436 BAYARD HOLMES 



As pioneers in this work in America must also be men- 

 tioned Weir, Sands, Worcester, Marcy, Fowler, Mynter and 

 Richardson. 



It is not alone in priority of operations and procedures 

 that American surgeons have made their greatest achieve- 

 ments, but in the methods of early diagnosis of surgical disease, 

 the prompt, rational and early removal of the sources of danger 

 by an operation of short duration under the briefest anesthesia 

 and with a minimum incision and laceration of tissue. The 

 need of Hgating large blood vessels, the opportunity of remov- 

 ing large ovarian tumors or calcified extrauterine fetuses, the 

 occasion for terrible plastic operations, are superseded by 

 early, trifling, common operations following early diagnosis 

 and rational intervention. No other country possesses a 

 larger body of more capable, conscientious and reliable sur- 

 geons whose every day achievements compare favorably with 

 those of any similar body in Europe. 



