Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-07 | Page 1 | State Medics End Sessions

STATE MEDICS END ENDS SESSIONS S. S L. L Chosen as Site of 1936 Convention n By STAFF CORRESPONDENT LOGAN Sept 7 Their 7 Their knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of what to todo do when the human numan system falters enriched by learned d discussions by experts several bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred Utah physicians and surgeons ended the forty first annual convention con con- v of the Utah State Medical association here today This mornings morning's session devoted to more technical addresses was the thelast thelast last Jast on the program The doctors chose Salt Satt Lake City as os h host st for the 1936 convention New methods methods o of treating pneumonia pneumonia monia were related by Dr G. G Gill Richards of of Salt Lake City Who vho o substituted d for Cor Dr Harlow Brooks of or New NewYork York City He named new new methods use of serum oxygen and artificial thorax or collapse o of the lung induced by injecting air Into the pleural cavit cavity Serum is effective e In 60 per cent cento o of lobar pneumonia cases Dr Richards said To obtain results it should be administered during the first three d days ys o of the disease Within Reach Ruch RuchIn In the last two years equipment has been developed bringing the I Continued on Pare Fate Two STATE MEDICS END SESSIONS Continued from Page Paie One use of oxygen tents within the means of nearly everyone he said Before then cost was was ne nearly pro pro- S Like use of ot serum scrum artificial artificia thorax must be used in the first three days of ot pneumonia Dr Richards said He cautioned against I Its use upon very young or old perSons persons per per- sons son or patients with weak hearts Dr William R. R Cubbins associate professor of surgery at Northwestern Northwest Northwest- cm ern university a bone specialist advised advised advised ad ad- use of ot numerous ray X-ray pictures pictures pic pie tures in reducing fractures Dr pro John A A A. Wolfer Volter associate professor of surgery at Northwest Northwestern em ern university discussed pancreatic pancreatic juices and arid suggested they b be considered as as a cause of gall gaU bladder bladder blad blad- der disorders Other speakers were V Pr r. r George Georg V VOther H. H Gard Gardner er assistant professor o of gynecology at Northwestern university university uni- uni and Dr William H. H Holmes professor of ot medicine at Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- I western university Speaking at a a- a banquet Friday night Dr D. D C. C Budge of ot Logan retiring president of the association association tion said present laws governing the practice of at healing are n not t n. n f. f to protect the public against quacks and cultists He advised an act fixing higher highe educational standards High blood pressure held the theat- theat attention attention at at- of the association members member at yesterday afternoons afternoon's session when Dr George E. E Brown associate associate ate professor of medicine at th the Mayo foundation University o of at Minnesota described a new ew surgical cal cat treatment of case of primary Difficult Method i Dr Brown said the method is use used but rarely since it is difficult anc and involves cutting of oC deep seated nerves Ninety five per cent of ot high hig blood pressure case cases are in the primary primary mary group and hard to deal with because the exact cause is no not known known- he said He said the affliction is believed believe to have an inherited base Development Development Develop Develop- ment of the disorder in his opinion is in proportion to the strain under which the individual lives V If individuals f from om families could go to to a south sc sea island and forget all about lion tion and its worries they might n never ver be bothered with high blood bloo pressure he said Other speakers Friday afternoon and their topics were Differential Differentia Lesions of the Breast Dr Dean Dea Lewis professor proCessor of surgery Johns John Hopkins university Uterine FIbroids Fibroids Fi FL- Dr George H. H Gardner Gardne assistant professor of gynecology Northwestern university and The ThC Present Status of Undulant lant Fever Dr Karl F. F Myer professor proCessor of ot bacteriology bacteriology bac bac- Un University of oC California a. a