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ITALY: Mussolini Trionfante

Upon the Capitoline, smallest of Rome's seven hills, Premier Mussolini spoke last week in a mood of fervent exaltation before the International Congress of Surgeons.

"Oh, illustrious masters of the surgical art! It is through you that medical science has achieved its greatest and most glorious conquests throughout the centuries! . . . Italia, Italia bella was the cradle of your art. With the Italian Renaissance surgery attained one of its most transcendent periods through the labors of Vesalius Paracelsus and Pare . . . Ah, but...

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