Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-07
THE DOCTORS CONVENTION.
Many Urge the Separation of Boys and
Girls in School.

Boston. June 6.-laperS ana discus
sions upon them were arranged to
form Il great part of the proceedings
Wednesday, the second day of the 51tE
annual session of the American Mcdi
cal Association in this city. Lengthy
programs of papers and discussions
were scheduled in the sections Of op-
Technology, obstetrics, laryngoloSy,
and GEOLOGY, surgery and anatomy, dis
eases of children, Stomatology, phar-
macOlogy and therapeutics. pathology
and physiology. hygiene and sanitary
science, nervous and mental diseases
and cutancous medicine and surgery.
The practical side Of the work was
provided in clinics at the various hos
pital3 in the city and the numerous eX~
hhits at Mechanics hall.
The social side of the session las no;
been lost sight of, and at the nov II ~
r.,r.! Medical school buildings Wrdl:"s-
'!ay afternoon tea was served At ni' M
the section of nervous and mental dis
eases will have dinner at on" Of IL"
Back Bay hotels and a reception and
promenade concert at Mechanics build-
ir- will be gi7 n to the visitors by the
medical profession Of New England.
At the session of United States pen
sion examining surgeons the following
ot!iC RS were elected:
President. DIR. Wheclock Otter, Roch
cstcr \. Y; first vice president, Or. !.
S,r.Iin Hill. Bellows Falls, VT; second
vice president, DR.. Thomas f.. BEARD.
Kansas city. Mo-. third vice president,
Dr. s. C. Cox. Washington. -. G.;
fourth vice president, DR.. Cyrus Ste
clt,b
Porter Farley. NJ. d. Rochester. y. T.;
| treasurer. Charles II. Gliddcn, NJ. D..
| Little Falls, \. Y.
Before a Joint session of the section
| for the practice of medicine an! on
| surgery at the Medical Association
Wednesday papers on the treatment Of
| ulcers were read by DR.. Frank Billings
| of Chicago DR.. Bcrtram Sippy of Chi
| ,ayo, DR.. w. l.. Rodman of Philadcl-
| phia. DIR. W. ID. Haggard of Nashville.
| Tenn. and DR.. W. J. Mayo of Roches-
| ter. Mimi, the president of the dsso-
| citation.
| Important papers on technical qucs-
TONS were read before the section Of
| hygiene and sanitary science by Dr.
| Max Joseph of Berlin. Prof. +. Tufiicr
of Paris DR.. William ]. IIurdmcn of
| Ann Arbor. Mich, DR.. William g.
| Chapman of Toledo. o.. and DR.. BranS-
| ford Lewis of St Louis. Mo. Their gem
| "raI "uDicct was the treatment and dis
| Sr,nination of knowledge with refer
cuce to diseases which arc especially
| threatening to society.
| In connection with a discussion of the
| question THE Duty of the Profession
of Medicine to Womankind." Pres. G.
| Stanley Hall of Clark University. Of
ed a paper in which he dWclt upon
| The hyEicnc relations between higher
and lower races.
| Dr. William Lee Howard or Baiti-
| moro and DR. Charles 4. l.. Reed of
Cincinnati contributed addresses upon
| the proper rearing of youth. Dr. How
ard held that the question Of the pro-
| lection of the innocent WAS u social
| question and not medical OF legal. lie
claimed that plain facts must be
Taught in plain languag" and suggested
;hc separation of the sexes i'll schools
in order to permit individual instruc-
lions in matters of sex. This instruc-
ton should not be given al any dcfinit"
lagc but extended gradually. Dr.. How
lard oppressed the opinion that ignor-
lance plus the nruri"nt rrudcry' If
Iunrcnts causes the ruin Of many young
lives.
The general question Of insanity and
its cure was discussed by many physi-
clans meeting with the section on ncr-
vous and mental diseases. DR.. Henry
Is. Upton Of cleveland. o.. expressed
the opinion that many acute cases of
insanity 81 far from being hopeless
have an excellent outlook for cure, pro
vided the underlying vIsceral di?"aF'
was diagnosed and radically dealt
with.
The section on stomatoloSy. met in
Joint session today with the Massachu-
eetts Dental Society. which assembled
for it's 4ad annual meeting The ad-
dress was delivered by John F. Nc
Laush,in of North Adams. The socie-
ltv elected the following officers: Pres
ar. G.. smith. Lynn; first vice presi-
dent. George f. Savage. Worcester,
Mass: second vice president. y. 4.
lStanley. New Bedford: secretary, Chas.