Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Presbyterian Hospital of the City of Chicago Bulletin, 1940, Vol. 32 Several members of the Medical Staff were speakers at professional meetings on the West Coast in December. Dr. Vernon C. David and Dr. A. H. Mont gomery addressed the Western Surgical Society, and Dr. H. L. Kretschmer spoke before a joint meeting of the Los Angeles Medical and Urological Societies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.