The Helena independent., 1893-09-03
DIR S. 8. ADAMS. SURG. GEN. wyMAN.

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DIR S. 8. ADAMS. SURG. GEN. wYMAN,
The gathering will meet under the styl.
OF the Pan-American,medica congress ant
will bask in the sunshine of the direc
patronage. of the United States, who's,
president will open the congress on thu
morning of the 5th of September and wei
come the visitors from foreign countries
The congress is a growth of the Pan-Amer
lean ideas which sprang into popularity q
few years ago under the fostering care OF
the late Secretary Blaine, who had hoped
to leave Pan-Americanism- political, COM
mercial, social and;scientific-as the bright
jewel of the closing years of brilliant
career. 1t is in addition direct result of
the Columbian year and the Chicago ex-
position.
Congress by act of July IS, 1892, made an
appropriation and authorized the president
to issue invitations to all the governments
of the American hemisphere to send dele
gates to medical congress in Washington
in 1893. All the governments have an
nounced that leading representatives of the
medical profession will be sent here as del
egates in response to this invitation The
larger cities and colleges of Latin-Ameri-
can countries will send delegates, SO that
there will be many of our southern neigh
bors on hand to receive the greetings of the
great throng of we'll known physicians Of
the United States.
The United States will be represented by
6 delegates; 76 others have thus far been
appointed by state governors; others will
come as municipal representatives, and del
egates will attend from medical societies
and colleges
The president Of the congress will be the
celebrated DIR. William Pepper of Phila-
delphia, practitioner, professor in the Penn
sylvania university, medical editor and
student of the natural sciences. The work
OF general secretary to the congress will be
performed by DR.. Charles A. l.. Reed of
Cincinnati
The congress will last four days, in the
morning of Sept. 5 holding general meet
ing, at which the addresses of President
Cleveland, DR.. Pepper, DIR. Reed and DR.. S.
b. Adams, chairman of the local committee
of arrangements, will be delivered. This
speechmaking and reception at night will
be all for the first day, but the three sue
ceeding days will be crowded with sessions
of the congress and of the numerous sec
tions into which it has been divided and
with excursions.
70 the medical profession the most inter
est will attach to the section sessions. at
which experts will read technical papers
on their specialties Twcnty-four sets of
quarters have had to be provided by the
committee for meetings of these sections,
which have been divided as follows: On
anatomy, dermatology and syphilography;
children's diseases, diseases of the mind
and nervous system; gynecology and alb |
dominal surgery; hygiene, climatology and
demography; larynogology and rhinology;
marine hygiene and quarantine; medical
Jurisprudence, medical pedagogics, mca- /
cine (generaD, military medicine and sur
gerry, obstetrics, ophthalmology, oral and
dental surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otol- I,
ogy, pathology, railway surgery, rcgistra-
ton, surgery (generaD, physiology, thera-
peutics and pharmacoiegy.
An interesting feature of the congress,
and one with a commercial aspect to it,
will be the medical exhibit, of which the
purpose is to Introduce to foreign visitors
the medicinal resources of the United
States. with the view to diverting South
American trade from European channels
to the United States
DR.. I'll. Il. Barker, the chairman of this
section, says that the manufacture of in
struments and skill in their manipulation
have advanced SO that operations are now
easily possible that few years ago would
not have been attempted even by a verv
rash doctor. Another feature of the ex-
hlblt will be the display of triturates in
which the active principles of drugs are
embodied, SO that the doses given now need
be only small fraction as large as former
ly. In the matter of dentistry the advance |
III mechanical science will be very apparent,
and some interesting applications of elec-
tricity to dental work will be shown.
In the last Cleveland administration. !
when the international medical congress
met here, one OF the operations which at
tracted the most widespread attention and
comment was the implanting of a tooth
into the long vacant cavity of subject
who offered himself for the experiment.
Since that time numerous dentists have
implanted teeth in the mouths
OF patients willing to undergo the pain for |
the sake of the Improvement effected in |
their looks.
The papers read and the active work Of |
the congress over. the delegates will make !
an extended tour through the principal
northern and eastern cities. One OF the !
longest stops will be at Philadelphia, where /
some delegates will rest, while others 90
down to Delaware breakwater and have .
fully explained the workings of the present
American system of quarantine as eXempli- |
fled on Reedy island.
The proceedings of the section on auaran-
tine will be perhaps the most important as |
1t will be the most popularity interesting of |
the various section sessions of the congress.
i'll view of the prevalence of |
cholera and yellow fever The chairman of I
The section viii be DR. Walter Wyman, who,
a supervising surgeon general of the marine |
hospital service, has control of all nationa. |
DIR. Wyman is young man
for such ali important post, being only
about 45 years of age. He is IL son OF Pro.
lessor Edward Wyman, formerly u well
known educator of st. Louis.
The doctor served the government in
various capacities and stations prior to his
promotion TO his present Office on the re-.
tirement of DIR. John b. Hamilton. whose
assistant he had been: The efficiency of