Inaugural and presidential addresses / Franklin H. Martin.

  • Franklin Henry Martin
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[1928]
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    VI. Looking to Permanency Your speaker received many hints from the extensive discussion which, on careful study, offered a solution of the obvious difficulties, and gave promise of one more long advance in progress of organized surgery on our continent. The sub¬ stance of this plan was dictated to the public stenographer of the Twentieth Century on a journey from Chicago to New York, preliminary to the 1912 meeting. On arrival in New York, this plan was sub¬ mitted with feverish enthusiasm to John B. Murphy who was routed from his morning bath to receive the impatient emissary. Dr. Murphy, clothed in a bath towel, reluctantly scanned the improvised plan. As he read, his expression grew more and more sympathetic, and as he finished, he enthusiastically asked the privilege of second¬ ing and supporting the plan when it was sub¬ mitted at the mass meeting of the Clinical Congress. The prospectus was then submitted (not with¬ out fear and trembling) to our autocratic Presi¬ dent, Edward Martin. Meanwhile, the document had been put into the form of a resolution, which provided for the appointment of a committee of twelve, with power to act, which should proceed toward the perfection of the new organization which was to be closely allied with the Clinical Congress and would aid it in controlling the personnel of its members, its clinicians, and its moral and ethical regulations. Friday afternoon, November 15, 1912, the plan was presented by your speaker to two thousand of the surgeons in attendance at the Congress. Doctor John B. Murphy seconded the resolution which recommended a plan for the organization of an American College of Surgeons. President Edward Martin lost no time in urging the importance of the movement, and with a few So
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