Dr. Paget s Trouble.
I CURE OF CONSUMPTION. IN WEST AUSTRALIA. [it* Eliotbio Telegraph— Copyright] [United Press association. 7 j (Received 9.40 a.m.) ! Perth, April 29. I The Hospital Board is attacked by the newspapers on the conduct of the 'consumptive hospital at West Subiaco. lit has been decided to ask the Government to undertake an independjent inquiry. There lias been trouble over Dr. I Paget leaving for England to forward Jus consumption cure on the alleged ground that the Government did not afford an adequate opportunity of testing it. Dr. Gordon, honorary physician at the hospital, states that the cure consists of the insertion in the nose of two metal drops to dilate the external nasal openings as widely as possible and drying in the sun the patient's own sputum, the powder of which is inhaled into the nose like snuff. Dr. Gordon adds: The Government has given Dr. Paget every facility.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 7, 29 April 1914, Page 5
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153Dr. Paget s Trouble. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 7, 29 April 1914, Page 5
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