RT Journal T1 MEdical news JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1939 FD December 2 VO 113 IS 23 SP 2067 OP 2071 DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800480049016 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800480049016 AB ALABAMA  Regional Meeting.—  The Northwestern Division of the Alabama State Medical Association will meet in Parrish December 7. At this meeting plaques will be awarded by the Walker County Medical Society to Dr. Charles B. Jackson, Jasper, posthumously, for fifty-three years of distinguished service to the medical profession and to Dr. Hugh W. Stephenson, Oakman, commemorating sixty years of active practice. The speakers will include Drs. Glenn I. Jones, Washington, D. C., on "Railroad Medical Service"; James A. Meadows and Karl F. Kesmodel, Birmingham, "Diagnosis of Cancerous Lesions"; Thompson F. Wickliffe, Jasper, "Virus Diseases"; Sam P. Wainwright, Birmingham, "The Thymus Gland," and Gilbert B. Greene, Birmingham, "Surgical Management of Thyrotoxicosis."CALIFORNIA  Course for Practitioners.—  The University of California Medical School, San Francisco, will offer a course for general practitioners at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco, Jan. 3-6, 1940. The course has been designed to meet the needs of