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Evening star., 1927-05-18
G. u. MEDICAL ALU NM
HONORED BY FACULTY
$50 Listed Guests at Dinner Which
Will Be Attended by American
Association Members.

About $50 medical alumni of George
town University will be the guests Of
President Charles w. Lyons and the
faculty at a reunion dinner at 730
O'Clock tonight in Ryan Hall. \
number of prominent physicians at
tending the convention of the Ameri.
can Medical Association also have
been invited.
The reception TO delegates Of the
medical association which will be held
from 4:40 to 6 o'clock this afternoon
at Georgetown College also will bring
many alumni. who will have an OPP
pOrtunity to inspect the new univer-
sity hospital building now under con-,
struction.
At tOnight's dinner President Lyons
will be the principal speaker. Assist
ing Dean George NJ kober in arrang-
ing for the reunion are DR.. William
j. Stanton. president of the George
town Clinical Society, and DR.. Percy
HiCkling, chairman of the two COM.
mittees in charge. DR.. Joseph 5. Wall
is to be toastmaster.
There will be addresses on behalf
of the faculty by DR.. Samuel 5.
Adams, DR.. John ID. Hird, Or. George
Tully Vaughan and DR.. Joseph p
Madigan. Alumni members who will
speak are Rev. Patrick II. Brennan,
81; DR.. Daniel S. Lamb, '67; Maj
Mahlon Ashford, Army Medical
Corps. '06: DIR. William p. c. Ilazen,
~; DR.. Raymond T. Holden, 81; DIR.
Henry J. Crosson. 90; DR.. Casmer
Leibell, TO- Dir. William j. Stanton,
II; DIR. James A. Cannon, '06, and DR..
Fred c. Schroeder. IA.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
MEDICINAL WHISKY
+. CAUSES DISPUTE.
wheeler and Head of Asso-
! citation Against Impure
s Liquor Argue Question.

! A word battle over medicinal whisky
was engaged in yesterday by Wayne
B. Wheeler Of the Anti-Saloon League
and Charles Capehart, director of the
Association Against Impure Liquor.
Explaining that he issued his state
ment in connection with the "contro-
wersy over medicinal whisky in the
American Medical Association" now
in session here, Mr.. Wheeler defended
Federal restrictions on medicinal
whisky, which. he said, had been made
necessary to curb a few bootleg doc
tors and druggists" The restrictions
are reasonable, Mr.. Wheeler added.
THE national prohibition act does
not prevent a doctor from prescribing
pure ethyl alcohol with whatever
medicament is necessary he said
"Most doctors admit that pure alcohol
plus a medicament is a safer medicine
than whisky. Medicinal whisky in
beverage form Is used largely as sub
stitute for booze at the request of the
patient rather than on the best judg-
ment of the physician"
Mr.. Capehart charged Wheeler with
''seeking to dictate to the medical pro-
fession."
I'VE believe" he said, that the med
Zeal profession is we'll qualified by
training, experience and other quail
flcations to employ medicinal whisky
as well as narcotics when to do so is
advantageous TO suffering humanity.
The issue Of medicinal whisky is
human and ethical, not political one,
after all. This Mr.. Wheeler does not
appear to perceive" ="
Evening star., 1927-05-18
JAG" ON WATER POSSIBLE.
BUT THERE'S NO FUN IN 1T
Doctors Describe Case of Man Who Drank
Gallons Every Day and Became
intoxicated.

