MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 85, 14 August 1913, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

INTERESTING PAPERS. HEREDITY. ! By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, August 13. Professor Bateson, in a paper on heredity, read at the Medical Congress, said that it, was impossible to avoid the conviction, no matter what influences were brought to bear by hygiene or education, that the ultimate 1 decision rested with germ cells. The whole course of modern science and legislation was exercised to preserve defective strains in our midst, yel genetic science was not justified at present in the violent measures in America with a view to controlling marriage on the basis of eugenics, be[cause genetic physcology was still empirical.

COLOR-BLINDNESS. (Received 8.0 a.ra.) London, August 13. At the Medical Congress, Dr. Edridge Croon insisted that the wool test was hopelessly defective for color blindness. Many of tho normalsighted wore rejected, while thirty per cent, of the defectives escaped detection. A colored lantern was the most effective method for railways and steamers. TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS. Dr. Weygaudt urged that the idea iii punishing criminals as retribution was no longer held by thinking people. 'J ho best remedy was proper education of the young and control of the mentally deficients in industrial reformative institutions. Duration ot detention should be dependent on the success of the treatment, and it was absurd to arbitrarily fix it beforehand. EDUCATION HOME WORK.

The Hygiene .Section condemned home work and the night-teaching of needlework to girls before the ago r:f six. ALCOHOL AND DEGENERACY. -London, August 13. ine Medical Congress resolved to conduct experiments on animals to discover the relation of alcohol to degeneracy. 1 ; r : 1 ' ■ c ■i-iU 4N t! STORY. -' i- ... London, Augus| 13. At the Medical Congress, Dr. McWalter (Ireland) advocated that the State should institute a riecroscopic examination into every-dUath, as the only possible means of ascertaining t!ie cause. Recently a Dublin doctor, upon information imparted, gave. a 'O’Jhcate of death, and heavy insur- - men was drawn. _ During .tie wake ho corpse rose and complained hiteii\ that lie bad not received a proper bare of the proceeds. AMERICA’S MARRIAGE LAWS. Washington, August 13. Cardinal Gibbons denounced the whence of eugenics as an infringement I pei son a I liberty. Marriage was -’.ometliing sacred, and no civil law should interfere. Of the various Mates which had passed legislation liming at sterilising criminals, only two were enforcing it. REPORTED CURE FOR CANCER.

BY ROXTGEN RAYS. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Hobart, August 14. Jt is reported that Dr. Roberts, senior house surgeon at the Hobart General Hospital, has made a renarkahle discovery regarding cancer treatment. It consists of the further levelopment of the use of Rontgen Bays by employing only secondary rays. He treated forty cases in three years with a hundred per cent, of cures of surface cancer. He uses x large thick plate of pure 1 in, upon which he strikes primary ravs. the patient sitting in a chair witli the tin plate close age. nst tin* cnm . rous growth. The exc-ted metal thiovs off soft rays which effect a cure. There is no risk of burning normal skin tissue, with secondary rays, though i acre is a great risk with ordinary 'TIV>.