Medical Society Meets

The fall meeting of the Grafton County Medical Society was held in Hanover in cooperation with the Dartmouth Medical School, October 9.

The morning program opened in Chandler Hall with the business meeting of the Grafton County Medical Society, followed by a talk by Dr. George C. Wilkins, of Manchester, president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. The meeting was then opened to visiting doctors and the scientific program was started at ten-thirty with a paper on "Syphilis in General Practice" by Dr. Earl D. Osborne, professor of Dermatology and Syphilology at the Buffalo Medical School. The remainder of the morning session was given over to a symposium on Edema, its pathological physiology, diagnosis, and treatment, the divisions being covered respectively by Dr. R. E. Miller, assistant professor of Pathology, Dartmouth Medical School; Dr. H. T. French, of the same faculty; and Dr. Channing Frothingham, associate professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard.

At noon a buffet luncheon was served at Steele Hall, where, the afternoon session was held. This was opened by a talking motion picture on the anatomy of the pelvis. Dr. H. B. Loder, of Harvard Medical School, then discussed "The Early Treatment of the Severely Injured." Dr. C. J. Campbell, associate professor of Pharmacology at the Dartmouth Medical School, and Dr. C. H. Beecher, professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont, discussed the "Pharmacology and the Clinical Use of Purgatives." The remainder of the session in the afternoon was given over to a discussion of Biliary Diseases, opened by Dr. John F. Gile, of the Dartmouth Medical School, and continued by Dr. E. Starr Judd, of Rochester, Minn., president of the American Medical Association. This program was followed by a dinner at the Dartmouth Outing Club, and many of the men attending the meeting remained for the Dartmouth-Holy Cross football game on the following day.

This meeting is in line with the work that has been done by the faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School and the staff of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital to provide in an informal manner clinical meetings both for the medical students and the surrounding practitioners. The large attendance at this meeting would affirm the interest in such a program.