American College of Surgeons - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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XVIU American College of Surgeons nova scotia Henry K. MacDonald Philip Weatherbe Irving H. CAirERON B. P. Watson ONTARIO D. J. GiBB WiSHART A. T. Shillington Hadley Williams prince EDWARD ISLAND Stephen Rice Jenkins QUEBEC James A. Hutchison W. W. Chipman Zephyr Rh£aume Edmond M. von Eberts

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Committees on Standards xvii James E. Thompson Bacon Saunders Frank Cooke Be all W. Launcelot Brown Samuel C. Baldwin J. W. AiRD TEXAS Ira Carleton Chase Howard R. Dudgeon John Thomas Moore UTAH Robert S. Joyce Harry N. Mayo Arthur Carroll Scott W. Burton Thorxing Charles Scott Venable Frederick Stauffer John B. Wheeler Alan DAvrosoN Stuart McGuire Southgate Leigh Robert C. Bryan James B. Eagleson Henry B. Luhn VERMONT Henry Crain Tinkham virginia Lomax Gwathmey Hugh Henry Trout WiLUAM W. ToWNSEND Stephen H. Watts achille murat wilus WASHINGTON George M. Horton Horace J. Whitacre Caspar Wistar Sharples Park Weed Willis west VIRGINIA Frank LeMoyne Hupp John Egerton Cannaday Robert Jeffrey Reed Arthur P. Butt William Wolfe Golden Gilbert E. Seaman Curtis A. Evans WISCONSIN F. Gregory Connell Edward Evans Reginald Henry Jackson John Lawrence Yates Willard C. Foster WYOMING Herbert Taylor Harris DOMINION OF CANADA Edgar W. Allin alberta LUDWIG 8. Mackid Frank H. Mewburn british columbia Alexander S. Monro Herbert W. Ricgs O. M. Jones Jasper Halpenny MANITOBA W. Harvey Smith W. A. BiGELOW new BRUNSWICK George C. Van Wart Walter W oodworth White

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GENERAL SURVEY HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE THE American College of Surgeons is a society of the Surgeons of the United States and of Canada. Its purposes are 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. In the admission of surgeons to its Fellowship the College aims to be democratic and with reasonable speed to accept all candidates who fulfill the standards of admission. In the four years of the life of the College its Directory has now become a public document of value, for it indicates what surgeons have been found qualified in their various specialties and where they are located. The College developed directly out of a consciousness within the Clinical 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. I