Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-01
MEDICAL MEN IN SESSION
FIFTH TRIENsIAL MEETING OF PLY
sICIANs AND SURGEONS.
The Regular business Opens at La
fayette Square Opera House.
Individual societies.

The fifth triennial session of the congress
of American physicians and surgeons
opened this afternoon at the Lafayette
Square Opera House. A large number of
delegates We're on hand when Chairman
I-andon Carter Gray of New York city
called the congress to order.
AT O'Clock the regular business of the
congress began with the subject of 'Bac-
teriology in Health and Disease" Under
this head many important papers were
read.
The session tomorrow will begin at 3
O'Clock. and during the afternoon Prof
William Osler of Baltimore will contribute
paper on Modern Therapeutics and DR..
S. Weir Mitchell will read an original poem
on The Evolution of the Physician" At
8 pm. Prof. Henry 2. Rodwitch, president
of the congress, VIII deliver his annual ad-
dress. He will take for his subject THE
Medical School of the Future" At the
conclusion of his address there will be
reception at the Arlington Hotel. Thursday
evening there will be a banquet at the Ar
lington for the members of the congress
During the sitting of the congress the
following individual component associa-
tons and societies will meet: The thirty
sixth annual meeting of the American
OpthalmalogCal Society. in ladies' parlor
No. , Arlington Hotel. May and 3. at 10
am; the thirty-third annual meeting of
the American biological Society. which
met this afternoon in ladies' parlor No. g.
Arlington Hotel. and heard some interest
ing papers read; the twenty-sixth annual
meeting of the American Neurological As
sociatlon. which also met this morning at
the Normandie: it will continue in session
May and B: the American genealogical
Society. which held its twenty-fifth annual
meeting this morning in the lecture hall of
Columbian University; this society will
meet Wednesday and Thursday at the
same place at $50 am: the American
Pathological Society, a national associa-
ton of specialists who devote their studies
TO intestinal diseases. will hold its secoad
annual convention at the Hotel Richmond
Wednesday and Thursday
Other Meetings Held Today.
The banquet hall of the Gordon Hotel
was the meeting place this morning of
the American archaeological Association
II was its twenty-fOurth annual meeting
There will be daily sessions tomorrow and
Thursday
meeting of the American Laryngo-
logical Association was held this morning
at 10 a. m. in parlors A and B of the Airing
ton Hotel. 1t was the twenty-second an
HuaI session. and was largely attended.
sessions Will be held Wednesday and
Thursday
Other meetings We're held this morning as
follows: e'7
American Surgical Association. TWENTY
hrst session, at Columbian University lee
ture hall No. 2: American Climatoloeical
Association, seventeenth session al Airing
TON Hotel, in the banquet hall; Association
OF american Physicians. fifteenth session
at Cosmos Club; American Genito-Urinary
surgeons, at Raleigh Hotel: American Or
tn ASSOCIATION parlor No. l, Airing
ton Hotel; American Physiological Society,
Columbian Medical College; American
Anatcmists. Normandie and American
Pedlatric Society, st. Johns parish hall.