St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-29
NOTABLE MEDICAL MEN.
Congress of Physicians and Sur
seons Will Open Today.

WASHINGTON. May 2s.-The present
week will witness a notable gathering
of medical men in this city, drawn here
for the purpose OF attending the trien-
NAL Congress Of American Physicians
and Surgeons. The sessions of the con-
gress will be held in Metzerou hall on
May %. 80, 81 and June l. The formal
programme of the meetings of the con-
gresS, together with those of the four
teen individual component associations
and societies which meet here at the
same time, has been issued. These i'll
dividual bodies will meet in the fore
noon, while the congress proper will
assemble in the afternoon Of the days
mentioned. Tuesday the congress will
be opened by the chairman of the ex.
ecutive committee, DR.. Landon G. Gray,
of New York. The session that after
noon will be under the direction OF the
American Association of AnatOmistS,
the subject for discussion being "Morph-
ology as a Factor Ill tine Study of Dis
ease"
On Wednesday the subject for dis
cussion will be Sewer Cas- under the
direction of the American Climatolog-
zeal associations; and 1.-The Distri-
button and Control of Leprosy in
North America" under the direction of
i the American Dermatolosical associa-
| ton. The Society of Genitourinary
Surgeons and the American Gynecolog-
Thursdays meeting, and on Friday,
after business session, matters of ill.,
terest to the Laryngologcal association
and the Neurological association will
he discussed. In addition to the regu-
lar meetings of the congress and of its
component bodies, the evening of
Thursday. May 81, will be devoted, par
tally, at least, to social reunion.
| On that evening the president of the
| congress, DR.. Alfred l.. LOOMS. of New
| York, will deliver an address on The
| Influence of Animal Experimentation
| OIL Medical Science"
| This will he followed by reception
to the members and their ladies by
President and Mrs. Cleveland, from to
| 10 O'clock. On Wednesday evening a
dinner will lie given to the guests of the
congress at the Arlington. Among the
| prominent medical men expected to par
| lclpate Ill ttlS uelIOeFdtlONS OIL tie COLI
| gress proper arc the following: DIR.
Harrison Allen. of the University of
Pennsylvania; DIR. Thomas Dwight, of
Harvard college; DR.. F. IL. Cornish, OF
Bowdoin; DR.. Burt G. Wilder, of Cor
nell; DIR. Abraham jacob. of New
York; DR.. Beverly Robinson, of the
Bellevue Hospital Medical college
DR.. j. Nevins hyde, of Rush
Medical college; DR.. +. A. Nor
row, of New York; DR.. James c. White,
of Harvard; DR.. James F. Graham,
of Toronto: DR.. A. Van Harrington, of
the Philadelphia Polytechnic; Dr.Wyman
surgeon general marine hospital serv-
Ice; DR.. Edward l.. Keyes. of New
York: DIR. &. NJ. Sternberg, q. S. A. /;
DIR. g. S. Chismore, of San Francisco !;
| DIR. l.. b. Bangs. of New York; DR..
William NJ. Pope, OF New York: DIR. Il.
S. Bosworth, Of Bellevue college; DR..
j. N. Mackensie, of Johns Hopkins
| university; DR.. John 0. Roe. of Roch-
ester; DIR. James j. Putnam, of Har-
ward; DR.. E. G. Secuin, of New York,
and DIR. I. u. Dercunl, of Philadelphia.