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Lish Medical Association, zre sembled in the. M'Ewan Hall; Edinburgh, to discuss the year's progress and experiences in medi- cine and surgery,

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Announcer-The players look- ing comparatively fresh after yesterday's initial battles, have taken their seats for the inter- national team tournament and the general congress. Chess clocks are being shaken and their ticks listened to.

A distant church clock chimes in sympathy.

Silence.

The ninety-fifth annual meet- ing instituted the conference when Sir Robert W. Philip presided over a large representation of the delegates, including six lady doe- tors. From to-day until Tuesday the business of the Association will take the usual form of "re- presentative meetings" or "The

Announcer-In the smaller Parliament of Medicine," in which room 64 men, representing 16 medical politics and professional nations, are holding their heads matters are discussed, while the in their hands. There is no sound, general discussions of greater in- no movement. Shaded lights, in- terest to the public commence enternational flags; and the silver Tuesday. Several engrossing sub-pires of an organ help to convey jects are on the agenda.

the Impression of an international These include alcohol and the lying-in-State. motorist:" "the use of insulin in diabetes":

and eye- "tobacco sight"; and "ultra viclet rays."

The annual inecting to-day was Announcer-Members of the instituted by the president's mo- public tiptoeing into the room: tion "That the British Medical have roused Reti, the curly haired Association, meeting in Edinburgh Czecho-Slovakian. By a super- at the time is Majesty the King human effert he has removed a animation is in residence, presents its hum-pawn. This sudden

the infects other giants of the chess, ble and loyal respects to Royal patron of the Association." world. Ernst Grunfeld,

3 shaven heart, (Applause.) The meeting stood Austrian with for a moment in deference to the rises from the table and paces to and fro leaning heavily on motion.

a stout stick. He is lame..

On the motion of the chairman of Council, Sir Robert Rolam, Sir Ewan Maclean, MD. FR.C.P., F.R.SE.. was elected president of the Association for next year. It was agreed that the meeting in 1929 be held in Manchester and at Winnipeg, Canada, in 1930.

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Announcer-A sensation just been caused by the entry, of an attendant bearing a cup of coffee. It is for Tekolste, i heavily-built, ruddy-complexioned Hollander, who has been feeling Edinburgh cold. Stimulated, he has succeed-

After Twenty-Nine Years. Lord Prevost Stevenson visited the meeting, and was introduced by the chairman. In welcoming the 'delegates to

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behalf of the Corpora- ilon and citizens, the Lord Provost said he understood that' the Association had met in Edin-sembles the ex-German Crown Prince, has lit another cigarette. burgh on three previous occasions The striking of the match shatters. --in 1858, 1875, and 1995. So the silence as effectively as a note after a period of 29 years they from Big Ben. welcome them back to Edinburgh, not only because they belonged to a profession associated with the preservation of the health and wellbeing of the nation, but be eanse they in Edinburgh had special regard and pride for her own medical school, whose sons had rurried " torch of learning Lo all parts of the world, and whose teachers had by their skill and knowledge won for them selves the highest places in the ranks of the profession.

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Announcer-We have now awit- ched over to the general congress in the big room. The players here are not so famous as the international teams, yet they are past masters or mistresses in the art of slow motion. One table is occupied entirely by women-the- most silent assembly of women | PRESIDENT GARFIELD that has ever been known, A possible explanation is that they speak different languages.

The meeting of the Association,

Some are wearing hats; cthers had a special significance this

are without, and at least one has yeur in that it coincided with the lost her scoring pencil. She is Lister centenary, whose epeel Mrs. F. Murza, a beautiful Pac- making work was largely accom-see, whose husband is a student plished in Edinburgh, and to in London. Very dainty and pic- whose genius the world owed so turesque she looks in her pinic much.

robe-like dress edged with silver Concluding the Lord Provost embroidery. Her opponent, Mr. said he trusted that the conH. A. Clarke, has no difficulty in ference would prove as success-borrowing a pencil for such a ful as en former occasions and fascinating player. their deliberations distinguished The clicking noise you just by the same breadth of vision and heard was caused by a Woma" the wisdom for which they bad closing her handbag. Even at been noted in the past.

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Sir Robert Philip thanked the chess. Eve feels the need of lip- Lord Provost, and said he ex- pressed the anticipation of the delegates in coming this year to Edinburgh.

Two hours later,

Announcer-A London messen. George Bernard Shaw, whose rer boy has just made the dis- covery that "all sorts of blokes anti-medical views are pronoun-are asleep in the central hall ed, received a "free boost" by this distinguished body of his prota- Good night, everybody. gonists. The general secretary

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of the conference, Dr. „A. Fergus in use at each subsequent annual Hewat, Edinburgh, was outlining conference. the arrangements for the dele

Two of the glasses are gauged' Kate's comfort and pleasure dur-to filter the sand from one com- ing their stay in Edinburgh. partment of the receptacle to the

Ile mentioned that a Shaw sea-other in three minutes each, and son was proceeding. In the city two operate in five minutes each. during the present few weeks, and bell indicates when the speech he had been inundated with up-han to go for one minute. plications for tickets for the When a speaker commenced a

theatre.

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