Evening star., 1947-10-05
D. {. Medical Society
Invites Public 10
Exhibit at Meetinq
By Thomos 6. Buchonon

Ordinary laymen who can't even
pronounce those long words doctors
use in scientific discussions will have
their innings at the 18th annual
scientific assembly of the District
Medical Society, which opens here
tomorrow.
/ This year. for the first time, the
physicians are inviting the public
to attend Public Health Exhibit"
whihc will present current medical
problems in terms everybody can
understand
Tomorrow and Tuesday, tWash-
ington audiences will be able to
cit at their television receivers and
watch a surgeon perform an opera
tion-the first such broadcast ever
made to the public.
Tuesday night, the medical society
Is sponsoring an open meeting at
the Hotel Statler on Our Youth
Today-A Challenge to American
Parents"
Exhibit To Be on View.
The health exhibit will be on view
at the Hotel Statler, assembly head
quarters, from 10 am to pm Mon
day through Wednesday. 1t will also
be open Tuesday evening from 7:30
to 8:15 o'clock.
Two American Medical Associa-
fion displays entitled Food Fads
and Fallacies" and Mechanical
Quackery' may draw most attention
at this show.
The first will put the spotlight on
common beliefs about food that have
no scientific founda tion-such ideas
as the one that fish and milk should
not be eaten at the same meal, that
minerals in foodstuffs affect the
personality, or that a diet of raw
vegetables will cure all ills. The
second will expose commercial
"gadgets" sold to dupe the public.
ANA Offers Charts.
The American Medical Association
will have maps and charts demon
strating the growth of medical care
prepayment plans throughout the
country, timely reminder of the |
District Medical Society's own pre-
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offered to the public.
Visitors to the exhibit may get a
free chest X-ray If they visit the
Joint display of the District Tuber-
culosis Associa ton, the Health De-
partment and the United States
Public Health Service. The display |
will remind Washington of the
X-ray campaign to start here soon. |
The Washington Society for the
Hard of Hearing will give lip-read-
ing demonstrations every hour, and .
visitors will have a chance to test .
their hearing on an "audiometer' /
provided by the society.
Other Groups Listed.
Other groups taking part are the
District Red Cross, with a display
entitled Blood and It's Derivatives"
the Washington Heart Association,
"Cardio Vascular Disease; the So
ciety for Crippled Children, "Cere-
bral Palsy Program; the District
Society for the Prevention of Blind
ness, How to Prevent Blindness;
the local chapter of the American .
Cancer Society, Seven Danger Sig
mails" and the District Health De- |
partment, Service and Achieve
ments.'
The Army will demonstrate meth
DDS of preventive medicine; the .
Navy. its medical program for Pa
cific islands administered by this
country; the Food and Drug Admin
istration, Drugs and the Federal
Law" and the United States Public |
Health Service, displays on diabetes .
and the diagnosis of early tubercu-
losis. ~-.
Georgetown and George Washing
ton Universities will present displays |
on the growth of their medical
schools. current medical research |
and future plans.
Interest Widespread.
The television broadcasts, subject |
of much advance interest, will orig |
mate from Georgetown and Doc
tors Hospitals. The first broadcast
will be made from II am. to noon
tomorrow. Another operation will .
be shown at the same time Tuesday.
Receivers will be placed in the Hotel .
Statler for doctors at the assembly
to watch, and the operations will be
seen locally through Station WTTG.
G. Howland Shaw, former Assist
and Secretary of State, will act as
moderator in the discussion of !
modern youth at s15 pm. Tuesday.
The speakers will be DR.. Miriam
Van Waters. superintendent of a
women's reformatory at Framing
ham, Mass, who will talk about
juvenile psychology; Theron Lamar
Caudle, Assistant United States
Attorney General, who will deal
with law enforcement, and DR..
George E. Gardner. director of the
Judge Baker Guidance Center in
Boston. who will discuss youth
problems.