Nineteen of the country's leading medical specialists will address sessions of the 24th annual meeting of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly which started this morning at the Roosevelt hotel.
Assembly officers expected the four-day meeting to draw 2000 physicians from 36 states. "
New methods of treatment and research findings in 17 different medical specialties were to be discussed by the distinguished panel of guest speakers. Graduate Course
The comprehensive program, to be staged in morning,, afternoon and evening sessions, constitutes a postgraduate course accepted for credit by the American Academy of General Practice. ' Opening lecture this morning was to be a discussion of "Respiratory Distress in the Newborn," by Dr. Stuart S. Stevenson of Jersey City, N. J., professor and chairman of the pediatrics department of Seton Hall college of medicine.
Medical men say difficulty in breathing frequently makes the first few minutes after birth the most critical period in an individual's life.
Dr. Stevenson was to review various causes of this trouble, methods of diagnosis and treatment. Intestinal Study
Slated to follow was an
analysis of a five-year hospital study on "Intestinal Obstruction in Infants "and Children," by Dr. Harwell Wilson, professor and chief of the division of surgery at the University of Tennessee medical school, Memphis.
Also scheduled this morning was a discussion of "The Nervous Woman—Her Impact on Industry; Her Devious Delinquency in the Home. Who Is She, and What May Be Done About Her?"
The subject was to be reviewed by Dr. Thomas T. Jones, Durham, N. C, associate professor of medicine at Duke university medical school. Welcomes Delegates
Delegates were to be welcomed at the outset by Dr. Maurice E. St. Martin, president of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly.
Other welcoming addresses were to come from Mayor Chep Morrison; Dr. O. B. Owens, president of the Louisiana State Medical Society; Dr. J. Theo Brierre, president
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of the Orleans Parish Medical Society; Dr. M. E. Laptiam, dean of the Tulane university medical medical school, and Dr.,_WimanL W._JjYye,
dean of Louisiana State university medical school^ Symposium Set
Among highlights of the pro-'gram, which runs through Thursday noon at the Roosevelt, will be a symposium on peptic ulcer at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday.
The symposium moderator will be Dr. William A. Sode-man, dean and professor of medicine a Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pa.
Scheduled for 8:30 p. in. today is a clinicopathologic conference, conducted by noted experts in the field of pathology, internal medicine and surgery. Conference Leaders
Conference leaders will be Dr. Sylvester E. Gould, Eloise, Mich., pathologist-in-chief and director of laboratories at Wayne County General hospital; Dr. Herman J. Moersch, Rochester, Minn., professor of medicine at the Mayo Foundation, and Dr. Keith Reemtsma, associate1 professor of surgery at Tulane medical school.
Preceding this conference will be a lecture on "Obesity: Its Cause and Treatment" by Dr. Walter Lyon Bloom, Atlanta, director of medical education and research at Piedmont hospital.
Lectures in six specialities were to occupy the program this afternoon. Topics and speakers were to be:
"Occlusive Disease of Cor-orary Arteries of Surgical Significance," Dr. Gould. Blood Spitting
"Hemoptysis" (spitting up blood), Dr. Moersch,
"Cholecystoses and Their Clinical Significance," a discussion of degenera tive changes in the gall bladder, Dr. Albert Jutras, Montreal, Quebec, professor and director of the department of radiology at the University of Montreal.
"Present Status in the Management of Ulcerative Colitis," Dr. Frank B. McGlone, Denver, associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Colorado.
"Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Disease," Dr. Robert R. Kierland, Rochester, Minn., professor of dermatology and syphilology at
the University of Minnesota Graduate school of medicine (Mayo Foundation).
"Dignity in Death—The Application and Withholding of Interventive Measures," Dr. Jones.
