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Symposium on Army
Medical Tec|lniques
will Open tuesday

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latest aspects of medicine and sur
gerry as applied and developed by
the Army will open Tuesday at
Walter Reed Hospital, to precede
the annual American Medical Asso-
citation convention opening June 9
at Atlantic City.
The Army Medical Department is
conducting the symposium. Speakers
will include DR.. Paul r. Hawley,
chief of medical directors for the
Veterans Administration; Maj. Gen.
Raymond w. Bliss, Army surgeon
general. and Senator Murray, Demo-
crat, of Montana.
At the opening session, beginning
| at 10 am. Tuesday Brig. Gen. George
c. Beach, jr., commanding general
of the Army Medical Center, will
deliver the address of welcome. Mai.
Edward j. Pulaski, chief of the
surgical research unit at Brooke
General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston,
Tex, and Col. James P. Cooney,
medical director of the military
application division of the Atomic
Energy Commission will be speakers.
Talk on Plastic Surgery.
Maj. Pulaski will summarize Army
experiences with streptomycin, and
Col. Cooney will speak on the med
ical aspects of the atomic bomb.
Plastic surgery will be the subject
OF a talk during the afternoon ses-
sion by DR.. Donald w. Macomber,
consultant at Fitzsimons General
Hospital. Denver.
Col. August w. Splitter, chief of
Walter Reeds orthopedic section,
will speak on THE Newer Concepts
of Amputations and Prostheses,"
and DR.. Brian B. Blades, consultant
in thoracic surgery at Walter Reed,
will discuss recent advances in the
treatment of lung abscess.
Subjects to be discussed at the
Wednesday morning session include
What Physical Medicine has to
Offer the Medical and Surgical
Practitioner" by DR.. Frank H. Kru-
sen Of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Mimi, director of the Baruch Com
mittee on Physical Medicine; Lat
est Developments in Malaria Their
apy," by DR.. ALT S. Alving, professor
of medicine at the University of Chi
cago, and "Strepteomycin in the
Treatment of tuberculosis, by 1t.
Col. John B. Wallace of Fitzsimmons
General Hospital.
Wednesday afternoon DR.. Henry
K. Beecher, Dorr professor of re-
search in anesthesia and chief anes-
thetist at Massachusetts, General
Hospital, Boston, will talk on the
Psychological effects of wounds as
guides for treatment of freshly
wounded men.
Banquet To Be Held.
Later, a clinical pathological con-
ference will be conducted by Col.
Virgil Cornell, chief of Walter Reed S
laboratory service.
DR.. Hawley will speak at ban
quet at 8 pm. Wednesday at the
Washington Hotel The Surgeon
General will be POSTMASTER.
Senator Murray, who will be the
concluding speaker Thursday, will
discuss THE Federal Contribution
to the Health and Welfare of the
Nation" Earlier that day the fol-
lowing speakers are scheduled:
| DR.. Norman @. Brill, Veterans
Administration official and consult
ant in neuropsychiatry at Walter
Reed, whose subject is Intensive
Psychotherapy"; DR.. Joseph E.
Smadel, Army Medical Department
Research and Graduate School, RE
search in Virus Diseases; DR.. Lloyd
G. Lewis, urology consultant at WAL
ter Reed, "Testicular Tumors," and
DR.. Colin Mcleod, bacteriology pro-
IfeSsor at New York University.