The morning call., 1894-03-31
MANY WILL COME.
A Congress of American
Physicians.
ANNUAL MEETING IN JUNE.
A Four Days Convention Has
Been Arranged.
ANNUAL MEETING IN JUNE
DOCTORS WHO WILL BE PRESENT
Twelve Sections of the Association
and Two AuxiIiaries TO Meet
simultaneously.

Some of the preliminaries for the medi-
cal congress. which will sit in this city in
June, have been arranged. 1t is anticipa-
ted that a thousand visiting physicians
will attend the conference.
The meeting is the annual one of the
American Medical Association. San Fran
cisco having been chosen for the conven-
tion at the session held year ago. The
congress will be held in Odd Fellows Hall,
beginning June and concluding June s.
1t is too early for the arrangements of
all of the details of the congress. and the
programme will probably not be made up
for month yet The local committee
which has the arrangements for the con-
vention in charge is composed of DIR. R. Il.
Plnmmer of this city (chairman), DR..
James II. Parkinson of Sacramento. DR..
Il. Bert Ellis of Los Angeles, and DIR.
w. 81. Kerr. DIR. W.. 5. Thorne, DR.. j.
Rosenstirn. DIR. r. A. Mclean. DR.. r. l..
Region and DR.. Henry Gibbons Jr. OF this
city.
The committee will hold frequent meet
ingS TO perfect the details for the con-
vention.
The National Association of Physicians
once before held an annual meeting in
this city. That was in 1871.
In speaking of the probable attendance
DR.. Il. II. Plummer said yesterday that an
attempt would be made to secure a rate of
single fare for the congress. The at
tendance would be largely increased by
favorable railway rates. The Midwinter
Fair rates to the Missouri River were only
So so in excess of the single fare. but east
of the river to Chicago and from that city
to the Atlantic seabOard it was hoped to
secure marked reductions. IF the rate
war should continue until the time of the
congress-" added DIR. Plummer, I'VE
should be certain Of very large attend
anee."
Among the prominent physicians who
nave asserted their intention to be present
at the congress are DIR. James f. Hibberd
of Rlchm ond. Ind, president of The aSso-
citation DR.. w. b. Atkinson of Philadel-
pbia its secretary Dr. John b. Hamilton.
editor of the Journal of the association.
published weekly in Chicago, and DR..
Nathan 5. Davis of Chicago.
DR.. Davis is one of the best-known ply
sicians in the country. He is now II years
of age He is regarded as the father Of the
association. He wrote its code of ethics
and was its first president.
The association was organized in 1S45 by
DR.. Davis. Il was a feeble society at the
outset anu encountered 4 SlToDS OppOSltlOn
from several OF the most prominent physi-
clans in the country. The opposition was
notably vigorous in Chicago.
Or. Davis is member OF the Meth odist
church, a Democrat politically, and strong
temperance advocate. he has !ectured In
many portions of the country on temper
anee. For many years he was the head
and front of the medical college in Chicago.
and is regarded as a strong man In his
profession. He achieved much distinction
from investigations which he made, and
which led many of the foremost physicians
TO support him in his conclusions that
phrenoogy had no scientific basis upon
which 10 rest.
DR.. Davis was tie editor of the journal
of the association until about three years
ago. He has written popular treatise on
the practice of medicine.
All of these gentlemen mentioned have
engaged apartments at the Palace Hotel.
The Palace will be made the headquarters
of the association while here.
The visiting physicians will be hand
somely ente tanned by their brother physi-
clans while here. One of the entertain
ments will be public one, rendered by
the physicians of the State at large.
The association divides its work into
twelve sections. Rooms for ea~h section
have been engaged in the Odd Fellows
building. The general congress will meet
in the main hall in the morning, following
which each section will have its own Spe-
cial meeting, where papers pertaining to
the work Of the section will be read and
discussed.
Each section has its own speciality One
will devole its work to anatomy and medi-
cine, anotherto physiology. a third to die
tetics and climatology and a fourth to the
eye and ear.
An organization, known as the Medical
College Association, an auxiliary CT tn
Medical Association, will meet in Maple
Hall at the Palace Hotel on June 6, and
another auxiliary, the Medical Editorial
Acsnaiation will bava oiI uaatinuc