Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-06
MEDICAL men CONFER
Conventions and Congresses IN
" Session Here.
COME FROM ALL SECTIONS
Representative Physicians and Sur
geons Attend.
DISCUSS SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
Reception at Residence Of DR.. ROBERT
Revburn Programs for Tomor-
row-othsr Matters.
DISCUSS SCIENTIFIC ToPlC'

SATURDAY, and which continued us sessioho
today. the Association Of American Nieoie~i
Colleges held Its annual meeting IN INC
same hotel today, and the National Asso-
citation for the Study and prevention Vi
Tuberculosis assembled in the New VIII
lard Still another convention Will oesin
touorrow when the members OF the Con-
gress of American Physicians and Sur
geans gather in the parlors Of the AIRING
ton Hotel.
Vice President Gerrish was in the chair at
the session of the Therapeutic society inns
morning Papers read included the follow,
ing: "Pyroiigneous Acid and Its Internal
Use In Arthritis Deformans," DR.. LOUIS
Kolipinski, Washington. d. c.; The value
of Chemical Substances Used Hypodermat-
ically to Antagonize Morbiic Processes.
DR. John Blake White, New York. N. Y;
Morphine and Hydrated Choral or Ether
Choral Bromide and Morphine Anaesthe-
Importance of Recognizing the Natural
History of Disease" DIR. Alexander NC
Phetran Toronto, Canada; The Treatment
of Puerperal Eclampsia: Dr. D; GUN
Action, Elimination and Therapeutic APP
plication of Sodium Cacodylate. used Hypo-
Dramatically Drs. Spencer L. Dawes. Al
bany. y. Y, and Holmes c. jackson, Al
Discussion of Papers.
the various papers by Drs. James Z. Will
son Solomon Soils Cohen, H. C. Wood, jr..
and John V. Shoemaker Of Philadelphia.
Herman c. Gordinier of Troy. N. Y: B. E.
Mckenzie of Toronto. Canada; Egbert H.
Grandin of New York city. H. L. E. john
son of Washington and Howard Van Rens-
selaer OF Albany n. Y.
Papers to be read before the convention
this afternoon are as follows: The Phar-
phySinlAQy Kidney
Considered From the Point of View OF
Therapeutics" DIR. V. E. Henderson. Toron-
to. Canada: THE Therapeutics of 'Brights
Disease Based upon its Etiology," DR..
William H. Porter. New York N. Y; I'm
festival Dyspepsia; a Surgical Affection"
DR.. Robert Morris. New York. N. T.; In
dication for the Radical Mastoid Operation
and its Results" DR.. w. Sohier Bryant.
New York. N. Y, and The Non-surgical
Treatment of Exophthalmic Goitre," DR..
Solomon Soils Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.
Reception This Evening.
DIR. Robert Reyburn. president of the
American Therapeutic Society. will give a
reception to the members at his home. 2129
street, this evening. .-..-
Dr. George NJ. Kober of Washington. pres
ident of the Association of American Med
fcal Colleges made the opening address
upon the assembling of that organization in
the red parlor at the Raleigh this morning.
The remainder of the program of the in
ftial session Of the meeting was consumed
with reading of papers and by discussion
of the various subjects, as follows:
Giving Credit for Work Done in Literary
Colleges; the Combined Course" Dr. Egg
bert LeFevre, New York; discussion opened
by DIR. Howard ]. Rogers. Albany, N. Y,
DIR. j. II. T. Main, Grinnell Ia. DIR. Henry
B. Ward. Lincoln. Neb.; Some Further
Steps in the Advancement of Medical Edu-
cation DIR. Murray Gait Motter, Washing
ton: discussion opened by DIR. Dudley TAFT
San Francisco, Cal: Should Licensure Ex-
aminations be in Two Parts. and How Shall
They Be Conducted?" DR.. VIM. ]. Means
Columbus. Ohio; discussion opened by DR.
b. ID. Harrison. Detroit. Mich
Teaching Internal Medicine" DR.. VIII
liam 8. Thayer. Baltimore, Md: discussion
opened by DIR. George E. Hoxie, Kansas
City, Kan.
Teaching Materia Medca, Pharmacology
and Therapeutics" DR.. Torald Sollmann
Cleveland. Ohio: discussion opened by Dr.
Eli II. Long. Buffalo. N. Y.
Teaching Anatomy" DR.. Frank 8. Ba-
ker. Washington, d. c.; discussion opened
by DIR. B. d. Myers. Bloomington. Ind, and
DR. c. w. Kelly, Louisville. KY.
when Shall Students Begin to Attend
Clinics?" DR.. F. E. Bunts, Cleveland. Ohio;
discussion opened by Dr. ]. r. Guthrie.
Dubuque. Iowa. and DR.. Robert Luedeking.
St Louis, Mo.
In Executive Session.
The afternoon session of the convention
was executive. and only business concerning
the association was transacted.
At the opening session tomorrow of the
Congress of American Physicians and Sur
geons DIR. William Osler Of Oxford. Eng
land. will READ paper on The Evolution
OF the Idea of Experiment in the Study of
Medicine DIR. Richard H. Cabot of Bos-
ton, Mass. paper on Physical Diagno-
Sis" DIR. Llewellys F. Barker Of Baltimore
a paper on Neurological and Psychiatric
Diagnosis" and Alfred Stengel of Phila-
delphia a paper on Chemical and Biologi-
cal Diagnosis
Study of Tuberculosis.
The third annual meeting Of the National
Association for the Study and Prevention
of Tuberculosis convened at IL 30 o'clock
this morning In the red room of the New
Willard Hotel.
The meeting was opened with an address
by the president, DIR. Herman NJ. Biggs OF
New York: The United States Is very far
behind In respect to the efficiency of its
sanitary organization. as compared with
those OF Great Britain or Germany" he
said. Unfortunately here there Is no CEN
trail authority, and In a majority of the
states the state boards of health have but
limited Jurisdiction and small approprfa-
tons. and often serve for little more than
the registration of vital statistics The
health officers unfortunately are not gem
orally appointed because OF their knowledge
or interest in sanitary affairs and their
peculiar fitness. but account of their
personal or political Affiliations.
There Is no institution in the United
States. so far as I know. in which a COM
piete course OF instruction Is given for the
special purpose of fitting medical men to
become medical officers of health, and the
degree OF doctor OF medicine Is the only
requirement for eligibility. It would seem
as III We had now progressed far enough
along the path OF higher civilization to ex-
pect and require that sanitary affairs in
every locality should be administered INTEL
figently, tudicfously and I'm the interests of
all the people of the community by those
who have had special training In such
matters. so that consistent sanitary
policy may be everywhere continuously
Followed. This will come to pas only
when there are some definite requirements
as TO eligibility. and when a secure tenure
of office can be assumed and adequate COM
pensation given. II seems to me that in
urgtng legislation of various kinds in the
inherent states. the national association
cannat perform a more important function
than by promoting In every possible way
the enactment of laws, directed to the at
tstnment of these ends"
Report on International Congress-
DR. Lawrence F.. Flick of Phnadelnhia
was the next speaker He made a report