South America, amplified to include all of Latin America : the Vandyck cruise / by Franklin H. Martin ; introduction by William J. Mayo.

  • Martin, Franklin H. (Franklin Henry), 1857-1935.
Date:
1927
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Credit: South America, amplified to include all of Latin America : the Vandyck cruise / by Franklin H. Martin ; introduction by William J. Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD HE notes which appear on the following pages were gath¬ ered during visits to Latin-American countries in behalf A of the American College of Surgeons. The first voyage, in company with Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minnesota (then President of the College), was begun on January 7, 1920. We sailed from New York on the SS. Ebro, an 8,000- ton steel ship flying the British flag, and our itinerary included Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. On January 29, 1921, we again sailed from New York on the SS. Ebro. On this occasion Dr. Thomas J. Watkins, of Chicago (a Governor of the College), accompanied us, and we included in our itinerary all of the countries visited the previous year, with the addition of Brazil. Dr. Francis P. Corrigan, of Cleveland, a Fellow of the College, had preceded us on our second visit, in 1921, for the purpose of surveying medical conditions in Ecuador and Bolivia, and he made an official visit in 1922 to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Panama. In the early months of 1922, Dr. Albert J. Ochsner (then President-elect of the College) and Dr. William J. Mayo visited some of the larger cities of Mexico, and Dr. Edward I. Salisbury, of Denver, made an official trip in behalf of the College to Colombia, Venezuela, and Cuba. Dr. Salisbury also visited, in the spring of 1924, Cuba, Guatemala, El Sal¬ vador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Porto Rico, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela; and in 1925 Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, and Cuba. On February 10, 1923, representatives of the College from thirty-five states of the United States and five provinces of Canada sailed from New York on the SS. Vandyck and visited Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina; and fifty members of the Cruise party crossed the Andes and returned to New York by way of Chile, Peru, and Panama. This little volume, therefore, is actually a collaboration, my own notes being supplemented by excerpts from articles by Dr. William J. Mayo and Dr. Thomas J. Watkins, from an [ix]