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c Colendar of Medlcal Meetfos-May 1954 MONDAYS I TUESDAYS I WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS FRIDAYS SATURDAYS Page Page Page Page Page Page May 5 May 6 May 7 N.Y. Soc. of Physical NYAM-Stated NYAM-Surgery; N.Y. Medicine 363 Meeting 362 and B'klyn Com. *J.Y. Hospital- NYAM-Postgraduate on Trauma 362 Prac. Conf. 363 Radio Program 368 Montefiore Hospital 363 N.Y. Allergy Soc. 363 Medical Circle 363 May 10 May I I May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 Soc. of Medical Juris- N.Y. Neurological iVYAM-Historical & The Mt. Sinai Hosp.- N.Y. Society for Columbus Hospital 366 prudence 363 Society & NYAM 362 Cultural Medicine 362 Ophthalmol. Conf. 364 Thoracic Surgery 365 Beth David Hosp. 363 The M.. Sinai Hosp.- N.Y. Hospital- U.S. Veterans Hosp. 365 American-Hungarian The Mt. Sinai Hosp.- Gzslroca:-erology 364 Prac. Conf. 363 N.Y. Cardiological Medical Assn. 366 Neurological 364 ~ The Mt. Sinai Hosp.- Society, Inc. 365 Diabetes & Nutrition 364 NYAM-Postgraduate High Point Hospital 364 Radio Program 368 Columbus Hospital 364 The N.Y. Hospital- N.Y. Surgical Society 365 Plastic Surgery 365 N.Y. Soc. for, Speech & Voice Therapy, Inc. 365 Adelphi Hospital 365 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 NYAM-Ophthalmol. East Side Clinical N.Y. Hospital- The Hospital for The Assoc. for the & Obstetrics 362 Society 366 Prac. Conf. 363 Spec. Surgery 367 Advancement of N.Y. Roentgen Society 362 Harlem Hospital 366 Gouverneur Hospital 367 Psychotherapy 367 Madison Ave. Hosp. 366 Medical Arts Center 366 The Harvey Society 368 NYAM-Orthopedic 368 The Clinical & Alumni NYAM-Genito- NYAM-Postgraduate Soc. of Morrisania Urinary Surgery 367 Radio Program 368 City Hospital 366 NYAM- Ofolaryngology 368 May 24 May 27 N.Y. County Society i•JYAM-Postgraduate Stated Meeting Radio Program 368 I

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Programs NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE All meetings are open to the medical profession and to medical students. 2 East 103 Street, New York 29, New York THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE STATED MEETING Thursday evening, May 6, at 8:30 o'clock The Ninth James Ewing Memorial Lecture Attacking cancer in a community. WALTER B. QUISENBERRY Director of Preventive Medicine, Territorial Health Department, Honolulu, Hawaii Combined Meeting SECTION ON SURGERY with the NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN COMMITTEE ON TRAUMA Friday evening, May 7, at 8:30 o'clock PAPER OF THE EVENING Overall care of hand injuries. ERIK MOBERG Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden Discusszon: J. WILLIAM LITTLER PRESTON A. WADE Combined Meeting SECTION ON NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY with the NEW YORK NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY RESIDENTS' PROGRAM Tuesday evening, May 11, at 8:30 o'clock PAPERS OF THE EVENING Bellevue Hospital Acute cerebral venous occlusion manifested by spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage STEFAN SZANCER - New York Hospital-Payne-Whitney Clinic Psychopathological indications and contra- indications for the use of subcoma insulin treatment DONALD C. GREAVES Bellevue Hospital Schizophrenic children under the age of six MANUEL FURER New York Hospital-Westchester Division A survey of general surgical procedures in a group of emotionally disturbed women patients WILLIAM A. TRIEBEL The Mount Sinai Hospital The creative drive-a case history RICHARD S. BLACHER General Discussion: S. BERNARD WORTIS OSKAR DIETHELM M. RALPH KAUFMAN BERNARD C. MEYER SECTION ON HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL MEDICINE Wednesday evening, May 12, at 8:30 o'clock PAPER OF THE EVENING "Our