Transactions

ASSOCIATION

RAILWAY SURGEONS

Transactions of the Twenty-seventh Annual Session, held at the Hotel
McAlpin, Broadway and Thirty-fourth Street, New York
City, Thursday and Friday, November Eighth and
Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen

Organized October 27th, 1891

EDITED BY

DR. GEO. CHAFFEE

Little Meadows, Pa.

SURGERY PUBLISHING CO.
New York

1917

Copyrighted
1918

Surgery Publishing Co.

N. Y.

PREFACE

The twenty-seventh annual report of work done by the New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons is herewith presented.

The attendance at this session was perhaps as light as that of any session in the history of the Association. Several causes combined in leading up to this condition, chief of which was failure to notify members of a change in the date of holding the meeting.

The program, presenting a variety of subjects under Trauma as a symposium, was handled in a way that interested all of our members.

Papers by the Sharpe Brothers and by Robert T. Morris on "Brain and Cord Work" are practical and helpful. They bring important questions right up to the hour.

Addresses by Drs. Dunham and Ebeling, illustrating and setting forth in detail the principles and wonderful results of the Carrel-Dakin methods of treating infected wounds at the French Front, was perhaps the most attractive part of the program. What they gave our members is the very last word on this subject.

"Ether-oil Colonic Anesthesia," presented by Walter Lathrop, a recognized authority on this subject, giving his vast experience, is a most valuable and timely contribution.

Again our friends from the claim department, Mr. Rose and Mr. Whiting, have come forward gracefully and in a co-operative spirit have placed the Association under obligations to them by their very interesting addresses.

Considering the difficulties under which the program was secured and carried forward, we think the Association did very well indeed to make the good showing it has made at the time of the world's greatest conflict.