MEDICAL CONGRESS IN LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 7

MEDICAL CONGRESS IN LONDON.

8000 SPECIALISTS FROM ALL PARTS . OF THE WORLD. A remarkable conference will tako place in London l a few months henco when the International Congress of Medicine will assemble in England for the first time in 32 years. More than SOOO specialists will attend as delegates, comprising medical men of the first rank engaged in scientific research in the principal universities and ]al>oratories of tlie world. The congress is the seventeenth of its kind since the organisation was founded ill Paris in 18G7. Most of the capitals have been visited, though no city except that of its inception has received the delegates more than once. In view of the extent to which medicine has become specialised in recent years tliero will probably bo no fewer than 30 sections meeting in many parts of tho metropolis, including tho University of London, South Kensington, University College, and tho medical schools attached to the great hospitals.

There will be a number of exhibits in connection with each section for tho purpose of illustrating new discoveries, the whole forming a vast medical museum to be accommodated in tho Imperial College of Science and Technology at South Kensington. Professor Keith, the organising director of this museum, states that it will consist of the very best obtainable. to bo sent from the universities and medical museums of the various countries represented at the conference. Tho specimens will probably total between fifty and sixty thousand. The catalogue will be printed in French, English, and German. When the Congress met last in London, Sir .Tames Paget, the leading medical authority of that day, occupied the chair. This year the president will be Sir Thomas Barlow.