| Show MEDICAL SYMPOSIUM The Aesculapians Have a Good Time Doctor Wilcox Presents 1 Most Beautiful CUB Varicose Veins for Their Appreciative Ap-preciative Inspection The Salt Lake Medical society mot last night in the public library with Dr T W Foster in the chair Among those present were Doctors Maclean Ewing Root Me Achran Beatty Dalby Wilcox Pfoutz Wright and Thorne The meeting promised to be dry enough as the Aeacalapans sat like mummies until the president said Verbal cases to be reported re-ported Under this head Dr Wilcox arose and presented a choice morsel for the Hyppocratic followers to roll around their tongues The room was large and cold but the doctor with the air of conferring con-ferring a boon asked a young man named Thompson to go up on the platform and take off his clothes for medical Inspection When the young man named Thompson I Thomp-son of Cache county had complied 1 and stood shivering the doctor explained that this was perhaps one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL DEVELOPMENTS OF VARICOSE VARI-COSE VEINS that it had ever boon his pleasure to seeThe see-The young man was 25 years old and about thirteen years ago while playing the national game had been struck on the papliteal space with the sphere At the present time from the tendon 01 Achilles to the sacrum was ono mass of varicosed veins He thought that the illiac and the femoral veins were involved and the pressure pres-sure on the pelvis By this time tho young man had bared his afflicted member and it looked like a gnarled and knotted oak limb all twisted and distorted The s ght was so tempting that the doctors left their seats ana clustered clus-tered around it prodding the leg with that peculiarly affectionate touch of the physician physi-cian that is generally accompanied by A YOWL OF PAl PROM THE PATIENT This was no exception Dr Wilcox a history of the Wicox gave d case showing that the young man was u great sufferer and in imminent danger and he wanted relief even if he got it at tho expense ex-pense of the leg Gravely the doctors took their seats and one by one expressed their opinions of how the case should be treated Each one agreed with the other but all bad something some-thing different to suggest Dr Wilcox thought that ligatlon and treatment with iodine and tannin hypo dormically was u good treatment or pal liaiive treatment the use of the silk stocking stock-ing or rubber bandage Dr Wright thought there was very little I to be expected from palliative treatment He coucurred in the operative and thought I that the veins should be dissected out entirely en-tirely Another physician said there was but littlo hope from either dissection or amputation He thought that the procer tning woum oe to put me patient on his back and keep him there and give him large I doses of iodide of sodium after the French I treatmen anaeurisins i Dr Maclean said they should resort to everything favor before amputation He would RIPPING UP THE HEEL and dividing the tendon of Achilles and stretching the veins Ligating the veins would be beneficial He thought that dissection dis-section would be a fearful undertaking while with ligation they could evacuate the veins between the ligatures Dr Beatty agreed with Dr Maclean I but Dr Pfoutz thought that the veins I should be dissected The chair thought the knee should be I treated and then the veins looked after I What the patient thought nobody could tell but what he looked was easy His lips were parched and dry and he kept his eyes fastened on the president while the I saw bones discussed him and hung on j his expression as would a man being tried for his lifo They told him ho could put on his clothes and they passed a vote of thanks to Dr Wilcox They dismissed Thompson and they took up I THE ANNUAL BANQUET I The question was whether the sciety should pay for the banquet or each member mem-ber pay for his own plate Dr Maclean I thought that every man should pay for his own plate and the 16 in the treasury be used to lobby but Dr Pfoutz said that the legislature only required beer and that would still leave a surplus So it was decided de-cided that the treasury should pay for the doctors banquet on March 15 Then they took a vote and drew the line on any save medical men at the banquet Does that include homeosl said one allopath i I Not much said another and the meeting meet-ing adjourded meetI |
