MEDICAL TREATMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1943, Page 4

MEDICAL TREATMENT

ANGLO-SOVIET COLLABORATION. EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE. Professor S. A. Sarkisov recently came to England as representative of the executive committee of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to establish contact with the British Red Cross and British medical institutions, . states the “Soviet War News.” The aim of his visit is to arrange for an exchange of experience in the medical treatment of wounded and sick soldiers and in assisting civilians who have suffered in the war. Professor S. A. Sarkisov, who was born in 1895, graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow State University. In 1926 he helped to organise Moscow’s Institute of the Brain, of which he is the scientific head. He has published over 30 works and is a member of the administration of the Soviet Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists, of the Soviet Society of Physiologists and of the Neuro-sur-gical Council. Since 1937 Professor Sarkisov has been vice-president of the Scientific Medical Council of the U.S.S.R., of which Academician N. N. Burdenko is piesident. In 1942 the Soviet Government awarded him the Order of the Sign of Honour.