SURGERY LECTURE

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1929, Page 5

SURGERY LECTURE

ANCIENT AND MODERN. INTERESTING REFERENCES. ( United Preßs Asßooiation. —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.' LONDON, October 22. Lord Moynihan, lecturing at Leeds, on “ Surgery, Ancient and Modern,” discussed remarkable surgical opinions a thousand years before Christ, and actual anatomical remains of Pharaoh and Moses time and Napoleon. Perhaps the most interesting visceral discovery was that which affected Pharaoh, of an oppression from a large vessel springing from his heart, which was found so well preserved that Mr Shattalk, of the Royal College of Surgeons, was able to make sections of it and compare them with those of a man recently dead. Portion of Napoleon I.’s viscera contained certain little tumours in the intestine, suggesting his death was cancerous, but Sir Arthur Keith on re-ex-amination showed the tumours were nbn-malig»ant but similar and perhaps identical with “Malta fever.”

Lord Moynihan said the profession of medicine was always closely related to religion and magic., - His attention was recently called Jto a “pyramid” at Sngnrrnh. the oldest stone building in the world, of two lines of black hieroglyphics in a passage lending to a side chapel. Australian troops during the war left their names and initials scribbled on various columns on the altar of the temple. One wrote: “Dam the only survivor of my company, which fought at Gallipoli. John Smith, Melbourne, 1917.”

A hieroglyphic just uncovered read: “I am the only survivor of my company. I fought in Punt and I come to worship at the temple of mv fathers.” A name and date about 1250 Before Christ followed. ■’