title: The Surgical Clinics during the 1920s.
abstract: In the 1920s the Surgical Clinics became an established feature of American surgery. Five articles from the Clinics of this period are reproduced here. The articles provide a cross section of that era's surgical thoughts. The articles are William James Mayo's "Splenic Syndromes"; George W. Crile's "The Factors that Govern the Surgical Mortality of Operations for Hyperthyroidism"; Frank H. Lahey's "Modern Conceptions and Management of Biliary Tract Disease"; Allen B. Kanavel and Sumner L. Koch's "Preoperative and Postoperative Care of Patients"; and W. Wayne Babcock's "Operative Decompression of Aortic Aneurysm by Carotid-Jugular Anastomosis".
authors.affiliation: Freehold Area Hospital, New Jersey.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Rutkow
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States