PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, WESTERN
RESERVE UNIVERSITY VISITING SURGEON TO THE LAKESIDE
HOSPITAL, CLEVELAND
IN response to numerous requests I have brought together into this
volume eight papers which may serve as a supplement to the
volumes previously published[*] and as a preface to monographs
now in preparation.
[*] Surgical Shock, 1899; Surgery of the Respiratory System,
1899; Problems Relating to Surgical Operations, 1901; Blood
Pressure in Surgery, 1903; Hemorrhage and Transfusion, 1909;
Anemia and Resuscitation, 1914; and Anoci-association, 1914
(with Dr. W. E. Lower).
In the first of these addresses, the Ether Day Address, delivered at
the Massachusetts General Hospital in October, 1910, I first
enunciated the Kinetic Theory of Shock, the key to which was
found in laboratory researches and in a study of Darwin's
"Expression of the Emotions in Man and in Animals," whereby the
