Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...
...Elliott C. Cutler '09, Moseley professor of Surgery at the Medical School and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Peter Rent Brigham Hospital, was elected President of the Alumni Association for the current academic year at a meeting of the directors at the Harvard Club of Boston last night...
...Committee to Nominate Overseers, Directors and Members of the Harvard Fund Council, was named Chairman of this committee, to serve for three years, are Robert E. Goodwin '01, of Boston, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hear; Dr. William B. Parsons '10, of New York, surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; and John E. Toulmin '25, of Boston, Vice-President of the First National Bank of Boston...
...maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know...
...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...