MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 81, 9 August 1913, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

NATIVE MASSAGE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, August 8. At the Medical Congress, Dr. River' described the methods employed b, native practitioners in message, in th Solomon' Islands. Their operation coincided with our own system, but uc derlying the idea of the process wm that it had a magico-religious basis. ANAESTHETICS. ■ London, August 7. At the Medical Congress, Professo Harvey Cushing, of Harvard Univer pity, in a paper on surgery, said tha experimental therapeutics would it the future doubtless give an idea anaesthetic in the form of a drug pn: sibly allied to chloretone or scopalo min, a single injection of which woulc induce a prolonged insensitive sleep perchance of sufficient duration to a I low of a primary wound healing over INSANITY AND TUBERCULOSIS. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, August 8. Dr. Crichton Brown spoke serious!, of the increase in lunacy, which wa 1 out of proportion to the increa.se ir population in all settled countries. L Britain in 1859 the insane numhere 06,762 in January in 1913, it wa 1.39,377; an increase of 276 per cent, compared to eighty-seven per cent, in crease in the population during tin ;:nno neriod.

Dr. Stiles, of the Edinburgh hos pital for children, said there was ; great prevalence of tuberculosis it Scottish children duo to dairy cows and also the non-sterilisation of milk