Medical Congress

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5

Medical Congress

SETTLES DOWN TO WORK, .'.- ;| '.SOME INTERESTING PAPER* * ' ji ' • By Telegraph—Press.Association. M Auckland, Last Xight. The Medical Congress settled down -M to its work this morning. Each ol M the eleven section* held confereucee, a n<f -faj papers were ivaa and discussed in «J!

of them. Most of the addresses were "M of a Highly technical character, dealing 'JI with the cure and prevention of mj(--dE oub diseases. , viM The members of the surgery section* - «3 have arranged to pa- visits to the J] Auckland Hospital, where domonstr*- :.|| tious are to be "riven by some of tbe'.';j|! highly-skilled surgeons and specialist*, raj Ju the section of medicine, Dr. Bin- || clair Gillies ,yav ( - a brilliaut addrea, in 'Mg which he made special reference to the '"M combatting of tuberculosis: the stetho- "1 scope was yielding somo of its priority Vj in diagnosis to the thermometer, the Vj weighing-machine, microscope, X-rays, *i and specific re-action or tuberculin test /.*$ Many alleged cures for tuberculwis ''m were brought forward, but no prepare- Ijl tion had yet established its claim to -Jm toe a,' cure. ~8

In the mental diseases section, D\ ''M Godfrey, of the Hospital of the In«u t , ( 'lg Melbourne, reviewed the progress male '?M in the treatment of mental. disoWfoh. 'll during the last 30 years.. Institutions now were niental hospitals which before a had been mental asylums. A very in- '.'? teresting, paper by Dr. Andrew David-, ''A son showed the increasing regard medi- •-.'* cal men have for the psychological a*pect in combat with mental disease. .j^j In the diseases of childreitsection, Dr. \ri Litchfield, of Sydney, mioted figure* s.i from all parts of the world to show -'M that by placing children out in homes \M under proper supervision, instead of '&§ keeping them in central institutions, II mortality among them was reduced by-.jl 50 per cent. Jwi Other papers were read and ordereJ lj| to be -printed. They dealt with tho >l| physical eondiiton of young territorials,. !|ra the health of school children, dlfettea Jg of the eye, ear and throat, etc. - sj9