Water. taken in sufficient quantities,
is Intoxicating. 1t is only necessary
to drink five or six gallons in a day
to get bad, not exactly a joyful, jag.
This condition was described yester.
day to the Association for the Study
of Internal Secretions, meeting at the
Mayflower, by DR.. A. M. Smell and
DIR. l.. G. Roundtree of Rochester
MINI. The case reported was that
of a man who had an .obsession for
drinking water and developed a case
of intoXication with some of the man
ifestations Of epilepsy. The paper
concerned treatment Of this patient
with pituary gland extracts with some
success.
Marvellous effects Of various gland
secretions on the human body were
described in other papers dealing with
this comparatively new development
of medical science. One case de-
scribed was that of a boy three years
old who developed a cancer on one
Of the adrenal glands, little secreting
bodies about the size Of a lima bean
located near the kidneys. The little
boy had a mustache and beard. He
died of cancer in the third year. This
case was reported by DR.. Murray B.
Gordon and DIR. +. j. Browder of
Brooklyn.
Experiments on Rats.
Or. r. G. Hoskins of Boston. presi-
dent of the association, told of eX-
periments on the activity of white
rats with various glands removed,
Evening star., 1927-05-18
HONOR DOCTORS
Who DIED IN WAR
Belgian Ambassador and
Gen. Summerall I0in Ply
SlCians at Arlington.

Baron de Cartier, Belgian Ambas.
sador. and Maj. Gen. Charles 2. Sum
merall, chief of staff, e. S. A., led
nearly 900 members of the American
Medical Association in a tribute to
the 500 members of the society who
died in the World War at exercises
yesterday afternoon in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
THE highest type Of patriotism is
portrayed in service to fellow man,
Gen. Summerall declared. THE doc
tors career is one of constant service
to others, so ingrained in the medical
man. so part of his daily life, that
it comes but natural that service
to the nation in time of peril de
serves paramount consideration"
Gen. Summerall gave examples of
heroism on the part of physicians that
he had encountered in the war. In
a glowing tribute to those who lost
their lives he said:
Served Wherever Needed.
Theirs was not the choice where
they would serve or how they would
serve. That they could serve was
the limit of their desires. In peace
their life's ambition had been the pre-
Vention and eradication of the ills
which plagued mankind; in war they
sOught-to the limits of the power of
man--to heal the wounds of battle
and better to prepare our manhood
for the hardships and toll which were
TO be encountered on the field of
battle"
''These men who lie here" Baron de
Cartier said of the dead, have given
their lives that others might live. To
them an immea surable debt of graft
tude is due, not only by their com
rades of the allied armies, but even
by their adversaries many of whom,
left wounded on the field of battle.
they rescued from the jaws Of death
at the peril of their own lives.
Saved Many Lives.
How many thousands of men are
alive today who. but for the ministra-
tions of the Medical Corps wuold
have perished! How many homes, of
both friend and foe. have been made
happy by the return of their loved
ones, saved through the efforts Of
those whom we have come to honor
today!
They have not only served their
country--they have served humanity
itself Their deeds live after them
and are TO them a tribute more elo-
quent than any that can be uttered
by the lips of mortal man"
The invocation was delivered by
Rev. Joseph r. SiZoo, pastor of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Following the addresses and
a musical program by the United
States Marine Band and Charles r.
Tittmann. the audience formed a pro-
cession to the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. The procession was led by
DR.. Wendell G. Phillips, president of
the American Medical Association, and
Secretary of the Interior Hubert
Work, honorary president of the day,
formerly president of the American
Medical Association. While the band
played Our Honored Dead" DIR. Phil
lips placed a wreath, presented by the
association, on the tomb.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
LESSONS APPLIED
TO BROKEN BONES
War Taught Doctors Much
for Peacetime Use, Spe-
CiaIist Says.

