MODERN CHEST SURGERY
“ENGLAND LEADS THE WORLD ” DUNEDIN DOCTOR’S VIEWS “The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON. October 16. “In chest surgery England undoubtodly leads the world.” said Dr. A. W. Sutherland, of Dunedin, who has been I studying chest surgery in London for I more than two years. Dr. Sutherland, accompanied by Mrs Sutherland and ! child, returned ‘to New Zealand in the . Dominion Monarch on Friday. I The reason so much advance had I been made in chest surgery, he said, I was because of the high standard and the further development of anaesI thetics. allowing for more difficult operations on the chest and heart. ; One particular advance he mentioned was the use of curare, a poison from South America, which had been adapted to medical use, which paralysed all the voluntary muscles and completely abolished the breathing of the patient, who was kept alive by the anaesthetist. There seemed to be hundreds of New Zealand doctors in London today, said Dr. Sutherland, and the best place to meet New Zealanders during the recent months was at the cricket grounds, where, for the Test matches, special stands were provided solely for New Zealanders.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 6
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