MEDICAL CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1929, Page 6

MEDICAL CONGRESS

A CURE FOR. THE STAMMERER

(Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, September 5.At the Medical Conference, Doctor Leary, of Melbourne, addressing a section of neurology psyschiatry urged that stammering, which was one of the tragedies of life, should receive attention, early in the sufferers life.’ English speaking people weiHj more prone .thereto than other nations. The treatment should aim at the removal of the stammerer’s feeling of fear that he could not express himself adequately. Relaxation and ease were essential conditions of relief with the adoption of the principles of the rythmic speaking treatment, which should begin while the child was not yet aware of his peculiarity. The New Zealand delegates .to the Congress were guests of the New Zealand Association of Sydney a i a luncheon when the President, Dr Purdy, welcomed them. Sirs Louis Barnett and Ti-üby King and Dr Wylie responded.. The last-named pointed out the untravelled New Zealander’s greatest sin was self-satisfaction. It was the duty of those who went abroad to return to the Dominion and correct this fault. If it is true, as stated, there are 32,003 New Zealanders in New South Wales, it should form the subject of an investigation by the visiting medicos why so riiany left the Dominion. He was.sure it would be found a transfer was beneficial to Australia. AUSTRALIAN. REVELATIONS. EXPERIMENTS WITH ANIMALS/ ■ • SYDNEY, Sept. 5. With eight cancer-infected mice from a Melbourne laboratory, Doctor Thomas Cherry to-day read a paper on “Experimental Cancer’’ before the members of the Medical Congress. He revealed a number oi important discoveries, one of which is that some cancers occurring naturally in mice could be transplanted into other mice. Another discovery was that the chronic irritation of the skin by tar and other substances will produce epithelioma in rabbits and mice and other animals. Such growths display all the characteristics of cancer in human beings. Dr Cherry alluded to tlie resemblances between experimental cancers and those in human beings, and he remarked that cancer and tuberculosis in man had features which pointed to related causation.