Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-12
UTAH DOCTORS
IN CONVENTION
State Medical Association Meets
In the Packard Library
Hall Today.
LONG LIST OF PAPERS DUE.
Morning Session is Taken Up With
The Discussion of Bubonic Plague
And Demcntia Precoy.

And Demcntia Precoy.
The Utah State Medical association
met at 10 o'clock this morning in the
Packard library hall IN convention, IL
being the fourteenth annual gathering
of the kind In the history Of the or
ganization. About so members were
in attendance, with the promise that
many more would be present before
the deliberations are over the meet
ings bling scheduled for two days.
DR.. II. d. Niles. president Of the as
ISOLATION, was In the chair, and Secre-
tary w. S. Ellerbeck gave clerical at
tenttop to the proceedings. An adj
dress Of welcome had been expected
from Mayor j. S. Bransford, but that
official was not present, and announce
ment was made that the executive
would speak this afternoon.
BUBONIC PLAGUE.
After the presentation of various
Items OF routine business, DR.. Thomas
j. West, a Salt Lake member. read an
interesting paper entitled THE Blu
bonic Plague" This disease because
of it's deadly nature Is frequently re-
ing its first appearance in the sixth
century. 1t has existed in virulent or
In mild forms and in various countries
up to the present time.
The victims of the plague have been
numbered by the hundreds of thou
sands, A.siatic countries being the
great breeding centers, and the NOR
tality often being as high as so to
30 per cent. In late years decrease
has been noticeable until 80 to so per
cent is the average
The last great epidemic of bubonic
plague broke out in Hong Kong, China,
in 1904 and its raVages were most
deadly. The disease spread eastward,
losing, however, much of its virulence,
and finally reached American shores.
San Francisco is suffering an epidemic
of the disease at the present time,
though no great inroads are being
made.
The pesty little animal known as the
Norway rat is greatly responsible for
the spread of bubonic plague. The
symptoms of the disease are severe
pain and redness over the lymphatics
I'm the groin, lassitude, headache, rest
lessness and a steady rise in temporal
ture. Victims have peculiar fancies Of
terror. almost bordering ON hysteria-
The blood swarms with bacilli. and the
critical periods of the malady are the
thlfd, sixth ana ninth days.
MENTAL SPECIALIST.
A most interesting paper was con-
tributed and read by DIR. Robert l.. Gil
lespie Of Portland. Or, an honored
guest of the convention. Tho subject
was "Demented Precox," Q cAsme that
a lay member would find As difficult
to understand as for child of the kin
dergarten to read Greek or Latin, but
which was absorbed by the doctors
present as sponge takes in water. The
applause that followed demonstrated
how favorably the effort was received
Dementia precoX is one of the worst
forms of mental disease, and finds most
of its victims In persons during years
of adolescence, or, with a wider scope,
of from is to 30 years DR.. Gillespie,
contrary TO prevailing beliefs. consid-
ers the disease not necessarily fatal
nor incurable. In his opinion the term
Is too much used among the fraternity
and should often be modified to be less
appalling to friends and relatives OF
persons mentally afflicted The paper
was discussed by DIT. Browne Owing
and DIR. Il. G.. Gowans.
WILL VISIT U. OF U.
Upon invitation of DIR. ]. 4. Kings
bury of the University of Utah, the
that school tomorrow, at an hour yet
to be named. and will be provided
with luncheon at the institution. To-
night the Salt Lake County Medical
society will entertain the members OF
the association at banquet, and to-
morrow evening at the University
club, an elaborate banquet will be
served to all members of the state
society and a number of specially in
vlted guests.
Immediately after adjournment of
the morning session, the body known
as the house OF delegates met for con-
sideration OF subjects peculiar to that
organization.
PAPERS TO BE DISCUSSED.
The papers yet to be considered are
as follows;
THE Social Evll-Its Penalties: Ostra-
,ism. Disease, Death" Frederick Clift, |
Provo: Spotted Fever of the Rocky |
G. W. States, Franklin, |
Idaho: Report OF Few Laboratory |
and Clinical Observations In So-Called |
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" Ross |
Anderson. Salt Lake; Obstruction OF |
Bowels In tho Aged, and Its Surgical |
j. F.. Critchlow, Salt Lake; |
Some Anatomical and Physical Points |
Having "a Bearing Upon Hernia" A. j |
Hosmor Salt Lake "Whoopingcough,'
r. j. Smith, Schenectady, N, Y; Some |
Of rheumatism In |
Eugene II. Smith, Og- |
den; "Antipyretics- Use and |
@. c. Emery. Preston, Idaho; |
'Guaiacol IN It's Relation to Thera-
peutios." r. l. Thorn, salt Lake; |
"Treatment OF Pettonitis Following |
Appendicitis or Treatment OF Suppur-
ntive Perttonitis" Ezra @, Rich. og- |
den. "The Gymnasium and Training In |
Hygiene as Factor In Over
coming Abnormallhes Of Health Dur |
Ing Infancy and Puberty" Chas, G.. |
Plummer. Salt Lake Internal Hem
OF the New Born" q, r. Til.
son. Paysoni "Obstetrical Monstrosl- |
lies" w. r. Calierwood, Salt Lake. |
Hot Air" Geo r., Robson, Provo, |
Mouth Breathers Cause and Rene |
~" j. r.. Hosmer, Provo; scarlet |
Fever ~" Etiology and Pathology |
rhos. j. West. Sat Lake Symphonic |
.ology and Diferential Diagnosis" a. |
=. Ewing. Salt Lake: complications |
ana sequolae," r. H. Raloy Salt |
Lake, "Treatment," II. w Fisher, Salt
Lake; "Obstetrlc Don'ts,' II. g. Hui