Omaha daily bee., 1916-05-26
MEDICAL MEETING
CLOSES WITH FEAST
DR.. James Bryan Herrick of Chi
cago Addresses Final Session
of State Association.
OFFICERS ELECTED YESTERDAY

The annual meeting OF the Ne
braska State Medical association
closed with banquet at the Hotel
Fontenelle yesterday evening DR.. H..
M. McClanahan of Omaha, who pre-
sided as POSTMASTER, introduced the
principal speaker Of the evening, Dr.
James Bryan Herrick of Chicago,
who spoke on the subject, Clinical
Studies of Angina Pectoris."
Human life is shortened one-fifth
by ill-ftting shoes, according TO the
statement of DR.. d. T. Quigley OF
Omaha, in paper on "A Neglected
Point in the Etiology OF Foot
Diseases" at the morning session.
He asserted that many diseases
come from a contracted pressure on
the foot by bad fitting shoes. He adj
vised that people go barefooted most
Of the time and on occasions when
convention really demands shoes they
should have fiat soles with cloth tops.
Stockings, he said, should be made
like gloves, with compartment for
each toe.
The association elected officers as
follows:
President, Dr. W. +. Milroy Of
Omaha; vice president3, Drs. M. s.
Moore of Gothenberg and Porter
Dodson Of Wilbur; secretary Dr. J.
NJ. Aiken of Omaha, the latter being
reelected, as were the librarian and
treasurer. Drs. J. Fl. Dillon Of Au-
burn and ]. NJ. Aiken we're chosen,
respectively, delegate and alternate TO
the convention OF the American Med
ical association,
The councillors will be: Fifth dis
trict, X. c. Byers OF Nickerson, +. O.
Webber OF Wahoo, w. l.. Curtis Of
Fairbury and w. ]. Douglas of At
kinson.
In Inc council the matter of taking
from the table resolution TO assess
each member OF the association a
registration fee caused considerable
discussion. Some felt that the Omaha
members should not be put to the
present expense Of entertaining.
Many Papers Read.
Other subjects treated we're the
following: @The Surgical Treatment
Of Fractures" by DR.. j. p. Lord Of
Omaha; "Tumors of the Large lntes-
tines" by DR.. c. A. Roeder; Modern
X-ray Therapy," by DIR. A. i. Tyler
OF Omaha; "X-ray Immunity" by DIR.
f. II. Kuegle of Omaha, and Opera
tive Treatment OF Cancer by Actual
Cautery," by DIR. ]. Z. Summers OF
Omaha.
DR.. Summers told how the New
York Academy of Medicine recently
cast suspicion on the theory that can
Ger was germ disease, though he
himself did not sustain that view. He
gave more heed, however, to the
declaration of that body against the
use OF radium for cancers in general,
on the ground that many patients,
who otherwise might have their cam
GERS removed, wait too long in the
hope that they will be able to find
relief in an easier way. s..
In the medical section the papers
were the following: "Purulani," by
DR.. +. L. Delaney of Omaha;
Starvation Treatment for Diabetes, "
| by DR.. r. w. Bliss of Omaha "A
| Symposium on Scarlet Fever" DR. ].
Clyde Moore of Omaha, taking up
epidemiology; DIR. II. M. McClana-
han OF Omaha, Diagnosis" Newell
Jones, Omaha, Complications and
Their Treatment" and J. f. Stevens
of Lincoln, The Value and Best
Methods of School Inspection" In
the discussion led by NJ. L. Hildreth
Of Lyons, DR.. Hildreth commented
on the fact that scarlet fever, once
scourge, is now fatal in only about
! per cent of all cases. DR.. Jones
described a treatment by serum,
which he hoped would almost wipe
out all fatal effects of the disease,