Arizona republican., 1910-04-21
Assembled For Business
 With Incidental Pleasure A TERRITORIAL GATHERING
Notable Members of Pro fession Present From Cal ifornia and the East. Banquet at Hotel Adams Last Night

Before the opening of the nineteenth annual session of the Arizona Medical association. April 20 and 2l. fhe house of delegates held q short business meeting and promptly at 9:45 :he con- Vention was called to order by Presi dent F. \. Looney of Prescott.
 The address of welcome was deliv- cred by Dr. Willard Smith of this city. IL was very concise and differed de cidedly from the usual laboriouS effort inflicted upon a suffering audience. Dr Smith said: As cur time is short and our program long | shall not open this meeting with the usual conven- tional can opener-a lengthy speech. You know you are welcome: if you did not know il you would not be here. As for the fireworks usual on such occasions I will say that in addition to those let off at the banquet tonight we will try tO furnish you a view of IIalley's comet"
 pr. Smiths remarks were greeted withS Smuch laughter. which was also generously Vouchsafed to the humor- ous response of Dr. William Y. Whit more of Tucson pr. Whitmore said he was an old member of the Arizona Med ican association. having attended its sessions for the past thirteen years. But as he was no speaker he could not understand why he had been chosen to respond to an address of welcome unless il was that their hosts. the Mari copa Medical society. were handicapped because they had upon their roster the only man really fitted by nature to make n speech. An old friend of his who was so gaseous that he had gotten himself elected the perpetual president of the board of trade.
 President Looney then delivered heartily ly-applauded address on. Medic al Education" pr. Looney said that Tn spite of all that had been remarked and written upon the subject in recent years il is one that needs no apology. He then spoke of the variety of stand ards required hy the school included in ihe term medical colleges. Our first schools. those of Pennsylvania, Colum . bia and Harvard. were modelled largely npon those of Edinburgh and London and were good schools. But follow ing the war of the revolution there was an enormous demand for physi- cians owing to the rapid development of the country. which in less than loo years has grown in population from 2 0OO 900 to 80, ,0O0. 900 The demand for nhvsicians became so urgent that the medical school Outstripped the high school. college and university. and marched with the church in the van of pioneering. The schools were usual lv small. without proper facilities Tor educating their students. and often con ducted as business enterprises. though the better type of schools. such as Jef- ferson. Rush and Bellevue and d few others. were properly equipped ana fur- uished many finely fitted men to the medical profession. AS the supply or phvsicians now greatly exceeds the de- mand, there is no longer any excuse TOT T low standard of medical education The preliminary education Of the SUI dent should include besides high school course at least one year m col lese in physics, chemistry and biology Dr. I Jyoonev closed his paper by saying that though our laboratories were bet fer equipped and our teachers better 0.
 lems to be solved worthy the best ef- forts of every physician who mas al heart the improvement of his proies- sion and the general welfare Of this public.
 The annual essay was read by Dr. N Warner Watkins The doctor gave as the title of his essay, "Siniiia Slmi- libus Curantur" Among other things in this we'll written essay the doctor salo' ..The fact that nature cures diseases more frequently than do physicians mas been accepted for centuries. conpia- = gently and with little regard TOT us significance But in the last decade aggressive and insistent minds have been wrestling natures technique oi defense from her reluctant grasp. II only remains for this knowledge to he woven into our system ot thera- neutics to give us accurate and defin- ite methods of combating disease.
 Dr. J. Wilson Shiels. assistant pro lessor of medicine in Cooper coiiese' san Francisco. then gave an orauoh on, Medicine" Dr. Shiels said ne nad chosen a topic and prepared paper, but when he saw the programs ana found he was due to deliver an ora . ton" he abandoned his topic in des- pair. He then proceeded to speak oi the place held by the old doctor in the field of medicine. pr. Shieis said the old physician was wonder worker who commanded his respect-aimos' his adoration. Whenever he looked in- ro the fine, kindly face of an old doc LOT he felt that its sanctity had been