Series of Lectures and Clinic Demonstrations at Hutchinson Memorial -- Dr. Shirley C. Lyons was nominated for president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society last night at an executive session of the body in Hutchinson Memorial. He is without opposition. The election will be on December 11. Additional nominees are:
Dr. Edgar Burns, first vice-president; Dr. Ashton H. Thomas, second vice-president; Dr. Lucien Fortier, third vice-president; Dr. Gilbert C. Anderson, secretary Dr. Edwin H. Lawson treasurer; Dr. Donovan C. Brown, librarian, and Dr. Isidore Conn, Dr. George H. Hauser and Dr. James T. Nix, members of the board of directors.
Nominated as delegates to the Louisiana State Medical Society were Dr. E. L. Leckert, Dr. H. B. Also-brook, Dr. Emmett L. Irwin, Dr. Nix, Dr. M. T. Van Studdiford, Dr. Val K, Fuchs, Dr. Jerome Landry, Dr. Frank Chetta and Dr. L. C. Chamberlain.
At the open meeting on the first day of seven days of lectures and Clinic demonstrations at the Tulane university graduate school of medicine sponsored by the society and the Tuberculosis and Public Health Association of Louisiana were two guest speakers, Dr. John H. Hawes, Boston, director of the Rutland Sanatorium, and Dr. Fred H. Heise, Saranac, N. Y., medical director of the Trudeau Sanatorium.
Dr. Hawes stated, "Use your brains when you diagnose a case that might be tuberculosis. Don't base your diagnosis on one thing-not entirely on X-ray. Any cough that lasts more than four weeks should be investigated for the possibility of tuberculosis."
