The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-15
CANCER SUBJECT
Of ABLE PAPERS
Doctors Declare Necessity of Early
misunderstanding Facts
About Disease.
D IS CT s S ANESTHETICS
DIR. Mcclure Describes His Elk
perienee With Ether and Chlero-
form rs Agents.
DIS CUss ANEsTHETICs

Many eminent physicians. repre-
senting the medical fraternity of vir-
GINA and North and South Carolina,
met in the auditorium of the Jefferson
Hotel Tuesday morning in the twelfth
annual session of the Tri-State Medi-
cal Association of the three States.
In q brief address OF welcome DR.
Joseph A. White. chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee, extended to those
present the hand of good fellowship
After the invocation by Rev H. b. G.
Macla chlan, Governor William Hodges
Mann was introduced to deliver the
address of welcome.
Governor Mann's Address.
Governor Mann extended to the Wis
iting members of the association a
cordial welcome on the part of Vir-
ginia. He said, In part:
Il undertake to say that no man
was ever expected to do a more un-
necessary thing than to welcome men
from South Carolina and North Caro-
lima to Old Virginia. | have seen the
time when / felt comfortable to know
that fiampton's and Ransom's men
were touching elbows with the troops
of this old State. North Carolina and
South Carolina have hallowed Virginia
with the blood of some of their no.
BILE sons. The members of this SPLEEN
did association are welcome as the
citizens of sister States bound together
by common ties. and the fact that Won
are physicians and that your lives are
spent in alternating the suffering of
humanity and as the confidential adj
visers of the families which you at
tend would entitle you to hearty
welcome from the people of a State
who has always responded to the cry
OF those in need.
II honor the noble calling to which
You belong. the grand -States-fHe4s4
which you come. the splendid men
whose descendants should select Rich
mond as your place of meeting. AS
citizens of noble States and sons of
noble men, you are worthy OF the con-
fidence of all men. and / am proud
that you have gathered In this room
to become the guests OF old Virginia.
In brief speech in response to the
welcome extended by Governor Mann.
Or Hubert A. Register, of Raleigh,
\. c., on behalf of the visiting ply
stcians, extended greetings from the
two Carolinas. He expressed deep
appreciation of the cordial welcome
with which they We're received and
said that they We're more than glad
to be the guests of the city and
State. He said further The Tri-
State Medical Association was con-
oeiyed in Virginia, born In North
Carolina land chrissened In South
Carolina. United In origin bound to-
gether by common purposes and en-
gagged in the same pursuits, ii In
natural that the three States should
be Joined together. Every virginian
loves only three ttfngs-Ancestors
James river and Smithfield ham; North
Carolina believes in only He'll. calomei
and Democracy, and South Carolina
carries on her shoulder
the chip OF personal liberty and dares
anyone to knock II off. We are glad
TO be here In this city. rich in lore
and famous by reason of historic re-
lations, and dear to the heart of every
American citizen"
Presidents Address.
Declaring the cancer the most
tragic question now confronting the
profession, DIR. LeGrand
3uerry. OF Columbia. 8. c., president
" tho association. made this disease
he principal topic OF his annual adj
treas. He cited statistics showing the
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