His name is written in the history of his adopted State and embalmed in the traditions of its people. Their names are written in the chronicles of their beloved calling and upon the hearts of myriads of sufferers whom their beneficent labors have relieved. They may or may not have felt that their work was durable. But durable it is, and it hands down to posterity a _monumentum aere perennius_, the absolute worth of which passes computation. No present or future modification of this work can rob its authors of that glory which crowns the head of the original workman. Like their kinsmen in genius, these toilers devised measures and dealt with issues in advance of their time. Like them they enjoyed but scant recompense for labors the far-reaching significance of which they did not comprehend. Let us who are reaping in the harvest which they sowed forget not how much we are beholden to these immortal husbandmen. And as we contemplate the shining record of their deeds, let it counsel us to "bend ourselves to a better future." Not that we may hope to rival their sublime achievements, but that each in his walk, however humble it may be, may strive to enlarge the sphere of his usefulness by making surgery the better for his having practiced it. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Gross's Report on Kentucky Surgery. Gross's Medical Biography. L. P. Yandell's Report on the Medical Literature of Kentucky. L. P. Yandell's Life of Benjamin W. Dudley. Transcriber's Note: Page 27 The dot above the "i" in _fungus cerebri_ is not evident in the original publication. End of Project Gutenberg's Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky, by David W. Yandell