Evening star., 1938-09-11
G.U.0PENSA ALUMNI
= MEDICAL SESSIONS
Five-Day Program to Cover
so Lectures Starts at
School Tomorrow.

IHc dCCeIltlOu Oh meulCdl SCleNISIS
throughout the world.
Daily lectures will be given at the
School Of Medicine on Reservoir road
IN which nationally and locally prom
inent authorities will analyze the
common and uncommon diseases Of
mankind. Both medical and surgical
clinics, including a number of major
operations, also will be conducted daily
at Georgetown and cooperating hos
pitfalls.
Dean to Offer Welcome.
In preparing the program the med
&cal school called upon the contribu-
tions Of its teaching staff, executive
committee and the Glass of 1913. The
Rev. David v. McCauley, S. j., dean
Of medicine. will welcome the visiting
alumni at the opening session Mon
day at $50 am. He will then turn
the meeting over to DR.. James A.
Cahill professor Of surgery, and Dr.
William F. O'Donnell, professor of
clinical pediatrics, the co-chairmen
In charge of the program
There will be cooperation between
Third International Goiter Confer
ence which also opens tomorrow at
the Mayflower Hotel Dr. Frank Lahey
OF Boston, president of the American
Section of the Goiter Conference,
will lecture at Georgetown tomorrow
afternoon on some surgical consider
atoms Of the thyroid.
DR.. Sellinger to Talk.
Another prominent lecturer tomorrow
morning will be DR.. Jerome Selinger,
Glass Of 1913. professor of clinical
surgery at Columbia University and
the New York POSTGRADUATE Medi-
can Schools. He will deal with prob
lems of stomach ulcers
DR.. George Tully Vaughan, professor
emeritus of surgery at Georgetown,
will lecture at the opening session and
preside during the afternoon Other
speakers Of national prominence will
be DR.. R. A. Vonderlehr Assistant
Surgeon General, who will discuss ad-
Vances made in the war on syphilis;
. DR.. Dean LeWes, Johns Hopkins pro-
lessor of surgery, and DR. Nicholson
j. Eastman. Johns Hopkins professor
OF obstetrics. They will deal with
specialties in their fields.
Hospital Clinics Tuesday.
Tuesday there will be some inter-
&stlng clinics and demonstrations at
the Georgetown University Hospital.
An operation will be performed by DR..
Cahill upon 17-year-old Helen Eliza
koo
from an ailment similar to hemophilia
which has caused excessive bleeding
since she was years old In response
TO an appeal from. Dr. John r. Cav
anagh, in charge of the Georgetown
Dlspensary, ITO persons volunteered
blood for the girl DR.. Cahill will re-
move her splenectomy in an effort to
effect a permanent cure Helen has
undergone 80 transfusions.
Physicians a. the clinic also will
listen to human heart beats amplified
over a loudspeaker set up in an ad-
joining room. DR.. Cavanagh will
stage this demonstration, using a spe-
clal type of microphone attached to
patients chest. Heart beats NAV
thus be recorded on permanent rec
ORD and compared from time to time
with other recorded heart beats of the
patient. SO far as known, this has
been demonstrated only once before in
the District at Emergency Hospital,
TumOr Clinic Exhibit.
Delegates to the Goiter International
Conference will be able to see some
interesting exhibits obtained from
GeorgetoWn's Tumor Clinic and DR..
Vincent j. Dardinski, its pathologist.
also will lecture. Another exhibit of
more than unusual interest will be
the collection of the Brain Research
, institute at the medical school. DR..
Othmar c. Solnitzky, the director, will
make report. Some of the rarest
animal brains in the world are in the
collection
Operative clinics will be conducted
wednesday at Georgetown Hospital by
DR.. Ralph M. Lecomte, Dr. Garnet
Ault and others of the GEORGETOWN
staff and at Providence Hospital by
DR.. Cahill and DR.. Joseph j. Mundell.
DR.. Wallace M. Yater. professor of
medicine. will be in charge of a special
session in medicine also on Wednes-
day.
Among the lecturers at the medical
session will be DR.. Frederick j. Brady.
National Institute of Health, and DR..
Milton V. Veldee. also of the institute
They will deal with the clinical aspects
OF oxyuriasis and hemolytic strepto-
coccus in scarlet fever.
Latest on SulfaniIamide.
Another expert from the National
Institute of Health, Dr. Sanford M.
Rosenthal. on Fridays program will
present the latest knowledge of sui
fanilamide
This Is the potent drug which caused
number of deaths recently, through
improper use, in treating cases of
streptococcus. A noted authority on
drugs. DR.. Rosenthal made some in
teresting disclosures on a newly intro
duced German drug last year at the
Georgetown sessions.
DR.. Edward H. Richardson, depart
ment OF gynecology Johns Hopkins
Medical Schol will lecture during
= session Thursday devoted to gyne-
Geological clinic. He will demonstrate
cient operation for uterine prolapse
DR.. Richardson is one Of the foremost
specialists in this field of medicine
At another session on Friday at
which mental diseases will be under
discussion, DR.. Sigmond NJ Lebenson
Of St. Elizabeths Hospital will lee
ture on "Metrazol Therapy Of Major
Psychoses.
Children's and Gallinger Hospitals
also are cooperating in the clinics
As we'll as Providence and Columbia
DR.. Joseph S. Wall will be in charge of
. special clinic in pediatrics at Chill
dren's Hospital Tuesday morning. At
this clinic, DR.. John F. O'Brien will
discuss the prevention of whooping
cough by use of human serum and
DR. O'DOnnell and others will con-