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ALABAMA
Portrait of Dr. Robertson.
—The Barbour County Medical Society was presented with a portrait of the late Dr. James W. Robertson, Clayton, June 7. Dr. Robertson was president of the society from 1926 to 1928. Dr. George O. Wallace, Bakerhill, presented the portrait, and Dr. James Reid, Clayton, president of the society, presided. The speaker was Dr. Thurston A. Warren, Clayton.
Society News.
—At the meeting of the Northeastern Division of the Alabama State Medical Association, June 3, at Scottsboro, the speakers included Drs. Amos C. Gipson, Gadsden, on "Cultivating the Child's Appetite"; Edwin V. Caldwell, Huntsville, "Diagnosis and Treatment of Fractures of the Pelvis"; German P. Haymore, Chattanooga, Tenn., "Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis"; Seale Harris, Birmingham, "Epilepsy, Associated