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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 45.

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Medical Missionary Convention

By W. A. George, M. D.; J. E. Froom, M. D.

The indications for a profitable meeting in College View, Neb., are very good. The responses from the various institutions and workers throughout the field manifest a most cheering interest in advancing this branch of the Lord’s work.
The topics assigned by the program committee are heartily commended, and are as follows:—

Topics

Conservative attitude in surgery.
Efficiency and simplicity in the technique of surgical nursing.
Utilizing natural and outdoor means of exercise and physical development, instead of artificial and indoor means.
Practical laboratory work in small sanitariums.
Rational treatment of nervous and mental diseases.
How shall we reach the masses with our health principles?
Text-books for nurses’ training-schools.
Tuberculosis — cause, prevention, and cure.
Effectual co-operation of adjacent sanitariums and schools in the education of nurses.
Modern diagnostic methods.
Duty to existing health enterprises versus entering unoccupied fields.
Medical missionaries and professional ethics.
Private health institutions and conference health enterprises — our attitudetoward them — their relation to each other.
Cafe work.
Dress.
Educating physicians in worldly schools.
How to secure missionary activity on the part of nurses graduating from our training-schools.
In a few instances those writing on the above topics have restricted the scope of them so as to limit their papers to a more specific field.
During the closing days of the convention, subjects of special interest to nurses and nurses’ training-schools will be grouped together for the accommodation of nurses who can attend during only part of the session.
The sanitarium and the church at College View are planning for the comfort and entertainment of all visiting health workers. It is the earnest desire of all concerned that the spirit of the Great Medical Missionary may pervade our councils, that the influence of this gathering may increase the spirit of Christian service, professional efficiency, and strengthen that relation to the other departments of the third angel’s message which the Lord has marked out.
The convention opens at 10 A. M., Nov. 21, 1905, and is expected to close the following Sunday.
Upon arrival in College View let all visitors not previously arranged for, report at the sanitarium.
W. A. George, M. D., Chairman Gen. Conf. Med. Council; J. E. Froom, M. D., Secretary.