Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — MEETING OF MEDICAL MEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEETING OF MEDICAL MEN.

North and Sooth American Doctors In Convention at Washington. The Pan American Medical Congress, held in Washington, brought together the greatest gathering of medical men

this country has ever known. The congress wa3 formally opened by President Cleveland and continued during the next three days. Tho President of . the congress was Dr. William Pepper, Provost and Professor of Medicine at the Penn-

sylvania University, while the founder of the congress and its Secretary General was Dr. Charles A. Reed, Dean and Professor at the Cincinnati College of Medicine. The delegates assembled upon the invitation, first moved by Dr. Reed of the American Medical Association, seconded by an invitation from the President of the United States authorized by joint resolution of congress. All of tho countries except Chili and the Argentine Republic were represented. The congress was divided into twenty-two sections, each dealing with a particular department of medical science. Two sections of extreme interest were those on hygiene and on quarantine. Dr. Conegys, of Cincinnati, brought forward the proposition that, in view of tho paramount importance of public health, there ought to be a Secretary of Public Health in the Cabinet of the Presidents of the different republics. This idea was enthusiastically supported by many of the delegates and was indorsed by vote. Quite a sensation was produced by Dr. Wolfred, of New York, who charged the United States of Colombia with propagating the great epidemics of the western hemisphere. His argument was based on the fact that those who die of yellow fever and other epidemics are permitted by the authorities at the Isthmus of Panama to decompose under circumstances that permit of the propagation and perpetu-

ation of the specific poison of the disease. Dr. Juan J. Ulloa, a delegate from the Government of Costa Rica, presented a plan for a uniform international quarantine for all of the American countries. The absence of uniform quarantine regulations at present so far interferes with commerce that a large amount of money is lost through cessation of trade during half of each year between certain of tho American countries. The plan of Dr. Ulloa was reosived with much favor, and with some amendments was recommended to the various governments for adoption. There were interesting displays of cholera germs, but they were all caged on microscopical slides, and there were also exhibited yellow fever, dengne, and other germs that excited great interest. There were in all about five hundred essays read before the congress, which was attended by about three thousand delegates. On final adjournment the South American visitors were taken on a free excursion to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Niagra Falls, Detroit, St. Louis, and the World’s Fair at Chicago.

SECRETARY REED.

PRESIDENT PEPPER.