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Show DR. LORENZ NOT PRESENT Austrian Surgeon Fails to Appear at the Medical Congress. WASHINGTON, May 12. The sixth triennial convention of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons convened this afternoon at the Columbia Colum-bia theater. The congress Includes in Its membership many of the most eminent emi-nent medical and surgical specialists in the country, several hundreds of whom were present when it was called to order. or-der. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the distinguished Austrian surgeon, was expected to be present, but has not yet arrived. In attendance were eminent physicians and surgeons, not only from the United States, but from all countries in Europe. Eu-rope. Among them were Prof. Mique-lech Mique-lech of Berlin, an authority on therapeutics thera-peutics and pathology; Prof. Hans Kerr, of Halberstadt, Germany, a surgeon sur-geon of international distinction; Dr. Roswell Park of Buffalo, one of the surgeons who attended the late President Presi-dent McKinley. and Dr.. Simon Flexner of Philadelphia. |