Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-06
NATIONAL MEU,S0o.
Over 400 Papers Will Be Read at Con-
Vcntion in Boston.

Boston. June with clinics ar
| ranged for every department of medi-
| cine and surgery and with daily SEES
sicns Of a dozen different departments
OF sections. the annual convention OF
| the american Medical Association was
! opened here Tuesday. with several
| thousand physicians and surgeons in
| attendance from this country and
| many from abroad.
For cxtcnsiveness of preparation and
| ere and clahorateness of detail for the
! four days of its sessions no such as
many years.
| The work of the convention is divided
| ounng the House of Delegates which
| opened its deliberations Monday and
| Which transGctS the business for the
| association, three general meetings. OF
| til" association arranged for Tuesday
| ami Wednesday and the daily sessions
| of various departments at which will
| be read some 400 papers on subjects of
| mcdiral and surgical interest. The daily
| departmental readings included those
| devoted to discussion Of the practice
| of medicine. ophthalmoloGy. larynxol-
| ogy. larynSolcgy and Otology, surgery
| and anatomy. disease of children, Sto-
niatolnCy. pathology and physiology
| hygiene and sanitary science. nervous
and mental diseases and cutancous
| medicine and surgery.
| The opening general meeting or the as
! sociation was called to order by Pres
| Lewis S. McCurty. LnuisvilIc. Ky. after
| which prayer was given by Rcv. Edward
/ Everett Hale. The addresses of welcome
| included speeches by Pros. Charles w.
! Eliot of Harvard University Pres. A. r.
| cabot of the Massachusetts Medical So
| cicty. Gov. Curtis Guild. Jr.. and Mayor
Il John +. Fitzgerald. This was followed
ny the installation into office of the pres
idcnt-cIcct, pr. VIM. J. Mayo of Roches
ter Mimi, who delivered an address t.
the convention.
The papers read before the various sec.
y ton meetings were almost entirely of d
technical nature. although the discussion.
before the department of hygiene and
aanitHry science constituted an exception
II Following the address of the chairman
Dr. Dcnzow Lewis of Chicago on "'rht
New Hygiene" DR.. Lewis Faugerc-
bishop Of New York city spoke upon tho
general question of health inspection as
III dIi'n'N 10 inc lluNluUillS. III Il7HoI
thought that each individual should pos
Scss a record Of his own physiological
II pccrIlidritics To his mind every person
suffering from "a chronic disease or q
tendency to such should be examined al
regular intervals. In this way unneces
II sarv suffering and therapeutic expert
mcntS were to I've avoided.
IL In considering the subject THE Plague
II in American Cities" DR. Foster of Sac
ramcnto, Cal, pointed out that there was
II Il constant and Increased danger of TIN
II plague in American scaports.
II The speakers Tuesday at the continued
meeting of the Americans Castro Entero-
lngica! Association INCLUDED DIR. G. w
McCaskey of Fort Wayne Ind. DIR. Nor
III rs Manages of New York. DIR. Julis
| F'ricdenwald of Baltimore. Pr G. ID
Spivak Of Denver, and DR.. w. L. Can
non of Boston.
| At the meeting of the section of hy-
giene and sanitary science this after
| noup. DR.. G. V. Chaplin of the Provi-
deuce. Il. T. Board Of Health read a pa
per on THE Fetch of DisnfcCtion
which aroused warm discussion.
| There was plenty Of work and enter
tainmcnt for the delegates this evening
Several dinners and theatre parties
had been arranged there was an exhi-
| bitiul drill nr the MaSsa clusctts
| Militia Ambulance Corps and there
wa; general meeting of the associ-
| alton at Jordan hall.
Two largcly.att"nded receptions were
| held tonight. orc in the Museum of fine
! arts and the other at the public library