Inaugural and presidential addresses / Franklin H. Martin.

  • Franklin Henry Martin
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[1928]
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    knew, better than we knew. Thus miracles were in the making. In substance, George said to Harvey: “Let us, as a group, get together and watch one another operate. Let us criticize, talk out in meeting, and each get the standpoint of the other. Let each of us know what all of us know, and let us take our knowledge at first hand from those who are doing things rather than from those who are talking and writing about them.” And thus the Society of Clinical Surgery was organized in July, 1903, an act that gave to the surgery of the world and to the conservation of surgical patients, the greatest impulse since the work of Pasteur and Lister. It taught a group of leaders the best methods current, not only in the United States, but in all civilized countries. Such advantages could not remain exclusive. Other surgical specialists imitated. One clinic and another were established; they welcomed those who wished to observe the work of others, and became the mecca for aspiring surgeons. II. Stimulation of Clinical Literature This was the soil that was being fertilized, a fallow field with possibilities of a great crop. Your speaker became interested in this pro¬ gressive movement as he sat one day at a popular clinic, the guest of the Society of Clinical Surgery. What a marvelous spectacle—the earnest interest of these leaders from all of our great clinical centers, their constructive criticisms, and the instructive replies; in the amphitheater the eager faces of a hundred other surgeons not members of this Society, men from the provincial towns of the United States and Canada, who were also welcomed to this clinic. Later, at the informal round table, all fore-gathered to review the work of the morning and to enter into free discussion. Several years earlier, in 1905, Surgery, Gyne-
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