When does a human being go into deep freeze?
"When we force his temperature down to 78.6 and his heart stops beating," says one of the country's leading anesthetists.
Dr. Donald H. Stubbs, clinical professor of anesthesiology at George Washington Universiyt, Washington, D. C., who's here for the 18th annual meeting of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly, is one of the exponents of the "freezing" anesthesia.
PHOTO: PRESENT for the giant meeting of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly which opened here yesterday, is Dr. Edgar Hull, president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society.; MORE THAN 2000 DOCTORS crowded into Municipal Auditorium yesterday for the opening session of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly. On hand to help greet them were Dr. M. E. St. Martin, left, secretary of the assembly, and Dr. Walter Moss, president of the Louisiana Medical Society. The four-day convention is slated to close Thursday.; PRESIDING over the distinguished gathering of doctors assembled in New Orleans is Dr. W. D. Beacham, president of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly.
