Conference of Medical Men at the World's Fair.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 196, 19 August 1893, Page 4 (Supplement)

Conference of Medical Men at the World's Fair.

The homo_opa_hists, the eclectics, and the climatologists have been holding congresses at the World. Fair at Chicago, and some of their remarks are worth a brief notice. Miss Kate Marsden, who is well known in "New Zealand, spoka before the climatologists of the climate of Russia and its influences upon humanity. She has recently resided in the leper-quarantined colony of Northern Siberia, and wore on her breast a gold eagle presented by the Czar of Russia. She said thab" near Irkutsk the ground was often frozen to a depth of fifty feet, and was covered with snow eight and nine months out of the year. The few summer months were almost tropical, although the earth was never thawed out. The people lived in huts, with windows made of ice, and heat was obtained from a single fire. Tho cattle often occupied the same room. When it was warm ib was intolerably hot, and mosquitoes and flies were postiferoua. Ab such season the people worked at nighb and rested during the day. ' The worst plague is a flying louse,' she says, 'which dashes ab a person and lays ibs eggs beneath the skin, the resulb of which is usually an abscess. And the lepers. There are about two hundred of them, and they live in bhe heart of the foreßb, desolate and alone.' Aba subsequent lecture a subscription was taken up in their behalf. Dr. J. Murray Moore, of Liverpool, late of Auckland, sen. a paper on the climatic conditions of that city. Dr. Carl Fischer, of Sydney (formerly of Auckland), on Juno Ist read a paper beforo the homoeopathic section on the ' Progress of Homoeopathy in New South Wales.' Before the eclectics, after calling attention to difforenb classes of diseases, Professor Curryer said that the stomach was tho organ to be firsb considered in a pathological survey. Everything depended upon ib. 'There are animals,' he said, 'that are only stomach, bub none that is only brains.' Dr. Lowe followed with a paper, in the course of which ho took the ground that under proper treatment diabetes would bo a curable disease. The usual course of treatment, he said, was entirely wrong. His own recommendation for cure was rest, proper air, galvanism and diob.