RT Journal
T1 ORation.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD June 17
VO XXXII
IS 24
SP 1343
OP 1350
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450510001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450510001001
AB ORATION ON SURGERY. 
    DELIVERED AT THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUNE 6-9, 1899.BY FLOYD W. McRAE, M.D.ATLANTA, GA.I have determined to follow the example of some of my worthy predecessors and not attempt a general review of the progress of surgery for the year, but to confine my discussion to certain points in the surgery of the alimentary canal, which had impressed me as being of greater interest to the profession. No startling discoveries in surgical science have been made, but there has been a steady advance all along the line in surgical practice. The more extended use of normal salt solution has continually demonstrated its life-saving properties so that it is now almost universally employed. The surgeon who would fail to give his patient the benefit of this valuable agent after a prolonged or bloody operation would be