'OU cannot imagine with what pleasure I received the invitation of your wonderful association to come to New Orleans to read this paper. All my expectations of the wonders of your country have been fully realized, even in this very hurried trip. Many of you, I have got to know and like during the war on the other side of the Atlantic, so that the characteristics of professional men from all parts of your continent are known to me. The delight of your company is no new thing to me. There is one of my expectations in which I am slightly disappointed. It mattered not where a surgeon or dental surgeon came from because each one

claimed that his was God's country. One of my English colleagues in reply to this said that he wasn't quite sure God had ever even heard of, I think it was, Atlanta.

In our short span of life, we cannot help greatly in the elevation of the art of our professions; but, should we, by force of circumstances, stumble across something new, something progressive, it behooves us to ventilate the deductions, to leave an antemortem legacy to our professional successors, upon which future progress may be built. The principles on which our life's work for the health and happiness of the community depends, precludes the patent

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