Dr. Walter Becker of New Orleans was elected president of the Surgical Association of Louisiana at the group's annual meeting Sunday at the Sheraton-Charles hotel.
Other officers elected were Dr. Marvin Green, Ruston, first vice-president; Dr. Claude Craighead, New Orleans, second vice-president; Dr. Richard Buck, New Orleans, secretary, and Dr. Morgan Lyons, New Orleans, treasurer.
Dr. Carl A. Moyer, head of the department of surgery at the Washington university school of medicine, St. Louis, Mo., reported on research on the metabolism process.
While taking the sodium salts out of a normal man's body will reduce the rate at which oxygen is consumed, Dr. Moyer said, the same thing done to an alcoholic person will raise his oxygen consumption.
This fact enables physicians to better treat the alcoholic person after an operation, he said. Dr. Moyer emphasized that this is not connected with the treatment of alcoholism itself.
He also pointed out that one of the reasons why burned persons lose weight rapidly is due to the increased rate at which water vapor escapes from inside the body through the burned skin.
"Knowing this could well lead to material improvement in caring for burned people," Dr. Moy-! er concluded.
At the morning session Dr. Edwin H. Ellison, chairman of the division of surgery, Marquette university school of medicine, Milwaukee, Wis., spoke on "The Ulcerogenic Tumor of the Pancreas." The meeting also included panel discussions on hernias and tumors. PHOTO: Officers of State Surgical Association - SPEAKING TO THE NEW OFFICERS of the Surgical Association of Louisiana, elected Sunday at the annual meeting at the Sheraton-Charles hotel, is the president Dr. Walter Becker of New Orleans (at the rostrum). Other officers are (seated) Dr. Richard Buck
(left), New Orleans, secretary; and Dr. Claude Craighead, New Orleans, second vice-president. Standing are Dr. Daniel Fourrier, Baton Rouge, outgoing president, and Dr. Morgan Lyons, New Orleans, treasurer.
