Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-02
4 MEDICAL CONGRESS
The GREATEST cAThERiNo OF PLY
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WASHINGTON, - The grS~s
gathering Of physicians Of the wessesi
hemisphere ever seen Will assemble Il
Washington on the 9Th OF Sc ,tember. Tier
will b. 500 OF them. They will reprsse;i'
every division into which modern sisess.s
ixafion has been able to drive the heaters
minds and bodies Men will be there WI.
special regulations for curing any OF III,
ills TO which flesh and fancy are heir. $50
speechmakiug on the financial situasiea
which disease is epidemic and incurable.
The gathering will meet under the sssi.
Of the Pan American medical congress art
will bsssk ia the sunshine Of the 1iissi
pa,ronaSe Of the United States. who,
president will open the congress on 4,
morning Of the 5th Of September and wei
come the visitors from foreign counsrIe ,
The congress is n growth of the Pan-Amer
lean ideas which sprang into popularity I
few wears ago under the fostering care U
the late Secretary Blaine, who had hopef
to leave Pgn-Americanlsm--poi political. GOA
mercial. social and scientific--as the bright
Jewel of the closing years OF a brilliant
career. 1t is In addition direct result q
the Columbian year and the Chicago eS
position.
Congress by act of July Is, isssss, made ~
appropriation and authorized the president
TO issue invitations to all the goyernnies4.'
Of the American hemisphere To send drie
gates to a medical congress in Wsshingte'
in 1898 All the governments base a.
uounced that leading representatives OF Tia
medical profession will be sent here as del
eyares in response to this invitation, Th'
larger cities and colleges of Latin Ameii
can countries will send delegates, SO ths
there will be many of our southern neigh
bors ON hand to receive the greetings oI th'
great throng Of we'll known physicians q
the United States.
The United States will be represented b,
8 delegates, Is others have thus far beei
appointed by state governors, others vii
come as municipal representatives, and del
egates will attend from medical societie
and colleges,
The president Of the congress Will be b.
celebrated DIR. William Pepper Of Phi!a
delpha, practitioner, professor in the Penn
sylvauia university, medical editor ans
student of the natural sciences. The woSl
of general secretary to the congress will b
performed by DIR. Charles A. l.. Reed q
Cincinnati
The congress viii last four days, in ta
morning OF Sept. 5 holding general meet
Ing, at which the addresses of PRESIDED
Cleveland, DIR. Pepper, DR. Reed and DIR. ;
s. Adams, chairman Of the local committee
of arrangements, will be delivered. Thi
speechmaking and reception at night vii
be all for the first day, but the three sic
eeediug days will be crowded with session
of the congress and of the numerous SIC
tiops into which il has been divided an,
with excursions.
To the medical profession the most inter
est will attach to the section sessions, II
which experts will read technical paper
on their specialties. Twenty-four sets g
quarters have had to be provided by th
| committee for meetings of these sections
| which have been divided as follows: Oh
anatomy, dermatology and autobiography
| children's diseases, diseases of the miu'
and nervous system; gynecology and al
| dominal surgery; hygiene, climatology an
| demography; larynogology and rhinoloEy
| marine hygiene and quarantine; mctlica
| jurisprudence, medical pedagogics, medi
| cine {gener;l), military medicine and sur
gerry, obstetrics. ophthalmology, oral ans
| dental surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otoi
ogy, pathology, railway surgery, rcgisir''
| ton, surgery IseneraD, physiology, theri'
| peutics and pharIaacology
An interesting feature of the congress
| and one with u commercial aspect TO 1t
| will be the medical exhibit, Of which TIN
purpose is TO introduce to foreign visitor
| the medicinal resources of the tntet
| States, with the view to diverting Sout.
| American trade from European channel
| to the United States.
DIR. II. II. Barker, the chairman Of TIL
| section, says that the manufacture of IN
| struments and skill in their manipulation
| have advanced so that operations are nov
| easily possible that few years ago woal'
| not have been attempted even by ver'
| rash doctor. Another feature Of the eS
hibit will be the display of trituratcs /,
| which the active principles of drugs ar
| embodied, SO that the doses given now nee.
| he only II small fraction rs large ms former
| ly. In the matter of dentistry the advance
in mechanical science will bevery apparent
| tricity to dental work will be shown.
In the b,st Cleveland administration
when the international medical congress
met here, one of the operations which ut
| tracted the most widespread attention an,
comment was the implantipg of toot'
| into the long vacant cavity Of subjec
| who offered himself for the experiment
| Since that time numerous dentists have
!, II
| of patients willing to undergo the pain TO
the sake Of the improvement effected ii
| their looks.
The papers read and the active work o
| the congress over, the delegates will maxi
an extended tour through the principa
| northern and eastern cities. One of tb'
| longest stops will be at Philadelphia, wher'
| some delegates will rest, while others -
| down to Delaware brcakwater and bayt
| fully explained the workings of the prescn
| American system of quarantine as exempt
fled on Reedy island
The proceedings of the section on quaran
| tine will lie perhaps the most important ..
| it will be the most popularity interesting g."
| the various section sessions of the congress
especially ia view of the prevalence @
cholera and yellow fever. The chairman @
a supervising surgeon conceal of the marIn'
hospital service has control OF all natiofn
quarantines. DR. Wyman is IA young maj
for such ai, important post, being only
about a. years of age. He is son of Pro
tessor Edward Wyinan, formerly u wei
known educator Of St. Louis.
The doctor served the government IL
various capacities and stations prior to hi
promotion TO his present office on the r
tjrement of DIR. John Il. Hamilton, VIII p
assistant he had been. The efficiency q
this years quarantine IL the best evdenc
of his fitness for his Office. He has arrange,
an extensive programme for the quarai.
tine section. To DIR. John J. Cassidy o
Ontario has been assigned the opening o
the discussion on the hygiene OF vessels
ventilation, heating, sanitary arrangement
and disposition Of cargoes all coming III
der this head. DIR. Walfred Nelson, U. s
a, stationed in New York, will read one o
the papers most likely to provoke Ion
discussion. 1t will deal with the prnpaar
ton Of diseases by shipping and the n
spoDsibility OF nations for epidenics III
matter of pilgrimages and immigration a
disease breeders will be touched
A celebrated fever expert, DIR. Juan J
Ulloa of Costa RIGA, has been given tn.
theme international Uniformity In Omar
antine Regulations" and other physician
will offer suggestions relative to treatpien
Of epitlemics on shipboar,l and on land
Two other delegates to the congress oi
the part Of the general government beside
DIR. Wyman will BE- Surgeon General Georc,
NJ. Sternberg of the army and Surgeon
General J. Il. Tryon of the navy. Botl
these gentlemen are New Workers by birth
and both did gallant service in the LAT