Use of hypnosis as an adjunct to surgery was advocated here Monday by the immediate past president of the American Academy of General Practice.
Dr. Malcom E. Phelps, El Reno, Okla., believes combining; hypnosis with anesthesia reduces the Amount of anesthesia needed, thus making for a smoother convalescence.
"By hypnosis I do not mean the type used for entertainment purposes," added the physician." The kind I have in mind is not a deep state of hypnosis. It is rather the kind which involves the power of suggestion."
Dr. Phelps was a featured speaker at the opening of the N. O. Graduate Medical Assembly at the Roosevelt hotel. Sessions of the assembly, scheduled to last through Thursday, are attracting to the city about 2000 physicians from all sections of the nation.
In other high lights of Monday's session speakers said:
1. Blond-hpaded, blue-eyed women cap-stave off wrinkles by foregoing • prolonged sun-baths.
2. Surgery should not be delayed in aorta stenosis once symptoms develop.
8. Treatment in leukemia has reached a plateau, with no break-through during the past five years.
4. The number of mental
patients requiring hospitali-zation has decreased marked-
5. Promiscuous use of X-rays can lead to leukemia and malfomed infants.
6. The bad effects of tran-quilizers have been overrated.
PHOTO: CONFERRING DURING SESSIONS of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly Tuesday were (from left) Dr. O. Henry Janton, Philadelphia, assistant professor of cardiology, University of Pennsylvania graduate school of medicine; Dr. Carl T. Nelson, New York city, chairman of the department of dermatology, Columbia university college of physicians and surgeons; Dr. Malcolm E. Phelps, El Reno, Okla., immediate past president of the Amer-lean Academy of General Practice, and Dr. Woodward IX Beacham, New Orleans, past president of the assembly and program chairman of the committee on gynecology.
