The Fibroblast — A Ubiquitous Ally for the Surgeon

Abstract

HAVING grown up, medically speaking, and lived for thirty years in the sunlight and shadows of Shattuck Street before moving westward, I am especially pleased and deeply honored to deliver the seventy-third annual Shattuck Lecture. George Cheyne Shattuck, the elder, for whom this lecture is named, was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1836 to 1840, the very years during which Theodor Schwann, peering through an early light microscope, was identifying and describing "the fibre-cells of areolar tissue" that are the subject of my lecture. Today, a hundred and twenty-odd years later, the study of connective tissue embraces all . . .