heritage from William Osler-1954" STANLEY E. DORST Dean, University o f Cincinnati College of Medicine; Chairman, Directing Staff, Cincinnati General Hospital Discussion : MR. HERBERT WOHL College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University MR. RALPH C. WILLIAMS, JR. Cornell University Medical College MR. HENRY N. CLAMAN William Welch Society, New York Univ. College of Medicine MR. HAROLD STEINBERG New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals MR. AARON'R. RAUSEN Medical History Club, State University of New York, College of Medicine at New York City General Discussion Combined Meeting SECTION ON OPHTHALMOLOGY with the SECTION ON OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Monday evening, May 17, at 8:15 o'clock SYMPOSIUM: Ocular manifestations in normal and abnormal. pregnancy': Ocular diseases occurring during pregnancy. ELLEN F. REGAN Retinal findings in pregnancy. STUART S. SNYDER The value of retinal and conjunctival vascular findings in normal and toxemic pregnancies. ROBERT LANDESMAN General Discussion NEW YORK ROENTGEN SOCIETY in af}iliation with THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE RESIDENTS' PROGRAM Monday evening, May 17, at 8:30 o'clock PAPERS OF THE EVENING a. Special studies on the lateral soft tissue: Roentgenogram of the neck. DORIS BATE, OSCAR RUIZ Francis Delafield Hospital (Continued on page 367) 362 NEW YORK MEDICINE

Programs LOCAL SOCIETIES AND HOSPITALS : i MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK There will be no meeting of the MATERNAL MORTALITY ANALYSIS GROUP of the SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MATERNAL WELFARE in May. RALPH L. BARRETT, Chairman NEW YORK SOCIETY OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE STATED MEETING Wednesday evening, May 5, 1954, 8:30 p.m. New York Academy of Medicine Building, 2 East 103rd Street, New York, N. Y. Members of the medical profession are cordially invited. SCIENTIFIC SESSION The problems of the service for handicapped children, the Board of Health, New York City. Panel Introduction (12 minutes each) HELEN WALLACE JEROME TOBIS ROBERT SIFFERT MISS MARGARET LOSTY, R.:V'. MISS HELEN GOSSETT, Social Service Panel Discussion (30 minutes) EXECUTIVE SESSION MORTON HOBERMAN, President 175 East 79th Street, N. Y. 21, N. Y. MADGE C. L. McGUINNESS, Secretary 48 East 62nd Street, N. Y. 21, N. Y. NEW Y ORK HOSPITAL PRACTITIONERS' CONFERENCE 525 East 68th Street, New York City Wednesday, May 5, 1954 Osteoporosis. Wednesday, May 12, 1954 Thrombophlebitis and embolism. Wednesday, May 19, 1954 Vitamin B12 and folic acid: assets and liabilities. CLAUDE E. FORKNER, Chairman NEW YORK ALLERGY SOCIETY Wednesday evening, May 5, 1954, 8:30 p.m. Room 440, N. Y. Academy of Medicine 1. Asthmatic attacks in children caused by bacterial strains in carriers. (6 min.) FRANKLIN A. STEVENS _ 2. The use of injectable anti-histaminics in herpetiform lesions. (10 min. ) MAURY D. SANGER 3. Mucolytic detergent therapy in bronchial asthma and other respiratory diseases. (45 min.) JOSEPH B. MILLER (by invitation) FREDERICK R. BROWN, President LEONI N. CLAMAN, Secretary MONTEFIORE HOSPITAL, DIVISION OF NEOPLASTIC DISEASES Friday afternoon, May 7, 1954, at 3:00 p.m. Social Hall, Main Bldg, Montefiore Hospital, MAY 5, 1954 100 East Gun Hill Road, New York 67, N. Y. The internal distribution of body sodium, potassium and water; its implications on the interpretation of metabolic balance and tracer dilution data. I. S. EDELMAN Established Investigator o f the American Heart Association; Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Francisco, California MEDICAL CIRCLE Friday evening, May 7, 1954, at 8:30 o'clock The Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street A contribution to the sterility