The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-19
Cordial Welcome to Mont gOmery is Spoken. 200 PHYSICIANS PRESENT President and Other Officers Submit Reports.
  Dr. Abbe, of New York, Will Speak this Morning-symposium on Tuber- culosis in Afternoon and
 Annual Address To-
 night.

Under suspicious circumstances with upwards of 200 members in at tendance, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama yesterday at noon began It's fifty-eighth annual meeting in the Hall of the House of Representatives.
 The first days proceedings ended with two sessions, the first disposing of the addresses of welcome and Pres ident Capers c. Jones, of East Lake. and the second held at night being consumed with four technical papers of considerable length and the lecture of pr. l.. II. Warner, a blood special ist. of New York.
 The association adjourned last night to meet again this morning at nine o'clock.
 The reports of the two vice presi- dents of the association, Dr. J. R. G.. Howell, of Dothan, and Dr. Walter H. Bell. of Bargrove, indicated a most flourishing condition of the organiza- tion and gives cause for regarding it as one of the most efficient of all States in the Union. The reports of increased membership in most of the county societies, the g<wing interest in the work for the protection of man. kind of a gratuitous nature and the unreserved theses on medical subjects
 
 the excellent results achieved by the faithful members of the association during its long existence.
 Record of Membership.
 The reports of the vice presidents demonstrate with their accuracies the proficient methods on the association in getting statistics on the profession throughout the entire State. They told yesterday the exact number of Ia cra1 in hA taNA nA number of illegal doctors and quack doctors in the State. Having arrived at the hundreds of physicians who are not members of the body the efforts of the vice presidents and other off, cers are put to persuading these to come into the organization as soon as possible.
 The largest county Nsociety in the State is that of Jefferson county It contains 191 members and holds semi monthly meetings. Some of the coun- ties hold monthly meetings and others quarterly meetings.
 At the evening session when the dis cussion proper began papers were read by pr. Jesse G. Palmer. of Opelika; Dr.. Harry T. Inge. of Mobile; Dr. Henry G. Perry. of Greensboro and Dr. James &. McLester. of Birmingham. The formers subject pertained to obstetrical practice ana US QlHlcullleS ana those or the lat ter dealt with kidney diseases, which rank, according to some estimates, as the third and fourth most important aggregation known to medical science.
 The entire seating capacity of the hall was used mostly by members of the Association and a few onlookers, including ladies, who sat in the gal lery.
 The delegates and the public are to be pleased this morning with lecture from Robert Abbe, the eminent sur geon of New York whose subject is, ''The Problem of Surgery" the Jerome Cochran lecture. Dr Abbe arrived in Montgomery yesterday and has at tended the proceedings of the meeting thus far.
 Lecture by pr. Warner.
 Although not on the program, Dr. l.. II. Warner. of New York. gave his itinerary lecture last evening on hema- tology. Dr. Warner has given the same lecture in more extended form in other Southern cities and has excited no little interest. He will leave this morning for Jacksonville, Fla. He came to Montgomery from Atlanta, Ga, Monday night where he lectured to a large gathering of physicians.
 Dr. Warner is native of Germany and a graduate of Heidelberg. He came to the Dnlted states Tn l6N9, going first into the medical service of the navy. He soon abandoned the naval service to go into independent scientific research. having now In New York one of the greatest laboratories for blood examinations in the United States. Preliminary to the opening of the night session he gave number of interesting demonstrations of the "Acousticon.' the instrument for the deaf invented by Miller Reese Hutchi- son, of New York and a native of Mobile. This Is device used in the Metropolitan Opera House. the Fifth Avenue Brick Church the Cathedral and a few theatres in New York.
 The visiting delegates are receiving very courteous treatment by the Mont gomery County Medical Society, tho committee in charge consisting of Dr. J. L. Gaston. Dr. C. T. Pollard, Dr. r. c. Stevenson, pr. c. A. Thigpen and Dr. q. J. Griel.