Edwin Plummer Sloan Dr. Sloan was born in Missouri and graduated from medical school in 1898. Following a surgical residency, he received additional training at clinics in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Sloan founded and was the first president of the American Association for Study of Goiter. The first meeting, with 215 registrants, took place on January 23-25, 1924 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bloomington, Illinois, where Dr. Sloan was on the surgical staff. The first session was held by Dr. E. P. Sloan, assisted by Drs. G. A. Sloan, Herman Wellmerling, J. D. Moschelle, and Geo. Newell. Four patients were operated under nitrous oxide oxygen anaesthesia, administered by Dr. Wm. Young. A number of scientific papers were also presented, including Dr. E. R. Arn, Dayton, Ohio. “An Analysis of Types of Goiter with Indications for Treatment.” and Dr. F. N. Wilson, Ann Arbor, Michigan. “Cardiac Disturbances in Association with Diseases of the Thyroid Gland.” Dr. Sloan was the president of the Illinois State Medical Society, and at his death, was a member of the judicial council of the American Medical Association.
On December 9, 1923 the Illinois Clinical Club met in Bloomington and agreed to establish a new organization " The American Association for the Study of Goiter"
Hotel Illinois, Bloomington, Illinois – January 23-25, 1924 The first session convened at St. Joseph's Hospital, 7:45 a.m, January 23. The program committee announced that they felt justified in featuring ethylene anaesthesia at this annual meeting in view of the fact that it is attracting great interest at the present time and it was so satisfactory at the preliminary clinic held December 17. OPERATIVE CLINIC: Held by Dr. E. P. Sloan, assisted by Drs. G. A. Sloan, Herman Wellmerling, J. D. Moschelle, and Geo. Newell. Four patients were operated under nitrous oxide oxygen anaesthesia, administered by Dr. Wm. Young. Four patients were operated upon under ethylene oxygen anaesthesia, administered by Dr. Dennis Rupp, assisted by Mr. P. J. Me–Curdy of the Safety Oxygen Gas Machine Company. The anaesthesia was featured and comparison of effects of nitrous oxide and ethylene was made. It was obvious that ethylene is more potent than nitrous oxide, that the patients are anaesthetised quicker and recover normal consciousness sooner than after nitrous oxide.
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois – June 10, 1924
Illinois Hotel, Bloomington, Illinois – January 28-30, 1925
Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City, NJ – May 26, 1925
Dr. Blair grew up in Atchison, Kansas and graduated from Kansas State University in 1887. He then attended Columbia Medical School and surgical residency at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. He established an extensive surgical practice in Kansas City in 1894. He taught anatomy at University of Missouri medical college and clinical surgery at the Women’s Medical College of Kansas City. He was a pioneer in the development of plastic surgery and skin grafting.
Brown Hotel and Hospital Operative Clinics, Louisville, Kentucky – February 1-3, 1926
Dr. Goetsch was born in Iowa, attended the University of Chicago, and earned his MD degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1909. He did a surgical residency under the direction of Dr. William Halstead, and also did additional training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston under Dr. Harvey Cushing. He returned to Johns Hopkins and became an Associate Professor of Surgery in 1918. He then moved to New York to become a Professor of Surgery at Long Island College of Medicine in Brooklyn, which later merged with the State University of New York Downstate School of Medicine. He had a long-standing interest in thyroid surgery, and published numerous papers on thyroid disease. He was one of the first to describe the relationship of autonomous thyroid nodules as a cause of hyperthyroidism in 1918, and in a 1987 review article, the author suggested that thyrotoxicosis due to functioning thyroid nodules be called “Goetsch’s disease”.
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – January 31 – February 2, 1927
