American College of Surgeons - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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XIV American College of Surgeons Texas .... James E. Thompson Bacon Saunders Utah .... Samuel C. Baldwin J.W.AiRD Vermont . John B. Wheeler Alan Davidson Virginia . Stuart McGuire Southgate Leigh Washington . James B. Eagleson Henry B. Luhn West Virginia Frank LeMoyne Hupp Arthur P. Butt Wisconsin Gilbert E. Seaman Curtis A. Evans Wyoming . WiLLARD C. Foster Herbert T. Harris Owing to the absence of a large number of surgeons from Canada on account of the war, no vote was taken in the provinces of Canada.

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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS Alabama . Arizona Arkansas . California Colorado . Connecticut Delaware . District of Columbia Florida Georgia Idaho . Illinois Indiana . Iowa . Kansas Kentucky . . Louisiana Maine M aryland . Massachusetts Michigan . Minnesota Mississippi Missouri . Montana Nebraska . New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio . . . Oklahoma . Oregon Pennsylvania . Rhode Island . South Carolina South Dakota . Tennessee . MEMBER Francis G. DuBose John Elmer Bacon St. Cloud Cooper Emmet Rixfoiu) William W. Grant Joseph Marshall Flint James A. Draper James F. Mitchell Carey P. Rogers William S. Elkin William F. Howard D. A. K. Steele Joseph Rilus Eastman Charles J. Rowan George M. Gray J. Garland Sherrill Frederick W. Parham William L. Cousins Joseph C. Bloodgood Edward H. Bradford Benjamin R. Schenck James E. Moore Harley R. Shands John F. Binnie Thomas C. Witherspoon John P. Lord John Martin Gile Gordon K. Dickinson Charles H. Peck John W. Long Robert D. Campbell William E. Lower LeRoy Long K. A. J. Mackenzie Robert G. LeConte John William Keefe Robert S. Cathcart Frederick A. Sp afford RuTus E. Fort xiii ALTERNATE William McD. Mastin Francis Eppes Shine William V. Laws Henry H. Sherk Charles A. Powers Arthur N. Alling John Palmer, Jr. J. Wesley Bovee Raymond C. Turck William S. Goldsmith Charles R. Mowery Charles E. Kahlke Edwin Walker W. W. Pearson Robert B. Stewart Orrin LeRoy Smith Louis Abramson William C. Peters John M. Hundley Charles F. Painter Reuben Peterson Donald C. Balfour John W. D. Dicks Fred T. Murphy John A. Donovan John E. Summers Frank E. Ejttredge Edward J. Ill George D. Stewart Hubert A. Roystkr Eric P. Quain Charles S. Hamilton Robert M. Howard Robert C. Coffey John J. Buchanan Roland Hammond Charles W. Kollock Gilbert G. Cottam John M. Maury

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General Survey HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE CLOSELY related to the advance made by the medical profession during the last decade is a movement initiated by the surgeons of this continent which finds its expression in the American College of Surgeons. The College is a society or a college in the original sense. Its purposes are to serve as an international force to keep before the profession and the general public of this continent a true conception of medicine as a social service; to advance especially the art and technique of surgery; and to advance the ideals in the practice of surgery, spiritual as well as intellectual. The College aims to include within its Fellowship those surgeons who are competent in the art and technique of surgery, and who have in them a fine sensitiveness of their debt to public service. The College developed directly out of a consciousness within the Chnical Congress of Surgeons, first, that such an organization would serve to inspire genuine advance, not only on the human or moral side of the practice of surgery, but also on the side of the art and technique; and, second, that it would serve as a safeguard to the pubhc in the matter of honest and competent practice of surgery. In the minds of these men the motive was to foster high professional ideals in medicine and to instruct the public as to what these ideals meant. This motive in November, 191 2, found constructive ex- pression. The Congress, at that time, appointed a committee of twelve to consider the advisability of organizing the College and it further empowered this committee to proceed with the organiza- tion if, after a thorough survey, such a step were deemed wise. Without delay the committee of twelve went about its task. It sought the advice and guidance of the surgeons of this continent who stood out pre-eminently as leaders in each of the divisions of surgery. It sought especially the counsel of the professors of sur- gery among the stronger medical schools. In March, 1913, so abundantly was the committee assured of the approval and support of these men that it issued a call for a meeting of the organization