THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1824, 9 August 1913, Page 5

THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.

REPLY TO ANTI-VIVISECTIONISTS. By Telwupli—Press Asßoolation—OoDyriiM ("Times"— Sydney "Sua" Special Cables.) London, August 7. The International Medical Congress, physiological section, unanimously resolved that experiments on living animals had proved! of the utmost service to mankind in the past, and were indispensable to future progress. In tho interests of man and animals, facilities should be given to competent persons to peiform experiments under adequate supervision. SOLOMON ISLAND MASSEIfRS. (Rec. August 8, 9.25 p.m.) London, August 8. Mr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S., in a paper read before tho members of. the Congress, described tho system of masBago carried out by native practitioners in the Solomon Islands. Tho operations, he said, coincided with our own system, but the underlying ideas of tho process had a magic and religious basis. I Mr. Rivers is editor of the "British .Journal of Psychology," and was president of the Anthropological section of tho British Association in 1911. His publications include various papers in the Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to tho Torres Straits. , EXPERIMENTAL THEfRiAPEUTICS. ("Times"— Sydney "Sun" Special Cables,) (Roc. August 8, C.55 p.m.) London, August 8. g, At the Medical Congress, Dr. Harvey Cushing, of Harvard University, l read a paper on Surgery. Experimental Therapeutics, ho said, would in future, doubtless provide an ideal anaesthetic in tho form of a drug. Possibly such a drug would be allied with chloretone or scopalomin, a single injection of which would induce prolonged insensitive sleep, perchase of sufficient duration to allow of the primary healing of a wound. •. Dr. Harvey Cushing is tho author of various papers on neurol euTgery,