It would be tautological in this connection to enter into any
series of statements showing him to be a man of scholarly
attainments, for this has been shadowed forth between the
lines of this review in the work that he has performed as an
investigator and in the honors which have been conferred upon him.
He is perhaps even better known in the field of authorship than
in educational circles. The work by which he is most widely known
is his “Principles of Pathology” in two volumes (the second in
connection with Professor A. G. Nicholls of McGill).
Dr. Adami has written various papers on pathological subjects
which have appeared in a number of the leading medical journals
in England and America and have also been translated into French.
His smaller text-book upon pathology written along with Dr. John
McCrae, is being translated into Chinese.
That his activities have not been solely in the path of his
profession are indicated by not a few addresses he has delivered
on biographical and literary subjects. He stands prominently with
those men of broad humanitarian principles and high scientific
attainment who are doing everything in their power to prevent
the spread of disease and educate the people to a knowledge of
preventive methods and sanitary conditions.
He presided at one of the meetings of the International
Tuberculosis Congress held in Washington in 1908, and was one
of the promoters of the Royal Edward Tuberculosis Institute in
1909. He was a member of the Royal Commission, of the province of
Quebec, re spread of tuberculosis in 1909, and in that same year
became president of the Canada Association for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis, being reelected for three years in succession.
In 1911 he was honored with election to the presidency of the
Association of American Physicians. He has been president of
the local Medico-Chirurgical Society and is a joint secretary
of the Victorian Order of Nurses. In 1899 he was president of
the Montreal branch of the British Medical Association and was
president of the pathological section of that organization at
the meeting in Toronto in 1905. He was a vice president of the
section of pathology at the International Congress of Medicine,
London, 1913.
He has been offered many prominent positions in the educational
field both in England and the United States, but has preferred
to remain in Montreal, recognizing that he has a broad field of
labor in this city.
His teaching ranks him as one of the foremost educators of the
land, and in the class room he enthuses his pupils with much of
the high idealism which has always characterized his professional
connections.
Aside from all of these activities and interests, bearing upon
the practice and science of medicine, Dr. Adami was chosen
president of the City Improvement League in 1909, and was elected
vice president of the University Club in the same year. He holds
membership in the St. James Club, and in the Savile Club of
London.
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