The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-18

be held here April 19, 20 and H, and a large delegation is expected. William Shaw. general secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavors, with headquarters at Boston, will be one or the principal speakers.
 The following officers have been elected by the alumni of the medical department
 { the University of Alabama for tho
 suing year:
 Dr. L. w. Johnston, Tuskegee, presi- dent; Dr. L. w. Desprez, Florence. vice president; Dr. Charles Whelan, Birming ham, second vice president; Dr. P. J. Howard, Mobile, secretary.
 At the reorganization, sixty signed the roll, while about 200 will sign. As It was recently arranged, the graduates in the past of the Mobile Medical college are l eligible to membership in the alumni Dr. Nicholas Senn of Chicago was pre- sented by Dr. George T. McWhorter of Riverton to the Alabama Medical assocla- tion meeting this morning.
 Dr. Senn spoke for nearly an hour, his being the Jerome Cochran lecture a trib- ute of respect to a late president of the Sldte aSSOclHllO1. HIS SuDJeCL was, lne Final Triumph of Scientific Medicine" which he declared will be the suppression of disease with the aid of the govern ment.
 pr. Senn began his address with a re- view of medicine and the knowledge of disease. He quoted Confuscius, who said, We must study the past if we would know the future" and he said this could be fittingly applied to medicine. He as serted that prevention rather than cure 1 has been the aim of the profession. Cit ing smallpox, he told how vaccination is preventing it in these latter days. The doctor declared that we are still ignorant of the nature of hydrophobia, the most terrible of all diseases, but prevention is almost a certainty. The greatest triumph of the doctor will be the prevention of disease. He said war on disease will not cease until scientific medicine has won it's last triumph.
 In emphatic terms pr. Senn declared that malaria is caused by a species of mosquito, and that preventive treat ment is now being practleed on a large scale in German East Africa Typhoid, he asserted, must now be classed with preventive diseases, and like cholera is water-born disease.
 He spoke of the effectual results of vel low fever experiments in the last few years, and declared that but for the stamping out of yellow fever in the canal zone the building of the canal would re- main but an idle dream.
 The speaker gave bubonic plague some attention, and passed on to tuberculosis, which he said must be forced to retreat as far as possible by the isolation of con- sumptives in fresh air camps. He ex- pressed hope for the prevention of can oer and concluded his remarks with the argument that government press and pulpit must be impressed with the sig nificanee of sanitation.
 A rising vote of thanks was rendered Dr. Sem. Furthermore, the president said that on account of the visit of Dr, Senn and the reading of his most in- structive paper, this was a red letter day in the history of the Alabama Medical association.
 w. C. billiard has been appointed con tractng agent for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, with head quarters here and enters upon his new duties today in the office of General Agent H. c. Barclay of the company. He will succeed R. D. Walker, who resigned few days ago to accept position on the road for the w. w. Heron Lumber company
 Oscar Hauger of Hoboken, N. J.. and Herman Grunner of St. Louis, Mo. were today indicted for violation of the lot tery law. Both men were agents for the Honduras Lottery company, in their respective states They appeared before Judge Toulmin yesterday and plead guilty. Sentence will be passed upon them May 27.