ILLS OF HUMANITY

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 5

ILLS OF HUMANITY

DISCUSSIONS BY DOCTORS GREAT CONFERENCE (Aust. and N.Z, Cable) Sydney, Sept. 4. There are TOO medical men and women taking part in the Australasian Medical Congress. They ar e holding meetings in various rooms at the University Alodical School. One discussion related to the use of anaesthetics. Dr. Robert. Fowler, of Melbourne, described -the work of Australian inland missions and of a flying doctor who several limes had flown 300 miles before, breakfast, operated on patients, and then returned to lil.s base. Other interesting papers concerned diseases of the eye. heart, and limbs; the medical aspect of gas in warfare, tli e immunisation of children from diphtheria, and the treatment, of stammering. An animated discussion occurred on the subject of septic ulcer. Still another section took up the question of obstetrics and gynaecology. Dr. Cook, of Darwin, road an absorbing paper on the health of whites in the Northern Territory. There wa s a paper on animism and determination read by Dr. .7. Young, of Invercargill, while a surgery, section was addressed by Professor Gordon 8011, of Dunedin.