The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-23
1O,OOODOCTORS
To CONVENE
ON COAST
American Medical Association
Meet to Draw Kindred
Organizations.
BY ELLIS. III. MARTIN.
International News Service.

International News Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-The
seventy-fourth national convention.
of the American Medical Associa-
ton, which will be held at the Elk
position Auditorium next week and
which will bring about 10000
medical visitors, has attracted
twenty other international, national
and sectional organizations, which
will hold separate conventions here
just preceding the big A. NJ. A.
convention. These subsidiary or
ganizatiops are the accessories Of
modern medicine and their pro-
grams will cover particular work
in the various fields Of the pre-
vention and cure Of disease.
The American Society for the
Control Of Cancer will convene
Sunday evening, June "a, in the
auditorium, with DR.. e. A. de
Schweintz. president of the Amer
lean Medical Association, presiding.
The principal addresses Of the
evening will be made by DR.. w.
j. Mayo, of Rochester, Mimi, and
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur.
The Medical Women's Associa-
ton will meet on Monday and Tues
day, June 26 and 26.
Medical Veterans to Meet.
The Medical Veterans Of the
World War will Hold its first meet.
ing Tuesday afternoon, June 26.
Features of the program will DE
addresses of Col. A. r. Mccormack,
Louisville, Kentucky. and John NJ
Dodson, of Chicago.
The three associations Of anes-
thetists will hold joint scientific
sessions from today until Tues.
day, June rs. The National Asso-
citation for the Prevention of Heart
Disease, under the craftsmanship of
DIR. Carey Eggleston. Of New York
has a most interesting program
for June 25 and 26.
The Association for the Study of
Internal Secretions, an information
al Organization with a member
ship Of 1000, consisting of clint
clans and laboratory workers, will
open its convention in the colonial
ballroom of the st. Francis Hotel,
next Monday, June 25. Clinics, ur-
der the auspices of this organiza-
ton, will be held at the University
OF California Hospital Tuesday az
ternoon, June &C..
Pathological Society.
The Pathological Society Of North
America, consisting Of about 500
members, will present a program
and scientific exhibition in Polk
Hall, Of the Auditorium on June
% and 20. DR.. Russell D. Carman.
Of Rochester. Mimi. will preside.
and w. e. Chamberlain are In
charge Of local arrangements.
The American Association Of
Medical Milk Commissions will open
q two-day convention at the audi
forum June rs. DIR. Adelaide
Brown Is chairman Of the local
committee. The convention will DE
addressed by DR.. William H. Don
nelly, Of New York, the noted au-
thority on this field of health.
Under the Craftsmanship Of DIR.
Howard Morrow the American Ra-
dunn Society will hold two meet.
ings at the Observation-Disclosures
and Tuesday, June 25 and 26.
Other Organizations.
Among the other organizations
that will also hold conventions hera
on the two days preceding the open
ing Of the big A. M. A. convention
are: The American Society Of Clin-
zeal Pathologists. American Society
Of Tropical Medicine, Women's Aux
Hilary Of the A. M. A. Association,
American Proctologic Society, West.
ern Society for the Study Of Hay
Fever, Asthma and Allergic Diseases.
In addition to these, the CaIbor-
mia state Medical Society, with dele.
gates from it's fifty-one county
medical societies, is holding its
annual convention at the Civic
Auditorium today and tomorrow.
The State Medical Society will be
host for all the delegates and visit
ors to the A. M. A. and the other
subsidiary conventions.
Among the outstanding features
of the A. M. A convention, in which
delegates and visitors to the other
twenty subsidiary conventions will
participate. are the 1876 diagnostic
clinics that will be held Monday and
Tuesday in q dozen big city hos.
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