Lessons learned during the World
War In the treatment of broken bones
are being applied in peacetime with
excellent results, DR.. Walter r. Bris-
tow of London told the orthopedic
surgery section of the American Medi-
cal Association, meeting at the Ra-
leigh today.
A scientific exhibit, showing differ.
ent sorts of fractures and methods OF
treatment, was displayed.
DIR. Kellogg Speed of Chicago out
lined the diagnosis and treatment Of
fractures of the femur.
Calls X-ray Imperative.
Examination by X-ray is imperative,
both as an aid to diagnosis and from
a medico-legal standpoint, DR.. Speed
said. 1t is protection, he said, to
both patient and physician, as a per-
manent record of the injury, and it
reveals the type of fracture present.
DR.. Speed insisted that treatment
of fractures must be immediate. He
proposed that since diagnosis is usual
ly made while the patient is lying on
the ground, surgeons should adopt
the slogan, "Splint, 'em where they
lie."
Permanent treatment, he said, must
be begun as soon as the patient
reaches a hospital. The splinting and
traction methods of handling fractures
were described in detail by DR.. Speed,
with the indications for their use.
Operations Urged.
He urged immediate operations, If
proper alignment of the leg was not
obtained in four or five days by non-
operative methods. He advised the
use of the simplest method with the
least manipulation possible, followed
as soon as possible by massage to aid
circulation.
''If operation is employed it must
give sure result and the work must
be done in thorough, mastery man
ner to avoid any subsequent regret"
he concluded, after emphasizing that
only surgeons who have the requisite
skill be intrusted with such opera
tiOns.
Evening star., 1927-05-18

The rats were placed in an old.fash.
Toned squirrel cage which revolved as
they moved about so that a record
could be kept of the distance travel
ed each day by the different animals.
Normal animals, DIR. HoSkins found,
would run from s to 10 miles a day.
depending on the natural energy of
the individual. The adrenal glands
then were removed. Specifically the
animals seemed unchanged. They
were as active and as bright as ever
at the start Of the day, but it was
found that their Staying qualities
were badly undermined. After a little
running about they relapsed into mac.
tivity.
Efforts were made to restore their
ambition by adrenal extracts, but
with no success. There should be
some way, DIR. Hoskins said. to put
back the qualities taken out, but ply.
sicians have not hit upon it.
Removal of various sex glands did
not diminish the physical strength,
but almost completely DESTROYED
pep The animals moved ONLY
ABOUT 5000 yards a day, compared
with $4,000 formerly. All efforts to
restore this vigor failed in both sexes.
opctdtku AS
The Steinach operation, much In the
public eye a year or two ago. failed
completely. Administration of vari.
Gus gland extracts did very little good.
The physicians held that the expert.
ence OF the white rats would be re.
peated with human beings.
Exophthalmic, or 'pop.eyed" goiter,
often is caused by emotional stress or
fright, DR.. Israel Bran of Philadel.
phia reported. He said that it often
can be cured by rest and correct Iiv-
ing without surgery.
The thyroid gland in the neck,
which apparently regulates the
amount OF energy the subject has
aVallabie, increases greatly in cold
weather, when men and animals need
energy to keep alive, and decrea ases
just as markedly in warm weather,
DR.. Oscar Riddle of Cold Springs Har.
Dor, n. Y, told the association. DR..
Riddle also told of experiments which
snow that small and large thyroids
are hereditary element. This. he
said, would tend to throw light on the
riddle OF races, some Of which are ex.
tremely energetic and others lethargic.
Makes Rats "Grow Old"
DIR. Margaret M. Hoskins of New
York told Of giving acetyl thyroxin.
a thyroid gland extract chemically
treated, to baby white rats. with the
result that they grew old rapidly
A superthyroid condition, it was held,
brings about early maturity in human
beings.
Other speakers were: DIR. Shepard
Shapiro of New York, DIR. John r.
Murlin of Rochester, N. Y; DR..
Charles II. Lawrence of Boston, DR..
Henry j. John Of Cleveland, DR.. r. G.
Moehlig of Detroit, Dr.. Allen w. Rome
of Boston, DR.. Emil Novak of Balti.
more, DR.. ]. J. Pratt of Detroit, DR..
Ernest c. Fishbaugh of Los Angeles,
DR.. T. l.. Althausen and DR.. William
J. Kerr of San Francisco, DR.. II. l..
Hilgartner of Austin, Tex, and Dr.
j. S. Lankford of San Antonio, Tex.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
President Braves
Rain i'm Greeting
1000 Physicians

