Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-08

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F. T. Brown of New York city, DR.. VIM
T. Belfield of Chicago, ILL.,; DIR. Arthur 7.
Cabot of Boston, Mass; DIR. Hugh II.
Young of Baltimore. Md, and DR.. Louis
e. Schmidt of Chicago. Ill.
The 0rtAopedists.
Assembling In the art gallery OF the Ar
Hngton Hotel, the American Orthopedic As
ISOLATION listened to a series of papers read
by DR.. ]. Torrance Rugh of Philadelphia,
DR.. Emil 8. Geist DR.. Charles H. Jaeger OF
New York city, DIR. B. E. Mckenzie Of To-
ronto. Can; DR.. Robert B. Osgood Of Bos-
ton, Mass; DIR. Roswell Park Of Buffalo,
N. Y; DR.. w. B. Cooley. DR.. Joseph Blood
good, DR.. Charles F. Painter OF Boston,
Mass; Dr. A B. Judson OF New York city,
Mr.. Robert Jones. F.R.C.s. Of Liverpool.
Eng; DR.. John Dane Of Boston. Mass;
DR.. John Dunlop DR.. v. p. Gibney Of New
York city, DR.. w. 8. Baer Of Baltimore,
Nd; DR.. John w. Perkins and DR.. Joel e.
Goldthwait Of Boston, Mass.
Meetings of the American Physiological
Society and the American Association of
Pathologists and Bacteriologisrs were held
In the hall OF George Washington Univer-
sity.
Oldest Of all the societies in the con-
gress, the American Medico- Psychology
cal Association, which was organized in
1874 met today in the New Willard Ho-
tel and listened to an interesting. adj
dress on "Shakespeare's Lunatics," by
Rev. Or. James NJ Buckley Of Norris
town, N. J. The scientific portion Of the
meeting t.an included a. discussion upon
the following participated: William Ma
bon, Id, New York, N Y; Homer Folks,
secretary State Charities Aid Association
New York, N. Y, and Robert NJ. Elliott,
MD, Willard, N. Y.
Other Gatherings.
DR.. r. K. Rachford, president Of the
American Pediatric Society, presided at
the second days meetings of the organiza-
ton, held at the Arlington Hotel this
morning. Papers and discussions were
participated in by Drs. B. K. Rachford OF
Cincinnati, Jacob Holt, Koplik, Kerley,
West, A. Caille of New York. John Low
EFT Morse of Boston, F. 8. Churchill of
Snicago, Samuel s. Adams of Washington,
u. "; Geo. N Acker Of Washington. %, G..
ana Charles H. Dunn and Maynard Ladd Of
DR.. Osler's Address.
At the meeting Of the congress yesterday
afternoon DR.. William Osler. one time Of
New York, now Of Oxford England, was
the principal speaker. Dr. Osler was re-
ceived with applause. He spoke on the
development of medicine through expert
ment. All medicine, he said, Is an expert
ment. Each dose of medicine given a pa
tient is an experiment. every operation per-
formed is more or less of an experiment.
l nnere1ore, ne said, 1t is good thing, fig
uratlVely speaking, to try 1t on the dog
whether 1t Is a dose of physic or a new
surgical venture. The object of medicine
Is 70 save suffering in man, and to this
emu sa II IS permissible to experiment on the
lower animals Thus he defended the
practice of vivisection.
Within certain limits, too, he Isaid. ex-
pertinent on human subjects is admissible
knowledge and consent of the experi-
mentee. Man Is, of course, the best sub
1ect for experiment, but when treatment
Is given on a purely experimental basis the
parent must be taken into the confidence
OF the physician otherwise-the sacred rela-
ton between them is broken.
referring to the ancient practice of medi-
cine, DR.. Osler said the first of the practi-
cal experimenters was Galen. He was the
one man among the ancients who could
nave walked into modern experimental
laboratory and felt measurably at home;
out the good start that Galen made was
not followed up, and it was not until the
middle of the last century that real ex-
perimental medicine was resumed, and Har-
vey and Hunter won lasting fame in the
same channels.
Field Has Expanded.
On the general subject of experimental
medicine DR.. Osler said the field of science
has SO expanded and specialists were SO
much in demand that it took the bulk of
a lifetime to master any one branch Of
science, and there was little time left most
men to collate the facts of experimenters
In different fields and build up from them
new essential theories of value and benefit
to the human race. : What we want, he
said, is few philosophical thinkers. as
yrh
Will take the scattered facts of various
specialists In science, put them together
ana evolve new laws for the government and
guidance of future Investigators Such
men, he said, come at intervals in per-
sons sons, ike Harvey, Darwin and Newton.
while they may do good original work
themselves, they are the men on whom
humanity must depend in every new era,
and then sweep up the facts collected by
the specialists and put them together into
a splendid whole.
DR.. Fitz Presides.
The session was presided over by the
president, Dr. Reginald H. Fitz of Boston,
Mass. Other papers were read during the
session by DR.. Barker of Baltimore, whose
subject was Neurological and Psychiatric
Diagnosis" DR.. Alfred Stengel of Philadel-
phia upon Chemical and Biological dag
nosis," and DR.. Richard C. Cabot upon
Physical Diagnosis
At the evening session DR.. Fitz made his
annual address, in which he spoke at
length upon the rapid strides made in the
development Of medicine in surgery in the
last hundred years. The session was at
tended by several hundred Of the members
of the congress and their wives, and at the
close DR.. Fitz held reception in the large
parlor of the Arlington.
ANNUAL BANQUET.