The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-19

First Vice President, A. II. Gadbois,
Madison.
| Second Vice President, A. p. over.
gard. Fremont
| Treasurer, =. H. Salter, Norfolk
| Secretary, II. l.. Wells. West Point.
| Next summers meeting OF the Elk.
horn Valley Medical Association will
be held In Fremont on a date to be
determined upon by the new officers
of that organization, who we're elected
at the fifteenth annual meeting held in
the Lyric theater Tuesday afternoon.
One OF the new features of the next
meeting will be the lecture by some
noted medico from the east or possib-
ly from Europe and this plan has also
been left with the new officers. Be
sides the employment Of lecturer
the associations treasury has grown
Sufficiently to justify a salary for the
secretary and he is now on a regular
pay roll. Because Of the short time
allowed them, the smoker planned by
the physicians was not enjoyed aud
Immediately after adjournment at 5
o'clock Tuesday evening there was a
rush for the trains and by 6 O'Clock
most OF them were out of the city.
The meeting was called to order at
2:30 Tuesday afternoon and during
the short session every part of the
human chest was discussed with the
aid of interesting papers and stereop-
tical illustrations.
Starting with the common cold,
which was declared by DR.. Peters to
be as important as any other ailment
the chest diseases were maintained
as the general topic of discussion.
Have a Cold? Stop Kissing.
If you have a cold in the head STOP
kissing; sleep alone; use individual
, fowls; don't fondle children and stoT
, overeating, are just few of the words
. of advice handed out by DR.. Peters
y who in his paper on Common Colds
, declared that the average individual
time lost in Boston in one year was
, over six months, just from common
colds"
"The cold in the head has beer
grossly neglected" said DIT. Peters
!"There are many cures for this all
ment. ! tell my patients not to blow
their noses. If they must do it. tel
them to do it as little as possible
The blowing Of the nose in case or 8
e cold in the head brings on too much
pressure. 'Let the glands rest ant
. become normal" he says.
DR.. A. c. Stokes, Of Omaha, the
| yn11 I'D o1
kinds of operations for lung trouble
i DR.. A. Sachs of Omaha does not en-
courage the Use of antitoxin in bron
:, chial asthma, on which subject he reat
. paper. MANY deaths have occurred
> from the use Of antitoXin in connec
:, ton with bronchial asthma" said DR.
= Sachs.
People who suffer from hay fever
when around horses, said the physi
clan, do not suffer from it wher
y around dogs. cats and other animals
Disease Of Tonsiis Came Back.
]. NJ. Patton OF Omaha talked OF
. diseased tonsils and declared that h'
has seen number Of cases where pa
ltients have returned after an opera
- ton for tonsils and reported tina
the. tonsils which were supposed tt
have been removed, had returned. DR.
Patton prefers the use OF ether u
=. chloroform in operations for tonsils
, Some physicians, he said, use theil
fingers or a specially made knife II
remove them, but he used scissors
/ The removing Of tonsils from the
throsts Of singers, he declared, woulc
. not affect the voice Of the singer.
Or. F. A. Long OF Madison talked or
r f"E,mpyena," and for operations fol
this disease he declared chloroforn
: was best as an anesthenc.
y "Deformi'ies of She Chest" was
subject on which II. w. Orr OF Lin
, coin and J. p. Lord. Of Omaha. hac
. papers.
A. p. Overgaard Of Fremont, G. w
Bartlett of Scribner, F. l.. Funk OF
, Newman Grove and NJ d, Baker o.
Tilden were other physicians who hat
interesting papers
, In winding up the meeting President
, Stokes gave fifteen minutes for sup
positions" and in these few idle mo
ments DR.. Banister OF Omaha, for thir
ty-one years United States army sur
, geon, and for a number Of years in
charge of the First reserve hospital
i. in Manila, p. l., declared that army
y surgeons very seldom operate for rifle
. bullet wounds in the chest.
DR.. Banister declared also in regard
: 20 secondary operations Of tonsils
, that he could not understand why
: parts OF . diseased tonsil were al
lowed to remain at all. He declared
, il was safer to remove the entire ton
sill than to leave half Of it In the
throat. He cited the operations foI
kidneys, declaring that when operat
= ing on kidneys half OF them are, not
: removed and half left remaining.
g Among the physicians present, not
( reading papers, we're Drs. McClanna
e han, Newell, Banister Mcpherson
: Omaha; Douglas, Atkinson; Johnson
Creighton; Gadbois, Madison; Thomp
. son. Beemer; Akin, Omaha; Johnson
: Salter, Tashjean, Pilger, Culmsee
! Brush, Norfolk