Protected by an overCoat and
pair of rubbers, President Coolidge
hraved a steady rain at 1880
o'clock today, when he greeted
about 1000 delegates to the con
vention of the American Medical
Association, who assembled on the
White House lawn.
Despite the fact that Mr.. Cool
idge is just recovering from cold,
he and Mrs. Coolidge posed good
naturedly in the rain for pictures.
The White House lawn represent
ed a sea of umbrellas as the spec
tators scurried about in the rain
to gain advantageous points of OBJ
servatiOn.
On his return through the down
pour the President disregarded the
umbrella, held by his secretary.
Everett Sanders, and seemed to en-
10y his experience. AS the party
entered the White House the Pres
ident left tracks of wet grass stains
from the newly cut lawn on the
floor.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
WARNER HURLEY, 79,
DIES AT RESIDENCE
Was Oldest Supreme Court En-
ploye in Length Of
Service.

Warner Hurley 10 years Of age,
oldest employe of the Supreme Court,
in length Of service, died at his resi-
dence, 1915 street, last night. He
had been connected with the court
in various capacities for the last So
years, after serving in the Civil War.
Mr.. Hurley became attached to the
court as messenger to Justice Grier
of Pennsylvania, and upon his re-
tirement became messenger to his
successor, Justice Strong. Later he
served under Justice Brown and upon
the latter's retirement became mes
senger to the court, being assigned
on the inside of the main public en-
trance, where he has been a familiar
figure and known to lawyers practic-
ing before the court for a number
of years.
A protracted illness, which confined
him to his residence for several
months, caused death. Mr.. Hurley
leaves wife, two daughters and
four sons.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
Convention Notes

Fellows OF the American Medical
Association and their wives were re-
ceived at noon by President and Mrs.
Coolidge on the south grounds Of the
White House.
There Will be a reception in honor
or the visiting physicians and their
wives by the president and faculty of
Georgetown University from 4:30 to 6
pm. today.
The Woman's Auxiliary to the Medi.
cal Society Of the District of CoIun-
bia will hold reception at Memorial
Continental Hall this evening for the
wives of the president and president
elect of the American Medical Society,
the officers Of the national auxiliary
and all the visiting ladies'.
The fourth annual dinner of the
American College of Radiology will be
held tonight at the Mayfiower.
The Medical Alumni Association of
the University of Maryland will hold
its annual banquet at the Raleigh
this evening.
The first annual banquet of the
George Washington University Medi-
cal Society will be held this evening
at the City Club. DIR. Charles S.
White will he master of ceremonies
and there will be addresses by DIR.
William Mather Lewis, president of
| the university; DIR. William G. Bor-
den, dean Of the Medical School, and
DIR. ID. K. Shute, professor emeritus.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
HEADS RADlUM GROUP.

Curtis r. Burnam of Baltimore was
elected president Of the American
Radium Society yesterday at its final
executive session in the Mayfiower
Hotel
Other officers for the coming year
were elected as follows: Edwin G..
Ernst, ST. Louis, Mo. president-elect;
Burton J. Lee. New York City. first
vice president; II. H. Bowing, ROch-
ester, Mimi, second vice president;
Joe Allison Johnstone. Pittsburgh,
Pa, treasurer. and George w. Grier.
Pittsburgh. Pa. secretary
Evening star., 1927-05-18
MRS. COOLIDGE SEES SHIP
Visits U. S. S. Relief as Grew Dem
onstrates Hospital Work,

Mrs. Coolidge yesterday inspected
the U. S. S. Relief, Navy hospital ship,
which is docked here in connection
with the annual convention of the
American Medical Association.
The crew demonstrated how sailors
who are sick are taken aboard the
vessel and cared for. Mrs. Coolidge
went over the ship from top to bot
tom.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
American Medical Association Program


University to fellows of the association their
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honor of officers of Womans Auxiliary
A. NJ.
Section meetings at General surgery
diseases children
and dmatoogy syphlology
enterology and proctology, and radology.
9 m. pm--Section meetings
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the District of Columbia in the ballroom
Evening star., 1927-05-18
Lead Poisoning Discussed.

