1915

Matas delivers annual oration of Miss. State Med. Assn. on “The Soul of the Surgeon” – his reply to G.B. Shaw and other popular attacks on surgeons (Cohn, 336, 347-48). Formation of National Board for Medical Examiners, a voluntary licensing board whose examination, it was hoped, would by recognized by the states as qualifying for their license (Stevens, 62-63).