Surgery in the Aged

Abstract

THE honor of delivering the fifty-ninth Shattuck Lecture has been given me, I take it, because of my recent appointment to the professorship of surgery in Tufts College Medical School. This pleasant and honorable task is a great responsibility, and I approach it realizing the difficulty I shall have in upholding the high tradition left by the long line of distinguished physicians who have preceded me.¹ The subject for this evening is surgery in the aged, a topic that to some degree will give consideration to an aspect of the diseases of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth in keeping with . . .