POST-GRADUATE STUDY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 10

POST-GRADUATE STUDY

THAMES DOCTOR RETURNS FROM ABROAD AMERICANS AT VIENNA After spending two years in London | and Glasgow, carrying out post- j graduate work. Dr. George Lapraik, a well-known personality of the Thames district, returned by the Zealandic on Thursday. He intends to practice j again in Auckland. While In England seeking a further . knowledge of his profession, Dr. Lap- j raik gave special attention to obstet- j rics, anaesthetics and children’s j diseases. “I found that one of the latest i methods is the use of oxygon and a ! nitrous-oxido gas, while in cases of ' extremely nervous or weak patients, j another advance is to inject a fluid ' into the spine,” said Dr. Lapraik. “The patient is perfectly conscious during tho operation, but is quite insensible to pain, while the procedure is for the patient to .be blindfolded, with a bandage also round the ears.” STUDY IN VIENNA According to the doctor, the chief place for post-graduate work at present is ;it. Vienna, where it is in charge of Americans who are most thorough and up-to-date in their methods. In London, several of the leading colleges merely treat post-graduate work as a branch, but at the present time there is a move afoot there for the establishment of an up-to-date postgraduate school. “When this is established there will be more encouragement for doctors from the colonies to go Home for study,” said Dr. Lapraik. From 1899 until 19.19 Dr. Lapraik practised in Thames and became * a well-known personality there, both in sporting circles and in the general affairs of the town. He had much to do in promoting the building of the Thames bridge, while he held an executive position in nearly every j sporting body in the district. After | leaving Thames he came to Aucki land to practise his profession, later j leaving for England for the purpose of | further study.