The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

t sschner. of New Orleans. The privi- lege was unanimously granted.
 The floor being open to the discus- sion of Dr. Bradford's paper. Dr. B. L. | Wynan said that the influence of eye strain on headache is Of considerab ble | importance. Misrane is. however, due | considerably to inheritance. Errors of | diet also cause headschs Headache is. however. the most intractable of our | nervous diseases. Tt has been my ex- | perience that we have but few reme- | dies for this disease"
 Dr. Harrison disagreed somewhat | with Dr. Wymsn fin that miKrane is l an inherited disease. The weak spot, | the tendency toward thing is inner, | tied but not the disease itself It is | the duty of the physician to correct 1 l tenn r-EsrF ". | pr, iRhett Goode. of Mobile was next called upon for his paper on Foreign Bodies in the Rectum."
 Dr.. Goode's paper was well vritts, and well read. The discussion in- ouigeds in by members of the asso- I ciation showed that everyone present mad dealt with cases of more or ,.ss seriousness on the subject dealt with I m the paper. Many of the experieness soia lne association were amusing, to
 Cochran Lecture Omitted.
 rhe Jerome Cochran lecture. which was to nave been delivered by pr. Ed win Lesley Mareehal of Mobile. Presl. gent Welsh announced. would be struck rom sne program. 'Dr. Marechai was'l Invited to deliver this lecture but as ne IS i'll at the Johns Hopkins HospitalI | at the present. time and cannot ha present. we will have to dispense with
 r. We will therefore continue the regular program"
 | Tr n aeiivered paper on The Surgical Treatment of Goiter." pr, Tallev nrey. aced his remarks with the statement
 unat 6oiter was not a very common
 disease In the State of Alabama. but
 because so much relief had been given
 !o mese persons so afflicted he thought that many persons present would he
 interested in the paper which he was l about to read NM
 Ide paper which he read was rather
 technical and all present were very
 much interested as attested by the | close attention.
 l President. Welch announced that dis.
 cusslon on the paper would be post.
 poned until. after the reading of the | paper on the same subject by pr. Mayo
 who would be present in the hall with
 in few moments.
 | Dr. HiiI Reports Case. l pr. l.. L. Hill was next called upon
 for his paper on Wounds of the Hsart Rapport Of Cases" This paper was of l great interest to all members of the | Association as pr. Hill has been the nrst surgeon to successfully perform
 an operation on a wounded heart. pr. Hilis' paper was extremely technical only members of the profession heinr
 able 10 follow its intricacies. At the conclusion of the paper Dr. Hlll intro- duced two of his patients upon whom
 ne had successfully operated The
 nrst to show the wound was a negro
 man who had been stabbed through
 the heart with a knife pr. Htli ex- | plained to the surgeons who crowded about htm and the patient just how he had performed the operation. The sec
 ond example of successful heart surg
 cry was shown in the person of a ne- | gro who had been stabbed through the heart with hat pin. Both of the ne- | groes were in excellent physical condi- | tion. Their wounds were entirely healed but showed how and whevo ths
 tncision for the operation was made In commenting upon this paper, pr. | R. s. Hill told of the part which he had played in the operations.
 pr. Eugene DuBose Bondurant, of Mobile. was not present to read his pa- per upon Nervous Diseases In Ala 1 bama." and pr. E. W. Peterson, of New | York, was called upon for his paper I upon, Acute Intestinal Obstruction | | pr. Peterson gave an accurate &C., l count of cases which had come. under | hts observation with the advice that an operation was the safest and surest | salvation from death. The few times l which the obstruction was absorbed or removed were's so slight as to be worth. less. Medicine did but littlo good, the l speaker declared. The only safe method of treating such cases was an inlme- diate diagnosis and operation within as short a time as possible The paper caused q lively comment from the floor. At the afternoon session. Dr. Abra- ham, of New York City, gave a practi- | cal demonstration of direct laryngos- l copy. tracheo- -bronchoscopy. and esoph- l agoscopy. After explaining the differ | ence between direct and indirect laryn- 1 goscopy, and giving a history of the l subject, instruments ana appreciation | of the efforts of others in making | scientific advances in this important branch of surgery, Dr. Abraham show | ed how the new instruments were to be used He took as his subject lit- tie black dog that had heen previously been given a drug to deaden its sem | abilities and muscular action. All of the members of the Association in the room crowded about the doctor in order to see the practical use of the instru. I ments.
 1 The pracIical demoustratlob was Hol-
 lowed by a practical discussion by
 many doctors.
 pr. Cabot Lull. of Birmin shaua. road
 a most interesting paper upon "Psycho-
 therapy" and in the discussion which
 followed this comparatively new. yet
 old. branch of the profession, pr. Scar
 cy. Dr. wyman. pr. Harrison and
 others told of their experiences in this
 line.
 Dr. J. H. Kimbrough. of Lowndes-
 boro. was called upon. but President
 Welch stated that he was not fin the
 city and that pr. Mayo. of Koch ester,
 Minnesota. would read them his paper. Il pr Mayo took as his subject his
 specialtY. Surgical Treatment Of I Goiter Based Upon Six Hundred Cases" I pr. Mayo's name Is famous all over
 the country for the advances which he
 has made in this important branch of
 surgery and the hall was packed with
 interested listeners.
 pr. Mayo told of the different kinds
 of goiter and what treatment had been il followed. Tn the six hundred cages ! which had come under his notice Dr.
 Mayo told of the exceedingly low nor
 tality rate from the\ beginning. On , the last 105 eases there were but three
 deaths. he declared.
 After the reading of the paper. many , surgeons present talked of their cx- | periences with the disease.