MEDICAL CONGRESS.
IMPORTANT MATTERS TREATED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. > Brisbane, August 25. Dr. Taylor, in his, presidential address at the Medical Congress, dealing with naval and military surgery, said that compound fractures and b*one injuries had'left an immense legacy of patients with septic food in their bones, necessitating judicious operative treatment for years to come. The value of' protective inoculation against the enteric group of diseases was bound to have far-reaching and beneficial results in the civilian life of Australia. Thanks to inoculation, there were only 266 deaths in the whole of the British army "in France, as against 10,000 deaths among the troops in South Africa.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1920, Page 7
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108MEDICAL CONGRESS. Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1920, Page 7
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