Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-08
Final Session Of the Pan-American
Medical Congress.
MANY PLEASANT SPEECHES MADE
Good Results of the Meeting Set
Forth.
OFF ON AN EXCU RSION.

| spective homes. Many Of them are leaving
direct for Chicago, especially the delegates
| from the Central and South American
states, to visit the fair, In order that they
! may have still more to talk about when
they get home.
Before they left the city they expressed
| themselves, almost to a man, as having
been wonderfully impressed with the dig
nifty and the actual value Of the sessions
of the congress. The opinion prevails
among local medical men that the congress
has been one Of the most successful gath
erings Of the profession ever held In this
| country. Composed as 1t was Of representa-
tive medical men Of the highest standing
from most of the countries OF North and
South America, it has in a real sense uni
fed the profession upon the entire western
hemisphere.
features in connection with the congress.
the fact that the delegates have all been
men Of such individual prominence and
standing that it has given the gathering
force and power that mere numbers
could not have done.
Gratihed mt It's Success.
To say that the men who were instrument
tai in organizing the congress are pleased
with the success Of 1t all Is to express a
truth but mildly. They feel that the con-
gress has accomplished from a practical
standpoint even more than was hoped from
1t In the beginning. For these results espe-
cial credit Is given to the department or
section OF hygiene, climatoiogy and demog-
raphy, which has been particularly active.
Their action. 1t Is true, Is Of an advisory
character, and the most they can do with
national matters Is to make suggestions,
but 1t Is not looked upon as unlikely that
some of their suggestions VIII bear fruit In
actual results. DR.. Albert L. Gihon. who
mas been prominently identified with this
section. told a Star reporter that never m
his long experience with such bodies had
he met with one which did SO much real
ana enthusiastic work. The doings Of this
section have been the most important, from
q general point Of view at least, because
| they have dealt with matters that are of VI
tai interest to the states that have had
their representatives in the congress
| Among matters Of this sort handled ny
| the Congress through the section was the
proposition to establish national DEPART
| ments of health in the different countries
| which shall have powers allied to those of
| the other executive departments. to deal
| with all questions Of sanitation that are of
| Importance to the people. The department ts
| are to be under the direction Of compe-
tent medical men, who are able to properly
| handle oil matters that shall come before
| them This resolution or suggestion was
| referred to the international executive oom-
mittee. and by 1t reported by a unanimous
/ vote favorably to the congress at its clos
| Ing session today. The resolution looking
| to the complete suppression Of immigration
| from cholera infected ports was abandoned
| as 1t was thought 1t dealt too much with
matters that should be left to the different
| countries separately. This mornins Dr.
| Gihon reported from the section Of hygiene
resolution concerning the matter Of fumi-
referred to the executive committee for .ts
| consideration.
When the congress adjourned today, II
was announced that the international cx-
| nyx,itt had ><nA ~.
| tion OF the government Of Mexico to hold
the next meeting in the City Of Mexico.
The meeting will be held either IN 1896 or
1897. the exact date being left to the execu-
| tive committee, SO that 1t shall not con-
| hict In any way with the next great in
ternational meeting Of the profession which
| IL to be held in Europe.
The Final Session.
| The final session of the congress began a
little after IL o'clock this morning There
was a larger attendance OF delegates than
| at any of the meetings since the first The
session was opened by an earnest and elo-
Quent prayer. delivered by DR.. Byron Sun
derland Of the First Presbyterian Church.
The gentleman from Rio de Janeiro, who
was to have delivered the general address
| Of the morning, was detained by the un-
certain condition of affairs at home and
the result was that there was no general
| address.
Prof. Garcias Of Colombia made a brief
but pleasant address on behalf OF his own
| country. His address, like that Of go many
of his colleagues from the south. was de-
livered in Spanish. In the course of his
remarks he said:
| Il regret that was unable to be here on
| time. We have congress on hand In our
| country at present and that is the reason
| why more of our most representative men
| OF my country are not present. On their
| behalf l tender you our congratulations
Tn, t6a nc ~ fho
| colleagues, i tender our thanks for the
| courteous invitation which you have extend.
| ed to us. and to the people Of your country
who have shown US SO many kindnesses
and hospitahttes."
| DR.. Valentines Address.
DR.. Ferd. c. Valentine, OK surgeon general
Of the Honduran army. but now the editor
of the Medical Press Of New York followed
in a more extended address In English. in
which he referred to the characteristics OF
his country, especially from a sanitary
standpoint In his address DR.. Valentine
said:
I'm the name Of the republic of Hon
duras I beg to thank you. thank yor
because you remember that It exists, .haI
ton in a conclave like this; that II Is no,
solely a land Of silver. gold. precions stones
hides. mahogany. rubber-commingled with
volcanic upheavals and political revolu
| -
II say this not in depreciation Of the
writer's whom the public -equires to make
descriptions readable which Is a euphemisn
for sensational-Applause cannot depre
cate my colleagues, because I am some
what Of journalist myself. Applause and
laughter) At least. SO I am called By
newspaper men and women when they
| would hatter me. Gaughter)
But to speak Of Honduras. 1t is a very
small country with a very large deb,
Uaughter), for its acreage the largest deb
In the world. But the debt was not of 1t.
own making. People in the mothar COIN
try alleged the building Of a railroad tc
unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans-anG
pocketed the money. Uauxhter) Had
North American enterprise undertaken tht
work the road would have been built ttirt,
years ago and the country enriched by de-
velopment Of its vast natural resources
Applause9
sarsapartlla In the world grows in Hon
duras. And 1t was in Honduras that tn,
| car1ca papaya was first used as q digestty,
ferment. / may be transgressfng the limit,
Of modesty by telling you that q medica
officer OF the army Of Honduras was tn,
first to describe this plant. whose Juice, b,
dissoiving the pseudo-membrane Of dlph
| ther1a, enables us to save many little one.
from q horrible death.
Through the paucity Of recent literaturx
on Honduras IT may not be known to yol
country. Within three hours ride from
either coast is a land Of .ternal sprinr =
fCSontinusd m sirth n.~>,