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an ordinary letter or tell the general
facts Of history correctly.
The address was straight to the
point. chaste in expression required
only ten minutes in delivery
DIR. Woods Hutchinson.
One of the features of the morning
session was the address of DR.. Woods
Hutchinson Of New York, the guest
of the association, on preventive
medicine. DR.. Hutchipson is distin-
guished for his writings and addresses
on this subject which he presents in
popular manner adapted to the lay
mans understanding. 1t was a par
ticularly clever little speech of ten
minutes in which the doctor, a man
of 40, of easy and flowing address,
entertained as we'll as instructed the
assemblage. He cited with emphasis
the record of Gen. Lord Kitcheners
campaign again the Mahdi in which
the mortality from disease was re-
duced to an unprecedentedly low A.
cure. declaring that similar results
could be and should be attained in
civic life. THE establishment Of a
national department of health. it's
head to be member of the presidents
cabinet, as advocated in the magnifi-
cent speech of Senator Owen of Okla
homa," said DR.. Hutchinson, "is con-
summation that should be real ed in
the United States"
tuberculosis Diagnosis.
DR.. l.. b. Morse of Hendersonville,
n. c., one Of the invited speakers.
followed DR.. Hutchinson with an eff
fective paper on Earlier Diagnosis of
Pulmonary Consumption" Two of its
effective points were the depreciation
of false modesty on the part of pa
tients and caution as to the infection
of colored servants. The speaker laid
marked stress on the latter, saving
latter source of infection was fairly
we'll known in the South, it could not
be too constantly stressed "In every
case where a childs nurse has a
cough Of any duration or other sus-
picious circumstances exist investiga-
tion should follow" he said
The Destroying Worm.
"Hookworm Disease in the Negro"
was the theme of striking paper by
DR.. w. j. Burdell of Lugoff, who said,
among other things, that out of 200
negroes living in an area of square
miles examined by himself, 60 per cent.
had symptoms of the disease He en-
larged on the negro as the host and
his conclusion that Go per cent. of the
/ negroes in the sand hill regions of this
state have the disease, and said that
the infected negroes were menace as
creating conditions that prepared the
way for tuberculosis infection.
Opened to general discussion, DR..
William Weston spoke briefly, endors-
ing in general way DR.. Burdelrs
points.
DR.. Edward II. Parker followed with
a paper on First Aid to Injured Eyes,
Of great practical suggestiveness to
the profession. This paper was neces-
sarily more technical than most OF the
papers. DR.. Jervey of Greenville e
spoke pertinently on some of the
phases Of l!r. Parker's paper as did
DR.. Kollock Of Charleston and DR..
Carpenter of Greenville.
DR.. Charles w. Kollock next read a
paper on Treatment of Diseased
Tonsils." This paper evoked an in
terestng discussion participated in
by Drs. Parker, Carpenter and S. c..
Baker of Sumter
DR.. Robert S. Cathcart read a par
ticularly interesting paper on "Un-
developed Lower Jaw" The paper
| treated especially of case in DR..
Cathcart's practice
DrS. Dunn and Leigh.
DR.. Charles Hunter Dunn. Of Bos-
ton. who was on the programme to :,d-
dress the convention on the subject OF
The Serum Treatment of Epidemic
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis" arrived in
/ the afternoon and was the first to
, speak at the after dinner session. DR..
Southgate Leigh, of Norfolk, Va.
also arrived at O'Clock and follow
ed Dr. Dunn with quite an interesting
paper. which had for it's subject, "The
Present Status of Cancer Education. /"
DrS. Dunn and Leigh as visitors and