Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1916 — Doctors Urged to Prepare To Aid Country In War. [ARTICLE]

Doctors Urged to Prepare To Aid Country In War.

Detroit, Mich., June 14. —Sectional meetings yesterday occupied the attention of those attending the American Medical association’s annual convention here, after a general session in the forenoon, at which Dr. Rupert Blue, surgeon general of the federal public health service, was installed as president of the association. Dr. Blue delivered the principal address at the morning session, which marked the formal opening of the convention. He urged thorough preparation by the medical profession in time of peace for possible service in war. Fourteen departments began their meetings in the afternoon, several of them continuing their sessions last night. Dr. Joseph A. Capps, of Chicago, told the section on practice of medicine that it was probable the epidemic of grip which swept over the country last winter was transmitted from horses to men, as the disease was prevalent among horses at the same time.