Medicine: Congress

At Dallas, Tex., last week, some 6,000 members of the American Medical Association met in annual convention, ate 4,000 pounds of barbecue young beef, attended eight scientific sections, elected Dr. Wendell Christopher Phillips, great aural surgeon of Manhattan, president.

President Phillips based his address on preventive medicine and public health education. He said in part: "The House of Delegates [the Association's executive body] is on record as favoring every measure of public health education, and the better class of publications have given their cooperation by publishing only material of this character...

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