The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-13

councils Of the nations medical or
1 ga nizat ions.
J Today from 10 A. NJ TO s p. NJ.
in the Medical College of Virginia ant
+ associated hospitals. there will b.
/ held clinics tor the benefit OF thu
I visitors who have remained in Rich
/ mond Local physicians. surgeons and
opht ha,moloelsts will conduct these
( clinics They will he continued to.
morrow from 10 y. NJ. until l:St
I. NJ
Saturday afternoon many of tlte
doctors will go TO the Broad-Street
ball park. where Virginia Military
Institute and Clemson College, o.
] S,t4t h-G arAliaa--M. measure their
strength This event Is the lest on
tho convention program. Saturday
night large number of local medical
men and visitors will leave Richmond.
While some will 60 to their homes,
others will attend The public health
conference to be held next week IN
JacksonW,iH. Fla.
DR. Bass L. Honorcd.
The convention Yesterday morning
heard the announcement that DR.. -.
G. Bass. of New Orleans, is for the
third consecutive year the winner or
the association medal for scientific
research DR.. Bass already had acid
the medal for two years. It was de-
clared that no physician in the as
ISOLATION has done more along scienti-
fic lines than Dr. Bass.
Technical papers were read in the
several sections yesterday by noted
physicians and surgeons Of the sixteen
Southern States Many of them
showed clearly tae splendid advances
that have been made by the medical
profession in the South. Al were
heard with interest and many or
them carried profitable suggestions to
those standing the several section
meetings.
In The SECTION on medicine speakers
were: Drs John G, Hemetert Of Baltl-
more, Frank A. Jones Of Memphis;
g. T. brennan. of Hot Springs, Ark. ;
w S Gordon, beverley K. Tucker,
and J. A. Hodges. Of Richmond; !. 7.
Htn0roe of Charlotte, y. G.: r. \.
Williams. Of Washington; and i. \,
Hayne. ~ l.. Harris and +. \, Coward,
Of Columbia, : &.
The section on public health heard
Il symposium ON typhoid fever, on
which the following took part nrs.
e. ". Stiles, United States public
health service, Wilmington, y C.; /.
II South. Bowling Green. KY; W, j.
Foster \Roaroke, Allen W. Freeman.
Richmond: y. 7 Mccormick. Bowling
Green. Ky; aud l.. l.. Lnmsden.
United States public heal1l service.
Washington
Many Papers Read
The section on surgery was inter
ested during the morning and after
con with addresses by Dr, Herman
Il Gessner and Or, William Kohl
mann. Of New Orleans; and Or, 7, V.
williamson of Norfolk; and s. w,
Rudd OF Rit hmond; collaborating.
the afternoon session was made In
tcrfsting by Or. w. A Bryan. OF
NJ hvlj". Tenn. who led with 81 paper
on the corrections of hare-iip and
cleft palate DR. James :. Erwin. OF
Danv!ile; and DR.. + G. DuBose. OF
Selma Ala; closed the meeting with
papers on treatment OF abdominal af-
fections.
Numerous addresses We're read in
the concluding session Of the depart
ment on the eye etc. These are in
teresting chiefly To the profession.
Among the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES speak
ing were; Dfs Harry l.. Myers. ~
Norfolk; John Dunn. OF Richmond;
J. II. Bryan, OF Washington T. NJ,
Guthrie. az Meridian, Miss: and s, j.
Grove. of Baltimore