SURGEONS CONFER.
USEFUL FUNCTION OF COLLEGE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 23. “It is fitting that the College of Surgeons should be holding its peace meeting in Dunedin, for it was in this city in February, 1927, that the Australasian College Avas inaugurated,” said Mr F. Gordon Bell, at the - opening of the conference of the New Zealand section of the Royal Australasian. College of Surgeons to-day. Mr Bell is chairman of the NeAV Zealand section, and a vice-president of the college. “The large attendance of more than 50 drawn from all parts of the Dominion,” he added, “is at once a vestimony to the useful function the college exercises and to the desires of Fellows to further their knoAvledge by observation and discussion.” The business to-day included operations. Papers on the use of penicillin in civil and Avar surgery, a symposium on a relatively neAV disease of the spine and spinal nerves, and a discussion on surgery of the lung. In the evening the board of censors met to examine five candidates for admission to fellowship. The conference will he continued to-morrow,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 269, 24 August 1945, Page 3
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