The European Discovery of American Surgery Volume 1: Land of Unlimited Possibilities
This volume is the first of two that, together, include twenty-six articles written
by European surgeons who visited America prior to the First World War.
Volume 1 provides background about nineteenth-century European-American
surgical relationships and the massive European immigration to America that
included some influential surgeons. This is followed by reports from nine
surgeons who visited 1901-1907, translated into English, each with details about
the original article, a brief author biography, and numerous annotations to
clarify unfamiliar persons or concepts.
Volume 2 adds reports from fourteen European surgeons who visited 1908-
1913, with similar source information, biographies, and annotations. Other
surgical and medical visitors to America during this time are briefly discussed.
Finally, the April 1914 International Surgical Society Congress in New York
is described, followed by reports from three more surgeons who attended the
Congress and participated in a tour of American surgical centers that followed it.