pro'alcm. E. FARBER Common errors in rectal diagn,)s:s. F. VOGEL PAPER OF THE EVENING Present concepts of allergy. E. HELLREICH M. GROLNIK F. VOGEL, Secietary THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE Monday, May 10, 1954 70th ANNIVERSARY DINNER Honoring DR. LEON THEODORE LEWALD'S 35 years of service Hotel Statler-Penn Top Room 6:00 p.m., Reception; 6:30, Cocktails, 7:00, Dinner Speakers: HON. EDMUND H. LEWIS Chief Judge of The Court of Ap,heals of The State of New York Ho:.. ANDREW A. EGGSTON, M.D., D-PA, FCAP President of The Medical Society of The State of New York Send in your reservations to Joseph Carl Thomson, Secretary, 217 Broadway, New York 7, at $7.50 per person. HOWARD C. HUTTER, President JOSEPH C. THOMSON, ESQ., Secrerary BETH DAVID HOSPITAL CLINICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCJ Monday, May 10, 1954 at 9:00 p.m. Beth David Hospital, 161 East 90th Street, New York City 1. Synovial Sarcoma JULES D. GORDON Discussion : JOSEPH BUCHMAN THEODORE M. SANDERS 2. Case of Hyperparathyroidism ELLIOTT HOCHSTEIN Collation Members of the medical profession cordially invited. ARNOLD KOFFLER, Chairman 363

THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL GASTROENTEROLOGY Tuesday evening, May 11, 1954, 8:30 p.m. Lecture Room 3-B. Entrance: North Side of 100th St., between Fifth and Madison Aves. SYMPOSIUM Reports from the gastroenterology research laboratory. FRANKLIN HOLLANDER, PH.D., Chairman An investigation into the Etiology of cardiospasm. JOSEPH BANDES in collaboration with VICTOR WILLNER The influence of steroid hormones on the healing of experimental gastric ulcers. VERNON WEINSTEIN in collaboration with HENRY D. JANOWITZ A new approach to ulcer therapy through inhibition of intracellular enzymes. HENRY D. JANOWITZ Effect of a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor on pancreatic secretion in man. DAVID DREILING in collaboration with HENRY D. JANOWITZ Effect of subtotal gastrectomy upon external pancreatic secretion in dogs. ALEXANDER RICHMAN in collaboration with LOUIS J. LESTER ASHER WINKELSTEIN, Presiding HARRY YARNIS, Secretary 1075 Park Ave., N. Y. 28, Pd. Y. LAST CONFERENCE OF THE SEASONI THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MONTHLY NEUROLOGICAL CONF. Monday evening, May 10, 1954, at 8:00 p.m. Lecture Room 3-B. Entrance: North Side of 100th Street, between Fifth and Madison Aves. 1. Neuropathology: a case of embolic occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. I. FEIGIN I. SILBERMAN 2. Two case presentations: Wilson's disease. I. SILBERMAN M. BORti STEIN 3. Metabolic studies in Wilson's disease. A. G. BEARN 4. Personality factors in patients with intractable pain: effect of electro-convulsive therapy. E. A. WEINSTEIN P. S. BERGMAN R. L. KAHN MORRIS B. BENDER, Chairman SEMINARS ON DIABETES AND NUTRITION Wednesday, May 12, 1954, 8:30 p.m. Lecture Room 3-B. Entrance: North side of 100th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues. 1. Case Presentation STEROID DIABETES TREATED WITH LENTE INSULIN ROBERT H. ,TOELSON The Mount Sinai Hospital 2. COMPARISON OF LENTE INSULIN, A NEW MODIFICATION, WITH OTHER INSULINS IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS W. R. KIRTLEY Physician-in-Charge, Diabetes Research Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research, Indianapolis, Indiana . HENRY DOLGER, Chairman JOHN BOOKMAN, Secretary Next Seminar: Wednesday evening, Novem- ber 10, 1954. OPHTHALMOLOGICAL CONF. Thursday evening, May 13, 1954, 8:30 p.m. Lecture Room 3-B. Entrance: North Side of 100th St., bet. Fifth and Madison Avenues 1. Behcet's disease. DAVID SILVER 2. The use of gelfilm in filtration surgery for glaucoma. JOSEPH LAVAL ROBERT S. COLES 3. Review of service cases. HENRY MINSKY, Chairman SYLVAN BLOOMFIELD, Secretary 