FIRST-AID JUBILEE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 15

FIRST-AID JUBILEE.

VETERAN DOCTORS DO GUARD DUTY. BUDAPEST. The Budapest First-Aid Society has just celebrated its jubilee in an interesting fashion. During the whole day veteran doctors who own names to conjure with in the medical world took turns of being on duty with the society which they had served in their youth. Every two hours the First-Aid guard was changed, and two celebrated professors donned their First-Aid caps to loud cheers from the crowd who had gathered to watch the spectacle. It was a day of good fortune for pedestrians and others who happened to come to grief. A woman with an injured skull was attended bv Professor Adam, Budapest's most fashionable surgeon; and Professor Ertl, whose plastic operations on disfigured soldiers broqghf him fame, was called out to attend tc two women who had battered eael other's face 6. Fifty years ago the First-Aid Societj was founded by Dr. Geda Kresz, am conducted its business from two smal shops furnished with wooden benches, ii which the young doctors waited for calls i Outside the shops a cart drawn by twi I horses stood in readiness day and night To-day the society owns a lure building in Marko Street, and its moto ambulances are a common sight in tb streets of the city.