SURGEONS IN CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 6

SURGEONS IN CONFERENCE

LONDON GATHERING.

VORONOFP’S DEMONSTRATIONS,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 18,

Unusual interest was displayed at the Surgical Congress in Dr Voronofl’s methods of bringing about rejuvenation, Ra explained in detail the technique of the operation and also produced a film to illustrate the extraordinary effects of the transformation produced in patients. The results as shown on the screen were surprising. Persons who ..wore previously thin and decrepit became changed into vigorous men. One, who was old and bent before the treatment, was shown golling, walking, and rowing after the operation. Dr Voronoff said he had performed forty-four operations. The oldest patient was fioventy seven. Ho admitted unit all ho could do was to stimujate organa that were capable of being stimulated.—A. and N.Z. Gable.

INSULIN DISCOVERER HONORED. LONDON, July 18. The King gave a.n audience to Dr Ranting, tho uisooverer of insulin, tho diabetes cure.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BRITISH DEATH RATE. SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION. LONDON, July 18. Mr Neville Chamberlain (Minister of Health), in presiding at a Qovonjpient luncheon to tho delegates to the Surgeons’ Conference, said that during the last twenty years the death auto in Britain has boon reduced from 17 per 1,000 to 13 per 1,000. The extension of life hud increased by about a decade. This was indubitably duo to the advancement made by surgical science.—A. and N.Z. Cable.