The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-01
MEDICAL MEN TO MEET.
Session of the Congress of American
Physicians and Surgeons.

Physicians and Surgeons.
The fifth triennial meeting of the Con-
gress of American Physicians and Sur
geons will begin this afternoon at 2:45
O'Clock at the Lafayette Square Opera
House, and continue until May 8, when
it will close with banquet given at the
Arlington.
The congress will be opened by its Sec
rotary, w II. Carmalt NJ D.. who, in the
absence of the President, DR.. Henry P.
! BOwditch. who is unable to attend on ac-
count of sickness. will deliver the onening
address
At this afternoons session the subject
| for discussion viii be "Bacteriology in
Health and Disease, and the following
| papers will be read: Adaptation of
Pathogenic Bacteria to Different Species
of Animals" by Prof. TheObald Smith. of
Boston. Mass; THE Physiological Re
sources of the Body in Its Defence Against
| Bacteria and their Toxic Products by DR..
Samuel J. Neither of New York City;
| "Flagella and Serum Reactions" by Prof.
Harold c. Ernst, OF Boston. Mass; Rela-
ton OF Bacterio,ogy to Clinical Medicine.
by q: 2.::chsrd C. Cabot. of Boston. Mass;
| Bacteria Therapeutics With Especial
Reference to tuberculosis" BY DR.. Ed
ward R. Baldwin, of Saranac, n. Y; THE
Actiology of Malariai Fevers," by Prof.
William 5. Thayer, of Baltimore; 'Bae-
teriology of Dysentery," by Prof. Simon
Flexncr. of Philadelphia.
The congress is composed of the follow
ing constituent societies which will hold
daily meetings at 10 O'Clock a m: Oph-
archaeological Society. ladies' parlor No ,,
the Arlington; biological Society. ladies'
parlor No. 3, the Arlington; Neurological
Association. the Normandie; genealogical
Society lecture hall Columbian Univer-
sity. corner Fifteenth and H Streets
northwest: Chronological AssOeia ton,
banquet hall, the Gordon; chronological
Association parlors F and G, the Airing
ton; Surgical Association. postgraduate
hall. Columbian University: Genealogical
Association, banquet hall the Arlington;
Association of American Physicians Co.'S
mos Club; Association of Genito- Urinary
Surgeons, the Shoreham; OrthOpedic AS
ISOLATION. ladies' parlor No. l, the Airing
ton. Physiological Society, anatomical hail.
Columbian Medical College, 1925 H Street;
Association of American Anatomsts. la
dies parlor the Normandie; Pedatric So
ciety. st. Johns Parish Hall, Sixteenth and
Fl Streets.
The first meetings of these component
societies will be held this morning.
The board OF management of the Cos
mos Club has issued cards inviting the
members of the congress TO AN informal
smoker to be given in their honor this
evening At the club rooms.
The Washington Academy OF Sciences
will hold a complimentary meeting TO the
congress this evening at S o'clock in the
lecture hall of the Columbian University,
at which the following programme will be
presented. The Application Of the
Kroemskoep." By Frederick E. Ives. of
Philadelphia The Application of the
Phantascope." by e. Francis jenkins:
Color Photography and Color Printing.
by n Fl barton.
The President OF the congress will re-
ceive the members, the invited guests. ard
the accredited visitors with the ladies' ae-
companying them al the Arlington tomor-
row evening a $50 o'clock.
The Executive Committee has decided
that the Congress shall give a dinner on
Thursday evening at the Arlington. TO
which maps prominent gu SITS have been
invited. The affan promises 10 rank among
the most brilliant social functions given
by any society in the city this season.
The registration office is in parlor l of
the Arlington, ard delegates are arriving
on every incoming train. II is estimated
that between 500 and 900 members viii
participate in the sessions of the various
constituent societies and the general en-
greSs