A. M. A. Congress

In Chicago, the American Medical Association opened its annual session. There were diagnostic clinics and exhibits on the Municipal Pier, and the House of Delegates (representative: body) met in the assembly room at the headquarters of the Association on North Dearborn Street.

ΒΆ An unusual feature was a demonstration, by the Western Electric Co., of a method enabling 750 physicians at one time to. listen to the heart beats and lung sounds of a patient. Radio tubes and amplifiers were used and the physicians in the audience,...

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