SCARLET FEVER REMEDY TOPIC and Plan Trip To Fair By JULIAN T. BENTLEY Correspondent) Staff Press (United June 16.— MILWAUKEBR, Wis., (UP)—Final sessions of the Amer- annual fourth convention were up a five- winding today, held here eighty- association’s Medical ican day study of the battle against disease by the nation’s leading physicians. Many of the 5000 delegates at the convention said they would go to medical for next week Chicago week at the world’s fair and to attend the convention there of the Association American for ment of science. SCARLET FEVER In the concluding Advance- f TOPIC sectional meet- ings today, Dr. Luke Hunt, of the John McCormick institute for infectious diseases; Chicago, described new discoveries scarlet Hunt in fever. treatment The reported, disease, is much less of Dr. severe and complications are less likely te develop if scarlet fever antitoxin 4s given within the first two days after illness appears. | In a study of 2000 cases, Dr. Hunt said, antitoxin was administered in 900 in the first two days, resulting in immediate fading decline in fever and of rash. A strange disease called myasthe-| nia gravis, which causes ) weaknesse of muscles in extremities and mus cles of deglutition (swallowing) were described by one of its victims, Dr. Harriet Edgeworth, of Tucson, Ariz. Dr. Edgeworth, watching progress of the disease in herself with clinical interest, said she apparently had stopped its progress. As a treatment she said ephedrine, commonly used in treatment of sinus, was employed. Glycine or gelatine sugar also is effective, she said. BRAIN REMOVED An operation in which one-quarter of a young removed, woman’s brain necessitated was by a tumor, was described by Dr. James Gardner of Cleveland. This delicate operation, Dr. Gardner said, has been performed only a few times. Although the right cerebral hemisphere of the brain was cut away, the patient did not lose her sight, speech, intellect or locomotion, and satisfactory made Gardner complete recovery, reported. paralysis Dr. She _ suffered of the left. arm and partial paralysis of the left leg, but sixteen months later was able to walk unassisted, the physician said. | Prolonged use of tobacco or alcohol will close work impair of the Dr. Afthur Yudkin, vision and make eyes impossible, of Yale univer- sity, told the physicians. Cod liver oil and vitamin A concentrate are oe said. as remedies, Dr. Yudkin