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He has been recognized by medical and scien- 

 tific societies in this country and abroad. Five 

 years ago he was given an appreciation ban- 

 quet by the Chicago Odontographic Society. 

 Among the delegates were many from distant 

 places in the United States, and gifts were re- 

 ceived from this and foreign countries. 



In 1912, he was the recipient of the Miller 

 prize of the International Dental Federation. 

 Dr. Black was the first to receive this medal, 

 and the award was made to him because of his 

 researches and work in many branches of 

 dental science. The medal was delivered per- 

 sonally by Floristan Aguilar, of Madrid. 



At Northwestern, he found a school of mod- 

 erate equipment which he built up until it 

 acquired a world-wide reputation, and it has 

 become in size one of the largest, if not the 

 largest in the country. His former pupils are 

 scattered over the world — in almost every 

 civilized country — in America, in Europe, 

 Asia, Africa and Australia. He is one of the 

 outstanding great figures in professional edu- 

 cation in this city. 



His two great works are " Dental Anatomy " 

 and " Operative Dentistry," which are stand- 

 ards in dental schools of to-day. 



A. W. Haeris 



Northwestern University 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 

 Selected Papers. Surgical and Scientific, from 

 the writings of EosweU Park, late Professor 

 of Surgery in the University of Buffalo and 

 Surgeon-in-Chief to the Buffalo General 

 Hospital. With a memoir by Charles C. 

 Stockton, M.D. Published by the Courier 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y. 1914. Pp. 381. 

 No finer memorial could exist for EosweU 

 Park, surgeon, scientist, litterateur, historian 

 and educator, than this book of papers selected 

 from the huge list of writings, the bibliography 

 of which shows the extent of his surgical in- 

 terests. 



These selected papers, including one of Dr. 

 Park's earliest, as well as the very latest paper 

 prepared by him, portray vividly how during 

 his thirty-six most active years his surgical 

 and scientific interests developed and ex- 



panded. Especially does one wonder at the 

 amount of work accomplished during the last 

 five years of his life as shown by the output of 

 no less than twenty-one important papers, each 

 of which bears evidence of active laboratory 

 research and hours of library study. 



Many of these papers are distinctly technical 

 in character, but whether discussing the intri- 

 cate details of a difiicult surgical technic or 

 the results of laboratory researches, Dr. Park 

 never loses sight of the ultimate aim of sur- 

 gical technic and laboratoiy findings — their 

 humanitarian significance. 



One is particularly impressed with the keen 

 intellect, which, in the midst of large surgical 

 activities and the stress of ill-health, could 

 study and digest such scientific details, along 

 other than his own special lines of research, as 

 are included in the references listed after the 

 paper " Of What Does the Universe Consist ? " 

 His interest in radioactivity, however, is but 

 one of the many instances in which he made 

 an absorbing study of some new physical or 

 chemical discovery, that he might diseern its 

 widest clinical application. 



One must read between the lines of these 

 papers the important part played by Dr. Park 

 himself in the researches which he discusses. 

 Another writer of the history of carcinoma, 

 for example, would carry his account to a later 

 date and would not fail to speak of Dr. Park 

 as the prime mover in the establishment of the 

 Gratwick Laboratory, now the New York State 

 Laboratory and Hospital for the study of Ma- 

 lignant Diseases. So also in writing of " The 

 Present Status of Antiseptic Surgery" and 

 the " Primary Antiseptic Occlusion and Treat- 

 ment of Gunshot Wounds," another writer 

 would speak with enthusiasm of Dr. Park's 

 early acceptance of the principle of antisepsis, 

 and of his studies of infections, which were 

 the prime reason for his appointment to de- 

 liver the Miitter Lectures on Surgical Pathol- 

 ogy at Philadelphia in 1892. 



The brief biography by Dr. Charles T. 

 Stockton is satisfying in its delineation of 

 those periods and experiences in Dr. Park's 

 life which contributed most to make him the 

 man whom his fellow citizens, his pupils, his 