and licensing board as have the cfiro-
practors.
"If each is to have its own inde-
pendent board" DIR. Wall argues, ''the
situation will represent confusion
worse confounded. Certainly it should
be possible to devise for the District
of Columbia sane and uniform legis
lation to regulate the practice of the
healing art in any and every form,
such as has been enacted by various
States" n F--s -T3s1 ass.;;%ss.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
BLOOD PRESSURE
HELD HEREDITARY
Specialists, However, Scout
Belief That 1t Is Indication
of Heart MaIady.

High blood pressure, the attendant
of many human ills, apparently is
hereditary in some families, members
Of the American Heart Association
were told at their annual meeting at
the Willard yesterday.
This group of heart specialists from
all over the United States devoted the
session largely TO discussion of hyper
tension. but secuted the belief that
high pressure necessarily was an in
dication of heart malady. Among
the causes of high blood pressure
which eventually affects the heart, it
was brough out, are bacterial inva-
sions of the body such as might come
from an infected tooth.
Motion pictures were shown OF the
action of the heart. These were taken
with an OK heart as model through
which water was pumped in the same
way that blood is pumped in the liv-
ing body.
Conditions i'm Cincinnati Cited.
The heart disease situation in Gin.
cinatti was discussed in a paper by
DR.. Julian E. Benjamin of that city.
DR.. Eaton NJ. MacKay. Of the Rookie
feller Institute discussed the pathol-
ogy of nephritis and apprehension.
The symptoms Of apprehension were
discussed by DR.. w. Richard Ohler of
Boston.
Clinical findings of blood and urine
in cases of apprehension were the sub
ject of a paper by DR.. r. G. P1gford
of Tulane University Of New Orleans.
Differentiation Of the malignant type
of apprehension was the subject of DR..
Norman Keith of the Mayo Clinic of
Rochester, Mimi Various complica-
tions that arise in the body because
of high blood pressure were discussed
by DIR. James E. Paulin of Atlanta,
and DR.. James P. O'Hare of Boston
spoke on the treatment of hyperion
sion. There was a discussion led by
DIR. Henry A. Christian, who said he
felt that too much emphasis had been
laid on the topic of blood pressure,
since the medical profession knew
little of the diseases arising from it.
Heart Disease Fatality Is Topic.
Heart disease, 1t was brought out,
now is the principle cause of death in
the United States and seems to be on
the increase. Physicians are in doubt
as to what is responsible for this in
crease, since there is no medical basis
for assuming that the responsibility
rests upon faster living. 1t has been
observed, DR.. Paullin said, that the
increase in cities has been greater
than in the country.
The heart disease death statistics
take a great jump after the age of 40.
At 80 years it is only 40 per 100000.
At 40 years 1t is 100. At 80 years it is
1000.
Washington, the statistics showed,
ranks fourth among the cities of the
Nation in deaths from heart disease,
with an average Of 232 deaths per
100000. st. Louis is first with an
average Of 257 and New York second
with 255. The countrywide average
of 1873 was compared with 1872 in
1900.
Evening star., 1927-05-18

Some women dress to please men,
others to annoy other women. -
Evening star., 1927-05-18
Penalties People Are Paying.

