Word: symposium
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More than three hundred doctors, health officers, and laboratory scientists from all parts of the country will attend a special symposium on "The Public Health Significance of the Virus and Rickettsial Diseases," to be offered by the School of Public Health next week, Monday, June 12 to Saturday, June...
...purpose of the symposium is to survey the knowledge and investigations to date of one of the newest and most important fields of medical investigation,--the study and control of diseases involving virus agents so minute as to be beyond the range of the most powerful microscopes, and to pass easily through the finest filters...
Rickettsial diseases are those associated with the presence of minute, parasitical microorganisms, believed to be transmitted largely by lice and ticks. They will be taken up at the symposium because they are sometimes associated with virus diseases, and until a few years ago there was some confusion between rickettsial conditions and those caused by virus agents...
...symposium next week, faculty members and former students of the School of Public Health and the Medical School will offer a series of lectures, demonstrations, clinics, and discussions on the etiology, epidemiology, and methods of control of some of the most important virus and rickettsial diseases. The attempt will be to bring together, through surveys of research and literature, the reliable results of investigation in this relatively new field up to the present time...
Indications that the great stellar systems in space may possess outlying sparsely populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...