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American Surgeons Celebrate Ether Day. A feature of the clinical mngms of the American College of Surgeons, recently held in Boston, was the celebration of Ether Day in the Dome Room of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the building in which ether was given for the first time as an anesthetic during an operation on Oct. 16, 1846. A bronze bust of Dr. William T. A. Morton, the man whois generally credited withbeing the discoverer of ether as an anesthetic and who performed this first operation under ether 82 years ago, was presented to the hospital. A number of distinguished foreign surgeons were guests of the College, among them Prof. Vittorio Putti of Bologna, Italy, who delivered the John B. Murphy oration an surgery. S i r Squire Sprigge, editor of The Lancet, the journal of the British medical profession, gave the Hunterian oration and had conferred on him the Honorary Fellowship of the College. Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicam, the president-elect. Dr. George David stewart of New York, the retiring president,-and Dr. ~ i l l i a m J. Msyo of Rochester, Minn., also addressed the general meetings of the college. Surgical clinics were held in Boston hospitals during the week, when the latest a i d best methods of performing operations were demonstrated by the leading surgeons of America.-Science Scm'ce
