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Southern California Medical Association.
—At the semiannual meeting of the Southern California Medical Association in Riverside, October 28-29, Drs. John H. Fitzgibbon, Portland, Ore., will speak on "The Irritable Colon"; Jay J. Crane and George F. Schenck, Los Angeles, "Renal Infections"; William H. Daniel, Los Angeles, "Injection Treatment of Rectal Diseases: An Economic Problem"; Grant H. Lanphere, Los Angeles, "Treatment of Peptic Ulcer with Gastric Mucin"; George D. Maner and Roy W. Hammack, Los Angeles, "Friedman Test for Pregnancy"; Eberle Kost Shelton, Santa Barbara, "Hypophyseal Infantilism"; William C. Munly, "Natural History and Course of Heart Disease"; Dwight Davis, Los Angeles, "Lipiodol Bronchography in Pulmonary Diseases"; Harry D. Van Fleet, Los Angeles, "Lower Mortality and Earlier Recovery Resulting from