1925

Publication of Cushing’s Life of Osler (Oxford) (Thomson, 234ff.); Dandy’s advance in surgical treatment of trigeminal tic (tic douleureux) by exposing and sectioning the sensory root of the trigeminus through posterior cranial fossa (as opposed to the existing lateral temporal-fossa approach) (Crowe, 99-100). Florence Sabin becomes first woman Fellow of Rockefeller Institute (Morantz-Sanchez, p. 163). Henry Souttar (London), “a generation ahead of his time, performs successful finger dilation of mitral valve (Richardson, 102-03). Department of Surgery at University of Pennsylvania first department to introduce extended hospital training beyond internship via salaried fellowships of three years (Corner, 278).