New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-12
Enrolment Will Exceed That OF
Any Scientific Gathering
in America.
1000 NOW REGISTERED
Clinical Work Great Feature
Occasion, Although Speech
Making Takes Up the
First Evening,

one thousand OF the country's foremost
surgeons greeted DR.. Abraham Jacob,
dean of the medical profession In Amer
lea, when he stepped upon the stage In
the grand ballroom OF the Waldorf last
night, opened the first meeting OF the
Clinical Congress of Surgeons Of North
America, whose third annual session pc
gan in this city yesterday. AS the other
prominent guests of the evening nleu
upon the stage the applause became con-
tinuous receiving an appreciate impetus
with the advent of DR.. ]. B. Murphy, the
eminent Chicago surgeon, who recently
attended ex-President Roosevelt after ne
was shot in Milwaukee.
The meeting brought together about
half of the surgeons, who sWarmed over
the city all day yesterday, attending more
than one hundred and thirty clinics at
practically every hospital and In num-
Der OF private operating rooms More
than two thousand members of the pro-
fesson visited the registration bureau in
the Waldorf up to the closing hour last
night, representing what DR.. George H.
Brewer, chairman Of the reception COM
mittee, characterized as the greatest
gathering of surgeons ever brought 10
gether for scientific purposes in any part
OF the world.
The first congress was held in Chicago
two years ago. In Philadelphia last year
twelve hundred surgeons were In attend
ance, but It is confidently expected that
the present session will more than double
that total.
The object OF the congresses. as eA-
planned by Dr. Brewer In his address Oh
welcome last night. is not TO produce
anything spectacular or unusual III the
realm of surgery, but TO allow the mem
bers of the profession to see each other
at work in the ordinary routine OF duty
and to give the younger members an OPP
portunity TO witness the methods Oh the
greatest surgeons of the land.
The important part Of the congress 10
the clinics, Of which nearly one thou-
sand are scheduled for the week DURING
which IT will run. Six literary meetings
have been arranged for the evenings oil
the week, at which scientific papers VIII
be read by the leading practitioners Of the
congress and several prominent guests
from abroad.
The programme last night included Dr'
Edward Martin. OF Philadelphia, the new
~ elected president OF the congress on
treatment Of Hepatc Cirrhosis' Dr.
Alonzo T.. Taylor. OF Philadelphia, on
surgical Bearings OF the Bio-ChemlsuS
nj the Liver" and DR.. William j. Mayo
tSnTRprY OF the
spleen" Dr.. Arthur Dean Bevan, OF chi
cago. and DR.. Charles II. Peck, oil this
city, discussed the last two papers.
DUTY Of Surgeon to Society"
DR.. Albert ]. Ochsner, president OF inc
Augustine Hospital, Chicago, as the re-
firing president Of the organization de-
liyered an address on the duty OF the
modern surgeon to society before the
technical part Of the programme was
reached last night lie said in part:
This great city has been one OF the
worlds surgical centres for several Senr
erations but II has never stood SO hlsli
as IL does to-day The keynote OF moo,
ern surgery Is service. Inc personal
achievement which does not contain an
element OF service to-day must De classed
as undeserying of reward
This service must not only dement, the
individual but to larger degree IL must
be of benefit 10 the community. II TINS
congress were only TO further the per
sonal interests OF the surgeons who at
tend IL | should look upon II as dire
failure Inspiration and enthusiasm are
the sirst essentials In the practice or our
profession to-day, and they are what
such a gathering as this aims TO give.
The Lest surgeons Of this country have
acquired most OF their efficiency. judged
by these standards. after leaving medlcai
school II We should select the ten men
highest i'm their profession I'm this country,
/ venture TO say that not four Of them
would have received university degrees
before entering upon the study OF medi-
cine
These facts will not apply 10 the next
generation because the students Of the
future Will be surrounded by better condi-
lions than those against which we have
struggled but they do apply to our gem
Grafton.
Or. Ochsner abandoned the stage TO the
new president. Or. Martin, who introduced
the guests on the platform to the gather
ing. Professor Otfrid Forester OF Bres-
Iau, was the first to make his bow.
Three cheers for the brotherhood OF
the profession" shouted Or. Martin, and
I'm body the audience rose to give them.
Then followed DR.. w. Arbuthnot Lane.
OF London; DR.. Abraham Jacob and Or.
J. g. Murphy, who bestowed high praise
on DR. Franklin II. Martin, secretary of
the congress for his splendid work In
organizing the movement. DR.. Robert +.
Wier. OF this city, and DR.. J. A. Wither-
spoon. OF Nashville, president-elect Of
the American Medical Association, COM
pleted the list of introductions. DR..
Wltherspoon assured the gathering that
the American Medical Association was
proud OF her child, the Surgeons OF North
America.
The clinics will be continued to-day,
according 10 a schedule to be given out
this morning at the Waldorf. Not all the
clinics are operative, demonstrations In
radiology, surgical pathology and kin
dred subjects taking up portion of the
programme About one hundred of yes
terday's clinics employed the knife, mean
ing a total Of between 800 and 400 opera
tons.
1t was announced last night that Dr.
Alexis Carrel, winner of this years Nobel
prize I'm surgery, would give hourly clinics
at the Rockefeller Institute during the
rest OF the week. Another interesting
feature will be the intrathoracic opera
lions in DR.. Willy Meyers pneumatic
room attached to the German Hospital.
The spread OF professionalism among
the fair sex was indicated by the fact
that 3l5 of those who registered at the
congress yesterday were women. There
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