1010 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 28 LAST CONFERENCE OF THE SEASON HIGH POINT HOSPITAL MONTHLY CONFERENCE Wednesday, May 12, 1954, at 8:30 p.m. New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York Speaker: STEPHEN W. KEMPSTER Attending Psychiatrist, High Point Hos- pital, Port Chester, New York. Topic: Special Techniques in the Treatment of Schizophrenia Chairman: MERVYN SCHACHT Attending Psychiatrist High Point Hos- pital, Port Chester, New York Director: ALEXANDER GRALNICK High Point Hospital, Port Chester, New York (The profession is cordially invited) COLUMBUS HOSPITAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE Wednesday, May 12, 1954, at 8:30 p.m. Amoroso Conference Hall 227 East 19th Street, New York 3, New York Carcinoma of the Breast FRANK E. ADAIR Memorial Hospital, New York City Discussion by Staff Collation 364 NEW YORK IMEDICINE

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I THE NEW YORK SURGICAL SOCIETY Wednesday evening, May 12, 1954, 8:30 p.m. The New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street, New York City CASE PRESENTATIONS 1. Dessimated fat necrosis one year following surgical resection of head of pancreas for acinous carcinoma. NELSON W. CORNELL 2. Cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis and inci- dental carcinoma of the gallbladder: Five year arrest. GEORGE M. SAYPOL 3. Aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery successfully treated by restorative ancurysmorrhaphy. JOHN P. WEST 4.Intcrscapulothoracic amputation for diffuse angiomatous malformation. ELLIOTT S. HURWITT and AUSTIN JOHNSON (by invitation) 5. Avulsion of the scalp. A comparison between modern and old therapy. WILLIAM P. WHALEN 6. Radical resection and reconstruction of the chest wall for chondrosarcoma. WILLIAM I. WOLFF 7. Cholecystitis and kidney cyst stones simulating double gallbladder. D. REESE JENSEN and RUSSEL H. PATTERSON E. JEFFERSON BROWDER, President 200 Hicks Street, Bklyn. 2, N. Y. JERE W. LORD, JR., Secretary 55 East 92 Street, N. Y. 28, N. Y. NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR SPEECH AND VOICE THERAPY, INC. Wednesday, May 12, at 8:45 p.m. Hunter College, Park Ave. and 68th St., Room 1403, N. Y. C. Case Demonstration: Voice Break of Peculiar Origin HELEN BEEBE ~ Discussion Lecture: The Role of Grammar in Normal and Aphasic Speech EMIL FROESCHELS Discussion Guests welcome EMIL FROESCHELS, President HELEN BEEBE, Secretary ADELPHI HOSPITAL STAFF SOCIETY MEETING Wednesday, May 12, 1954, 9:00 p.m. 50 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn 38, N. Y. ANTIBIOTICS AND CHEMOTHERAPY THE INTELLIGENT USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN MEDICAL CONDITIONS CARL A. BERNTSEN, JR. Research Fellow in Medicine Cornell University Medical College MAY 5, 1954 -IN SURGICAL CONDITIONS LT. COLONEL EDWIN J. PULASKI Director, Division of Surgery Army Medical Service Graduate School Walter Reed Army Medical Center Collation DAVID R. TELSON, President F. PAUL ANSBRO, Secretary THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL PLASTIC SURGERY CONFERENCE Thursday, May 13, 1954, 3:30 p.m. U. S. Veterans Hospital, 130 W. Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, N. Y., 5E Conference Room Surgery of the Hand ERIK MOBERG Guest lecturer of Goteborg, Sweden HERBERT CONWAY Consultant Plastic Surgeon THE NEW YORK CARDIOLOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. Ninety-Fifth Regular Meeting Annual Meeting for 1954, Thursday, May 13 Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street, Room 441, 8:30 p.m. Practical Problems in Rheumatic Fever in the Young LEO M. TARAN Director of the St. Francis Sanatorium for Cardiac Children. Cardio-vascular Features of the Arthritides and Related Conditions