The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-11-14
SOUTHERN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION WILL
MEET NEXT WEEK
MOST REMARKABLE GATHERING
OF SOUTHERN PHYSICIANS
EVER ASSEMBLED.
PURELY A SCIENTIFIC BODY
Papers Contributed and the Discus.
sions Are Of An Unusually Hiqh
Observation-Disclosures of One Thous.
and or More Expected.

The approaching meeting of the
Southern Medical Association at Lex
ington, Ky, on Nov. 1920, is claim
ed, will be the most remarkable gath.
ering of physicians ever assembled
In the South. The program which
has just been received in this Office
shows that every one of the sixteen
Southern states is represented by a
number of it's most distinguished ply.
sicians. The subjects to be discuss
ed cover the whole field of medicine
and surgery but throughout the pro.
gram subjects of particular interest
to Southern physicians predominant.
Tennessee is well represented on the
program.
One thousand new members have
been added to it's membership since
last November and it is confidently
expected that before the coming
meeting at Lexington the record OF
doubling its membership each year
will be maintained.
Yet this organization is entirely de-
void of financial, political or social
inducements to join its ranks. 1t is
purely scientific body and is COM
posed of physicians who are the lead
ers of their profession in every South.
ern state. The inevitable result is
that the papers contributed at the
meetings and the discussions there
on are Of an unusually high order. 1t
is believed by those Interested that
this meeting will prove an epoch in
Southern medicine 1t will demon.
strate beyond dispute that the rep
Iresentatives of the medical profess
sion in the South are the equals of
any others without exception, that
the work they are doing for the ad.
yancement of medical science is as
thorough and important as is being
done anywhere, and that there is no
occasion for going out of the South
for the best of everything in, medi
cine and surgery.
But there is an element connected
with the work of the Southern Medi
cal Association that is not always ap-
preciated, and that is its influence
upon public opinion for public well
fare, which extends to the remotest
neighborhood in the South. By lead
ing the opinions of its members in
such a way as to arouse their inter-
est in questions of hygiene and SAM
tation it has been a powerful agent
in supporting the remarkable revival
of public attention in such matters.
So that everywhere we see the peo-
pie wide awake to the necessity of
local sanitation. Since the organiza-
ton of the Southern Medical Associa-
ton and the publication of it's official
organ, the Southern Medical Journal,
this revival has swept the Southern
state with power that is without
precedent in such cause.
Since the South has offered more
than it's share from unsanitary condi-
tons there can be no doubt that the
interest in the prevention of disease
that is being fostered by the South
ern Medical Association and it's Jour
nal will prove of material value in the
wonderful industrial development
that is everywhere seen in our favor.
ed Southland.
An after dance of one thousand is
expected at the Lexington meeting.
A number of prominent physicians
from this city and surrounding towns
and country will go to the meeting
and there can be no question but that
your state will be well represented in
this distinguished gathering Of South
ern musicians