Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1910-04-27
LOCAL DOCTORS AT
MEDICAL MEETING
lErom EridaYis Dailyl

tfrOm Friday Dally.)
DR.. G. T.. Yount returned to the city
yesterday from Phoenix, where he was
one OF the speakers at the annual
gathering Of the members of the Ari'
,ona Medical association. held in the
Capital City.
lie stated that tho meeting Is well
attended, physicians being present
from the various sections Of the Ter
ritory, and added that the program
presented assured the meeting Of be.
ing one of the best ever held.
The Phoenix Republicans says Of
the part taken by Prescott physic.
isns in the gathering:
"Beforc the opening Of the nine.
teenth annual session Of the Arizona
Medical association, April 90 and 81,
the house Of delegates held . short
business meeting, snd promptly at
s:45 O'Clock the convention was call.
ed to order by President r. n.
Leoney Of Prescott.
President Looney then delivered
. heartily. applauded address on Med.
zeal Education DIR. Looney said that
Ia spite Of all that had been re-.
marked and written upon the subject
in recent years il is one that needs
no apology. He then spoke Of the
variety Of standards required by the
school included in the term medical
colleges Our first schools, those OF
Pennsylvania, Columbia and Harvard,
were modelled largely upon those of
Edinburg and London, and were good
schools. But following the War Of
the Revolution there was an enormous
demand for physicians, owing to the
rapid development Of the country,
which in less than one hundred years
has grown in population from 3,000,.
600 TO s0,00O,OO0. The demand for
physicians 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 us.
ually small, without proper facilities
for educating their students, and Of.
ten conducted ~ business enterprises,
though the better type Of schools,
sueh ms Jefferson, Rush and Bellevue,
and q few others, were properly
equipped and furnished many Hnely
fitted men 10 the medical profession.
A the supply Of physicians now
greatly exceeds the, demand, there is
no longer any excuse for low stand.
ard Of medical education. The pre-.
liminary education If the student
should include, besides a High school
course, Mt least one year in College
in physics. chemistry aud biology.
DIR. Looney closed his paper by say.
ing that though our laboratories were
better equipped and our teachers bet.
ter trained, there were still many
problems to be solved worthy the
best efforts of every physician who
has Mt heart the improvement Of his
profession and the general welfare
Of this public.
Captain c. l.. Cole, post surgeon
Of whipple Barracks, formerly Of the
Philippines, then read paper on
Ankylostomiasis,' or hook worm dis.
ease. DR.. Cole said he had been uu.
able to procure specimens Of the
worm rs found in its European vie
tins, but he presented under the
microscope specimens Of Neeator
Americans. DR.. Cole said 70 far no
cases Of the disease had been re.
ported In Arixons, though ~ would
not be surprised IL II were in the
Territory, rs its victims we're often
found among miners. The paper was
discussed by Drs. Redewill and Shiels.
"Dr Yount read n very Interesting
paper in which he gave the history
Of three cases which be had treated
for acute oedema of the lungs. The
subject was discussed by DIR. willard
smith and DIR. Hughes of Phoenix,
DIR. Kennedy Of Globe, DIR. Shiels Of
San Francisco and DR.. Yount Of
Prescott.
Paul Burks Of Prescott, Arizona,
one Of the youngest mebmers Of the
bar, read a paper on Some Practical
Suggestions Regarding the Testimony
Of Medical Experts Mr.. Burks'
remarks on medical jurisprudence
were thoroughly interesting, sensible
and practical. Among other things
he said that doctors who were called
upon to give expert testimony were
too much inclined to use pedantic
teehnicalities. He had known Of In.
stances that were worthy the young
who described a suppress