COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 48, 25 August 1945, Page 6

COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

CONFERENCE OPENED P.A. DUNEDIN, August 23. "It is fitting that the College of Surgeons should be holding its peace meeting in Dunedin. for it was in this city in February, 1927, that the Australasian college was inaugurated," said Mr. F. Gordon Bell, at the opening of the conference of the New Zealand section of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeon-s today. Mr. Bell is chairman of the New Zealand section and a vice-president of the college. "The large attendance of more than 50, drawn from all parts of the Dominion," he added, "is at once a testimony to the useful function of the college exercises and to the desire of the fellows to further their knowledge by observation and discussion." The business today included operations, a discussion of patients, and papers on the use of penicillin in civil and war surgery, a symposium on a relatively new disease of the spine and spinal nerves, and a discussion on surgery of the lung. In the evening the board of censors met to examine five candidates for admission to fellowship. The conference discussion will be continued tomorrow.