The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-10
UNVEIL STATUE OF
DR.. DAVIS DEC. 4
Southern Surgical and GynecO-
logical Society Will Meet
PROGRAM E ANNOUNCED
Bronze Statue of Late DR.. w. {. 3.
Davis Has Been Set Up In Capitol
Park Ready for Unveil-
ing Ceremony.

The complete programme for the an
nual meeting of the Southern Surgical
and genealogical society in Birming-
ham. December 1915. has been an
nounced. 1t includes the unwilling Of
the statue of the late DR.. W. e. B.
Davis, which has just been completed by
Signor G. Moretti, the sculptor.
The pedestal of the monument was
erected yesterday In CAPITOL park and
the statue has been placed on it. 1t is
carefully yelled and the unwilling cere-
monies will occur at II o'clock on the
morning of Wednesday, December H.
The address of presentation will be made
by DR.. C. M. Rosser of Dallas. Gov
ernor Cunningham will deliver an adj
dress of acceptance in behalf of the
state and Mayor Drennen in behalf Of the
city.
The statue is of heroic size and is in
bronze. 1t is regarded as an excellent
likeness of the late physician, who was
one of the most prominent, not only in
the south, but in America. and was
widely known by reputation in Europe.
The statue and the pedestal will be
about eighteen feet high. the statue
itself being nine feet.
The Full Programme.
The complete programme is as follows:
Tuesday morning, $3.50 O'clock:
Prayer, by the Rev. DR.. ]. C. Davidson.
Address of welcome, by Mayor w. M.
Drennen.
Address of welcome, by DR.. L. G.
l.. IF h
fession of the city.
Report of the arrangements committee,
of which DR.. ]. D. s. Davis is chairman.
"Gall Stones In the Ampulla Water"
DIR. A. II. Ferguson Chicago.
"a Review of 1000 Operations for Gall
Bladder Disease with Especial Refer
ence to Mortality" DR.. Charles II. Mayo,
Rochester.
"A Method of Uniting Intestines Of
Very Small or Unequal Calibre," DR..
]. Shelton Horsley, Richmond.
'Enterostomy," DR.. ]. w. Long,
Greensboro.
'.The Treatment of Focal Fistula," DR..
Stuart Mcclure, Richmond.
Intestinal Obstruction" DR.. d. F.
Talley, Birmingham.
Afternoon session, 2:30 o'cloch.
First Day, Tuesday, December 10.
THE Abuse of Purgatives Before and
After Abdominal Section" DIR. l. s.
Stone Washington City.
"A Review of the Treatment Immedi-
ately Before and After Abdominal Sec
'tion," DR.. L. S. McMurtry, Louisville
observations upon the Aseptic Tech
mic of Abdominal and Pelvic Surgery
DR. Henry T. Byford, Chicago.
The Employment of Celluloid Plates
for Covering Defects in the Skull" Dr.
w. Perrin Nicholson, Atlanta.
"On the Sterilization of Cutting In
struments" DIR. H. A. Royster, Raleigh
when Shall We Reset In Tuberculo-
sis Disease of Joints?" DR.. C. E. Cald-
well, Cincinnati.
"Traumatic synovitis of the Knee
Joint" DR.. Edward A. Balloch. Wash
ington.
Evening session, 500 o'clock
THE Clinical Consideration OF Tu-
mors," DR.. w. F. Westmoreland, Atlanta
Personal Experience in the Surgical
Treatment of Cancer of the Caecum," DR..
G.. Wiley Broome, ST. Louis.
Gases in Which Early Diagnosis OF
Cancer of the Body of the Uterus Was
Made" DR.. Rufus B. Hall. Cincinnati.
Final Results in x-Ray Treatment Of
Malignant Tumors," DR.. William B.
Cooley, New York city
Report Of a Case of Embolic Gam
CREME" DR.. Maurice H. Richardson,
Boston.
"Fibroid Degeneration of the Uterus
After Ablation of the Appendages," Dr.
J. Wesley Bovee. Washington city.
"A Contribution to the Origin of Ade-
no-Myoma of the Uterus" DR.. ]. Whit
ridge Williams, Baltimore
Second Day. Wednesday, December IA.
Second day, Wednesday, December IA,
Morning session, $3.50 o'clock.
"Alexanders' Operation" DR.. Charles p.
Noble, Philadelphia.
Effect of Suspensio Uter on Subse-
quent Pregnancy and Labor" DR.. Jo-
seph Taber Johnson, Washington city.
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