Medicine: Stunting Surgeons

Something about Cleveland—the eminence of Dr. George Washington Crile, the amplitude of the Cleveland Hospitals group, the tight little neatness of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the excellence of hotel liquor—gave a district meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Cleveland last week a newsworthy lustre which recent meetings of the same kind in Kansas City, Birmingham and St. Paul lacked. The surgeons last week chiefly wanted laymen to know about the desperate financial plight of U. S. hospitals. But newsgatherers were more interested in the following surgical stunts:

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