The evening times., 1899-09-20
TOPICS OF 9HB DOCTORS
Second Days Session Of the Electro
Therapeutic Association.
Delegates Enjoy-a Trip to Mount
VernOn-New Practitioners Elect
ed to Membership-Oficer to BE
Chosen at This Evenings Meet
ing-Next Years Convention Place.

The American Electro Therapeutic Asso-
at the Willard Hotel today and many in
teresting papers were read. There was
large attendance and many new ideas were
brought out by the papers read and the dis
cussions which followed. Vice President
Walter H White,-4of Boston, presided and
the morning session was given over to
the following programme: "Modalities OF.
Induction Currents" by DR.. William j.
Herdman, Ann Arbor, Mich; a paper by
DR.. Josephine Griffith Davis, New York;
title not received; by ProfsA. e. Dolbear,
Tufts College, Mass: Light asa Thera
peutic Agent" by DIR. j. H. Keilogg, Bat
tie Greek, Mich; "Osmosis and Bietectro-
bysis," by DR.. Forveau de Courmellio, Par
is, France; Treatment of Tubercular
Glands of the Neck Without Scar by DR..
c. Betton Massey, Philadelphia.
The meeting adjourned at 1 p. m, and
the members and their wives and daugh-
ters were given a trip to Mount Vernon on
the electric cars. A stop was made at AL
exandria where lunch was served. The
ing and the meeting will adjourn after a
morning session tomorrow. sf4a
At the executive session this morning
the name of DR.. Laura M. Reville, of
Washington, was presented for member
ship, and she was elected. DR.. Reville is
said to be one Of the brightest woman
physicians in the country, and her cleo
tion was unanimous.
DR.. Margaret A. Cleayes. of New York,
is the only woman member OF the associa-
ton attending the meeting and she takes
an active interest in all its work. DR..
Cleaves has been a physician-for about
twenty-five years, is one of the charter
members of the association and for the past
eight years has been teaching physicians
the science of electro therapeutics.
Among the members of the association
Mrs. Cleaves has many graduates of her
school. She is bright and interesting
woman, TIE daughter of an Iowa physi-
sian, and says she cannot remember when
she began studying medicine, as in her
eraliest girihood days she accompanied her
father on his visits TO patients and was al
ways interested in his work.
The following new members have been
elected TO the association: DIR. Elijah W.
Smith Terra Haute Ind; DR.. Albert c.
Geyser, New York; DR.. William F. Brady.
Scranton. Pa; DR.. Gustavus NJ. Blech,
Chicago, H.; DR.. A. G. Minshall, North
ampton, Mass; DR.. William B. Snow, New
York; DR.. Dudley Fulton. Battle Creek.
Mich; Dr. L. ID. Judd, Philadelphia, Pa. /;
DR.. Maurice F. Pilgrim. Boston. Mass.
That the electro -therapeutists are popu-
lar is shown by the fact that letters have
been received from Buffalo, Omaha, De-
troit, Niagara Falls, Milwaukee. and Gin
cinnati urging the association to hold its
meeting in 1860 in those cities. The de-
cision of the question of the next place o.
meeting was postponed until tonight when
one of the cities named will probably be
| chosen.
very practical and interesting paper
was delivered by DR.. Num-, of Savannah,
| Ca, relative 10 an entirely new battery
constructed by him which has in one coil
the effects, medically speaking, of a IA
| radio and galvanic current upon the body.
1t is what the physicians call a high po-
| tential current of enormous penetration
and force, capable when used with caution
of dissolving new growths almost without
pain. description of the battery and
| its effects aroused the most lively interest