The Portland daily press., 1893-08-30
CONGRESS- OF DOCTORS.
1t Will be Pan American and Largely
Attended.
SIX HUNDRED PAPERS WILL BE
PRESENTED.

PRESENTED
Every Large City in the Nation to be Rep
resented by Delegates-Foreign Physi-
clans Also Coming-Dr. Pepper VIII
Preside.
Washington, Aug. %, The greatest
gathering of medical men this country
has ever known will meet in this city
September 5, at the irst Pan American
Medical Congress, which convenes on
that date for session of four days.
The word "Pan American" means, and
is we'll known, .All America and rep
resentatives from all the Americas
North. South, Central and Oceanic, will
be present The Bern,udas, Hayti, and
Hawaii will also send representatives.
The Congress was devised to bring to-
gether the nations of the Western Conti-
nent, with view Of forming new
world policy, and creating concert OF ac-
ton in the practice Of medicine.
Congress at its last session appropri-
ated SIS, 900 to successfully carry out the
idea, and Senator German was one of
the warmest advocates Of the plan.
In accordance with the above law, which
was passed July is, 1892, the President
by proclamation issued invitations to
all the Americas to send delegates and
participate in the Congress.
The United States will be represented
by six delegates, and every large city and
every Important college throughout the
United States will be represented by its
own delegates.
According to the programme, the ses-
sion will be opened Tuesday morning,
September 5, by President Cleveland,
who will deliver an address of welcome.
He will be followed by Commissioner
John W. Ross, president of the Board
of Commissioners, District of Columbia,
who will welcome the congress to Wash
ington Addresses by DR.. William Pep
per, president of the congress; DR.. Charles
A. Reed, the general secretary and DR..
S. S. Adams. chirInan of the local COM
lnittee of arrangements. There will be
a general reception in the evening at the
Arlington Hotel, and a buffet supper
will follow. The full Marine Band will
be in attendance A general business
meeting will be held at Albaugh's Opera
after it's adjournment the various Sec
tions of the Congress will disperse to
hold meetings in the halls set aside for
their use, where all branches of medi-
cine and surgery will be discussed, and
papers from the most eminent men in the
profession read. i aa
The follwing is. q list of the places
where the session will meet:
Anatomy. ....,....... Columbian University
Dermatology and sypilography Riggs House
Diseases of children. Arlington Hotel
genealogical abdomenal surgery ;,;:..,..
Law department, National University
Hygiene, climatology and demogranhy
Laryngoloyg and rhihoiogy 4. Ellington Hotel
Marine hygiene and quarantine. Wizards Hotel
Medical jurisprudence. ..-......., Ebbltt House
Medical pedagogics :...... Hotel Arno
Medicine (generaD ....,A lbaugh's Opera House
Military medicine and surgery.
Observation-Disclosures. -. National Museum
Obstetrics ......... ...-........ Ebbltt House
Ophthalmology, Arlington Hotel
Oral and dental surgery. ....;.;.
..... Law department, National University
Orthopaedic surgery Hotel Normandie
GEOLOGY. .....,s. ~ Arlington Hotel
Georgetown University
Railway surgery. Hotel Cochran n n
Registration Willard Hall
Surgery (generaD Columbian University
Physiology ................ Law department
....................-..... National University
Iherapeutlcs. ...-..... .-...... Rigs Rouse
fUdfLudcOlUHy.ss..- . klObCt AItO
One of the most interesting and instruc-
tive features of the congress will be an
exhibition of drugs snd modern instru-
ments and medical appliances 1t will
be held in the armory of the Washington
Light Infantry. The superiority of
American inventions and discoveries over
other nations will be demonstrated fully
as far as it applies to modern medicine
and surgery, and it is believed that the
hi will ha tho pf n1apiper
market in the Latin American countries
for our druggists and instrument MAX
ers
Some of the objects that this congress
will deal with are of national import
ance, and considerable interest will be
manifested in the discussions. AS an in
stance, the congress will discuss the ques-
tions of International quarantine as well
as the suppression of epidemic diseases.
The fullest discussion will be permitted
and the most noted physicians will par
ticipate.
The president of the congress, Dr..
William Pepper, will deliver an address
MetZerott Hall. It will take place in the
evening and large attendance is expect
ed. Dr.. Pepper, the president of the con-
gress, is one of the leading physicians OF
Pennsylvania, and comes from family
of physicians. He is the son OF the dis
tlngulshed physician Oh Fnllaaelpnlaspy
the same name and took both of his de-
grees, A. B. and NJ. D.. from the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania, over which he now
presides When he succeeded the late
distinguished DIR. Alfred Stille as provost
Of the university he had scarcely turned
thirty, and was the Youngest man ever
elected to that office. He is one of the
best lecturers in the medical department,
a capital after-dinner speaker and a great
favorite with the students. He has the
reputation of being one of the most &C
complished executors that has ever been
identified with any enterprise, and under
his administration the university has
more than doubled it's endownents and
trebled is patronage He is recognized
in Philadelphia as the founder of the
university in it's modern sense He is
the editor of the great system Of practice
in five volumes that bears his name, and
of the more recent work in two volumes.
He is member of all the great medical
associations.
Canadian Pacific OficiaIs Give Bail.
Burlington, vt, August 29.-W G. Van
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