Treatment of Consumption.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 183, 6 February 1896, Page 2

Treatment of Consumption.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, February 5. A- general nipeting of the Medical Congress was held to day to discuss the , question of tuberculosis. Professor Watson (Adelaide) opened the discussion, which he explained was intended to wake up the public to the fact that tuberculosis was infectious, therefore a preventable, . and under favorable circumstances, a curable disease. Dr Springthorpe, Melbourne, concluded a lengthy address by saying it was by preventative measures rather than by remedial that they would check this fell disease. Dr O'Hara, Melbourne, said that so long as scrofulous children were born, they must expect tubercular disease to flourish. He had known a flock-owner to give 500 guineas for a stud ram and marry his daughter to a broken-down, striimous object. » Dr Murray- Ansley thought they should protest against persons peing sent from the Old Country when seriously affected. Dr Garland Drought under notice the treatment; of cases with creosote. Various pther doctors spoke, amongst them Drs Chappie, Mackenzie, and Martin, and a committee was appointed to draft slips of advice suitable for tbe use of medical men dealing with oases of phthisis ; also, to draft a resolution, to be brought under the notice of the Governments of the different colonies, having the object of general preventative measures deemed necessary to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Dr Chappie gave an explanation showing that the memorial of the Women's Christian Temperance Union bad not been received with disrespect. 4 peculiar laryngeal cough habitual to one of tli£> members had been mistaken for a noteoldera^og'