Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
MEDICAL SOCIETY
CONvENES TUESDAY
Annual Scientific Sessions
ScheduIed-Dr. Wilson
Named President

The annual scientific sessions of the
District Medical Society will be held
Tuesday and Wednesday at the Medical
Society Building l7l8 M street. New
officers of the society will be elected at
the business meeting May 3. Nominal
lions, which are equivalent to election
have been made as follows: PrentiSS
Wilson. president; Daniel Leroy Bor-
den, first vice president; Margaret NJ
Nicholson. second vice president; Cour-
sen B. Conklin (renominated), secre-
tary-treaSurer.
At the scientific sessions there will be
assemblies in the morning and after
noon of each day, and a public meeting
at $50 O'Clock Wednesday evening.
when DR. Dean Lewis Of Baltimore will
speak on Changing Times in Medi-
cine" DR.. Lewis is professor of surgery
at Johns Hopkins University and sur
geon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai. He is president-elect of the Amer
lean Medical Association.
DIR. Abbott to Speak.
Another guest speaker will be DR..
Maude E. Abbott. curator of the Nc
Gill University Medical Museum. Past
70 years of age, DR.. Abbott was a stu
dent and professional associate of the
y famous Sir William OSler, who, with
the renaissance of American medical
training at the newly created Johns
Hopkins Medical School in the last
century. Dr. Abbott is considered by
the medical profession as the greatest
living authority in the continent on
diseases of the heart. She will address
the society Wednesday afternoon on
personal "reminiscences of OSler and
Remarks on His Contribution to Our
1nI~ af
Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning is
also on the program Wednesday for a
speech on The High Cost of Standard
1zation.'
The other guest speaker is DIR.
Leonard G.. Rowntree, director Of the
Philadelphia Institute of Medical Re
search. formerly chief of medicine at
the Mayo Clinic at Rochester. Mimi
His speech, to be delivered Tuesday
afternoon, is on Recent Advances in
Diseases of the Endocrine Glands
Four reels of sound pictures dealing
with anatomy repair and surgical dry
clinic are among the innovations on
tee program for the Wednesday ses-
stems. Another is a special program of
entertainment for wives of the visiting
doctors. arranged by the Ladies' Auxil-
larry of the District Medical Society
and headed by Mrs. Harry A Fowler.
Banquet Tuesday Night.
There will be a banquet and enter
tainment Tuesday night at the Shore
ham Hotel at 1870 o'clock. For the
first time, this year amateur talent
within the profession will provide the
entertainment and the bedside man
ner" has been ruled out, except as
the medico-a actors may burlesque their
colleagues. DR.. Fred A. Geier. chair
man Of the Entertainment Committee
is in charge of the banquet.
Another break in the purely scien-
tiflc discussions will be a complimentary
luncheon for members and guests Tues
Gay at 1890 O'Clock at the Mayfiower
Hotel
More than 300 physicians and their
wives from the surrounding sections of
Maryland. Virginia and West Virginia
have been invited to attend the two-day
meeting and a large attendance from
the profession in Baltimore is expected
The meeting hours and names of the
speakers follow:
Tuesday. April IS. $50 am. to noon
Drs. Cecil King, Michael McInerney,
Perry, Paul F. Dickens. Walter A. Bloc
dorm. Wallace NJ Yater and H. H.
LETTER.
Tuesday, 2 to 4 p.m.-Drs. Guy W.
Leadbetter. William H. Jenkins, Laur-
erce S. Otell, Harry A. Spigel and
William j. Cusack
Wednesday, 8 a IN. to noon Surgical
CRY clinic Drs. Guy w. Leadbetter W.
P. Herbst, H. F. Strine J. F. Mitchell,
William c. Meloy and H. L. Darner.
Wednesday, to 4 pm.-Drs. Charles
Stanley White, Oswald r Hedley
Joseph Horgan, Edward D. cummings
and Mr.. Frederick A. Fenning.
The ladies' auxiliary program of en-
tertainment for wives of visiting doc
tors provides motor trips to points of
Interest around Washington Tuesday
afternoon, starting from the MayfloWer
Hotel at 2 o'clock. followed by tea at
4:30 O'Clock. They will attend the
banquet Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning at 1918 o'clock will leave the
Mayfower Hotel for Mount Vernon, Ar
lington and Fort Myer. Returning to
the Shoreham Hotel, luncheon will