District Meeting Scheduled for Detroit, April 20th, Pharmacists of Four States Urged to Attend Import Ant sessions

DISTRICT MEETING SCHEDULED FOR DETROIT, APRIL 20-TH PHARMACISTS OF FOUR STATES URGED TO ATTEND IMPORT ANT SESSIONS 3. "Surgery as Related to the Circulatory SysFollowing the procedure adopted several years tem," by Dr. Prescott Jordan, Research ago, the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL AssociATION Fellow in Charge of Surgical Division Rewill again endeavor to bring its activities to the search, Wayne University Medical School , attention of pharmacists in various parts of the and member of surgical staff, Detroit ReUnited States, especially sections of the country ceiving Hospital. where there has been no annual convention of the AssociATION in recent years, and where no annual Promptly at 6: 15 p.m., there will be a dinner convention is in prospect. The first of these district meetings for 1951 will be held in Detroit, Michigan, under the auspices of the Michigan Academy of on Friday, April 20. The second meeting is planned Pharmacy, followed by brief addresses by Mr. for Los Angeles on Thursday and Friday, May 10 Henry H . Gregg, president of the A. PH. A., and 'and 11. ' Mr. Don E. Francke, president-elect of the A. PH. A., In arranging for the Detroit district meeting, the who takes office at the annual convention during the cooperation of the Michigan Academy of Pharmacy last week of August. The dinner will be held at the and the Michigan Branch of the AMERICAN PHAR- Rackham Memorial Building. MACEUTICAL AssociATION has been enlisted and an The concluding program for the day will be the unusually excellent program has been arranged. Stevens Memorial Lecture, under the auspices of the The district meeting of the A. PH. A. will convene Michigan Academy of Pharmacy, which will be given at the Statler Hotel in Detroit on Friday morning, at 8: 15 p .m. at the Engineering Society of Detroit April 20, promptly at 10:00 a.m. President Henry in the Rackham Memorial Building, Woodward Gregg, of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL Asso- Avenue at Farnsworth. This meeting will be preCIATION, will preside and give the opening address. sided over by Dr. Esten P. Stout, president of the This will be followed by an address by Dr. Robert Michigan Academy of Pharmacy. There will be P. Fischelis, secretary and general manager of the brief remarks by Dr. Robert P. Fischelis, secretary AssociATION, "Pharmacy in the Nation's Service." of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL AssociATION, Immediately after the completion of these addresses, and Dean Charles H. Stocking of the University of there will be a discussion period, and all pharmacists Michigan Coll~ge of Pharmacy. The principal in attendance at this meeting are invited to present addresses of the evening will be by Dr. Tom D. Spies, their questions in writing or from the floor. The head of the Department of Nutrition and Metaboofficers of the AssociATION will endeavor to answer lism, Northwestern University Medical School; head the questions, and at 12:00 o'clock the meeting will of Nutrition Clinic, Hillman Hospital, Birmingham, recess for luncheon, which will be served in the Alabama, and his subject is "Recent Advances in Statler Hotel. The luncheon speaker for this occa- Nutrition and Metabolism." . sion ~ill be Dr. Hugh C. Muldoon, dean of the Dr. Spies has been doing concentrated study in School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pitts- the field of nutrition and metabolism for the past burgh, Pennsylvani~. twenty years and his work is greatly responsible for The afternoon session will be in charge of the the recent advances which have been made in the Michigan Academy of Pharmacy and will consist of recognition of vitamin deficiency diseases. He was a symposium on the general subject of the heart and the first to use some of the vitamins in effective circulatory system. This meeting will be held in amounts. Dramatic results have followed the perthe Rackham Memorial Building, Woodward Avesistent administration of adequate amounts of nue at Farnsworth. This program will be presented specific therapeutic agents, such as vitamin C, in three parts. vitamin B12, folic acid, nicotinamide and these have made Dr. Spies an outstanding authority. He will 1. "Present Status of the Management of Peuse lantern slides to illustrate his talk. ripheral Vascular Diseases," by Dr. Sibley W. Hoobler, Assistant Professor of Internal Members of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL Medicine, University of Michigan Medical AssociATION and pharmacists generally from the School. states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and other 2. "Critical Discussion of Drugs Used in Treat- near-by sections are cordially invited to attend this ing Heart Conditions," by Dr. Franklin D. meeting, and to come prepared with their questions Johnston, Professor of Internal Medicine, and comment on A. PH. A. activities which will be University of Michigan Medical School. covered at the morning session. 158

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