Evening star., 1927-05-15
Elaborate Plans Completed
for Reception and Enter
tainment of Delegates.
LOCAL HOSPITALS
WILL HOLD CLINICS
Visiting Physicians Will Pay
Tribute to Noted Deceased ~
Members of Profession.

The seventy-eighth annual session
Of the American Medical Association
convenes here tomorrow.
approximately 10000 physicians
will attend. They are arriving today.
by train and automobile from all
parts OF the United States. 1t is 80
years since the association last met
in Washington and the return here
is somewhat in the nature OF a home
coming to a city where a great deal
Of American medical history has been
made.
The convention will begin with the
convocation Of the house Of delegates
of the association in the auditorium
at 10 am. During the morning there
will be diagnostic clinics at the vari-
Gus local hospitals where the most re-
cent developments in medical sciences
will be discussed and demonstrated.
Special sections, into which the body
is divided for convenience in scien-
tifc meetings, will lunch at different
downtown hotels.
To Honor Noted Doctors.
During the afternoon wreaths viii
guished medical men in the parks and
public buildings. DR.. Charles Mayo
of Rochester, Minn., will place q
wreath at the base Of the statue OK
DIR. Crawford w. Long, the Georgian
considered by many the first to use
ether as an anesthetic, which was
placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol
last year by friends of his native
State. DIR. Charles w. Richardson OF
Washington will decorate the statue
of DIR. Benjamin Rush, surgeon gen
eral Of the central division OF the
Revolutionary Army and one OF the
signers of the Declaration OF 'lnde.
pendence. This statue Is in front or
the Naval Hospital. DIR. Edward Mar.
tin will deliver the address.
Or. Charles s. White of Washing.
ton ,yill deliver the address at the
statue OF DIR, Samuel Gross. distin-
kuished medical teacher, near the
surgeon generals library on the Mall,
DIR, Jabez Jackson OF Kansas City
will place the wreath. Surgeon Gen.
eraI Edward r. Stitt OF the Navy
will place the wreath at the bust
OF DR.. William G. Gorgas. sanitariaf
of the Parama Canal. and MAI. Gen:
Robert E. Noble Of the Army Medical
Corps will deliver the address.
erer of the cause Of yellow fever. will
be decorated by Surgeon General
Hugh s. Cumming lof the Public
Health Service. The address win b
delivered by Col. Joseph M. Phalen OF
the Army Medical Corps. These two
busts are in the surgeon generals
library at Seventh and B streets. In
the same building Is painting of DR..
John S. Billings, designer Of Johns
Hopkins Hospital. which will be deco
rated by DIR. William c. Welch. The
address will be by Col. Fielding II.
Garrison Of the Army Medical Corps.
Ship to Be Inspected.
During the afternoon special ar.
range;nents will be made for visitors
at the surgeon generals library, at
the Army Medical Museum, at WI
ter Reed Hospital and at the Army
medical center, which is maintained
in connection with the latter institu-
ton. The Army medical center ex-
emplif1es in many respects the most
advanced practices in medical science.
Also, during the afternoon, there
will be an inspection of the Navy
hospital ship Relief, now at the
Navy Yard. This ship is designed to
bring the best hospital facilities to
United States soldiers and Marines.
wherever they are stationed. 1t Is In
with Comdr. C. b. Munger as senior
medical officer. The personnel con.
sists of 252 men, of which 110 are
members of the Navy Hospital Corps.
The Relief will be open for inspec-
tion until Friday. 1t is a vessel OF
$3.50 tons with q capacity Of 500
beds. 1t always accompanies tho
fleet and is equipped to care for any
sort of case.
A delegation of physicians will Sc
to Mount Vernon by automobile apd
boat Monday afternoon and placesa
wreath on the tomb Of George
Washington. Many visitors are ex-
pected to attend this ceremony.
The golfers of the association VIII
begin a tournament at the Columbia
Country Club tomorrow morning.
Tuesday morning will be devoted
to meeting of the House Of Della.
gates and visits to st. Elizabeth's
Hospital at Congress Heights, for
which special arrangements have
been made. st. Elizabeth's. in many
respects. leads the world in later
developments of the science of
psychiatry and is one of the FORE
most attractions in Washington for
the medical men interested in this
rapidly developing subject.
Exercises at Arlington.
In the afternoon there will be
exercises in Arlington Cemetery In
honor of the medical men who lost
their lives in the World War. a
total of 500 medical officers died in
uniform. 1t is not generally known
that the first American soldiers
killed in France were members OF the
Army Medical Corps stationed at the
base hospital at Dannes-C Camiers,
which was bombed by enemy air
planes September 4, 1917. The firet
American soldier wounded in action
was a physician. Capt. Louis y.
Ganeila, who became a casulty July
II, 1917.
DR.. Wendell Phillips. president ,of
the American Medical Association.
will place wreath on the Tomb az
the Unknown Soldier. There will he
addresses by Maj. Gen. Charles IN.
Summerall, chief OF staff. and Baron
de Cartier. the Belgian Ambassad6fs.
Music viii be by the Marine Hand
Invocation win be pronounced ~
Rev. Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor .of fha
New York Aventie Presbyterfan
Church. Secretary Of the Interior
Work. and former president OF the
american Medical Association. VIII
be honorary president for the day.
The convention will set under way
officially at $40 Tuesday evening
with full session at the Arcadia Aud,