More deaths from heart disease is
one Of the penalties people are pay
ing for the increased span of life
achieved during the past 30 years,
Dr. Henry Albert, health commits
sioner Of Iowa, told the Section of
Preventive and Industrial Medicine
which met in the Concordia Church.
Heart disease, he said, often comes
after attacks of infectious disease,
which formerly killed the patient.
Now physicians can cure these, but
have not learned to prevent the after
effects. Scarlet fever and rheumatic
fever are among the worst offenders,
he said. They leave behind them a
constitution which may be injured in
many subtle and undetected ways.
The injury suffered by scarlet fever
victim, said DR.. Albert, may not come
to light for 20 years, when 1t may re-
veal itself in the heart, liver and
other organs.
About 25 per cent Of all deaths from
heart disease, he believes, have their
origin in rheumatism. The heart dis
ease age, he said, was As and over
when the weaknesses brought about
by the earlier maladies begin to
show up.
Lead Poisoning Discussed.
A discussion of lead poisoning be.
fore this section was led by Drs. w.
S. Leathers and II. j. Morgan OF
Nashville. An investigation of the
health Of workers in an enamel plant
showed that these men constantly
were exposed to the dangers Of this
malady. They urged periodic exami
nations to find out whether the men
were receiving quantities of lead suf
ficient to do damage.
DIR. J. 2. Leake of Washington re
ported on the results of an investiga
ton into the lead hazards of tetra
ethyl lead gasoline production. 1t has
been found that some quantities Oi
lead regularly taken decrease muscu
lar power and that symptoms Of ia
tigue may be the first signs Of lead
poisoning.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
MEDICAL PRACTICE
4 LAW FOR D. C. TO BE
PRESSED IN CONGRESS

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COUTURE TRIAL.
NEARLY ENDED.
Prosecution Rests Case This
MOrning-May Go TO Jury
Tonight or in Morning
ESPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE)

Carson. N. d., July 2O.---After call
ing only five witnesses, attorneys for
the prosecution in the case of George
Couture. alleged cattle rustler on
trial here. rested their case shortly
before noon today.
As result. since the defense plans
to call only, six witnesses, the case
Is expected to go to the jury late
tonight or tomorrow morning.
Con Carlson, who pretended to be
confidante of Couture's while he
was in reality working under the at
torney generals office, testified that
he accompanied Couture when the
latter went to the farm of C. H.
Musser in Grant county, stole some
pigs and then took them to Carlson's
place, where they were later divided
between the two men. This happened
during January, 1927, Carlson said.
Nike Brown, rancher, j am @ s
Snauer, who saw Couture in Shields
the day the pigs were said to have
been sold, and Mr.. Musser also tes-
titled.
Selection Of a jury was quickly
completed yesterday afternoon. The
IL men who are to decide the guilt
Or innocence Of Couture are Gregor
Messer, Glen Ullin; Albert Never.
Raleigh; Franklin Withroe, Lark:
Martin Nicholson. New Leipzig; j.
Mccarthy. Leith; Fred Steinle, Car
son: Jacob Ballet, Elgin; Ed Sent,
I.eith; Fred Swartz, Raleigh; Free.
man Geer. Brisbane; Ed Lueck, ST.,
Morristown. s. D. postoffice, and Lon
Henke, Leith.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-20
LEAGUE HEARS
WOMEN SPEAK
Voters Organization Opens
Fourth Annual Meeting
at MinOt

Minot, N. D., July 20.-GP)-Three
Minneapolis women. Miss Marguerite
Nj. Wells, director of the fifth region
and president of the Minnesota
league. Mrs. f. W. Witch, vice pres
ident of the Minnesota league and
Mrs. j. X. Parkes, regional secretary.
are in Minot, for the fourth annual
convention Of the North Dakota
League of Women Voters, opening
here late today.
Miss Wells and Mrs Witch will
speak at the dinner conference at
G:30 p. M, and also will participate
IN programs of tomorrow, which will
be presided over by Miss NJ. Helen
Davies, of Grand Forks, state presi-
dent.
To Elect Friday
Delegates from several cities in
the state are to attend the meeting.
general business sessions Of which
will open Thursday morning at the
Elks' home. The state board will
meet at 4:30 p. m. today to consider
the proposed budget and proposed
which will be presented to the con-
vention body. Officers are to be
elected Friday morning. and con-
ference of the new board Friday
noon will conclude the convention.
L. ID. Croker, assistant general
manager of the Northern States
Power company, Minneapolis. will
address the convention group Thurs
day afternoon on the electrical in
.dustry.