1919

Howard Kelly resigns from Hopkins, with Thomas Cullen appointed his successor as head of Department of Gynecology (Robinson, 295; Davis, 103-112), and led fight to prevent gynecology from being absorbed in obstetrics under J. Whitridge Williams, who turned down professorship in NY on condition that most of the clinical material allotted to gynecology under Kelly would be turned over to obstetrics, with gynecology receiving a new clinic building, as planned in 1920. The planned building would allow gynecology less space “by a fifth” than it had been occupying since 1896 (294ff.).