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REVERDIN, of Geneva, belonged to the French school, 

 and is famous for his method of skin grafting, and for his 

 needle which is still extensively used in France. 



Many of the French surgeons who have contributed 

 so largely to the advances in aseptic surgery are still 

 living or have died only in recent years. TERRIER 

 (1837-1908) contributed extensively to the development 

 of abdominal surgery, especially to the operative treat- 

 ment of gall-stone disease. BERGER (1845-1908) was 

 best known for his operative treatment of fracture 

 of the patella and interscapulothoracic amputation. 

 RECLUS has taken a leading part in the development of 

 local anaesthesia. For twenty years he has performed 

 about two thirds of the operations in his clinic at the 

 Hotel-Dieu under local anaesthesia. JABOULAY, of Lyon, 

 showed the relation between the cervical sympathetic 

 ganglia and the thyroid gland, and introduced cervical 

 sympathectomy for the treatment of exophthalmic 

 goitre. Felix LEJARS is one of the ablest surgical anat- 

 omists of the day. His book on emergency surgery 

 has been translated into many languages. Edmund 

 DELORME (1847-) nas been a prominent figure in 

 French military surgery, and introduced the operation 

 of pulmonary decortication in chronic empyema. DOYEN 

 (d. 1917) was a brilliant operator, and is well known for 

 his numerous improvements in operative technique and 

 as the inventor of a number of valuable surgical instru- 

 ments. His magnificent private hospital, excelled by 

 none in its equipment, was in 1917 placed at the disposal 

 of the American Red Cross, under Dr. J. A. Blake. 



The names of the leaders in surgery of today will be found 

 in the list of the staff members of the Paris hospitals. 



Instruction. The opportunities for graduate work in 

 surgery that attract the American student to France 



