Surgical Delusions and Follies: A Revision of the Address in Surgery for 1884 of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania

by John Bingham Roberts

Excerpt from Surgical Delusions and Follies: A Revision of the Address in Surgery for 1884 of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania
This diminutive volume contains the Address which I was appointed to prepare for the thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, augmented by a number of paragraphs on kindred topics that have for the most part appeared in the columns of the "Polyclinic." Of those who honor these pages with perusal, many will doubtless find much that is trite; but others will perhaps discover that they have been suffering from some of the delusions or committing some of the follies described. Had I not believed that such was the case, the Address would never have been written.

65 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2013

About the author

Dr. John Bingham Roberts (Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1874) was a second-generation plastic surgeon and one of the founders of Philadelphia Polyclinic and the College for Graduates of Medicine, where he taught anatomy and surgery; both facilities became part of the University of Pennsylvania in 1918. From 1890 to 1900 he was professor of surgery at the Women’s Medical College. The congenital autosomal recessive collection of deformities known as "Roberts' pseudothalidomide syndrome" is named for him.