Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
TO HEAR MANY EXPERTS
Plans Completed for Fifticth Annual
Session in Richmond Next
Week.
CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION
House OF Delegates to Be Formed by
Representatives From Each
County, Which Will Have Conduct
OF Affairs.

Plans for the fftieth annual session
dt the Medical Society o. Virginia are
being rapidly perfected by the Rich
mond committee on arrangements. or
which DR.. Paul W. Howlc is chairman.
The semicentennial session will be
held In the Jefferson Hotel auditorium
beginning October IS and a feature
of the opentns session viii be an ad
dress on the ''SemicenteInial History
OF the Medical Society OF Nirs in:a," by
DR.. John y. Upshur. OF Richmond.
DR.. Ennion q Williams. president O.
the society, viii make the opening ad
dress on the evening OF October IS,
following an Invocation by Rev. w. II.
Burkhardt, rector Of Grace Episcopal
The approaching meeting OF the
State society promises 20 be of wide
spread interest. not only TO physicians
OF the state but TO the public geucr-
ally. coming AS it does after an in
terim OF two years, and after The VIC
torious conclusion OF a great war. in
which the medical profession of Viz
Sinia took prominent and vital part.
Change In Organization.
\ radical change in the previous
policy OF conducting the society will
be the orsanizaiio for the irSi time
which viii have entire charge OF all
matters Of business and policy.
This house OF delegates VIII be com
= county societies Every county IN the
State has been asked 20 appoint and
send its delegates This will mean
that the house OF delegates VIII con-
sist OF more than 100 members. and
Will be the determining factor in flu
ture matters affecting the society.
Another important matter TO be
brought up before the Forthcoming
Session OF the Medical Society is the
proposition 10 appoint an all-time sec
rotary and business manager for tho
accted by the executive OF the socie-
~, and headed by DIR. Williams. has
for some time been investigating this
matter, and Will make IT'S report to
the house OF delegates.
DR.. A. L.. Gray Chairman.
Under the new plan OF organization
tho council will in the future act AS
the executive committee of the house
OF delegates, looking after its affairs
between meetings, each councillor be-
3pg especially the organizer adviser
his district and really being RESPONSE
bic for the welfare and development
of the local societies. Dr ~ L. Gray
Is chairman ii. the executive council
and Dr. A. -. Brown clerk.
Reports of the council and the va
Tious committees and OF the secretary
DR.. Williams and Dr. Upshur at the
opening session on the night OF octo-
Der IS. and the first meeting Of the
house Of DELEGATES VII be held the
Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer" will
be the subject OF discussion at We'd
nesday's session Of the Medical So
ciety. The discussion will he led Ivy
DR.. G. II. Grandy, OF Nortolk. Papers
are read at ca ch session by both the
medical and surgical sections.
Army Doctor to speak.
The general meeting on the night of
October % will be featured by papers
by invited guests. Or. Scale Harris.
OF Birmingham, Ala, will read IA paper
Wednesday night on The Educational
Treatment of Diseases OF the stomach
and lntestincs.
Another guest of the Medical So
ciety will he Or. Henry y. Christian,
OF Boston. Mass. who will address the
general meeting on the night Of Octo-
Der 20 on The. Science and Practice
of Internal Medicine" Colonel George
G Johnson. OF the medical corps OF
the United States Army. Will read a
paper at this meeting on Accomplish
nients OF the N-Ray During the War"
The general meeting on Wednesday
might will be followed by smoker
In theauditorium OF the jefferson.
The semicentennial session concludes
with a business session on the morn
ing OF October 81. when new officers
will he elected and other routine bust
ness transac ted.