In Philadelphia

In Philadelphia last week the American College of Surgeons met. Speeches were made by Dr. Charles H. Mayo, retiring President; Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, incoming president; Sir William Arbuthnot Lane of London; Right Honorable Lord Dawson of Penn, physician-in-ordinary to the King of England; Professor Vittorio Putti of Bologna.

Dr. Mayo read a diatribe against "surgeons who put men and women on the operating table and carve them up before they have time to consult a specialist." He declared that the graduate nurse of today possibly knows more than did the family doctor of half a century ago.

Dr. Young of Johns Hopkins told of his experiments with mercurochrome, blood disinfectant, with which modern surgeons try to do what the old-time leeches did with their lancet and basin--purify the blood stream. Degrees were given by the University of Pennsylvania to Lord Dawson and Sir Arbuthnot Lane.