Smyrna times., 1957-10-24
DOCTORS HOLD
ANNUAL MEET
16Sfh Annual Meeting of
Medical Society Open in
Wilmington Oct. 25
40 EXHIBITS

Over 200 of Delaware's doctors
are expected to attend the 16Sth
annual meeting of the Medical So
eiety of Delaware, which opens
tomorrow, Oct. 25, in Whining
ton Featuring outstanding medi-
cal speakers from as far away as
Iowa, and 40 scientific and tech
nieal exhibits, the meeting is de-
signed to help the doctors in their
daily practice by bringing them
detailed information on recent ad-
vanees in medicine. Although the
two-day session is only a part of
the continuing program of post
graduate education that Delaware
doctors maintain throughout the
year, it is the most spectacular
of these events. Seven thousand
square feet of space in the Ma
sonic Scottish Rite Cathedral will
be devoted to displaying the ad
vances in knowledge, equipment,
and pharmaceuticals which are
available to provide better medi-
cal care. Some of these advances
were developed by physicians liv-
ing and practicing in Delaware.
Best known of these is an exhibit
of work done at the Memorial
Hospital which has attracted COM
ment from all over the nation at
the last meeting of the American
Medical Association in New York.
This will deal with Hodgkin's dis
ease, a malignant disease of the
lymph system, which has been
studied and treated successfully,
if not completely cured, by Drs.
J. w. Abbiss, r. w. P'relick and
J. F. Hynes, of Wilmington. Hodg-
kin's disease carries a very high
mortality rate. These men, how
ever, have evolved treatment
which has greatly heightened the
life expectancy of the victim. The
story behind Delaware's artery
bank will be shown, as DR.. Wal
ter Moore exhibits apparatus
which ne developed with scient-
lists of the Atlas Powder Co., to
dry-freeze and store arteries for
transplant. DR.. Frank O'Brien
Will show work on diagnosis of
diseases of the chest, including
dia gnostic angiocardiography,
which involves injecting liquid in
to the heart, so that it's internal
working may be studied by X
ray. Work on six different re-
search projects on the blood and
cardiovascular system will be
shown by DR.. o. ]. Pollak of Dov-
er, who has been primarily con-
eerned with the level of choles-
.erol, or fat, in the blood. Also
displayed will be an exhibit on
diagnosis of histoplasmosis, a
fungus infection of the blood. Co.
operative projects will be shown
by three groups of specialists.
Diseased anatomical specimens are
being frozen in hospitals for
teaching purposes. Pathologists of
Delaware will explain these to a
physician audience. Glaucoma, a
disease of the eye, will be sub
ject of an exhibit by ophthalmo-
logists, or eye specialists, who
will also test the doctors eyes
for symptoms of the ailment. Ur-
ological case histories will be pre-
sented by group who specialize
IN surgery and treatment of the
.genito-urinary tract. An import
ant exhibit will show the opera
ton of the home care program
of the Delaware Hospital. This
program, which provides treat
ment outside of the hospital for
long-term chronic illnesses, is
aimed at decreasing the cost of
care for both patient and hospital
and at allowing those patients
who progress satisfactorily at
home to do so. The 40 exhibits,
together with lectures by both
local and visiting physicians, in
Guiding faculty members of vari-
GUS medical schools, will send the
physicians back to their prac-
tees with more knowledge of
medicine, better equipped to
treat the sick.