Medicine: Congress

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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 that has received medical approval. Periodic physical examination of the healthy as well as the sick is a preventive measure strongly indorsed by the medical profession in the general program of health preservation." Practically every one of the more than 300 papers read at the convention was of high scientific value. Many revealed for the first time the conclusions of years of work by various members.

Many of these papers will be printed in technical publications over the coming year. TIME in subsequent weeks will print authentic abstracts.