Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-06
Congress of American Physi-
clans and Surgeons Con-
veneS at Willard.
PHENOMENA OF DREAMS
DISCUSSED AT MEETING
Traits of Sleep Takers and Walkers
observation-disclosures to Speak on
Panama Sanitation.

lean Physicians and Surgeons opened this
afternoon In the assembly room Of the
New Willard. nearly 1909 OF the leading
surgeons and medical men OF the United
States being in attendance The opening
session this afternoon followed morning
sessions Of the various organizations
which compose the congress. DIR Will
liam {. Gorgas president OF the con-
gress. was in the chair
Following a brief business session
the congress took up the opening
topic. study of renal functions re-
ferring TO various phases OF rheumatism
and kindred ailments. Papers were rea 4
by Drs. Henry A. Christian Of Boston,
Theodore c. Janeway OF New York ami
Leonard g. Rowntree of Baltimore Pa
pers We're limited TO twenty minutes, and
We're followed by discussion participated
in by Drs. Hugh Cabot Of Boston, Geoig.
Dock of ST. Louis. John T. Geraghty and
William s. Thayer of Baltimore and
others.
At tonight's session of the congress
its president. DIR. William &. Gorgas Of
Ancon. Canal Zone will read paper
on sanitation at Panama as il relates
TO sanitation in the tropics generally
The session will be followed by a re-
ception to the visiting physicians who
are here to attend the congress and the
meetings of the various medical and
surgical societies now being held In
this city.
The STUFF That Dreams Are Made
Of was discussed in a paper read a;
this mornings session OF the American
Neurological Association at the New
Willard. The paper. by DR. l.. w. Scrip
ture of New York was on THE Dreams
of a Sleep Talker." the speaker Incl
dentally discussing dreams in general
Right handed persons. he said. dream
with the right hemisphere of the brain
because right-handers use the left lobe
snIs sfnr
sleep takers and sleep walkers. he
said. are usually persons who are pro-
nouncediy right or left handed. and
persons who are ambidextrous, or who
have cultivated the ability to use ether
hand with almost equal facility. seldom
dream
The sleep talker. says DR. Scripture
often talks of things wholly unrelated to
the subject of his dreams. and if the OBJ
| server takes notes of the sleeper's words,
| and then awakens him. il will often b.
found that the dream which occurred al
the time the sleeper talked i'm his slumber
was In regard to something altogether
different from the words spoken in sleep
The psychology of sleep and dreams
was discussed, the speaker saving tina I
dreams We're among the first mental phe-
nomena of which there is recorded oh
servation. and that scientists know NJ
more about them and their alses toda,
comparatively speaking. than they did
when the first man told OF his first
dream. Fatigue. nervous conditions. etc.
the speaker said. brought about dreams.
but the exact conditions under which
dreaming occurs and the relation o.
dreaming to the normal brain functions
of the waking human are as much a mys-
terry today as they We're 1000 years ago.
when the visions of sleep were believd
to be prophetic
The program of the association IN
cludes thirty papers on various phases
of neuroSis. several of the papers being
discussions of surgical operations for the
relief of improper mental conditions. The
association will conclude its sessions to-
morrow night.
Discusses Pneumonia.
A. today's session of the American
Therapeutic Society Or. l.. koipins>i
of this city read a paper on tn" treat
ment of pneumonia and kindred ailmcn'~ :
by the internal use of mercury and sui
phur compounds Other numbers on the
program included a paper on recent inn
provements in the use of quinine IN the
treatment of pneumonia. by DIR. :. Soils
Cohen of Philadelphia. discussion o.
climatic conditions I'm California and their
influence in the treatment OF tuberculn-
sis. bv DIR. George Herbert Evans Of san
Francisco. and paper on What Docs
Treatment Offer 10 the Advanced Tabei-
culous Patient" BY DR.. Francis II. Pot
finger OF Los Angeles. 'ai.
The morning session Was followed ~
a luncheon at the University club. tnr
afternoon session being given up IL as
cussions of a number of extremely iecfl-
nical subjects relating 10 recrn dis
coyeries OF developments in methods -
treating various diseases. Tie annual
dinner Of the society Will he neld ~ ~"
New Willard this evening
Morning sessions of the constituent 30
cieties and associations of th'' 1ollee"
of American Physicians and Surgeons
were held al the New Willard, the Ra-
leigh. the Shoreham and other hotels %
Washington
At the afternoon session of the Ameri-
.an Therapeutic Society Yesterday Dr.
= Russell. Medical Corps. l.. : a.
read a paper Oh vaccination Tor the pre-
vention of typhoid fever. in which sta
tis,ics were presented showing the re-
sults that have been obtaired in tnr
regular army 1t was shown in DR. RuS-
sells paper that typhoid fever in army
camps-notably along the Mexican border
has practically been wiped out by vac
cination and that the percentage OF soi-
ai,rA in camp or III barracks VINO are
STRICKEN with the disease is today COM
naratively insignificant. where Re"
Years ago typhoid fever was tie cause
of hundreds of illnesses and scores Of
deaths in the service.
compulsory vaccination Of all citizens a.
a protection against typhoid fever. hr
Russell said. would result in a material
reduction in the death rate from TINS
disease while the increasing ap pilcatloH
Of modern methods of sanitation. combin-
ed with compulsory vaccination. would
soon stamp the disease out entirely.
College Is Organized.
At a session held at the Willard last
night about 200 surgeons and physicians
here for the congress organized the
American College of Surgeons. with the
announced purpose of standardiZing sur
eical uractic. and raising the standard OF
surgical education in this country Tn.
organization is patterned after that 81
the Royal College OF Surgeons ia Eng
land.
Officers were chosen as follows: DIR. J.
N T FYnney OF Johns Hopkins tniver-
sity Baltimore president; DIR. W. W.
Shinman of Montreal. Canada. first vice
nresident: DR. Franklin III. Martin OF Chi
cago secretary, and DIR. A J. Ochsner
of Chicago treasurer
!, he meeting was held in response 10 a
call issued By DIR. Martin as a result OF
the findings OF committee appointed al
tha last meeting of the Clinical Congress
of Surgeons of North America. This re-
mort o.nting out the necessity Tor stand
q rdizfng surgery practice. referred par
,;c,Iarly 10 unnecessary operations.
,rhe college adjourned TO meet in Chi
c,po next November. There degrees viii
he conferred upon those who participated
in the organization and loco others
whose standing is approved by the board
of regents.