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Mayo (WILLIAM JAMES surgeon born)

WILLIAM JAMES, surgeon; born at Le Sueur, Minn., in 1861, received his preparatory education at Niles Academy, and graduated as M. D. from University of Michigan in 1883. He engaged in the practice at Rochester and became surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital from 1889. Later regent of the University of Minnesota and president of the Minnesota State Medical Society. The clinic established by himself and brother Charles has gained world-wide celebrity, and thousands of operations take place there annually, particularly for cancer, goiter, gallstones, and intestinal diseases.

The papers issued from the clinic are read eagerly in the medical world.

MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDI- CAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, established in February, 1915, by the two famous surgeons, Dr. William J. and Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. In the course of the preceding quarter of a MAYONNAISE century these two surgeons had gained an international reputation, established probably the most modern equipped of all hospitals, and a private laboratory unexcelled in America. The hospital and laboratories, valued at considerably over a million dollars, were given to the University of Minnesota, and the entire research school placed under the control of the regents of the State. The opportunities thus afforded for research are greatly increased and to-day it is doubtful if anywhere in the world there is done better medical research work.

MAYONNAISE (mā-yo-naz'), a thick cold sauce for salads, cold meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, etc., made of the yolks of eggs, salad oil and vinegar, with a little salt, cayenne pepper, and jelly; it is sometimes colored red with powdered lobster coral, or green with spinach or parsley.