OTTO STEINBROCKER Attending Physician in Rheumatology- Hospital for Joint Diseases and Lenox Hill Hospital Members of the Medical Profession Invited. LOUIS FAUGERES BISHOP, President JOSEPH HENRY HODAS, Secretary NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THORACIC SURGERY Friday, May 14th, at the Academy of Medicine, Room 440, at 8: 30 p.m. 1. Unusual Foreign Bodies of the Esophagus: Removal by Endoscopy and by Cervical Esophagotomy Case report by GEORGE N. J. SOMMER, JR. 2. Two Cases of Uncommon Malignant Esopha- geal Neoplasm Case report by WILLIAM G. CAHAN 3. Non-specific Granulomatous Esophagitis Case report by FRANK A. GAGAN 4.Intramural Reduplication of Esophagus Case report by HERBERT C. MAIER 365

AMERICAN-HUNGARIAN MEDICAL ASSN. STATED MEETING Friday evening, May 14, 1954, 8:30 p.m. Room 441, Academy of Medicine Building SCIENTIFIC MEETING Case Presentations: Subtotal gastric resection for peptic ulcer in an asthmatic patient. MARCEL , HAAS Cardiac arrest. Resuscitation by thoracotomy and rhythmic compression. ALEXANDER STRELINGER A desperate case of pulmonary tuberculosis. CHARLES BLAZSIK a. Disseminated lupus erythematodes. b. Suba.rachnoid hemorrhage with polycystic kidney and pregnancy. JEROME GERENDASY Extracapsular cataract extraction with Ridley's implant. WILLIAM T. BROWN Two cases, simulating psychoneurosis. EMORY I. WELLS Skin-grafts of the extremities. STEPHEN WAHL General Discussion Collation JOSEPH J. FRIED, President STEPHAN S. ROSENAK, COYr, Secy. COLUMBUS HOSPITAL CLINICAL PATHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE Saturday, May 15, 1954, at 9:00 a.m. Amoroso Conference Hall 227 East 19th Street, New York 3, New York Case Presentation: EMMET A. DOOLEY STAFF BERNARD MARRAFFINO, Chairman THE CLINICAL AND ALUMNI SOCIETY OF MORRISANIA CITY HOSPITAL ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC LECTURE Monday evening, May 17, 1954, 9:00 p.m. Morrisania City Hospital Auditorium, 168th Street and Gerard Avenue, N. Y. 52 Newer concepts of hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver. ISIDORE SNAPPER Director of Medicine and Medical Education, Beth El Hospital CARL R. ACKERMAN, President, Alumni Soc. MADISON AVENUE HOSPITAL CLINICAL SOCIETY MEETING Monday, May 17, 1954, at 9 p.m., sharp. Madison Avenue Hospital, 30 East 76th Street, New York City-TRafalgar 9-1100 Two Tonsillectomies with unusual post-opera- tive Complications A. LASZLO Reconstruction of Paralytic Feet S. WAI3L Malignant Adenoma of the Thyroid I. BUSCH Post-operative Vesico-vaginal Fistula J. Ricci Climacteric Bleeding G. WEITZNER A Premature Infant H. E. COHEN Interesting x-rays I. WEITZNER General Discussion CoIlation GEZA WEITZNER, Secretary Members of the Medical Profession are cordially invited EAST SIDE CLINICAL SOCIETY Tuesday evening, May 18, 1954, 8:30 p.m. Manhattan General Hospital, 307 Second Avenue, New York City PAPERS OF THE EVENING 1. Surgical, diseases of the small intestine. JUSTUS KAUFMAN 2. Newer drugs in treatment of hypertension. MILTON MENDLOWITZ 3. Medical cases for diagnosis. ARTHUR C. LINDEN Collation will follow the meeting. MAXWELL L. GELFAND, President 60 Gramercy Park, N. Y. 10, N. Y. ARTHUR FEITELL, Secretary 40 Gramercy Park, N. Y. 10, N. Y. HARLEM HOSPITAL TUMOR CLINIC CONFERENCE Wednesday morning, May 19, 1954, 10:45 a.m. Women's Pavilion, Main Floor, 137th St. Ent. The role of surgery in cancer,. HENRY T. RANDALL Clinical Director and Chie f, Department of Surgery, Memorial Hospital Center D iscussion : Louzs M. RoussELOT Director o f Surgery, St, Vincent's Hospital Chairman: ISIDORE ARONS Director, Radiation Therapy and Tumor Clinic, Harlem Hospital LAST LECTURE OF THE SEASON. Lectures will resume again in October, 1954. MEDICAL ARTS CENTER HOSPITAL CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE Wednesday, May 19, 1954, at 8:30 p.m. Lecture Hall, Medical Arts Center Hospital Second Floor, 57 West 57th Street Report of Medical Board NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN DRUG THERAPY 366 NEW YORK MEDICINE

