1903

Cushing, Wm. Mayo, and A. J. Ochsner found Society of Clinical Surgery, which they had first planned at Paris in August, 1900 (Thomson, 142; Fulton, 169, 231-32); Crile claims the idea was his, which he first related to Jim Mumford (Crile I, 140-143, 231-232). Founding of Hunterian Laboratory of comparative surgery at Johns Hopkins, where Cushing and residents did surgery on dogs (Thomson, 146-153; Fulton, 217-222). Simon Flexner leaves University of Pennsylvania., which lagged behind in experimental medical sciences, to assume directorship of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in NY (Corner, 205-209).