Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-04-22
NASHVILLE.
STATE DOCTORS CONVENE.
Hookworm AMI Pellagra Patients on
Exhibition.

Hookworm AMI Pellagra Patients on
Exhibition.
HoolwOrin-that lazy disease which
has perhars furnished more material for
magazine writer's than even the mighty
Roosevelt himself-was put under the
probe by the Tennessee State Medical
Association.
At the Goodwin Institute in Memphis
a symposium of prominent authorities
on this stya1ge malady was held. With
the aid of stereopticon views the naughty
worm in all of his varieties and forms
was placed under the probe of the asso-
citation. Comprehensive papers, the fruit
of long and laborious research, were read
and discussed. Scores of ways and means
of successfully treating the disease were
advocated, and from all indications Mr..
Hookworm is going to have a warm time
in the South.
The subject was made all the more in
teresting by the fact that a patient was
placed on exhibition.
DR.. Charles W. Stiles, of the United
States Marine Hospital service, who is,
in great measure, responsible for the
discovery of tie affection, opened the
symposium with his paper on Discovery,
Distribution and Consequences" The
paper was exceIlently delivered and well
illustrated.
lie WIS followed by DIR. George Dock,
New Orleans, La, Oh "Symptcmatology
and Diagnosis"
Memphis came to the front with
hookworm specialist when Nr. olis Le-
roy read his paper on "CAn.oa- Mani
iestations" lie was followed by DR.. G.
Newton II, ans, of Nashville. DR.. Evans
subject vas Pathology" He read
comprehensive report giving the result
| of his Investigations.
! Dr. William I-itterer, Nashville, deliV-
cred the closing address of the sympo-
sium. lis subject was "Hookworm Dis
section and Reference to The Non-Ovipa-
rous female.
The Symposium WAS a great success
and : cne Of the distinct features OF
the COW eHtion.
IT Q cauvc.a .o;. vas called to order
by DR. Battle N".oLe, chairman Of the
committee OH arrangements, and h'y. j.
T. Myers delivered the Invocation.
The address OF welcome was del ereI
by Dir. Eugene Res mon, elitor 0. The
Memphis Medical onthly.
DR.. 2, samoHd lid particular stress
upon the TACT that the discussion OF the
hookworm was the most important mat
| ter before The convention.
You have come 10 neutral ground 10
prepare your plan OF battle" he sa.d in
The course OF his address. There is not
one hool,worm within the city o. Nem-
phis outside of the carefully labeled speci-
men case. There is lot a lazy lr"H.
woman or child within oar corporate inn
its, and the ground Itch is posses ed
only by our real estate speculat ors."
The true purpose of the convention
was brought out by DIR. Rosar- ond, who
said:
Gentlemen of the Tennessee State
Medical Association, you do not meet
here this year-your seventy -se"entl an
nual gathering devise means Of CO.
crcing competition. to influence PIbIic
| opinion, to demand increased remuueia-
ton, TO discuss ways and meets Of
advertising your wares o. 10 further
the sale of your services. I9J 10 not
desire to fasten upon the state any SUI
perstition. You are not striving for the
acceptance of any particular cult or ereeI
or school of therapy. You are meeting
here-the majority of you away from
home-at the expense of both time and
money, striving to learn more about the
| laws of health, to the end that the span
of human life may be heightened, that
pain may be lessened, sickness prevented,
physical efficiency promoted and death
/ postponed"