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Large attendance (1,500) at the Pan-American Medical Congress in Dallas last week demonstrated clearly that Latin America no longer looks to Europe for medical education and that Anglo-Saxon America appreciates the fact. Practically every important U. S. and Canadian medical school had an attractive representative in Dallas. Great clinicians attended in person. Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo motored from Minnesota with Mrs. Mayo to the Congress. Surgeon George Washington Crile took a train from Cleveland...
...Doctors at Dallas chose Dec. 3 as the "memorial day for Pan-American medicine." Dec. 3 is the birthday of the late Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban, who indicted the mosquito which Dr. Walter Reed later proved transmitted yellow fever...
Havana's Dr. Aristides Agramonte was long a survivor of Dr. Reed's bold associates. He died in 1931 shortly after being elected to preside over the Pan-American Congress at Dallas last week. The Congress kept a chair vacant for his memory...
...John Oliver McReynolds, a Dallas eye man, had Dr. Agramonte's place as Congress president. During the week he became president of the Pan-American Medical Association, succeeding Havana's bland, simpatico Dr. Francisco Maria Fernandez. Ophthalmologist McReynolds' presidency made Dallas doubly proud. His rival for the glory of being Dallas' most prominent eye doctor is Dr. Edward Henry Gary, currently in the public eye as president of the American Medical Association...
...novelty the next Pan-American Medical Congress will be a wandering event. A ship will pick up the doctors at Manhattan, put them ashore for quick clinics at Miami, Havana, Panama City, San Juan, P. R., Caracas (main stop...