MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 6

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

- ■■■■*. ■■ ■ —* WORK MAPPED OUT. SMALLPOX TO BE FEATURED!,. (Bjr ttslfgrurfh.-'-PftM Aesocltttkiii.} Tv-uiJklapd) February 6, It is eighteen joins 'since tho -last Australasian Medical Congress was held in Now Zealand, and it will bo -eighteen years before another is held 1 . In addition to medical men from Australia and New Zealand there will bo .some distinguished men from other parts of the world. A. notable visitor 'will bo Dr. .1, A. M'Doiiald, president of -the British ■ Medical Association, wild ivill represent' ■that body, Hit) American- Society o ; f Mcdicinfr and the Canadian branch of the British Medical Association are alia sending represetttat.itf.es. ' His .Excellency the JSarl of Liverpool is coming up froiit- ■ Wellington to welcome the- .guests, onif members of the Cabinet mil also -be present, Tho work of the congress Lai ■been divided: into eleven sections) :eaok ■ with it-sown presidents viz.:— I. Medicine; president. Dr. Sinclair Gillies, Sydney.' v 2. Surgery; president, Mr. H.amiltci Russell, Melbourne. ' ' V 3. Obstetrics and gynaecology-; prcsi' dent, Sir David Hardie, Meibourne. 4. Pathology, etc,; president, Professor D. A. Welsh, Sydney, 5. Public frertjth and State- medicine; fcres-itlsnt, Dr. J. .fi. S. Elkingten, Bris* -. banc. . 6. OntbalmoWy: president, Dr. F. AiitiM Poekley, Sydney. 7. Psychological medicine and neurology; president, Dr. tibisliolni Ross, ' Sydney.. 8. Diseases of children and ortho« <. paedi.es; president, Dr.. fit. Swift, Ado- ' laide. 9; Naval and military medicine and .surgery; president, Colonel Charles Rynii^Melbo.urne. 10.. Dermatology, radiology) ctev< president, Dr, .H.afsohel Harris,' Sydney! 11, Laryngology, etc,; president, Dr. H.. Russell Nola-fti Sydney. Each of tho eleven sections will hold a conference -every morning next \xe»)i, at which paper's will be -read and dis- ■ xmssed. A combined 'meeting ■of the Mcdieinc r..nd Public Health sections . will bo held to discuss "tho -diagnosis' of sfiiallpox and the best um'airs. of .pre?. venting its spread, iai the ligliS.rif «x- .. porienco gained in,the recent .epidemics in Svdney and %k Zealand..". .Pajjcrs. on this subject wil.l 'he read WW. Park, of Sydney/aftd Dr. Monk, of Auckland'. Following on. tho fines- of the recent ■ .efingTess in the Old :oo'uh't'ryj a good deal of attention will bo paid to tho eubject of venereal diseases.