Baton Rouge will become the state's medical capital May 2-4 when doctors from all 64 Louisiana parishes gather for the 80th annual meeting of the Louisiana State Medical Society.
More than 700 physicians are! expected to take part in the three- i day; meetingajtjhe Capitol House
hotel
Dr. F. J. L. Blasingame, executive vice - president of the American Medical Association, will address the opening session May 2 on ' 'American Medicine— j Today and Tomorrow.'*
Other speakers at the opening meeting will be Dr. W. Robyn Hardy of New Orleans, president I of the Louisiana State Medical ! Society; Dr. O. B. Owens of 'Alexandria, president-elect of the society; Dr. Julius Mullins, presi-
| dent of the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society and John Christian, mayor of Baton Rouge.
Physicians who have complet-jed 50 years of medical practice | will also be honored at the May 12 evening session. Doctors to be honored will be presented special pins. They will be formally admitted to the "50-Year Doctors Club."
The house of delegates, governing body of the state society, will meet during the day May 2 and again May 4. At noon May
3 there will be a clinic-pathological conference-luncheon for the general membership.
A full schedule of scientific sessions will be conducted while the meeting is in progress. All sessions will be held in the Capitol House hotel.
Dr. Frank J. Jones of Baton Rouge is general chairman of the meeting.
Out - of - state guest 'speakers scheduled to appear on the program in addition to Dr. Blasingame include Dr. Temple Ains-worth, professor of urology, University of Mississippi medical school, Jackson, Miss., who will discuss "Urologic Emergencies"; Dr. George L. Jordan Jr., chief of the surgical service, Veterans Administration hospital, Houston, will talk on "The Management of Patients with Carcinoma of the Pancreas and the Periampullary Region"; Dr. Robert D. Moreton of Fort Worth, Tex., member of the executive committee of the American College of Radiology, will speak on "The Industrial Back" and Dr. John H. Moyer, chairman of the department of in-iternal medicine, Hahnemann I Medical college and hospital, I Philadelphia, Pa., who will have i as his subject "Recent Developments in Diuretic Therapy."
