Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-15
MEDICAL MEN ADJOURN
LAST MEETING HELD AT THE
SHoREHAM TODAY.
Delegate to British Medico-Psycholog
cal Association Chosen-The =
- Topics Discussed.

meeting of the Medico- Psychological Asso-
citation at the Shorehan Hotel this after
noon the last meeting of the associations
brought here by the converting of the con-
gress of physicians and surgeons will have
closed and the deliberations will be over.
The congress itself expired with the meet
ing Wednesday afternoon. although its
members assembled at the New Willard
Hotel last night to attend the smoker given
by the local committee of arrangements.
All of the constituent bodies of the con-
gress adjourned yesterday, with the excep-
ton of the Medico-Psychological Associa-
ton. and this organization had but one
meeting today. The association assembled
In the banquet hall of the Shoreham at 10
o'clock this morning and adopted resOlu-
tions of thanks to the Washington physi-
clans and the public at large for the enter
tainment afforded during the past week.
An invitation was received from DR.. A b.
Richardson. Superintendent of the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. to accept his
hospitality at the asylum this afternoon,
and 1t was accepted DR.. Richardson has
been elected president of the association
and will entertain the members as such.
Delegate Chosen. .f
Before the conclusion of the business ses-
sion DR.. Edwards of Michigan was deslg
mated as the delegate of the American
Medico-Psychological Association to attend
the next annual meeting of the British Med
ico-Psychological Association. The asso-
citation will meet next year in st. Louis. At
the conclusion of the business session
number Of papers were read by Robert
H. Chase: MD. Philadelphia, Pa; EN-
ma w. Mooers. MD. Waverly, Mass;
j. E. Courtney, MD. Denver. Col; Ralph
l.. Parsons, MD, Ossining N. Y; James
N. Remission. MD. Connecticut; e. P.
Chagnon, M. D., Montreal. Que; Arthur B.
Wright, MD. and c. Floyd Haviland, M D.
The meeting then adjourned.
Entertained at Banquet.
More than two hundred members of the
congress assembled at the New Willard last
night to attend the smoker given by the
local committee of arrangements. DR.. A.
r. Stands of this city presided during the
first part of the meeting, in the absence of
duced Drs. r. c. Cabot and E. A. Locke
of Boston, who delivered illustrated adj
dresses on Ring Bodies In the Blood of
Anaemic Patients and ''Twenty-one Cases
of Paget's Diesase" (asteitis de formans).
respectively. When these papers had been
read and all the illustrations shown the
members and guests adjourned to the ban
quet hall, where refreshments were served.
Practically all the physicians and sur
geons that have attended the meetings of
the congress and It's various constituent
bodies left the city today for their homes
According to the estimates of the local
committee of arrangements there were
more than two thousand members of the
congress in attendance. Many of them
brought their wives with them and others
their whole families. The men and women
both were in attendance at the smoker last
night, and all the distinguished foreign
physicians who have been here were also
there, including Prof. Won Mcklicz of Bres-
lau. Germany; Prof Tillmans of Leipzig,
Prof Ewald of Berlin, Prof Kehr of Hal
berstadt, Germany; DIR. Moynihan of
Leeds, England and Sir William Kingston
of Montreal, Canada.
American Physicians Association.
Contrary to expectation the meeting of
the Association of American Physicians
was adjourned yesterday afternoon after
almost continuous session from o'clock
in the morning. During the business meet
ing which preceded the adjournment Off
GERS were elected as follows: President, Dr.
William T. Councilman of Boston; vice
president, DR.. Edward Trudean of Saranac
Lake. N. Y; recorder, DR.. Solomon Soils
Cohen of Philadelphia; secretary, DIR.
Henry Hun of Albany N. Y; treasurer,
DR.. ]. P. Crozier-Griffith of Philadelphia;
councillors, Drs. Victor Vaughn of Mich
igan and George NJ. Kober of this city. The
association will meet in Washington again
next year, the date being fixed In March,
1904.
During the meeting that followed the
election of the officers pa pers were read by
the following members: DR.. B. M. Bolton
of st. Louis. DR.. ]. McCrea of Montreal,
DR.. ]. H. Wright of Boston, Dr. Norman
Bridge of Los Angeles. DIR. H. U. Williams
of Buffalo DIR. James Tyson of Philadel-
phia, DIR. F. P. Henry of Phila delphia DR..
H. A. Lafleur of Montreal Canada; Dr. V.
c. Vaughan of Ann Arbor, DIR. E. P. Joslin
of Boston, DR.. w. G. MacCallum of Balti-
more, DR.. B. Sachs of New York. DIR. James
]. Putnam of Boston, DR. Charles L. Dana
of New York and DIR. Simon Flexner of
Philadelphia.
DR.. s. E. Lawton who is at the head of a
large sanitarium at Brattleboro, VT. has
been one of the valued working members of
the American Medico- Psychological Associa-
ton. DIR. Lawton is accompanied by his
wife. who was Miss Lillian Upton of Bos-
ton.