Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-14
MEDICo-PSYCHoLoGISTS.
DR.. Richardson Participant In the
Deliberations.

The annual meeting of the American
Medico- Psychological Association Will end
with the session to be held tomorrow.
Two sessions will be held today. The Or
ganization assembled this morning at 10
o'clock and listened to a program OF very
interesting papers. The most important
was the symposium on traumatic INSANITY
in which Dr. A. B. Richardson the super
intendent of the Government Hospital 1or
the Insane and the newly elected president
of the association. took a prominent part.
A paper on the results Of brain surgery
in epilepsy and congenital mental deIect
was read by DIR. w. P. Spratling OF Son
yea. N. Y. Papers were also read by Drs
Stephen Smith of New York. Adolph Meyer
OF Wards Island. N. VI Everett Flood OF
Palmer. Mass; I. II. Nen of Pontiac,
Mich, and r. u. Hutchings of Ogdens-
burg, N Y. The association met again
this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and during the
course Of the meeting the following papers
will be read: THE Treatment OF Morphine
Habit by Hyoscine," ]. M. Buchanan,
M. D.. Meridian. Miss; Physiological De-
mands in Hospital Food supply" w. H.
Kidder, M. D., Oswego. N. y; Cases or
Tumors of the Brain. Causing Mental
Symptoms" Henry G. Baldwin, M. D., Bos-
ton Mass; AN Important Medco-Legal
Case" Henry r. Stedman. M. D., Brook
line, Mass: Hospital Provision for the In
sane Criminal" H. E. Allison, M. D.. Fish
~ l.
Criminal" r. B. Lamb, M. D.. Dannemora,
N Y: Recognition of the Insane in Penal
Institutions a Factor In Diminishing
Crime" Frank w. Robertson, M. D.. Ell
mira N. Y.
Tomorrow's program follows: The society
will meet at 10 am. and the report of the
council on time and place of next annual
meeting will be read. Papers will then be
submitted as follows: Some Aspects of
the Feelings in Mental Disease" Robert
H. Chase, NJ D., Philadelphia, Pa; De
lusions. Hallucinations and Illusions of the
Pubic Nerve, Cerebro-spinal Areas" c. III.
Hughes, NJ. D., st. Louis. Mo-; "A Case OF
Cerebro-spinal Syphilis. with Especial Ref
erence to the Intra-spinal Course Of the
Third Posterior Thoracic Root" Emma w.
Mooers. M. D., Waverley. Mass; Report
of Case Of Cerebral Lues' j. e. Court
ney. NJ D.. Denver, Col: "Psychotherapy,"
Ralph l.. Parsons, NJ D., Ossining, N. Y;
Suggestive Therapeutics In Psychiatry,'
James NJ. Remission. M. D., Middletown,
Conn: The Insane in Canada" E. p.
Chagnon, M. D.. Montreal, Quebec; "Addi-
tional Notes Upon Tent Treatment for the
Insane at the Manhattan State Hospital
East" Arthur B. Wright M. D., and c.
Floyd Haviland, M D.
Congress Notes.
Medical men In attendance upon the ses-
sions of the constituent bodies of the
American Congress of Physicians and
Surgeons, particularly those whose special
ty is insanity have found in the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane a place pos
sessing peculiar interest. and a result
large numbers of them have visited the in
stitution since the opening of the meetings.
This was especially the case yesterday,
when, following the adjournment after the
close of business. the members of the
American Medico-Psychological Association
went over to the government asylum and
spent the evening. They were warmly re-
ceived by the officers of the hospital, who
provided them with every opportunity for
an inspection of the new buildings. DR.. A.
b. Richardson, the superintendent of the
to the presidency of the association. Among
the visitors yesterday were DIR. R. H.
Chase. Superintendent of the Friends Asy
lum. Philadelphia. and Dr. George w Fos-
ter of Maine. both connected with st.
Elizabeth some years ago.
DR.. and Mrs. c. W. Richardson of this
city entertained the members of the Ameri
residence. 1917 Connecticut avenue. yester-
the members of the association were pres
emf.
DIR. Howard H. Barker of this city was
elected president of the American Thera-
peutic Society at the conclusion of the
fourth annual session of that organization
yesterday. DIR. Barker had served as the
first vice president of the society during
the past year. His name was inadvertently
printed yesterday as Baker
An Interesting exhibit in connection with
the convention of the American Surgical
Association in the medical department of
Columbian University. is the display of x
ray apparatus. including q large collection
of instruments used in the operations in
which the X-ray is employed.