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DR PAGET’S TREATMENT.
WHY HE IS LEAVING PERTH,
FRICTION AT THE HOSPITAL
Press. Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PERTH, April 29. The Perth Hospital Board, after, investigating an attack by a newspaper on the oetiduct of the Consumptive Hospital at West Subiaco. have decided to ask the Government to undertake an independent inquiry. There has been trouble over Dr Paget leaving for England to push forward his consumption cure, on the alleged ground that the West Australian Government did not afford him adequate opportunity for testing it in the State. Dr Gordon, hon. physician to the hospital, states that Dr Paget’s cure consists of the insertion in the nose of two metal props to dilate the external nasal openings as widely as possible, and drying in the sun the patient’s own sputum till it becomes a powder, which is inhaled into tho nose like snuff •Dr Gordon adds that he has given Dr Paget every facility to test his cure at the hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 8
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161CONSUMPTION Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 8
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