“MEHLCAL FACE” A MYTH. The theory limb there i> a medical type of face—just as there is supposed to be a legal type—must be abandoned. So much was blear to the most casual observer '(writes the * 'NewsChronicle”) at the opening of the cent on ary meeting ol the British Medical Association at the association headquarters in Tavistock square, London. About 300 doctors from alt over the country iworo present at the “The Doctors' Parliament.” Some looked like farmers, other like poets, and others were like successful stockbrokers. Some were bearded,- some clean-shaven. Some lutd long hair, and some short. Some wore the conventional dark clothes usually, associated with the doctor. Some wore cheerful tweeds. Probably Lord Dawson of Penn, the neav president, with Ids keen, cleancliavcn face, most closely approached the doctor of popular tradition. But, although the delegates varied so'surprisingly in appearance,. they had one thing in common. They all spoke briefly.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 5
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