HYGIENE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 5

HYGIENE.

THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.

SCOURGE OF THE TROPICS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Loudon, August 9. At the Medical Congress, Professor Paul Ellieh described the effects of his famous drug saivarsam on the disease which had been for years tho scourge of the tropics. Single injections cured 300 patients, the same result recurring in fevers and forms of malaria. Professor Vincent reported on antityphoid inoculations in 1912 on the [French troops in Morocco. Sixteen | per pent. of those not inoculated | contracted the disease, against one in 5000 inoculated.

Dr. Barlow, of the Middlesex Hospital, in a discussion on cancer, stated that ho found radium elements in a considerable number of cancer cases. Therefore, it was clear that whether they considered it from tho viewpoint of chronic irritation or chemical pathology, it was necessary to determine whether radium played a part in the

problem. Dr. W. L. Braddon considered it established that herri-berri could be avoided Uy changing the native diet from deglutenised to whole rice. Dr. R. Blitz suggested that frozen meat formed the nucleus of cancerous toxins.

The chairman stopped the speech, the idea being greeted with laughter.

THE PLAGUE. Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, August 10. Major Lemon, of Bombay, declared that there was a decline of the plague in various centres, irrespotive of restrictive measures. It was due, he thought, to the production of a race that was immune and the process of the survival of the fittest. TUBERCULOSIS. (Received 8 a.m.) London, August 10. Professor Ellich, in his address on Pathology, after referring to the success arising out of the destruction of the germs of sraalpox, scarlatina, typhus, and yellow fever, said, on the other hand, that the cure of tuberculosis needs a hard struggle. He believed that the next live years’ record would show that; the highest advances had been made in this field of research. ' v . g ■■■ -;;>; " i g'!