Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
DOCTORS DISSECT SUBJECTS
No Knife, No Csdsvsr, No Vat, Yet
Dissection Goes On.
CONVENTION or MEDICAL SOCIETY
Questions of Interest TO Practitioners
Are Taken up for General Dis
cussion-This Dissection
IL FIguratiye.

The thirteenth seml-annual session OF the
Medical Society Of the Missouri Valley met
yesterday at the Paxton hotel cafe with
nifty members present, and others arrived
during the morning. The meeting was
called to order by President V. l.. Traynor
OF Council Bluffs and Immediately pro-
ceeded to the discussions announced on the
program.
The first paper presented was by f. A..
King OF Blockton. Ia. who discussed
"Chorea." This disease. according to the
speaker. is more prevalent with persons
between the ages OF and Is years. II Is
rather TO be considered a result OF heredi-
tary tendency than OF any local cause. The
treatment should relate to the primary
causes rather than to the symptoms
The second paper was by Dr. A. y.
somers OF Omaha, and related to ante
partum diagnosis. According to the ideas
OF the speaker this subject had been too
little considered by the older physicians
and It had remained for the investigators
OF the present day to place It on a plane
with other branches Of surgery.
Tubercu.osis IN Discussed.
The third paper. Treatment OF Tubercu-
losis In Sanataris," by Dr. j. w. Kline OF
Fort Dodge. Ia, elected considerable dis
cussion. The doctor proved to be an icono-
clast and endeavored to shatter some OF
the dearest theories held by the profession
from the days Of Galen. In the first place
ho declared that all attempts to kill the
bacillus tuberculosis had been a failure:
that the true treatment was to make the
body of the patient an unhealthy breeding
place for the microbes. In this treatment
sunshine is the greatest factor. The
speaker illustrated this point by reference
n tha py ~ braa t,,ka
culosis being unknown to cattle until an
attempt was made to raise them In crowded
stables. He said that medicine should be
given TO the consumptive only under pro-
test, but admitted that symptoms should
be treated as tEey came up; severe coughs
be stopped, night sweating controlled and
30 on He further was OF the opinion that
climatic conditions were an exploded fancy;
that no change of climate would benefit
consumptves, unless the change took them
to country where more sunlight and fresh
air could be secured. He advocated the
forced feeding OF patients and said that
In addition 10 three meals day the con-
sumpiive should eat from twelve to twenty
raw eggs every day and might with ad-
vantage take wine and beef tea between
meals.
The physiciaps discussed the paper with
some warmth, but the majority seemed to
be OF the opinion that the Fort Dodge man
knew what he was talking about
M. F. Weymann OF st. Joseph read a care
fully prepared paper on "Chalazial Tu-
mors," which 'abounded In much informa-
tion OF a, technical nature.
AZ the afternoon session papers we're read
rs follows 3 Facial Paralysis" j. NJ.
Akin. Omaha; Compensation and Failure
OF Compensation in Heart Disease" Mil
lard ,Langfeld. Omaha; "Association In
Women OF Pelvic and Hepatic Diseases"
InezSC. hilbriSk.~.Linecln: "The Patio
logical Importance of the Accessory SIN
uses of the Nose" d. c. Bryant Omaha;
"Clean Surgery versus Mutilating and I'm
scientific Procedures" J. L. Summers jr.,
Omaha Another Case OF Methyl- Alcohol
Poison" II. Clifford. Omaha; "A Plastic
Operation for Pruritis Ami" II. p. Hamil-
ton. Omaha. DR., C. II. Wallace OF ST.
Joseph was not present and his paper on
PRIMARY Perlneorrhaphy' was read by the
secretary.
At the brief business session held I'm the
afternoon the invitation OF the ST. Joseph
Medical society was accepted and the an
nual meeting CT the society will be held In
st. Joseph in September At the close OF
the st. Joseph meeting the members of the
association will make visit to Eureka
Springs, Ark. over the Frisco road, the
management of that road having offered
free transportation for the members and
their families on the trip. Sixteen new
members were added to the rolls OF the
association.
Att9 o'clock In the evening a banquet
was spread in the dining room OF the hotel,
at which plates were provided for sixty per-
sons. ID. C. Bryant acted as toastmaste er
and toasts were responded to as follows
preventive Medicines and Politicians" V.
l.. Treynor; How We DO In Missouri, Z"
Charles W. Fassett; The Physician Him
SELF w. o. Bridges; "a Specialists Opin-
ION on too Much Talking" Donald Nc
Crea. ir.