The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-25
Rocky Mountain Association Will
Assemble.
MANY MEDIC0S ARE HERE
MORE EXPECTED TO COME THIS
MORNING.
Number of Interesting Papers Will
Be Read During the Session,
Which Will Last Two Days In the
Council Chamber-Entertain
at Salt Lake Pavilion Tonight.

The Rocky Mountain Medical assocla-
ton meets today at 10 O'Clock a. m. In
the council chamber at the city and
county building. The association Is
composed of physicians from the inter-
mountain states. and it is expected that
about seventy delegates will be In at
tendance
The object of the meeting of the as
ISOLATION is the reading of important
papers and the discussion of topics OF
interest to the profession ABOUT forty
physicians had arrived up to last even
ing and are domiciled mostly at the
Knutsford and Kenyon hotels. Nearly
all of the doctors who arrived yester-
day were from Colorado, but quite a
number are expected from Montana
and wyoming this morning Among
the delegates and visitors, guests OF
the association. who arrived yesterday,
are: DR.. Justin De Land. Philadelphia;
DIR. c. K. Fleming, DR.. j. n. Hall, DR..
S H. Muer and wife. DR.. Robert Lee
mond and wife, DIR. J. B. Perkins, DE-
w. W. Grant, DR.. Greedy, DR.. Leonard
Freeman. DR. Edward Jackson, DR.. 3
d. Hopkins, Denver; DR.. Potter of Ne
braska; DR.. Kennedy of Indiana; Dr.
Stewart of Minnesota; DR.. Nj. "a: Lau-
mer, Victor, Colo; DR.. J. A. Whiting,
Cripple Creek; DIR. Hebert Work, DR..
L
RE, Aspen; DIR. John Keith, Leadv1lle;
DIR. Sol G.. Kahn, Leadville; DR.. Bull,
Grand Junction; Mrs. Griffith, Mrs.
Mayer, Miss Kahn, Leadville, and Miss
Frank of Denver; DR.. John B. Roberts
and wife, Philadelphia.
Two Days Session.
The association will be in session to-
day and tomorrow. and local commit
tees have provided for the entertain
ment of the visitors and their ladleS
during their stay. The programme, as
published in full in The Herald sunday
morning, will be observed.
This evening the delegates and their
friends Will be entertained at Saltalr
beach by the local committee.
1t is likely that anti-toXines and SER
umS will be subjects OF interesting dls-
cussion before the association Inc
largest manufacturer of anti-toXine in
the United States, John T. Milliken of
ST. Louis. came over with the medicos
from Colorado and, while merely
guest of the Colorado delegation Is
deeply interested in the proceedings.
Talks With Doctors.
Medicine is becoming more of a sci
ence every day." said DR.. c. K. tlem-
ing of Denver. Surgery is a science,
but medical practice has been largely
an art. Its progress has been so rapid
and discoveries so important nave Detn
made that it is now much OF a sclentlhc
proposition There are but few diseases
for which medical aid has not a sure
remedy and what have been considered
incurable maladies are becoming more
understood every day.
AS for lung diseases and tuberculo-
sis / am not of the opinion that the
certain remedy has vet been found, but
1 feel sure that it viii not be long be-
fore the medical profession will find
the cure for diseases of that character,
and think that it will be through anti
toXine and serum discoveries.
My city is a very healthy one" said
DR. NJ. A. Latimer of Victor, yesterday,
still we doctors in the Cripple Creek
district have been pretty busy for the
past six months. In a mining camp the
size of ours there is always more or less
sickness, caused largely through ex-
posture or carelessnesS; but we have had
a very light mortality list. Pneumonia
is one of the most frequent diseases,
but it is a malady that physicians seem
TO handle TO better advantage in the
mountains than in the lower attitudes.
Under heroic treatment, the disease
generally runs its course in five days,
and the patient begins to improve. His
recovery is generally pretty certain af-
Ter he has passed the fifth day of treat
ment Most cases recover. and the
small fatality from the malady is re-
,,1srkable when it is considered that the
constitution of most patients that are
afflicted with the disease has been Sc
riously impaired by irregular hours and
habits"