Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-27
WOULD CONSOLIDATE
MEDICAL COLLEGES
Speaker Before Medical Society
Urges Unification or States
Medical Education.
AINsLIE WELCOMES DOCTORS
Hopes to See Great Hospital in Rich
m0nd With Every Facility for APP
pifcation OF Modern Surgery and
Medical Science.

That The medical colleges of Vir.
;inia should be consolidated into one
institution located in Richmond and
that institution be the center for sci :
cntiiic activities not only of the state.
but for all that territory falling natur-
ally within the radius of Richmond's
influence was the suggestion Of Dr.
y. H. Styncs of S,aunton. at the ini-
tial session Of tho Medical Society of
Virginia. held last night in the audi
torium OF the jefferson Hotel
pr' Styncs was responding to the
welcome extended by Mayor AinsIie on
hehalf or the city TO the physicians
ana surgeons Of Virginia meeting here
III 'heir forty sixth annual convention
After expressing the pleasure of tho
Socie'E NJ the warm welcome extend
ca II ny the people of Richmond
through the chief executive and re-
ierring to its leading position as AN
cuucatonal center DR.. Stynes OK
pressed the hope that the policy or
consolidation. already begun in tho
merging Of the University College of
Meu'cihe ana the Medical College Of
virginia, would be pursued to it's lori
cal conclusion. bringing every iustI
tution or like character in the state
.oSether into one great seat of learn
lnG. Then Richmond. said DR.. S;ynns
"ould be the Mecca for physicians In
'ISihia ana In vast territory to the
south or her. and would RAPIDLY grow
IN Importance as one Of the prc., ,noi
'cai ccnters of the country
PHYSICIANS HERE FROM
ALL PARTS OF STATE
me meeting last night was IN. I'M
,'ai session OF a convention which yin
lost through Friday, and was called To
orncr by DR.. Thomas w. Murrell. chair
man or The local committee on ar
seihehts Several hundred physi-
''a!!s ana surgeons, representing n-,c
i'cal!y every county and town in mo
state, many of them accomporio1 -.
'neir wives and daughters. greeted RI,
chairman as he rose ana annou,r.d
INC forty-sixth annual convention of
'hc society in session
mayor !Hinslic, In AN unusually haory
vein. welcomed the visitors 70 ,h.,
second nome. Following on, ,hc
same line OF thought presented nv
pr Stynes. the Mayor told the pb,si-
''ahS that ne was heartily In ruyor M
.'ecihG a mammoth hospital in Rich
mona where every facility for rho an.
piicat!on OF modern sury"r, ana r,ah
IC"i science would he Installed uiviry
inc city not only AN uppor;unIty rnr
4 great work I'm the curing Of ,Iiso.,ea
ana the alienation OF suffering In,
~ NC nest poSsihl" ADVERTISE
mcht OF Richmond as a medical rcn-
ter. N''-
Epitoniz!nG the physical and mental
to"oltion OF the world for the |. 81
nuartcr or century in the word nm
res,' d.! samuel Lille. OF I.ynchburc
peSi"cnt OF the society. took that "a.
'he subject OF his annual address ..I,
our noble professions" he said ",hn
same spirit caught hold somcthing Xix.
,"chtS I'VE years ago aud has rc-
bounded 10 the good along cvcrv lin.
o! WORK. h:'lnS the profession from
apparent dungeon into a held fun
OF fresh air ana SUNSHINE.
No LONGER GUESS Ar
UNKNOWN DISEASES
lhc world has been greatly bor.-
hReH thereby, and il does seem m,
conditions are getting better and bcf
Ter every day. We no Longer .,u..s
AT diseases nor call them JUS, nuv,tiu,-
We may expecting the suffering mn
nc 10 be satisfied with this OF hand
me truly scientific spiri,
mas taken matters in hand and IL
guiding II In the way i'm whirj, :,
Hhonld go and the world is rcanir,r
me reward Of scientific work wnII
done "c''
Following the reports Of tn, .x.cp.
1--WE council and the various officers
ana committees. Dr John y I-nshur
OF this city. reviewed the history az
the Medical Society OF Virginia for
me past forty-iive years.
me years that have passed since
ms society came into being" said Dr.
cPShur' nave been full OF advances
IN the science OF medicine ana ,Ln
work OF its members has been o,,r,...,
painstakinS and fruitful of results
ihcS nave seen the enactment Of ,ho
anatomical law. the establishment, ~
,hc Medical Examining Board and tho
ne'eiopfnent Of the health boards. both
STATE and local. IT took hard Ia
borious and persevering work r. me-
complish this" w ~
AFTER mentioning briefly the Won
hcriui strides Of medical science IN tho
Application OF both preventive and
curative measures. DR.. Upshur gave, in
tcTcStnG sketches of a uunhor -.
hysicians-menibcrs of m. so,.;,
VINO played a great part in tho r,nid
development of the science. a, tha
close or his address. the nsscmblnre
gave him rising vote of thanks.
INTERESTING PAPERS
TO DE READ TODAY
ewing to the late start last night the
readihS or two papers--one en- The ,
~ ARE oil the Feeble Minded"
ny DIR. l." +. Register, of Norfolk. and !
inc other "A Personal Estimate of The !
DiaEnostic Value Of Psyche ANALYSIS
nervous Diseases" by Dr. ]. ALI
son Hodges. OF this city, was deferred
until the morning session to-day.
y luncheon and the rendition of tho ,
popular songs OF the day by Polk Mil I
iers Old South Quartet marked tho
close OF the initial session
The subject of the morning session
to-day will be Diseases of the hillary
tract taken part in by DR.. s u !
Noon, OF this city: DR.. Hugh Trout. Of
Roanoke; DR.. Hugh Mcclure, of Alex !
andria. and DR.. I.omaX Gulthmey. or
Nortoik. The rest of the day will he
"eVo'ed to the reading of specially
rent physicians and surgeons.
Boy Runs Away
'-Hh"nod Brown, sixteen years old