Arizona republican., 1901-05-24
CLOSING SESSIONS
Of the Annual Convention of the Ariz-
 ona Medical Assn.

The Arizona Medical association finished it's business yesterday, meet ing shortly after 10 o'clock in the morn ing and concluding its work about 6;30 in the afternoon. Those in at tendance say it has been the most in- teresting and profitable session the as- sOciation has ever held. and all who have participated feel that their time and trouble has been amply repaid. It was notably a medical meeting, rather than an aggregation of doctors called together for the purpose of sociability and simple organization. The time was for the most part devoted to the dis cussion of questions arising in the practice of their profession the pecul- iarlties of certain diseases and the best methods of treatment. Matters pertaining to the preservation of the public health were taken up to some extent. but mainly in the line of sani- tation and with a comparing of notes for determining the best methods of reaching the desired end. There were naturally differing opinions. for 1t is no new thing for doctors to disagree. but the discussions, while vigorous, were harmonious as all were working for the same end
 The first paper read in the morning was entitled Notes on the Relation of the Climate of Southern Arizona to Rheumatism and Kidney Diseases" It was read by Dr. Dufiield and was fol- lowed by a general discussion of the subject
 Dr. R. w. Craig read a paper on "The ClimatoEraphy of Arizona With Reference the Treatment of Pulmo- nary Tuberculosis" and at the after noon session pr. Stroud read paper on Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
 The former paper. was devoted more particularly tO the discussion of the climate and what it would and would not do for the patient. and the latter paper paid more attention to the dis ease. The two papers served as a sort of a text for the general discussion of tuberculosis. it's various phases and it's treatment. Had the association been organized like teachers assoc iation with special names for special days, yesterday might well have been named Tuberculosis Day" It Is the ons overshadowing subject that en- gages the attention of medical men in this section, whether they will have 1t so or not, and probably their time could not have been devoted to the study of anything of more universal interest or profit to themselves and in- directly to the thousands who annually come under their care.
 The question of the practice of en- couraging people to come to Arizona for relief from this disease, naturally claimed some attention and the doc tors, like layman, were naturally divided in their opinion when viewing the subject from practical stand point. On the one side stands the uni- versally admitted fact that this climate is more helpful to tuberculosis pa tient than a more rigorous one, and that a doctors interest in humanity in general would prompt him to use every effort to bring sick people here. Again, it is this object that prompts a large part of the advertising sent out from Arizona and from which the resident public hopes of course to reap the financial profit arising from all immi- grafton. Against this idea is was urged that the protection of those who had mad their homes here demanded that sick people should not be en- couraged to come and that the general