Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-26

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DIR. Adams, Chairman of Local Conn
| mittee.
| Samuel s. Adams, A. NJ, NJ. D., the. chair
man of the committee of arrangements Of
the Pan-American medical congress, was
born in Washington. d. c.. July II. 1853,
received lis classical education at
the West Virginia University and
his medical education at the medi-
cal department of the University of George
ice in the Children's Hospital, he began to
practice medicine in his native city, where
ne has since remained Soon after gradu-
eases Of children in his alma mater. and
held 1T for four years. Upon the organiza-
tional University in 1854. he resigned this
iectureship to accept the chair of the
This he retained un
| when he was honored with the professor
ship of clinical pediatrics in the Columbian
holds. He also lectures in training schools
for nurses connected with the Washington
the Chiidren's Hospital. DR. Adams is one
of the founders. and Is now the secretary
of the American Pediatric Society. which
devotes itself exclusively to the diseases OF
children. He was delegate to the Amer
lean Medical Association in 1881. and has
retained his membership in that body.
| Since 1876 he has passed through the vari-
GUS grades OF the Children's Hospital, and
IS now one of the attending physicians. He
Is also one of the attending physicians in
the Garfield Memorial Hospital: the Wash
| fngton Home for Incurables; the Washing
Of the woman's Hospital and Dispensary.
He Is treasurer of the Medical Association,
secretary Of the Medical Society of the Dis
| trict OF Columbia. and one of the organic
ers and active members of the Washington
Obstetrical and genealogical Society, and
quest Of Doctors Pepper and Read. DR..
Adams consented to accept the chairman
the first Pan.American medical Congress-.
| and has labored industriously to make this
the most satisfactory medical convention
details intrusted to the care of the COM
mittee will be completed to the satisfaction
please them rather than to antagonize the
| wishes of the medical profession.
SIX Hundred Papers to BE Read.
| 1t Is estimated that upwards of 600 papers
will be read during the session. The SUBJ
tects discussed will embrace twenty-five
sections as follows: Section of general
| medicine. forty-four papers. including dis
cussions on "Asiati> Cholera" "A New Dis
ease of the West Indies" the diagnosis,
The section of general surgery will bring
| out number Of papers. The program
shows thirty-hve. Including one by DR..
| Llewellyn Elliot Of this city on unlimited
| fracture. Some points in the surgical
treatment of appendicitis" the disease
which is attracting so much attention at
/ present, Is the title of a paper that will be
read by DR.. A. p. Clark of Cambridge. Mass.
| In the section on military medicine end
est will be read and discussed. There will
be in connection with this section hospital
corps drill by detachment under the COM
mand of Maj. Van r. Hof, surgeon, United
States army. An exhibition of Held Los
pital complete with equipment now in use in
the United States army.
1 section obstetrics ptaiu ,frf1
five papers and DR.. j. Foster Scott Of this
city is among the list of doctors who will
red papers
The section on gynecology and abdominal
| surgery will. perhaps. find it hard to trans
act its business, for there are ffty-two
papers on the program, including one by
DR.. Joseph Taber johnson of This city and
one by DR.. /. S. Stone of this city.
the program for this section, but the list
does not contain Washington physician.
Drs Robert Reyb9rn; c. w: siles and
papers before the section on anatomy The
section on physiology will discuss twenty
one papers including history Of American
Of the physiological section.
The Diseases of Children.
One of the most important sections will
be that relating to the diseases of chill
dren. and each one of the twenty-eight
papers to be read are full of interest to
mothers. paper which promises to be
of more than ordinary interest is that on
the physical training of public school chill
dren. to be read by DIR. j. Gardiner Smith
of New York.
One of the features of the discussions
which will take place in the section on
pathology is the paper to be read by Drs
Coronado and MADAM of Havana, concern
Ing the Investigations of malaria. Drs
Acosta and Grande of Havana are also
on the program to read a paper entitled
pathological histology of yellow fever This
section will discuss thirty-five papers
The section on ophthalmology will discuss
forty papers, including one by DIR. F. B.
Tiffany OF Kansas City. Mo-. on skin graft
ing for malignancy of the eyelids and orbit
"A Comparison of the Eye of White With
Colored Pupils in the Public schools of
| Washington, ID. c." Is the title of paper
to be read by DR.: E. o, Belt Of this city
Murray of this city will read papers in
the section on laryngology and rhinoiogy
A number Of foreigners will participate
ton on dermatology and syphilography.
DIR. Albert L. Gihon, the medical director
Of the United United states INA navy, located at the
a formal address to the section on hygiene
elimatology and Topography. of which he
city is on the program TO read a paper en-
titled "A BRIEF Consideration of Elephant
iasis Arabum. as Observed in the Samoan
Islands"
Contagious Diseases.
Surgeon General Walter Wyman of the
marine hospital service of this city will
open the section on marine hygiene and
quarantine, of which he is executive pres
ident. 1t is to this section more than 10 any
other that the important work Of the con-
gress will be given. The discussions which
will take place are of universal interest,
and include discussion of supervision of
vessels by government medical inspectors
at ports of arrival and departure. Code of
rules for handling an epidemic disease that
breaks out on shipboard. Disinfectiun of
passengers and crew during voyage and
the location and arrangement of ships hos
pitfalls. Then again there will he an inter
| esting discussion on the arrangement of de-
tail and equipment of quarantine stations,
length of time vessels should re held in
quarantine and conditions that should de-
termine proclamation of quarantine against
a country. Another paper of equal ilnpor-
| lance with those above cited is that relat-
ing to the requirements governing passen-
ger traffic between port infected with yell
low fever and a southern port of the United
States during the summer.
The merchants of the country will be in
terested in the discussion on the dsin Fec
ton of merchandise. What merchandise
should be considered as reluirin, treatment
II shipped from place infected with chol-
era, yellow fever or smallpox.
| The discussion Of the method OF the dis
Infection for different diseases and the
methods Of disposal of the bodies of those
who die while in quarantine.
The section on diseases of the mind and
nervous system will also come In for a con-
o{d ata Op ar mr.