Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-09
ARMY.DOCTORS
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THURSDAY
NATIONAL ORDERS coNvEN-
TON is ADDRESSED BY PRES
IDENT ROOSEVELT IN WASH
INGT0N.

WASHINGTON, June 6.-Before an as
semblage that crowded the National the
alter President Roosevelt yesterday opened
eleventh annual convention of the Asso-
citation of Military Surgeons of the United
States When the president and party
arrived the marine band under DR.. San
lehman, struck up Hail to the Chief"
and the audience responded with vigorous
applause. Bishop Satterlee delivered the
invocation and Major George Henderson,
surgeon general of the national guard,
District of Columbia, then introduced the
president. President Roosevelt, In part,
said: -
Mr. President and Ladies and Gentle
men; am glad to have the opportunity
to bid welcome to the members of this
association and their friends today. 1t Is
a very necessary thing that there should
be some professions some trades where
the same demands are now made as have
been made in the past upon the heroic
qualities in a man, and those demands
are made alike upon the soldier and upon
the doctor and much more upon those
who are both soldiers and doctors: upon
the men who have continually to face all
the responsibilities and all the risk faced
by their brothers in the civilian branch
of the profession. and who also in time
of war must face much the same risks.
often exactly the same risks, that are
faced by their brothers in arms whose
training Is to kin and not to cure.
daughter and applause9
"It has been my good fortune, gentle
men, to see your body at work on the.
field. to see them carrying the wounded
and the dying from the firing line them
selves as much exposed to danger as
those they were rescuing and to see them
working day and night in the field hospi-
tails afterward when even the intensity OF
the strain could hardly keep them awake,
so tagged out were they by having each to
do the work of ten. (Applause)
81 welcome you here. am glad TO have
the chance of seeing you and 1 wish to
say a word of congratulation to you upon
this occasion. (Applause.)
II am glad to see you gathered In this
association and just one word of warn
ing: Pay all possible heed to the scientific
side of your work. Perfect yourselves as
scientific men, able to work with the best
and most delicate apparatus and never for
one moment forget especially the higher
offices among you, that in time of need
YOU will have to do your work with the
scantest. possible apparatus daughter and
applause) and that then your usefulness
will be proportioned not upon the ade-
ouacy of the complaint that you did not
have apparatus enough, but upon the way
YOU have done with what you have.
cloud applause)
the District Of Columbia, then delivered
the formal address of welcome on behalf
of the citizens of Washington and Presi-
dent S. S. Adams of the medical society
of the District of Columbia welcomed the
guests on behalf OF the Washington med
ical profession.
The program Of the morning session
Aclosed with the annual address of the
president OF the association, Lieutenant
ColoneI John Van Rensselaer, Hon, dep
uty surgeon general of the army.
A number of foreigners, distinguished
in both services. are among the delegates.
They were scattered through the audito-
rum this morning and the Japanese rep
resentatives, which included some from
the legation here, occupied one of the
boxes. The foreign delegates included
Captain .Kimura of the Japanese navy
CAPTAIN Temura of the Japanese army,
Colonel .Exham of the British army, Colo
mel Miner of the French army. Lieutenant
Colonel Molin of the Mexican army Lieu
tenant Colonel Nelson of the Canadian
army and DIR. Enrico Castelli OF the royal
army Of Italy. -s