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130 Radium
hearers profoundly impressed with his masterly summary of the present
status of radium in cancer therapy and fairly convinced that radium
treatment in this condition does constitute an epoch.
On Tuesday following a business session, papers were presented
as follows:
G. Failla, Sc. D., Memorial Hospital, New York City. A Brief Analysis
of Some Important Factors in the Biological Action of Radiation.
William L. Clark, M. D., J. Douglas Morgan, M. D., and Eugene J.
Asnis, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Objections to the Use of Radium
Emanation in Bare Tubes, With Clinical and Histological Observations.
(Presented by Dr. Morgan.) This paper was discussed
very fully by Drs. Regaud, Ewing and Quick. While admitting most
of the disadvantages cited against the use of bare radium emanation
tubes by the essayists, and while inclined to agree in part with some
of the theoretical considerations adduced against the bare tubes by Dr.
Regaud, Dr. Ewing closed his discussion by saying that after all it was
the best clinical results which would have to be a most important factor
in determining the usefulness of the several methods, and he invited
Dr. Clark and his associates, and Dr. Regaud to give their statistics in
order that the results might be compared with those from the Memorial
Hospital where the bare tube method has found its greatest development.
Dr. Hugh H. Young. Baltimore, Md., read a paper on "Survey of Results
Obtained with Radium in Carcinoma of the Prostate and
Bladder."
Burton James Lee, M. D., New York City. Technique and Results in
the Treatment of Mammary Cancer by Radiation.
Tuesday afternoon a clinical meeting was held in the Clinical Amphitheater
of Mercy Hospital; the following demonstrations were given:
Professor C Regaud, Paris, France. Clinical Results of Radiation
Treatment.
Emil G. Beck, M. D., Chicago, 111. Carcinoma of the Jaw and Cheek.
Charles W. Hanford. M. D., Chicago, III. Third Report of Cancer of
the Esophagus 'Treated with Radium.
H. L. Kretschmer. M. D.. Chicago, III. Treatment of Carcinoma of
Prostate with Radium.
Frank E. Simpson, M. D., Chicago, III. Treatment of Cancer of the
Tongue by the Implantation of Bare Glass Ampoules Containing
Radium Emanation.
Harry E. Bundy. M. D„ Chicago. III. Value of Radium and X-Ray in
the Treatment of Benign L'terine Hemorrhage.
For the succeeding year the president will be Dr. W. S. Newcomet,
of Philadelphia, and the following officers were elected at Chicago:
Douglas Quick, M. D., Xew York. President-Elect
Albert Soiland, M. D., Los Angeles. Cab, ist Vice-President.
E. C. Samuels. New Orleans, Second Vice-President.
Edwin C. Ernst, M. D„ St. Louis, Secretary.
Robert E. Loucks, M. D.. Detroit. Treasurer.
James T. Case, M. D.. Member of the Executive Committee.