Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-13
D. T.. Medical Society
Will Open Annual
Assembly tuesday
CordiovoscuIor-RenuI
Diseases to Be Topic
For Discussion

Diseases to be Topic
For Discussion
The annual scientific assembly of
the Medical Society of the District
Of Columbia will open Tuesday at
the Mayflower Hotel and continue
through Thursday.
It will center on the subject OF
cArdiovascular-r diseases, which
in the last decade have become the
most important cause of death in
the United States and which are Of
special significance to Washington
physicians because of the somewhat
higher age level of the District com.
pared with that of the country as
whole.
Space for scientific exhibits has
to DR.. John A. Reed, general chair
man. A new feature will be the doc
tors hobby show, in which about 80
physicians will participate. Exhibits
will include stamp and art collec-
tions, model boats and trains,
needlepoint, paintings and photo
graphs A public meeting will be
held at $50 pm on Wednesday in
the Mayf1ower ballroom, at which
the speakers will be Senator William
H. King of Utah and DR.. Harry
Stack Sullivan, one of the country's
foremost psychiatrists. Maj. Gen.
James c. Magee of the Army Med
ical Corps will discuss the medical
defense program at the society's
luncheon Tuesday.
G. u. Alumni Reunion.
Georgetown University alumni will
hold a reunion Wednesday, at which
the chief speaker will be United
States Attorney Edward M. Curran.
George Washington alumni will hold
q luncheon Thursday at which
D. E. Rebok. who has spent many
years as medical missionary in
China, will speak The annual ban
quet of the society will be held
Thursday evening. There will be a
musical review directed by DR.. Rob-
ert H. Harmon. ..-.-
Some of the foremost American
authorities on the cardiovascular-
renal complex are to take part IN
the scientific sessions.
Opening the program Tuesday
morning will be DR.. Richard Shatzki
of the Harvard medical school and
associate roentgenologist of Massa.
chusetts General Hospital, Boston.
who will speak on ''Roentgen dag
nosis in Cardiovascular Disease" DR..
Raymond Hussey, associate profess
scr of medicine, University OF
Maryland, will discuss Some Inter-
esting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Inter-
pretations" and "Congenital NAL
formations of the Heart" will be
the topic of Dr. Helen B. Tausslg,
associate in pediatrics, Johns Hop
kins University. DR.. T. Duckett
Jones of Harvard medical school
and Massachusetts, General Hospital
will speak on Acute Rheumatic
Carditis" and Dr. Harry H. Don
nally, professor of pediatrics at
George Washington University school
Of medicine. on Management of the
Child With Inactive Rheumatic
Heart Disease"
Tuesday Afternoon Speakers.
Speakers on the Tuesday after
noon session, beginning at o'clock
are Dr.. Edward F. Bland, Nassau
chusettS General Hospital. Differ
entail Diagnosis of Congenital and
Rheumatic Heart Disease; DR.. Wall
ter A. Bloedorn, dean and professor
Of medicine, George Washington
University school Of medicine,
Recognition and Treatment of the
Various Forms of Pericarditis": DR..
Wallace M. Yater. professor of med
icine and chairman of the depart
ment of medicine, Georgetown Uni
versity school of medicine. Diseases
Of the Aorta";; DR.. Isaac A. Bigger,
professor of surgery. Medical Col
iege of Virginia, Richmond. The
Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart
Wounds; DR.. G.. Louis Weller, jr.,
associate cardiologist. Children's
Hospital, Washington, Surgical
Shock and Circulatory Failure"
Speakers at the Wednesday morn
ing session will be Dr. Thomas S.
Lee, professor Of cardiology, George
town University school of medicine,
"Hypertensive Heart Disease; DR..
william Thornwall Davis, professor
Of opthalmology. George Washington
University school of medicine,
Changes in the Fundus Oculi in
Cardiovascular Disease; DR.. Edward
Weiss. professor of clinical medicine.
Temple University, Philadelphia.
"Renal Involvement in Hypertensive
Vascular Disease; DR.. Maurice
Charles Pincoffs, head of the de-
partment Of medicine, University Of
Maryland Cardiac Aspects of
Chronic Nephritis" DR.. Joseph
Earlee Moore, associate in medicine.
Johns Hopkins University, "Cardio-
vascular Syphilis
Speakers Wednesday afternoon
will be Dr. Howard B. Sprague. in
structor, Harvard medical school,
clinical and Electrocardiographic
Findings in the Aging Heart" DR..
j. Edwin Wood, jr., professor Of
practice of medicine, University of
Virginia, THE Diagnosis and Treat
ment of Cardiac Arrhythmias" DR..
James Alexander Lyon, professor Of
clinical cardiology. Georgetown Uni
versity School of Medicine, Failure
of the Left and Right Heart; DR..
Harry Gold. assistant professor OF
pharmacology, Cornell University,
'Digitalis: It's Actin and Usage"
On Thursday Program.
Speakers Thursday morning will be
DR.. Ralph Michael LIE Comic, profess
sor of urology. Georgetown Univer-
sity School of Medicine, "Cardiovas-
cular Complications of Prostate OBJ
struction"; DR.. Joseph B. Wolfe, as
sociate professor of medicine, Temple
University, Recognition and Man.
agement Of Cardiac Neurosis"; DR..
Harold M. Marvin, associate clini-
cal professor of medicine, Yale Uni
versity, "Diagnostic Criteria of Cor