Evening star., 1937-09-12
MEDICAL LEADERS
TO TALK IN PARLEY
AT. GEORGETOWN j.
200 Physicians and Sur
geonS to Attend 5-Day
Meeting.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
/ In MEDICINE TO BE TOiD
Uses for Prontylin in Treating of
Infections and New Compounds
Will Be Discussed.

Results of experiments In the
laboratory and operating room. throw
ing new light on advanced methods
being employed by medical and surgi-
cal science to combat many of the
common and more dangerous diseases,
will be described by leading specialists
this week at Georgetown University
School Of Medicine.
Starting tomorrow morning, some
80 special lectures and a dozen medi.
cal and surgical clinics in which most
of the local hospitals are cooperating,
will feature a five-day program drawn
up for the benefit of local and OUT
of-town alumni. More than 200 physi-
clans and surgeons will attend the
daily sessions, the second annual event
of this kind arranged under auspices
Of the medical school.
Rev. David v. McCauley, S. j.,
regent and dean of the school, will
welcome the guest lecturers and
alumni at the opening session. DR..
Wallace M. Yater, professor of medi-
cine at Georgetown, will preside.
Talk on Prontylin.
From scientific viewpoint the
opening session will be one of the
most important during the program.
There will be lectures by a number
of nationally known authorities, in
cluding Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal,
senior pharmacologist of the National
Institute of Health; DR.. Irvine H.
Page, Hospital of the Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research in New
York; DR.. Irving Sherwood Wright of
the New York Post Graduate Hospital,
DR.. Maurice G. Pincoffs of the Uni
versity of Maryland Medical School
and DR.. Frederick A. Reuter- of Wash
ington.
DR.. Rosenthal, a recognized author
ity in the use of prontylin in the treat
ment of infections, will discuss the
advances made in experimentation
with this drug since its discovery in
Germany. He will describe the ad-
vances of laboratory experiments
looking to the use of other newly dis
covered compounds in the treatment
of various diseases against which no
effective therapy was previously avail
able. His lecture is looked forward
to with great interest by many who
are interested in the development of
specific compounds to take the place
of serum therapy.
Hemorrhagic Treatment.
The use of prontylin in the treat
ment Of gonorrhea will be discussed
tomorrow, also, by DR.. Reuter-, and in
lecture on Friday Prof Mario Mol
lari of the Georgetown staff will COM
pare the practical value of the COM
plement fixation test and the precipi-
tation tests for syphilis.
DR.. Page, who is one Of the best
known authorities on hypertension,
will describe tomorrow the results of
two unusual operations designed to
reduce high-blood pressure. The first,
a very dangerous one, consists in ex-
posing the spinal cord and cutting the
nerves as they emerge from it to sup
ply impulses to the stomach. The
second operation he will describe con-
sists in severing two large nerves
(splanchnic nerves) and the removal
of sympathetic ganglia in the chest.
DR.. Wright will give two lectures on
the opening day. He has made extern
sive studies and experiments with
diets and will discuss the use of crys-
talline vitamin c in the treatment of
conditions, rheumatic
fever and rheumatoid arthritis, pneu-
monia and other pathological condi-
tons. In second lecture he will deal
with new methods developed at the
New York Post Graduate Hospital for
treatment of varicose ulcers and
peripheral vascular disease.
Members of the Georgetown medi-
cal and hospital staff will lecture daily
on various medical subjects of interest
to physicians who wish to keep in close
touch with new methods and deyelop-
ments. In general, the scope Of the
program will deal with the fields of
medicine, surgery and allied special
ties, obstetrics and gynecology, pedi-
atrlcs, pathology and psychiatry.
Poliomyletis on Agenda.
DR.. j. P. Leake of the United States
Public Health, Service will address a
luncheon conference Tuesday on
'Pohomyletis." Important lectures
will be given Wednesday by DR.. John
A. Reislnger, Cardio-vascular Unit.
Veterans Administration, on the value
and limitation of exercise tolerance
tests for heart disease, and by DR..
William Ballinger, who will diagnose
various causes of pain in the lower
chest.
A discussion of Sex Hormones" is
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