Abstract
ENTERORRHAPHY; ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUE AND PRESENT STATUS. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Delivered at the Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the National Guard of the United States, Chicago, August 8,1893. BY N. SENN, M.D.,Ph.D., LL.D. President, Association of Military Surgeons of the National Guard of the United States; Professor of Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Rush Medical College; Professor of Surgery, Chicago Policlinic; Attending Surgeon Presbyterian Hospital; Surgeon-in-Chief St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago. A study of surgical literature brings the conviction that the successful treatment by direct operative intervention of injuries and surgical affections of the intestinal tract is one of the most brilliant achievements of modern surgery. Less than fifty years ago many of the most famous surgeons regarded the direct treatment of wounds of the intestines as anoli me tangere, under the belief that nature's resources would prove more successful in saving the life of the