DOMINION DOCTORS
♦ — J HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM j (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 27. j "New Zealand medical men are held i In the highest esteem in Australia; in , fact, we have nothing that stands above them," said Dr. Brookes, a Syd- c ney ophthalmic surgeon, who is travel- ~ r ling by the Mariposa to San Francisco 5 to visit a brother in Canada. Dr. Brookes described the technique i of a delicate operation described in the s ca.ble news recently and in which an J American convict gave one of his eyes j to save the sight of a clergyman. j "I* i$ perhaps not the most delicate \ ef eye operations, but is certainly very j rare," he said. "I have never heard £ of its being successfully performed in ( Australia, though there have been j three successful cases performed,by a ( celebrated surgeon in South Wales." i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 8
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147DOMINION DOCTORS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 8
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