The British Journal of Surgery, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The British Journal of Surgery, Vol. 3: July 1915 to April 1916, Numbers 9 to 12 We enter to-day upon our third year. Twelve months ago we gave an account of our success, of the welcome which had been so cordially extended to us by all our contemporaries, and of our hopes and ambitions for the future. We had frankly confessed the chief fault, as it seemed to us, of British surgery: the rigid isolation of the individual surgeon within a hospital community which itself was too often shut off from intercourse with other similar bodies practising the same art, under the same conditions, within the same country. We indicated the signs which caused us to hope that this aloofness - only a manifestation, perhaps, of our insular shyness - was beginning to break down, and that a real desire for free intellectual traffic was declaring itself here and there, with results which promised much for the cause of surgery. It was evident also that a taste was quickly developing among us all for brief visits to our Continental colleagues, for the purpose of seeing the work of the best surgical clinics, of studying the methods there practised, and of discovering the raw material in the minds of those who fashioned from it the thoughts destined to guide our future progress. Just as the individual surgeon was realizing that nothing but good can come from frequent intercourse with his colleagues, so we as a nation were learning that the thinkers or workers in other lands had a message to give us, and a lesson which we might profitably learn. It has long been admitted that the British contribution to science, whether in surgery or elsewhere, lies in the suggestion of new ideas. The British mind Is original. But instances will at once occur to everyone of our neglect, indeed our spurning, of our own new thoughts. It was Disraeli who said that what the British instinctively disliked was not that which was new, but that which was newfangled. Contact with other minds differently constituted from our own, and moulded by other methods, must result in a better appreciation of our own views and ideas, and in a more worthy and purposeful use of them. The mind of France, with its serene austere logic, can give discipline to our strange, fresh, and often unbridled thoughts, for logic is the minds astringent. France, we know, is the soil upon which many of the great intellectual conflicts have been and are still being fought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.