New technique in the surgical treatment of severe and progressive deafness from otosclerosis

In beginning this address, I should like first of all to express my gratitude to Dr. Fowler for the honor of being asked by him to give you my opinion on one of the most difficult and arduous problems in our specialty. I should also like to express to him, and all of you, who saw service in France, my great appreciation for the sympathy that was shown to the Country to which you came to succour in a time of great distress. You abandoned your firesides, your occupations and your interests; that is a thing which a Frenchman cannot forget, and that he likes to recall.