MEDICAL CONGRESS.
frDELEGATES OFFICIALLY WEL- ' COILED. <9y Tolograph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. September 17, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, September 17. ■Lord Denman will open the Medical Congress to-morrow. Tho Lord Mayor, Alderman TayloT, officially welcomed the delegates yesterday. Nearly GOO delegates were present, including 200 from other States and New Zealand. The ninth session of the Australasian Medical Congress, which is to be held in Sydney under the presidency of Dr. F. Antill Pockley, will open to-day, and close on Saturday, September 23. Tho work of the congress will be divided into sections, medicine, surgery, obstetrics, and gynaecology, etc., and under tlies© heads a number of highly important papers will bo read, and discussions carried on. In medicine the subject ar(erio i sclerosis has boon selected for consideration, while in surgery ,tho treatment of fractures, tho surgery of tho large intestine, and the treatment 'of surgical shock will be discussed, and a paper has been promised on hydatid disease. In connection with anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology, au address will be given on shock, syncopc, and collapse. A special general meeting of the congress will bo devoted to the consideration of serum and vaccine therapy, and the subject of infantile paralysis will bo discussed jointly by several sections. Tho section of pathology, bacteriology, and tropical medicine will devote a morning session to the discussion of ankylostomiasis, while papers will be read on such subjects as objects and scope of tropical medicine, tho cause of goitre in Tasmania, and the haomolytic action of snake venom. Papers on the house fly and typhoid fovcr, pulmonary ' diseases among miners, and of school hygiene in Queensland, como under the section of public health, while valuable work will bo done by tho sections of ophthalmology, neurology, diseases of children, dermatology, radiology, laryngology, rhinology, and otology, <«ud naval and military medicine and surgery. ' '■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1235, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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