The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-08-13
DOCTORS HAVE :.
GREAT MEETING.
THIRD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
MEETING AT EUREKA HOTEL
LAST NIGHT WELL ATTEND.
ED AND UNUSUALLY FINE
PAPERS READ. NEXT MEET
ING IN LAURENS.

the meeting of the Third District
Medical Association at the Eureka
Hotel last evening. They had plen-
ty to eat and plenty to talk about
and plenty to do the talking. In fact
they had plenty to explain to their
wives why they didn't get home un-.
it'll after 1 a. m. 4.
Mrs. Taggart must have sympa-i
thetic feeling for the medical men.
for she certainly provided them
with an unusally fine dinner last
evening and unless they all had their
prescriptions for indigestion along
with them they must have felt un-
comfortable after dinner.
i AS soon as the tables were cleared
DR.: G. A. Neuffer made an appro-
pirate address of welcome to the
visiting physicians and surgeons in
his happiest manner. DR.. R. E.
Hughes of Laurens, president Of the
association, proved himself anorator
of the W. j. B. class by his witty re-
sponse. And it was all emanating
from teetotaler. Glowing Springs
and Groggy Springs water were the
pieces de resistance in the liquid
menu.
DR.. A. E. Baker of Charleston
was the first authority to read a sci
entific paper. DR.. Bakers subject
was Diseases of Women and he
gave the most advanced information
on this subject. having recently. re
turned. from Mayo Brothers Sani- {
torium and Bellevue Hospital where
he has been taking work for the
past months. The paper was purely
technical and all doctors present ex-
ipressed themselves as having re-
ceived valuable points from DR..
Bakers paper.
A singular coincidence occurred
last evening in that DR.. Baker and
DR.. S. L. Love of Greenwood each Sc
lected the same subject and each
has been DOING special work in
this line during the spring and sum-
mer but at different places. Some
time after DR.. Baker had finished
his paper DR.. Love was called upon
to read his paper and the guests
discovered a marked similarity in the
way in which the subject was treat
ed by two doctors from two differ
ent sections of the state. It just
happened that DR.. Love had selected
from the clinic which he had at
tended different cases to present
from those selected by DR.. Baker
and thus the association gained the
advantage of number of addition
al points in the treatment of these
diseases, by the coincidence.
DR.. j. A. Hayne, state health Off
Ger, gave an excellent talk on pub
lie health matters and impressed his
hearers by the unusual interest he
has taken in the health of communi-
ties as whole and by his earnest plea
for legislation which will provide
relief for the unfortunate through
out South Carolina who are other
wise unable to provide themselves
with proper medical attention either
from ignorance or property. DR..
Hayne stated that he hoped to live
to see a hospital in every county
seat in South Caroina which would
be maintained by the taxpayers,
and which would furnish free
medical treatment to every citizen
of the state unable to pay for it at
private hospital. He advocates the
training of medical men and mid
wives in their work so as to reduce
the exceedingly high infant mortali-
! ty rate in this state. DR.. Hayne
said that as per cent of the babies
born in this state die before reach
ing their second birthday.
DR.. E. A. Hines of Seneca was at
his best last evening in his talk on