El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-10

~ MUSICIANS and surgeons from
Arizona, New Mexico and west
\ Texas are arriving for the first
annual session Of the Southwest Med
zeal and Surgical association, which
was recently organized. The session
started Thursday morning and will
continue until Saturday evening, Be
tween Is and 80 out of town physicians
and surgeons arrived Thursday
At 1870 Thursday afternoon those at
tending the convention met at the doc
tors club rooms in the Roberts Banner
building and registered. Inc annuaI
election OF Officers and the selectlon
OF the 1915 meeting place will take
place late this afternoon, FreseotI,
Ariz., and Albuquerque, N NJ, are DoLh
reported to be after the next cohEeH5
ton. Several kilograms were reeeiFe9
Thursday morning from the medical
society Of Prescott and the commercial
organizations inviting the association
TO come to the mile high city next
year. ,,-.
During Thursday morning the visit
ing physicians and surgeons attended
clinics at Hotel Dieu. The flrst cIlnIG
was held at $50 o'clock IN the sIn ~
operatiug room of the hospital by Dr.
III 10. stevenson, and at 10 o'clock, in the
large operating ROOM the visiting Gel-
eEates attended another clinic me
third clinic was held IN tne sIl an oP-
The III Paso members Of the assocl-
alton will entertain the out OF town
visitors Friday evening at ths " SSL
YsIeta Country club: Inc ZIP VIZ WIZ, ne
made down the valley in automo pies
and a number of short after dinner
talks viii be made. The El Faso ply Hs
Eicians met the visitors at the UNION
station with automobiles and escorted
them to their hotels and to the head
quarters in the Roberts-Banner puliu-
ing.
Dr. Robert L. Ramey, president OF
fine association, in his annual address
Thursday afternoon, said; just one
year ago today we conceived the luea
of forming a new ORGANIZATION LOT nc
advancement of medicine and surgery
in the southwest such a society Is
badly needed for the upbuildlng OF
medicine and surgery in this part OIL
the country.
citation is to combine clinical work
with the reading and discussing OF pa
pers thereby getting much greater
benefit than you do from the ordinary
medical and surgical meetings when
are confined, as rule 10 the reaulu6
Of papers alone.
I'VE do not claim this to be an Ell
Paso venture, but 1t belongs TO TINS
southwest territory, namely; New MeN-
leo, Arizona, west Texas and old Next
CO. We now have a membership OF
125 and, next year, / hope we VIII
get a much better representation from
different parts of our territory ana /
also hope that it will be convenient tor
MS TO meet in one Of the larger towns
Of New Mexico or Arizona.
THE progressive men in every com
munitv must bear the brunt OF the
work. and ] ask you, as men OF the
medical profession. to contribute your
scientific knowledge to help in the up
building of this association without
your assistance, it must fall with your
assistance, it cannot fail
Remember the size of the town has
nothing to do with its being a medical
DR. surgical center. There is no reason
why Phoenix, AriZ., Albuquerque, New
Mex, OF FL Paso, Tex, should not be
a medical surgical center Just as
Rochester, Mimi, or, in a smaller way,
Temple or Galveston, Tex. 1t has not
been the large cities Of the world par
tcularly, that have made medicine and
surgery what they are today.
Fine Work in lei PnsO.
Fright here in FL PasO today Just as
scientific work IS being done as any
where else. Just as good results are
being obtained. A man who leaves here
today for medical treatment or surgical
services does so simply because he IS
ignorant of the facts as they are, and
he is not familiar with the work being
done I'm his own town. We have here
among US men who have graduated al
the best schools in the country; We
have here among US men who have at
tended the best clinics in the world
The fact is, the men in this western
country have better opportunities as, a