Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-11
MEDICAL MEN MEET
SESSIONS OF PHYSICIANS ASso-
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CITATION TO CLOSE TODAY.
Nineteenth Annual Assemblage Sue
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cess-0fcers to Be Elected-lm-
portant Diapers Read.

ton of American Physicians opened. at ~
o'clock this morning in the banquet hall
of the New Willard. with about two-thirds
of the members in attendance. Drs. Philip
King Brown OF San Francisco, Joseph
Collins of New York. David L. Edsall of
Philadelphia, Frederick Gault Finley OF
Montreal Hermon C. Gordonier of Troy.
NJ T.. Richard M. Pearce of Albany, N.
Y. Mark w. Richardson of Boston and
Richard P. Strong, United States army.
were elected to membership. Drs. Bever-
ly Robinson. Startling Loving and Henry
G. Walcott were elected honorary mem
bers.
The balance of the morning session was
devoted to the reading of scientifc meoicai
papers of interest to the profession by Dr
E. L. Opie of Baltimore on 1.-The Relation
of Cells With Eosinophile Granulatlon 10
Bactedial Infection, Drs. Geo. DOCK ana "A.
s. Warthin of Ann Arbor, Mich, New
Case of Chloroma with Leukaemla, with
study of the cases reported since 1855, LIZ.
Alfred Stengel of Philadelphia types o. OF
Splenic Anaemia or Splenomegaiy, DIS. r:
G. Novy, w. J. McNeal and c. b. Hare OF
pansomono Eyapsi," Drs. F. q. Novy ana
w. J. McNeal "The Agglutination and FIJI
tration of Trypanosomes, DR.. T.. l.. Opie
"Zonal Necrosis of the Liver.
DR.. George l.. Peabdy of New York ex-
hibited a number of specimens or maiis-
nant adamona of the liver.
The Afternoon Session.
After examining the specimens the mem
bers took a recess for luncheon. AT
o clock the afternoon and concluding SEES
sion of the meeting was opened with the
reading of a paper on Rhythmic Lateral
Displacement of the Heart AS Sign OF
Unilateral Pleuritic Exudate, by Dr
Charles L. Greene of st. Paul. Mimi; Al
dison's Disease, With and Without ACRE
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| ton of Boston, and. report on case OK
Acromegaiy byDr. Charles L. Greene.
The nineteenth annual meeting Will come
| to a close this afternoon by the election OF
officers for the ensuing term.
| Delegates to the meeting express them
| selves as greatly pleased with Washington
as a meeting place, and say the papers
read at the various sessions were NOT alone
| of great interest to the profession In gen
eral, but have proved of benefit to those
who heard them.
Annual Dinner Last Night.
| The physicians attended the annual
dinner of the association last night in the
| banquet hall of the New Willard. While
| the affair was more or less informal, there
| were some after-dinner speeches on sci
| entific topics that were of more than
| passing interest: to the members of the
| association. f,stftv
| DR.. Osler of Johns Hopkins University
| Il
medicine Several series of lantern slides
were shown on a screen DR.. F. B. NAL
| Tory of Harvard explained his slides in
| the protozoon1ike bodies found in scarlet
| fever. DIR. Bond of Richmond, Ind, and
| DIR. Novey of Ann Arbor, Mich, explained
some slides dealing with trypanosemes.
| A series of leukemic blood preparations
was exhibited by Prof. George Dock of
| Those at the dinner were: Drs. William
T. Councilman of Harvard. who presided;
| J. c. Wilson of Philadelphia, f. B. NAL
| Tory of Harvard, II. C.sWOod of Philadel
| phia George Dock of Ann Arbor, Kenni-
| cult of New York, Peabody of New York
| w. G. Thompson of New York, Hunt of
Albany, Tyson of Philadelphia, w. H.
Thompson of New York, Samuel B. Ward
of Albany, Meltzer of New ork, Frank
| Billings of Chicago, Purk of New York.
| Koplik of New York. Janeway of New
York, Bond of Richmond, Ind; Osler
| Thayer, Futcher and Camac of Johns
| Hopkins, Cheeny of San Francisco, Long
street of Philadelphia, Stengel of Phila-
| delphia. Edward Loving of Columbus
| Ohio; Prince of Boston, Putnam of Bos-
ton, jacob of New York, Mitchell of Phil
| adelphia, Sternberg of Washington, CO.
hen of Philadelphia, Adler of New York,
Fischel Of New York. Cory of New York,
Thatcher Of New York, WEIGH of Johns
Hopkins, Josling of Boston, CADET of Bos-
| ton, Wilmington of Boston, Kober of
| Washington, Sachs of New York Opie of
| of Philadelphia. Stockton of Buffalo, Kin
| nyown of Philadelphia, Hamilton Wright
of Boston and Abbott of Philadelphia.
Papers of Yesterday Afternoon.
The reading of papers was resumed at
the afternoon session, with the program
as follows:
Abdominal Pain From unsupported Ir-
ritation of the Internal Inguinal Ring"
Charles G. Stockton, Buffalo; The Mech
anism of Exophthalmos." W. G. MacCal-
| lum and w. B. Cornell. Baltimore; Ola
| betes Insipidus," Thomas B. Futcher, Bal
| timore: "A Case of Prolonged Male Hys-
terra, With Autopsy" S. Weir Mitchell
| and William G. Spiller, Philadelphia;
Some Unusual Forms of Acute Mye-
litis," B. Sachs New York; Infectious
Neuritis, With Report of Case" James
]. Putnam, Boston; The Clin.ca Fea-
lures, Prognosis and Treatment of Cere-
bro-Spinal Meningitis in Infants and Chill
dren," Henry Koplik, New York; "A Case
of Spasmodie Structure of the Oesopha-
gus, With SPECULATION, Treated by DiIa-
ton and Later by Gastrotomy," James
Tyson, Edward Martin and Thomas Ey-
ans, Philadelphia; 'Idiopathic Dilatation
of the Oesophagus, Cardiospasm," b. w.
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