Evening star., 1898-12-08
HOMEOPATHIC SOCIETY
Annual Session to Open This Evening at
Shoreham Hotel.
Inauguration of New Plan Themes
for Observation-Disclosures ment Of
Election of Officers.

The opening session OF the annual meet
ing of the Washington Homeopath Medi-
cal Society will be called to order this even
ing at 1:30 O'Clock in the banquet room of
the Shoreham Hotel. The meeting will be
concluded with sessions tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock and tomorrow evening at 7:30
q clock.
The annual meeting this year marks the
inauguration of new plan in the govern
ment of the society. 1t will he given over
entirely 10 scientific discussion. the reading
of papers and reports from representatives
Of the various sections Of work embraced
in the membership of the organization. No
business whatever will be transacted the
election of officers being scheduled to take
place at the January meeting. Heretofore
Il has been usual TO receive reports from the
different sections at the monthly meetings
This year however all such reports Will
d" received at the present meeting.
The Program.
The program will include papers on
topics follows:
Sections of surgery, gynecology and cleo
iIicity-Peritoneal Infection, Peritonftis
with Reference to Their Causation. T. L.
Macdonald NJ. D.; genealogical Exam
nations L. B. Swormsted,, NJ. D.. Some
Reflections on Hip Joint Disease, Ralph
jenkins, NJ. D.; Static Electricity F. a.
Gardner, NJ. D.; Anti-Streptococcus Serum.
{. l.. Bliss, NJ. D.; The Relation of the Nj
croscope to the Practice of Surgery, J. S.
Stearns, NJ. D.; Neoplasms Of the Uterus,
1. G. Smedey, NJ D.. Philadelphia. Pa.
Section of pracuce.-"icterus.' Richard
hfngSman, MD. Treatment Of Biliary
Calculi and Enlargement of the Liver hy
Electricity f. a. Gardner, MD; The
Relation of the Rectal Function to the Liv-
er,' H. H. Hawxhurst, MD.
Section of genito-urinary diseases.-"Ura-
thral Structures; Necessity for Their Early
Surgical Treatment" Henry krogstad,
ND. Syphilis, a Factor in Diagnosis and
Treatment Of General Diseases F. A.
Swartwout, MD; 'lndices of Chronic
Brights Disease" II. H. Hawxhurst. MD.
Section of diseases of children.-"Some
Remedies Especially Applicable to Infancy
and Childhood, g. W. \. Gusts, MD;
Some Observations on the Feeding of In
fants," b, f. Gibbs, MD.
Bureau of nbstetrics.-"After Pains" w.
F. Corey, MD; "Piacenta Previa." Il. b.
Babbitt, VI. d; ''Anaesthesia in Labor" J.
H. BransOn, MD; "Amniotic Fluid" J. s.
Stearns, MD.
Bureau of materia medica-'Keynotes
With Concomit ant symptoms VS.. Empirical
Prescriptions j. b. q. Custis, MD: IL
illustrative cases" G. Il. GIiDert, M.D.; "fre-
scriptions Based on Keynotes of Sulphur.
Beladona and Magnesia Carbonica," 4. II.
Taylor, MD; rs Keynote Prescription Il
homeopathic Prescriptions" NJ. a. Gusts,
MD: "Lachesis; Indications for Its Use in
Intermittent Fever" l. w. Dennison. MID.
Section of ophthalmology, otology. laryn-
gology.-"The Relation Which Should Exist
Between the General Practitioner and the
Exclusive Specialist" VIM. r. King MD:
Acute Inflammation and Hypertrophy of
the Lingual Tonsil as a Cause of Cough"
T. L. Shearer, MD, Baltimore, Md; Cat
aract, and Its Treatment from Homeo-
pathic Standpoint" L. Y. Baker, MD.
Origin of Society.
The sessions will be open to the public
and members of the profession generally.
The Washington Homeopathic Medical So
ciety is composed of fifty practitioners of
the homeopathic school of medicine 1t
was chartered by an act of Congress ap-
proved April %, 1870 the original act being
signed by a number of the great men of
histby including James G. Blaine, then
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the
United States and President of the Senate:
L. S. Grant. President of the United States
and j. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State
The prime movers in organizing the So
ciety were Drs. Tuilio S. Verdi now prac-