None of the errors were gross nor were they serious in any way. Gentlemen, I have been to confession to you tonight and confession always chastens the spirit. We all have ideas on subjects and in fields that interest us, but, to paraphrase a sentence of Claude Bernard, we must so hold those ideas as to be willing always to submit them to facts and be ready to modify and even abandon them, if our observation of facts points convincingly in that direction. Results are facts and to results we must

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... submit our surgical ideas, if we hope to advance surgically.