4 Round Table Discussion Panel: LLOYD'F. CRAVER Prof. Clinical Medicine, Cornell University Medical College. Attending Physician, Memorial Hospital RICHARD H. LYONS Prof. Medicine, Syracuse State University, School of Medicine. HAROLD J. STEWART Assoc. Prof. Medicine, Cornell University Medical College Attending Physician, New York Hospital CHARLES F. WILKINSON, JR. Professor of Medicine, Post-Graduate Medical School, New York University Moderator: CHARLES H. WHEELER Assoc. Prof. Clinical Medicine, Cornell University Medical College Assoc. Attending Physician, New York Hospital Ass't Attend. Physician, Memorial f~ Ewing Hospitals Collation HENRY M. SELBY, Secretary THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHOTHERAPY Friday, May 21, at 8:30 p.m. N. Y. Academy of Medicine Building 2 East 103rd Street, N. Y. C. 1.New Light on an Old Cause of Reading Disability WILLIAM CALVIN BARGER 2. Discussion ROSE RIEGER, Secretary THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY CLINICAL CONFERENCE Thursday afternoon, May 20, 1954 The Hospital for Special Surgery, 321 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. STAFF CONFERENCE-3:15 p.m. Analysis of results. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM-3:30 p.m. Social and emotional problems in orthopedic practice. WILLIAM COOPER HELE:Q- WORTIS Open to the profession. ALEXANDER HERSH, Secretary JEROME LAWRENCE, Chairman GOUVERNEUR HOSPITAL GENERAL STAFF CONFERENCE Thursday evening, May 20th, 1954, 8:30 p.m. 1. a. Unusual tumor of kidney. b. Classification of renal tumors. Presentation: NATHAN, BLOCK Discussion: ALVIN C. DRUMMOND 2. Selection of cases of hyperthyroidism for radioiodine therapy. Presentation: SIDNEY ROSENFELD MAY 5, 1954 3e a. Case of aspirin poisoning in an 11-month old infant. Presentatton: WILLIAM D. IRVING Discussion: JOHN D. CRAIG b. Case of measles encephalitis. Presentation: ANDREW F. TURANO Discussion: JOHN D. CRAIG 4. Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia associated with digitalis toxicity. Presentation: ARTHUR LIND Discussion: EMANUEL HELLMAN New York Academy of Medicine (Continued from page 362) b. A case of re-duplication of jejunum. STANLEY DECKOFF Beth Israel Hospital c. Gastric volvulus. VIRGINIA KANICH St. Luke's Hospital d. Pituitary irradiation for metastatic bone: Disease from carcinoma of the breast. SEYMOUR BRENNER Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn e. Unusual cause for intracardiac calcification. A\T.\ SILVF.RMAN Presbyterian Hospital f. Studies of the biliary tract by intravenous methods. LEWIS IMMERMAI Long Island College Hospital g. The arteriographic study of the anterior choroidal artery ALDO MORELLO, IRVING S. COOPER New York University SECTION ON GENITO•URINARY SURGERY RESIDENTS' MEETING FOR THE PRIZE-WINNING PAPER Wednesday evening, May 19, at 8:30 o'clock. DINNER - MEETING a. An office method of urine culture. ROBERT B. ZUFALL 2nd Division Urology- Bellevue Hospital Discussion: JOHN W. DRAPER b. Erythroplasia of queyrat with carcinoma in situ. HERMAN WECHSLER, LOUIS L. SPIVACK Bronx Veteran Administration Hospital Discussion: ARCHIE L. DEAN, SR. c. The bacteriologic diagnosis of urinary tuberculosis. ARCHIE L. DEAN, JR. Squier Urological Clinic- Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center Discussion: GEORGE F. CAHILL JoHN K. LATTIMER d. Multiple primary malignancies of the genito-urinary tract. AURELIO C. Uso:. Squier Urological Clinic- Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center Discussion: JOHN N. ROBINSON 367