MADRID

Abstract

<h3>Medical Week</h3> <i>La Medicina Ibera</i>organized the first medical week held in Madrid. It proved a success. Lectures and demonstrations were given as usual and there was no lack of banquets, receptions and the never absent excursions to Toledo and El Escorial. In the inaugural sessions, all the foreign delegates spoke in their mother tongue, with the exception of the American delegate, Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, who chose Spanish as his medium of expression, as a tribute to his ancestors. He was also the one to receive most applause on recalling that the Charité Hospital founded by the Spaniard Don Andrés Almenáster still stands at New Orleans. Beckers of Brussels spoke on the topic "Gynecology Must be Above All a Medical Science." He advised Besredka's local vaccine therapy in metritis, and local and general vaccines treatment in salpingitis. Autogenous vaccines seem to him of little use. In rebellious