The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
PAPERS FOR SPECIALISTS,
They Occupied the Attention
of the Doctors Yes
terday.
IDEAS ON INFANT FEEDING.
Treatment of the Eyes, Ears, Nose
and Throat DiscusSed-The
Banquet.

There was considerable falling off in
the attendance at the meeting of the
Medical Society of the State of California
yesterday, as many of the members from
interior points had returned home,
and because the day was largely devoted
to papers on special diseases of the ear,
eye, throat and nose, which attracted only
the specialists in these lines.
The session opened with the reading of
paper by DR.. C. L. Bard of Ventura on
"An Operation for the Relief of Hyper
trophy of the PROSTATE Gland" More
than usual interest was excited by DR.. O.
J. Mayors paper on early and Radical
Operation for Cancer of the Breast, with a
New Symptom for an Early Diagnosis"
Mrs. DR.. E. S. Meade of San Jose was to
have read paper on Modern Ideas on
Infant Feeding" but, being absent, it was
read by Secretary Kerr. 1t pointed out
the great natural advantages enjoyed by
children who are fed at the breast, and
advised the greatest care in the selection
of infant food.
Among the other papers read were:
symptoms and Treatment of INSULT
ciencies of the Orbital Muscles, by DR.. HI.
Bert Ellis of Los Angeles; The Relation
of Errors of Refraction to Reflex Symp-
TOMS" by DR.. William Ellery Briggs of
Sacramento; ''Scrofulous Inflammation of
the Eve in Children" by K Pischl of
San Francisco; and "Relations Between
Affections of the Eye and Lessons of Other
Parts" by DR.. II. J. Jones of San
Francisco.
In the course of his paper on "Our Chill
dren's Eyes" DR.. w. F. Southland of San
Francisco laid stress on the Importance of
paying special attention to the condition
of children's eyes just before they were
sent to school, and suggested that every
child should have its eyes examined by an
expert before being sent to school and
then be furnished with certificate, which
should be given to the teacher for her
guidance as to the amount OF work to be
imposed on the child.
DR.. Thomas F. Rumbold's paper show
ing that the functions of muscles of the
ear is to initiate and amplify sounds, on
his request was simply read by title and
then referred.
DIR. a. Barkan related number of inter-
esting cases wherein foreign bodies were
removed from injured eyes by the use of
the electromagnetic.
"Atrophic Rhinitis," an almost purely
technical paper, was the subject of the
paper read by DR.. w. A. Martin of this
city.
DR.. Thomas F. Rumbold of this city
went into the reason for supplementary
courses in the treatment of chronic nasal
inflammation and then detailed the times
when these courses should be repeated and
their number.
In the evening about $50 of the members,
including dozen ladies, sat at the ban
quet board in Maple Hall in the Palace
Hotel. After two hours spent in pleasur-
able attendance to the physical man Toast
master c. c. Wadsworth of San Francisco
started the feast of wit and reason by call
ing upon DR.. G.. l.. Simmons of San Fran
cisco, president of the society, to respond
to the toast of 1.-The Medical Society of
the State of California" which he did in q
happy vein, relating the story of the
organization and some interesting expert
ences of the days of the argonauts when a
grain of quinine was paid for by twice its
weight in gold.
The remainder of the evening was spent
in listening to the toasts, which were re-
sponded to as follows:
1.-THE Medical Profession" by Dr. J. D.
Arnold of San Francisco; Local Medical
Societies. by DR.. J. II. Crumpton of Sau-
salito; 1.-The Ladies' by Dr. Benjamin R.
Swan OF San Francisco; 1.-The State. Board
of HEALTH" by Dr. J. K. Lame of Sacra-
mento; medical Education in America, :"
by DR.. G. f. Shells of San Francisco; 1.-THE
Boys in the Profession" by DIR. r. Beverly
Cole of San Francisco; "Our Hospitals, !"
by DR.. 7. w. Huntington of Sacramento !;
"The Frigid Zone" by DR.. C. w. Nutting
of Siskiyou; THE Temperate Zone" by
Dr. C. L. Bard of Ventura THE Press, j
by Or. w. A. Briggs of Sacramento. Re-
marks were also made by DIR. G. w. Davis
of San Francisco and others.