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The Orthograde Venous Autograft and AllograftPresidential Address
Thomas J. Donovan, MD
Arch Surg. 1988;123(10):1191-1195.
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Nature's Laws Are God's Thoughts. This imposing motto crowned the entrance to the biology building at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me, in the fall of 1940. It remains among my four favorite aphorisms. Mounted on the wall of the histology room in the Anatomy Department at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1943, an old Dutch couplet, translated by Charles Minot, admonished: What good will light or lenses be, if owlets look but will not see? Around the ceiling of the foyer in the Vanderbilt Hall Dormitory at Harvard was Louis Pasteur's dictum: Dans les champs de l'observation, le hasard favorise les esprits prepare. In short: cultivate insight, make accurate observations, and evaluate critically the significance of ideas.
During my two years at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Md, 1947 to 1949, a homograft bank was established and the plaque over the entrance to the room announced: "Ex Morte, Vita."
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Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, Hartford (Conn) Hospital and the University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington, Conn.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 18, 1988.
Presented as the presidential address at the 14th Annual Meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery, Bretton Woods, NH, September 11, 1987.
Reprint requests to 110 Westland St, Manchester, CT 06040 (Dr Donovan).
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