MEDICAL OPINION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 284, 30 November 1928, Page 7

MEDICAL OPINION.

TRYING ILLNESS. "Lancet" Analyses Course Of King's Trouble. SERIOUSNESS EECOGNISED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 29. The "Lancet" in an editorial greatly stresses the fact that there is no further spread of pleurisy and points out that the return of a higher fever on Sunday was the inevitable result of sleeplessness and discomfort, leading to the warning to the public on Monday that a further spread of pleurisy might be expected. "Thus far," the paper states, "there has been no considerable change in His Majesty's physical condition, and a certain amount of rest has secured this greatly important specific treatment. This useful aid may possibly turn the fortunes of the day but cannot put to sudden rout an infection that in the last decade has been familiarised as a pulmonary inflammation, whose course is inconstant, one phase developing after another. How long each phase will last is always an anxious question. "In the King's case a certain amount of reassurance can be gained from the published records of temperature which we accept as indicating some curtailments of the forces of the infection. At the same time it would be idle to pretend that an illness of that kind to a patient over 60 years of age would not be serious. "Medical men reading the bulletins consecutively can, from a picture of the illness and its course, say they may give us increasing confidence. His Majesty's is our earnest hope."

QUIET DAY, KING GETS SOME BLEEF. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 29. A bulletin issued at 7.30 p.m. states that the King had a quiet day and some sleep. Otherwise His Majesty's condition is unchanged.

PRAYERS OF JEWRY. QUICK RECOVEBY OF KINO. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) JERUSALEM, November 29. At the Wailing Wall and all synagogues in Palestine continued prayers are being said for the King's recovery. The chief Rabbi sent a message to the King expressing the sympathy of the Palestine Jewry.