San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-21
DOCTORS FROM
STATE To
ASSEMBLE HERE
Medical Association to
Convene for Three
. Days.
PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
Journal Of Medicine fer
April Tells Of San
Antonio.

Members of the State Medical Asso.
citation of Texas will begin to arrive
in San Antonio on April % for the
fifty-eighth annual session of the asso.
/ citation, which will be held from April
20 to May 1. Announcement of the
program that will be followed during
the session has been made.
A registration office and informa-
ton bureau will be maintained at the
st. Anthony and the opening exercises
will be held in the ball room of the
Gunter. A complete program, together
with short description of San An
tonic and the advantages of this city,
as a winter playground and convention
city, appears in the Texas State Jour
nal of Medicine f6r April.
The first general session of the as
ISOLATION will open Tuesday morning
at 10 80. The meeting will be called
TO order by DIR. W. II. Hargis, chair
man of the arrangement committee.
Following an invocation by Rev. Il.
:. Pierce, Mayor John w. TObin will
deliver the address of welcome. Or.
s. T.. Cunningham will deliver an I'D
dress of welcome on behalf Of the
Bexar County Merical Society. An ad-
dress by .. Il. Black will follow.
Three Sections TO Meet.
Three sections of the association
will hold separate meetings Tuesday
afternoon. The section ON medicine
and diseases of children will meet in
the ball room of the Gunter from till
. O'Clock. During the same time, the
section on surgery will meet in the
bail room of the st. Anthony and the
section on state medicine and public
hygiene, will meet in the red room at
the st. Anthony.
Tuesday evening at o'clock memoir
ial services will be held in the Travis
Park Methodist church. The memorial
address will be made by DIR. II. W.
Cummings of Hearne. Special musical
numbers will be rendered.
Wednesday the three sections that
meet on Tuesday afternoon will re-
sumo their sessions in the same halls
occupied at the first sessions. The Sec
ton on ophthalmology. GEOLOGY, rhino-
logy and laryngology will meet Mt the
same time in the army room of the
Gunter. At p. m. section on gyne-
cology and obstetrics will meet in the
tapestry room Of the st. Anthony. A
general session will be held from 3 80
to D p. m. at the Travis Park Metho-
dist church.
The different sections will resume
their sessions Thursday morning ut 3
o'clock and will adjourn at 8 80 r.
m. TO attend the last general session
at the Travis Park Methodist church.
At this meeting the newly elected off
GERS will be introduced.
Railway Doctors Also to Meet.
In addition TO the sessions of the
different branches of the profession
and general sessions, there will he a
meeting of the Texas Railway Sur
gical and Hygienical Association in
the tapestry room of the st. Anthony
April IS Mt 10. a meeting of the Texas
Pathological Society in the army room
of the Gunter at the same hour and
an all-day meeting of the State Patho-
logical Society of Texas in the pink
room Of the Gunter.
Officers of the State Medical Asso-
citation of Texas are as follows: DIR.
A. G. Scott OF Temple. president !;
DR.. NJ. +. Bledsoe Of Port Arthur.
president elect; DIR. j. W. Torbett Of
Marlin. vice president; DIR. A. A.
Ross of Lockhart. vice president; DIR.
j. n. White of Texarkana, vice presi-
dent: DIR. Holman Taylor If Fort
Worth, secretary and DR.. X. ii. heall
of Fort Worth. treasurer.
The board Of directors consists OF
DR.. John s. Turner of Dallas. DIR. w.
3. Russ of San Antonio, DR.. John
It Moore of Houston. DIR. W. r.
Thompson of Fort Worth, and DIR.
NJ. i. Graves of Galvestoon. DIR. G.
s. Venable of San Antonio is one of
the councillors.