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Show ! CAUSE OF ILL HEALTH ' TO OUR AMERICAN GIBXS. WASHINGTON. May 12. The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Amer-ican Academy' of Medicine was begun here Monday. A large, number of members-was present. ' Preliminary to the. regular work of the convention an executive session was held at which action: was taken upon a number of matters affecting the organization. 'Dn James H.'McBrldge of Pasadena, Cel., read a paper on "The Life and Education of Our Girls ' as Affecting Their Future." . He spoke of the necessity of girls knowing something ef the duties - of home life and of the responsibilities of motherhood, and said that over-study, over-study, physical inactivity, excitement and fictitious animation were common causes of nervous disorder and other forms of ill health In girls and women. : Papers cm "The Teaching of Hygiene in the Public Schools'1 was also read ! by Dr. AM. Holmes, . Denver, and others. |