Dr. George E. Burch, chairman of the department of medicine, Tulane university school of medicine, will open the first session on clinical cardiology at the American Heart Association's 33rd scientific sessions Friday in St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. Burch, a jformer vice-president of the AHA, will dedicate the sessions, which conclude Tuesday, to Dr. William Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist, who won the 1924 Nobel prize for his discovery of the mechanism for the electrocardiograph.
The scientific sessions will be followed by the 36th annual meeting of the American Heart Association.
Of the 30 Louisianians attending as delegates, the following will be program participants:
Dr. Albert L. Hyman, also of Tulane, will present a paper on the attempt of a group of local physicians to devise a safer and simpler way to diagnose deformities of the heart by placing hydrogen in the blood and locating it with platinum electrodes; Dr Edgar HuIl, associate dean of Louisiana State university school of medici
