The Washington bee., 1907-09-14
NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIA-
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Special Correspondence.
Baltimore, Md, August 3I.-The ninth
annual session of the National Medical
Association held here this week pre-
sented an inspiring photogravure of the
marvellous advancement of the Negro
American in the world of medicine,
surgery, dentistry and pharmacy. Up
ward of three hundred representative
Of these mastery sciences were in at
tendance, hailing from thirty States and
Territories and the District of Colum-
bia, the latter sending the largest dele
CATION. Practically every medical schoo'
Of consequence in the country was repre-
sented-Howard University leading, and
Meharry, Yale, Shaw and other notable
institutions, making very creditable
showing. The business sessions were
held in Metropolitan Hall. Orchard St.
near Druid Hill avenue, and the spacious
auditorium was filled each day by audi
ences of the most substantial people of
Baltimore and of the country at large,
For the larger occasions, St. Johns A,
NJ. z. and Zion Baptist Churches were
utilized The delegate body was made
up of prosperous, thrifty and intelli-
gent-looking men and women of the
race, and the expressions Of the press
and public were Of the most compH-
mentary character
The morning session of the opening
day. August p. was taken up in regis
tering the delegates, arranging the body
in sections, according to the professions
represented, in listening to the admirable
annual address Of President H. F. Mos
sell OF Philadelphia and TO a consid
Grafton of the report of the executive
board, presented through DR. A. K. Col
lins. of Washington, D. c, secretary Of
the board. In the afternoon papers were
read as follows: The Treatment Of the
Puerperium," by DR.. w w Johnson,
OF Covington, Va; Syphilis Innocently
Acquired, with a Plea for Legal Con
troll of the Disease" Dr. w. H. John
son, of NewYork; Syphilis in a Causal
Relation to Certain Diseases of the
Eye" Dr. NJ. Dumas. of Washington,
D. {. Then came dental papers as fol-
lows: "Somnoform as a General An
esthetic," w. H. Bookman, Brooklyn,
n. Y; The Needs of the Dental Pro
fession," c. c. Fry, Washington, D. c.
Clinical Paper on Several Unique Cas-
es of Bridge Work" w S Lotion, of
Washington. Dr. Lotions paper was of
unusual excellence, and he illustrated it
in graphic manner by showing two COM
plete pieces of bridge work in which nat
ural teeth were used and set in so ar
tistically that their artifciality could not
be detected DR.. S. Cox also showed
specimens and DR.. John D. Ballard, of
Orange, N. J., spoke on "Abscess of
Teeth" Interesting reports were heard
from local organizations, indicating in
creased membership everywhere and the
establishment of colored hospitals in
nearly every city of considerable Negro
population in the country.
The evening session at Union Baptist
Church was largely attended. After the
invocation by Rev Harvey Johnson, the
pastor. a cordial address of welcome
was delivered by the Hon. J. Barry Ma
hool. Mayor of Baltimore, who said
there was no group Of constructive work
ers who had so much to do with hu-
man happiness as the good doctor, the
good dentist, and the good pharmacist
their mission was of the utmost import
ance TO civilization, and he was proud
to welcome to the largest commercial
city of the South, and the sixth largest
municipality in the nation, so splendid
a body of men and women as are en-
braced in the National Medical Associ-
alton. Mayor MahOol bespoke Tor the
Association an increasing degree Of use
fulness as the years go by, and bade
all Godspeed An appropriate response
was made by DR.. A. Wilberforce Will
Jams, of Chicago. DR.. H. Stanton Nc
Card welcomed the Association on be
half of the local physicians, and DR.. c.
H. Shepard, Of Durham, N. C., respond
ed in happy vein. DR.. Shepard, in the
course of his able address, referred to
several noted physicians and surgeons
whose achievements have attracted the
attention of both hemispheres, mention
ing particularly the unprecedented feat
of DR.. A. NJ. Curtis, formerly surgeon
in-chisf of Freedmens' Hospital, at
Washington, in performing successfully
two operations for the Casarian section