MEDICAL CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1929, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS

(Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, Sept, 4. Seven hundred medical men and women taking part in the Australasian Medical Congress are holding meetings in various rooms at the University Medical School. At some there are only little groups of three or four specialists; and at others fifty or sixty doctors listen to the reading of papers on the ills of humanity. One discussion related to the use of anaesthetics. Dr Robert Fowler, of Melbourne, described the work of Australian inland missions and of the flying doctor who several times had flown three hundred miles before breakfast, operated on patients and then returned to his base.

Ollier interesting papers concerned disease of the eye, heart and limbs, the medical aspect of gas in warfare; immunisation of children from diphtheria and the treatment of stammering.

An animated discussion occurred on the subject of septic ulcers. Still another section took up the question of obstetrics and gynaecology. Or Cook, of Danvin, read an absorbing paper on the health of whites in the Northern Territory. There was a paper on animism and determinism read by L>r J. Young, of Invercargill, while the surgery section was addressed by Professor Gordon Bell, of Dunedin.