Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-10
M HE'S OF PAPERS
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W dSulHSlOu, May IU.-I He ud- tional capital is the Mecca of med ical men of the whole United States this week. Not in years has
 Washington seen such a gathering of conventions, for at the present time there are in session the Ma
 tional Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Therapeutic Society, the National Association of United States Pension Examining Surgeons, and the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons Several miles of learned papers have been unfolded and read at the various meetings and if any fact of the many-sided science of medicine has not been touched upon it is no fault of the delegates who are in attendance.
 Perhaps the most important of these conventions, judged from the layman's standpoint, is that of the Tuberculosis Congress. Many famous specialists from all parts of the country and from Europe and Canada are in attendance and re- port was made on the plans being made for the international meeting on tuberculosis to be held in this city in September of next year.
 Among the foreign delegates in attendance is pr. Gustav Killian, of Freibourg, Germany, who is a guest of Dr. Charles w. Richardson, professor of laryngology and biology in George Washington Uni versity.
 Dr. Killian, who is one Of the most eminent physicians in this country, may hold some clinics in the splendidly-appointed medical department of George Washington University In fact the medica' college of the university is the cen ter around which swing all of the conventions being held. This fact is giving great impetus to the movement under way to transform the university into an educational institution of national character and a great school of international im- portance. The interest taken in the medical department will insure it's being known in great number of foreign countries.
 The Association of American Medical Colleges brought out number of new ideas in the matter of teaching materia medica. One of these papers read by Dr. Egbert Le Fevre, and entitled "Giving Credit for Work Done in Literary Col leges; the Combined Course, was regarded as especially strong and timely. It pointed to the advan- tages accruing to physicians WHO combined the study of literature with the study of medicine, round- ing out his character more fully and making him more valuable to so- ciety at large. The example of fered by George Washington Uni versity in this particular was point ed to as model.
 Dr. Wilfred M. Barton created considerable amusement uninten- tionally through the delivery of his paper before the National As sociaton of United States Pension Examining Surgeons. The paper bore the title of "Atrophy of the Cerebelum. It was we'll written and a well-prepared thesis, but the applause that greeted it's author when he made his final bow and prepared to retire from the center of the stage, was turned to laughter when one of the delegates humor- ouslv pined up: Atrophy of the Cerebellum?' it seems to some of us back here that science would not have suffered if you cut out that high-sounding title, Doctor. Why not re-christen your effort by the modern title of 'Brainstorm?
 On the whole however, there was hot much of the element of humor in any of the conventions. The high -browed scientists were too serious for that