A post-graduate course in foot surgery will be offered by Tulane university school of medicine, beginning Thursday, at the Hutchinson Memorial Medical building, 1430 Tulane ave.
Sessions, to be attended by physicians from seven states, will continue through Saturday.
AH aspects of surgery for correction of abnormality and treatment of disease will be discussed in lectures and panel discussions.
Principal guest speakers will be Dr. Earl McBride, chief of staff, Bone and Joint hospital, Oklahoma City, and Dr C
Kennedy, head of the department of dermatology, Louisiana State university.
Among topics on the agenda are anesthesia for foot surgery, vascular disease of the foot, amputation, foot defects at >irth, clubfoot correction, t o e deformities, gout and arthritis, fractures, and skin lesions of the feet.
Tulane faculty members par-
ticipating represent the departments of orthopedics, dermatology, surgery, radiology, and clinical medicine.
Registration will begin at 8 a. m., Thursday and the first technical session will begin at 9 a. m. Co-chairmen of the course are Dr. Jack Wickstrom and Dr. Harry D. Morris, Tulane faculty members and orthopedic surgeons.
