dis. 1900;18:241-268.

The career of William Henry Welch would have to figure prominently in any history of modern American medicine. Born in Norfolk, Conn, in 1850, Welch was the son of a second-generation family practitioner. After graduating from Yale College, he returned home to apprentice under his father. He soon chafed at the life of a country doctor and moved to New York City to further his medical studies. European emigré instructors at Bellevue Hospital exposed Welch to the laboratory-based medicine then being championed in Germany, and at their urging he toured the . . . [Full Text of this Article]