DEVELOPMENT IN NINETEENTH CENTURY 381 



The excision of joints and necrosed bone. 



The amputation of diseased members. 



The cure of aneurism. 



The removal of cerebral and spinal neoplasms. 



The reduction of mortality in all surgical diseases. 



The entire removal of mortality in some surgical diseases. 



The restoration of health and reason. 



The salvation of human life. 



Surely, Mr. President, and fellow members of the International 

 Congress of the Arts and Science, the great science to which we 

 have devoted our talents and our lives, the science which kindles 

 our enthusiasm, and of whose achievement we are justly proud, 

 our science of surgery during the past century has come as a bene- 

 diction upon the human family, second to none which the century 

 has spoken. Its benefits cannot be measured by words, or realized 

 in thought. We are apt to speak of it as a human achievement. 

 In one sense, so it is; but it is come in the orderings of an all-wise 

 Providence; and with grateful hearts we acknowledge it as a gift 

 and blessing from the Almighty Father to His suffering children in 

 the world. 



