Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-06
MEETS IN DENVER
Medico.P Psychologists to Hold
Next Convention There.
BUSINESS SESSION OVER
American Therapeutic Society in
Session Today at the Raleigh.
Banquet Tonight.

The American Medico-Psycholoeical AS
ISOLATION. for the last three days in ses.
sion here. completed its work this morn.
Ing. and after deciding to hold it's next
annual meeting in Denver, Col, ad
1ourned. This was the last branch of the
Congress of American Physicians and
Surgeons, which was I'm session here
Tuesday and Wednesday, to complete its
sessions.
At the session in the New Willard this
morning number OF papers were read,
including those Of DR.. j. NJ Kenistonof
Middletown, Conn.,. on Certain Disturb
ances of Thought; DR.. Graeme NJ. Ham
mond of New York CITY, on "The Prog
nosfs in Paranoia"; DR.. Granville Y.
Rusk. on Meningitis" and DR.. Frederick
8. Hammond of Trenton, n. j., on "Ty-
phoid Fever in State Hospitals"
Typhoid in Hospitals.
In his paper on Typhoid in State Hos
pitals" DR.. Hammond said that typhoid
In state hospitals presents certain phases
which are due peculiarly to the environ
ment.
The conditions are in many ways IA
vOrable to the spread of the disease, he
said. but, at the same time, the power OF
control is greater than in general com
munities. The most important factors III
institutional typhoid are the contagious
hess or the disease and dangers of con-
tact infection. The question Of infection
by water and food is OF secondary i'm
pOrtance as compared to spread by con.
tact. which is directly under the control
OF the hospital management. Early dag
nOsis and rigid isolation are the means of
prevention Of spread of the disease in
hospitals.
Therapeutic Society in Session.
The American Therapeutic Society,
which assembled upon the adjournment
of the Congress of American Physicians
and Surgeons, was in session at the
Raleigh this morning, and listened to a
number of papers. One read by w.
Wayne BabcOck of PHILADELPHIA, OH cases
in which operations were performed after
anesthesia had been induced by spinal in
jections, was listened to with great in
terest. DIR. Babcock based his conclu-
sions on results obtained in two thousand
administrations of these spinal injections.
He explained the dangers of this method
of producing anesthesia, but showed how
it could be used with great advantage in
certain cases.
The society visited the laboratories of
the bureau of chemistry of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture at 1890 o clock, and
this afternoon will be In session again at
the Raleigh. The annual banquet Of the
society will be given at the Raleigh to-
night.
Criticises Faith Cure.
DR.. f. B. Dresslar of the University of
Alabama severely criticised faith cures
and absent treatments, which he classed
with "superstit.ons,' in an address last
night at the session of the American
Medico-P sychological Association at the
New Willard. HIS subject was "Sugges-
tons on the Psychology of Supersti-
ton
DR.. Dresslar submitted statistics gath
cred from the student or intellectual class
in various parts of the country to show
that superstit:ons were preveiant in this
class. He showed that many students
chestnuts and other charms as cures.
Faith cure doctrines. rampant in
America, have issued In such multifar1Ous
and religious forms In recent years that
Dresslar. They appeal largely to a
superstitious impulse. attested by both
doctors and devOtees.'
Or. Dresslar's address was the subject
of much comment and congratulation
among the members Of the association.
Many Delegates Leave City.
Hundreds OF physicians left Washington
yesterday for their homes Some of the
large number of delegates to the congress
are still here, however, attending the
meetings. of the American Medic Psyche.
logical Association and the American
Therapeutic Society.
The American Surgical Association adj
journed yesterday after electing the fol-
lowing officers: President, DR.. Richard
ri. Harte OF Philadelphia: vice president,
Dr. G. e. Armstrong OF Montreal: secre-
tary, DIR. A. ]. lie Conte of Philadelphia;
treasurer DR.. c.. A. Powers of Denver,
and recorder, DIR. Archibald Maclaren of