Arizona republican., 1905-07-25
A FINE OUTING
Dr. FOss Took a Look at the Great
 Northwest.

Dr. J. w. Foss returned home yes terday morning from a three weeks vacation during which he had the time of his life. If anybody doubts it he should take g. look et the doctors sunbuned countenance which proves that ha must have had a deal of sport for he says he got his moneys worth and does not regret the fact | that he now has to 90 around with his wrists tied up in rags to cure the | burns. His outing consisted of a trip to San Francisco. Portland, Salt Lake | City, then back to California, Cata- lima island and home again. During the time he travelled nearly 4,OO0 miles. saw everything there was worth see ing in four of the largest western cit ies, learned to fish with a rod and reel and spent the remainder of the time resting.
 En route to Portland he stopped three days in San Francisco and hap pened to strike that city during one of her infrequent hot spells. When he arrived there the thermometer in the Sacramento valley was 106 and though 1t was lower in San Francisco it was very sticky and unpleasant. and the heat disturbed him more in three days than it has in Arizona in six years.
 While in the city he attended a banquet given by the Harvard club in honor of the American Surgical as- sociation which was holding Its an- nual meeting there and which is a very exclusive organization of sur geons, its membership being limited to l25. The members of that body are not all Harvard men by any means, but many of them are and those who were not were gladly welcomed as they are all men ranking high in the profession. As an illustration of the character of the guests pr. Foss re- called the names of the following whose reputations are national: Dr. John c. Munro, chief surgeon of the county hospital at Boston; Dr. Nor ris Richardson of Boston, an authori- ty on the treatment of appendicitis; Dr. Thomas Dwight, professor of anatomy in the Harvard medical school; pr. John c. Warren, author of an international text book on surgery which has been adopted as a text book by the U. s. army and navy; Dr. A. J. OXner of Chicago. an authority on ab- dominal surgery; Dr. Roswell Park Of Buffalo, who operated on President Mckinley after his fatal wounding; pr. F. RiXford of San Francisco. who was elected president of the associa- ,. ton; Dr. c. B. Johnson of Richmond the retiring president; Dr. Wm. J. Mayo. a stomach specialist. and who was later elected president of the Medical association at Portland, and many others worthy of recognition in the same class of scientific medical men. Dr. FOss said that during the banquet he was honored with an in vitation to address the assembly, | which he did, taking for his subject the difference between the practice of physicians in the east and in the southwest.
 Leaving San Francisco Dr. Foss ! went direct to Portland, where he at tended the meeting of the American Medical association as a delegate, rep resenting the section on pharmacology and therapeutics, having been elected to that office the year before in At lantic City The deliberations of that meeting have been previously men, toned in these columns so it is only for Dr. FOss to add that he agrees with all former statements that it was a great meeting and all visitors were treated in the most hospitable manner.
 Speaking of the fair he says it is not nearly so large as some of the eastern fairs but it will do more for the northwest than anything else that could be conceived. The display of products from that section is marvel OuS and in no other way could the re- sources of the coast be so clearly shown to the thousands of people who come from the east. The attendance will not equal that at the eastern fairs but every person who goes will have a different opinion of the north west than he could ever have gained by reading, that the fair, whatever it may cost the Oregon people, will be a good investment. In fruits and az ricultural resources, grains, hops, etc, there is no comparing the display with anything he had previously seen any where It is a wonderful country and he is quite enthused about it. though he insists that nowhere in the world is there such air as the Arizona peo- pie breathe, so that with all his en- thusiasm he is still patriotic and de- fends his homeland. He thinks though that every AriZonian should take a trip once in a while to learn to ap- preciate what he has at home when he gets back.
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