Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-01-21
CONDUCT OPERATIONS
AT MEDICAL MEETING
Sessions of Whitman County Medical
Society ut ColfaX Attended by
Nearly Fifty Physicians

Nearly 50 medical men attended
the first all-day and evening session
OF the Whitman County Medical So
ciety, held Monday at st. lgnatius
hospital. Colfax, and the session was
considered one of the most prolita-
BILE in the history of the association
by the medicos present. One OF the
features of the program was goitre
operation performed by Or. J. Tate
Mason of Seattle The goitre was
one of the largest Of its kind ever
removed in this district and several
times the surgeon was forced to stop
operations to permit the patient to
recover from the shock caused by re-
lieving the pressure too rapidly from
the tracular windppe
Later in the day DR.. Mason gave
/ an interesting paper on "Goitre,
/ dealing with the signs, symptoms
/ and treatment. He displayed a map
os the state showing the percentage
of goitre in the different localities,
stating that the water supply may
have much to do with the prevalence
OF the disease in certain sections. He
explained the five different types of
goitre and detailed the treatment
from a surgical standpoint, using
slides to illustrate the treatments
outlined He showed that goitre
came fifth in the list of diseases
which kept men out of the military
service during the recent war.
In discussing the paper DR.. Frost
of Spokane reviewed a number of
late eye symptoms found in goitre.
Laboratory methods for physicians
were demonstrated by DR., NJ. NJ. Pat
ton of Spokane, who explained all
the minor details of laboratory work
which should be useful to the aver
age physician.
An operation for the relief of club
foot in a small child was performed
by Dr. C. F. Eikenbarry of Spokane,
who explained in detail his treat
ment for clubfoot and othed deformi-
ties
Three local and one general ton
silectomies were performed by DR.
o. T. Bachelor of Spokane, a nose
and throat specialist
A very different knee operation
was performed by DR.. Eikenbarry,
who removed the cartilage from the
knee and transplanted tendon, in
the hope that the joint might be
made useful.
DR.. Friedrich Epplen gave an in
teresting clinical and pathological
+ talk, on tuberculosis, showing patho-
/ logical specimens taken from pa
tients and relating the history of a
number of cases. He stated his be-
contracted in childhood; that the
child may outgrow the tubercular
/ infection but that later in life,
/ through acute infection, such as
measles or influenza, his resistance
is lowered, giving the tubercular in
lection an opportunity to develop
again. He showed a number of in
teresting specimens, including clots
in the pulmonary artery, which
caused death and cancer of the kid
ney and brain tumor.
DR.. c. B. Ward of Spokane gave
a number of X-ray readings from
plates of diseases, showing early tu-
berculosis, fracture of the skull bone
tumors, fractures, displacements and
structures of the osaphagus with
cancer. He showed pictures of safe
t. pins which had been swallowed.
some of them being inhaled into the
i lungs.
Teeth and Tonsils as Source of
Disease" was the subject discussed
BY DR.. Frank st. Sure of Colfax. lie
stated that authorities agree that all
dead teeth are infectious and should
be removed. In the discussion of
the talk Dr.. Epplen stated that local
Infections may exist for a long time