The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-22
PHYSICIANS
At BANQUET 7.
Medical Society Ends
Its Long Session
Merrily.

At the close of yesterday afternoon's
session of the Hawaiian Territorial
Medical Society, the technical and bust
ness portion of the three days gath
ering of the medicos of the Territory
the session, however, came last even
ing when an elaborate banquet was
spread and discussed at the Moana Ho-
tel.
The session has been the most i'm
portant ever held by the physicians OF
Hawaii, and the results have been SO
it is proposed to have succeeding an
nual meetings conducted on similar
lines, with the reading of papers on
various medical and surgical subjects
special feature.
For the succeeding year new set of
officers will be in control, at the head
of which is DR.. ]. T. Mcdonald, bac-
terioIogist of the Board of Health, who
is recognized as one of the most active
members of the organization in bring
ing it up to a condition of certain
value to each individual member The
election of officers took place yesterday
afternoon and resulted as follows:
President, Dr.. j. T. Mcdonald.
ce-President, DR.. j, II. Dinnegar,
Of IIiIo
Secretary Treasurer, DR.. st. D. G..
Walters.
Executive Committee-Dr. ]. t. Nc
Donald, DR.. ]. H. Dinnegar, DR.. st. D.
G. Walters, Dr. H. C. Sloggett, DR..
George w. Herbert.
DR.. Mcdonald has been in medical
practice about twenty years. coming
to Honolulu from San Francisco about
five years ago. He was graduated
from Colby University, Maine, in 1880
and from Cooper Medical College four
years later In 1904, he spent year
in postgraduate work in New York
after which few months were spent
in London in attendance upon hospital
pathologist and bacteriologist to the
Territorial Board of Health since 1901.
A hobby of his has been that no case
of leprosy should be sent to Molokai
without it having been proven by
microscopical examination that the
germ of leprosy was present in that
he a
monograph upon the diagnosis oI
leprosy in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, extracts from
which were copied in many medical
magazines and papers throughout the
United States and Great Britain.
''Lepra,'' an international quarterly
devoted to leprosy published in Leip-
sig in three anguages-German.
French and EngliSh-reproduced the
article almost entire.
ARMY HOSPITAL VISITED.
The members of the society visited
the United States Army Hospital on
Wyllie street yesterday forenoon. The
nembe1.s We're conducted over the COM
ortabie and well-equipped hospital by
Major w. B. Davis, u. S. A, in charge
of the same, assisted by DR.. Baker of
Camp Mckinley. The physicians com
mended the institution.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Those present at the afternoon ses-
sion were Drs. Mcdonald, Moore, Arm
tage, Hoffman,, Emerson, Sinclair,
Cofer, Humphris, Mays, Sawyer,
Rhodes, Sloggett. Hodgins. Kobaya-
shi Katsuki, Uchida, Morris, MAJ.
Davis, Baker, Day, Rogers, Murray,
Cooper, Knudsen. Taylor, Rossiter,
Judd, Walters. Rodgers.
At the afternoon session the first
business was the election of officers,
The report of the nominating commit
tee, made by DR.. Taylor, being accept
sd as above.
The papers of DR.. Goodhue, resident
physician of the Leper Settlement, on
Some Clinical Observations in the
Leper Settlement" and of DR.. c. A. |
Davis, of Eva, Oahu, on The Plan |
tation Doctor" We're presented by the |
neither gentleman being |
present at the meeting. These viii be
published in pamphlet form with The |
of the papers.
The society also decided to have all |
he papers published in a form, uni |
form with those published by other |
State and Territorial societies.
The following papers were read dur |
ng the afternoon:
Some of the Animal Parasites that |
nhabit the Human Body" by DR.. p.
). Rossiter, Asst. Surgeon, u, S. n.
"A Contribution to the Study of the
oelvis," by DR.. J. B. de Faria.
Static Electricity" by DR.. F. How
lrd Humphris. F. R C. p, NJ. R. C. S,
:. R. c. P.
THE Exa mination of the Heart an
Exact Science" by DR.. st. D. G.
Walters.
Nature Cures by DR.. N. B. Emer-
on.
"Gun-shot Wounds of the Abdomen
" DR.. F. E. Sawyer, resident physician
queens Hospital
''Bromodrosis," by Dr. E. c. Rhodes
The paper of DR.. c. b. Wood on Re
marks on Fractures and Dislocations,"