Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-10-22
Discussion of Medical Question.
Features Meeting of County
Medical Association

Fifty-two physicians and surgeons,
80 of them from points outside of
Whitman county, attended the reg
ular meeting of the Whitman County
Medical Society held Monday after
noon and evening in this city. The
Meeting was voted the most success
fui for many months past and many
helpful points were brought out in
the discussions.
Prominent among the noted physi-
clans and surgeons who took part
III the program were DR.. Noble Wiley
Jones of Portland DR.. George w.
Swift of Seattle, and Dr.. George c.
Bryan of Walla Walla.
The program was opened with
paper by Dr.. e. L. White Lewiston,
Idaho, on "Borderline Surgical Prob
lens. DR.. White gave a history OF
three very interesting cases in which
/ il was a question as to whether sur
gerry or medicine would prove most
beneficial. Laboratory and X-ray
findings were cited in each case, and
the diagnosis of the case given.
Discussion of the paper was
opened by DR.. s. f. Lambert of Spo-
kane, who took up such borderlina
| cases as duodenal ulcers and carl
cicnomous conditions of various
parts of the body. DR.. Lambert
agreed with DR.. White in his dag
nosis of the three cases cited and
with the treatment given in each
case
tuberculosis of the Kidney" was
the subject of a paper by DR.. George
c. Bryan of Walla Walla. The sub
ject was fully covered, as to possible
causes, symptoms, diagnosis, prog
ncsis and treatment. DR.. Bryan es-
pecially emphasized the fact that
there are three different classes of
tubercular kidneys and cited treat
ments for each case. One treatment
suggested by DR.. Bryan is a partial
resection of the kidney, treatment
originated by him.
Discussion of the subject was
opened by Dr. John Cookery of Spo-
kane, who did not agree fully with
some of the treatments suggested,
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affected kidney. DR.. Cookery voiced
his opinion that every tubercular
kidney, whether the affection be To-
cal or general, should be entirely re-
moved. He cited several hundred
cases taken from the Mayo clinic to
prove his point.
DR.. Bryan summed up his paper
with plea for an early diagnosis
in all genito-urinary cases.
DR.. Noble Wiley Jones, of Port
land, Oregon, a member of the COZ
fee-Sears-J oyce-Jones clinic, prob
ably the targets clinic in the North
west, dealt with END Results in
Treating Cases of Chronic Septic
Arthritis, MOsitis and Neuritis." Dr..
Jones does only internal medicine
work and has done much original
work along the line of Arthritis, or
inflammation Of the joints The pa
per was very interesting one, show
ing the end results that have fol-
| lowed several months or years of
treatment DR.. Jones first stated
| that there are many places in the
| system where focal infection might
result in inflammation of the Joints,
enumerating the teeth, tonsils, APP
pendiX, gall bladder and ear, as we'll
/ as pus in the sinuses of the head and
constipation. He presented several
/ charts which showed an accurate
record of several hundred of these
cases, and in most instances showed
the bacteria causing the trouble.
/ The charts further showed that of
the many cases outlined Is per cent
were not benefited, while - per cen,
Of the patients We're either benefited
or permanently cured The paper
was thoroughly appreciated by the
physicians present, the subject being
one in which every medical man is
heenly interested. DR.. Jones stated
that even though the infected area be
removed, whether it be teeth. ton
sis of other areas, the patient might
not gain any benfit because OF posi-
/ bic focal infection in other parts of
the body.
Dr.. H. Z. Marshall of Spokane
opened the discussion on the paper,
agreeing with most OF the lines OF