 In 1914, at a meeting of the International Surgical Association, he was elected president for the meeting of 1917.After 1894, he was foreign corresponding member of the "Société de Chirurgie de Paris", the "Société Belge de Chirurgie", and the Clinical Society of London; honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the German Society of Surgery, the Palermo Surgical Society, and the "Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft" and associate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.He published