CANCER RESEARCH
VALUE OF BEQUEST LECTURE BY DR. GUNSON “THE Travis bequest has been criticised on the ground that New Zealand fs too small to undertake research work, but a country which has produced Sir Ernest Rutherford and Sir Truby King, to name no others, is quite capable of producing students with a capacity for undertaking research in these fields.” This was comment by Dr. E. B. Gunson in a public lecture given last night on the W. H. Travis bequest of £ 40,000 for cancer and tuberculosis research work. “On behalf of the British Medical Association, I say we are proud that a New Zealander should leave such a handsome bequest,” continued the doctor, “and, if the gift is wisely controlled we should be able to have research laboratories not only in Dunedin, but in all the four main centres.” Dr. Gunson said that it was constantly being stated that medical men did not know the cause of cancer. It was possible that if there was an army of research workers engaged in seeking to solve the problem there would be a discovery, perhaps by accident, which would illuminate the whole field of cancer research.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 16
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195CANCER RESEARCH Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 16
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