The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-28
WANT STATE FARM
FOR INEBRIATtS
Medical Society Members Ask
Legislature to Help Save
Drunkards.
MOORE MEMORIAL FAVORED
Would Pay Tribute to Confed-
crate Surgeon-Doctors End
Session.

After being in session since Tues
Virginia finished its labors early yes
terday afternoon and adjourned to
meet next year in Norfolk The day
was devoted to the reading of papers
for the most part OF interest chiefly
to the medical profession, and to the
finishing up of various matters OF
business.
The convention this year was marked
I by an unusually large number of able
addresses. said to excel in this re-
spect any previous meeting of the So
cicty Especially interesting and
/ scholarly were the addresses delivered
/ by invited lecturers from other States.
! In point of attendance the meeting
/ Just closed topped the other conven-
| lions of the society by a considerable
F., number. Most of the delegates left
! the city for their homes by the after
! noon trains, Il few remaining over for
/ the boats and trains last night.
! The convention opened yesterday
morning with an address by DR.. c. C.
/ Miller of New Market, on the subject
( Can the Malarial Parasite Be Cuiti-
/ waited? What Is the Malarial Para
/ site?"
Favor Farm for Undertakes
From the point of view of the lay
man The second paper of the day held
. especial interest. DIR. stephen Harms
f, berger of Catlett. discussed the topic,
! our Neglected Drunkards: What Vir-
I ginia Should Do for Them" He drew
! Il narrowing picture of the results of
| the drink evil. and OF the utter indif.
/ ference of the State as to devising
means for dealing with the habitual
/ drunkard. His contention was TIM I
the State should provide an asylum or
! other suitable retreat for this class OF
unfortunates, where they could be
! given scientific treatment. and per-
maps cured. The address made deep
| impression on the assembly and caused
| a member to introduce a resolution be-
fore the society. calling upon the presi-
| dent to appoint a committee of seven
| to go before the next Legislature and
urge the establishment by the State
! of farm for inebriates
Other Addresses.
The concluding papers read before
the convention were THE Achieve
/ ments and Victories of Medical
| Science" by DR.. ]. w. Williams, Rich
mond: THE Efficiency of the Different
Operations for Perineorraphy," by DR..
| George F. Hummer Lynchburg; IRA :
uonal Treatment of Post Partem Hem
orrhage Based on Its Mechanism" by
DR.. George T. Harrison, Charlottes-
Vile; Rectal Hemorrhage," by DR.. e.
II. Terrell, Richmond
Analysis of the Last Fifty Cases of
| Goitre Operated On at ST. Luke's Hos
pital" by Dr. Stuart Mcclure, Rich
mond; Report of Seven Hundred
Cases OF Nitrous Oxide Oxygen Anaes-
thesia," by Drs. Southgate Leigh and
James II. Culpeper. of Norfolk: The
After-Care of Abdominal Sections" nv
DR.. Joseph 7. Buxton, of Newport
News; Vicious Circles in Disease" by
Dr. Philip I. Roy. Washington, d. c.:
"Dilatations OF the Thoracic Aorta. .
by DR.. A. G. Brown. Richmond; The
Heart in Febrile Conditions" bv DR..
George j. Williams. Newport News;
Observation-Disclosures in the Treatment
OF Bronchitis" Ivy DIR. Douglas Wander
Hoof. Richmond; "Infantile Pellagra.
With Report of Case" by DR.. Lucien
Lotion, Emporia. and Report of Case
of Myositis Ossifcan3 Following Hook
worm Disease" by DR.. J. c. Walton.
| Richmond.
| Indorscs Moore Memorial.
| Among the official acts of the con-
vention was the drafting of a resolu-
| ton approving the move to erect in
! Richmond suitable monument to the
memory of the late Samuel Preston
Moore. NJ D., once surgeon general of
J the Confederate Army. a resolution
was also carried at yesterdays meeting
expressing the appreciation Of the So