AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR.

Achievements in Medicine

Praised.

VALUE OF CONFERENCE

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, September 11

"The Times" Melbourne correspondent says the meeting of the British Medical Conference there promises to be one of the most important in the history of the association.

The Australian doctor, in view of the juxtaposition of temperate and tropical zones, has a livelier sense than have the British of the importance of preventive medicine. Tho discussions are therefore of the greatest value to Britain.

Australian medicine possesses a tradition and character of its own and has made important contributions to anatomy and other branches.

ALCOHOL IN BLOOD.

Minute Quantity Needed For

Drunkenness.

SURGEON ON SYMPTOMS.

(Received 2 p.m.)

MELBOURNE, this day.

Anyone who has one drop of alcohol in 1000, or 0.1 per cent, in his blood produces symptoms of being under the influence of alcohol.

A percentage of 0.5 of alcohol in the blood, or one drop of alcohol in 500 drops of blood, puts a person in a condition of coma, i.e., "dead drunk."

Addressing the National Temperance League's- annual breakfast., held to-day in conjunction with the BJVLA. conference, Mr. W. McAdain Eccles, one of England's foremost surgeons, made these statements.