MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 235, 21 September 1911, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

AUSTRALIA’S UNFIT YOUTHS. Sydney, Sept. £<•’ Dr. Purdy declared that felly i-a xr cent of the youth -of Australasia vcrc unfitted for efficient mi’itarv :erv ice. but in the course of a v -.-y : ew years, owing to the great :nirrevement < f national physique cf fcc-tcd by c anptihory training .the torrent-age i.f unfit s would be g'-i a t y rc-dv.i-cd. ALCOHOL NOT NECSSARY. Dr. Hayward, in a paper deal'eg with alcohol, said that whereas for merly every case cf aenle disease was treated more c.r less with al•r.hol, it was now generally recog lised that alcohol was net necessary -xeep: under certain definite ertndi ions. To order neurotic patients ilc :'!<.l was almost as wrong as to tipply them with morphia and hypodermic syringes. BENEFITS OF VACCINATION. Prc.fi ssor Allen, in a paper on u-nitii ami vaccine therapy, slated .hat a:: a re;-.ill of vaccination in : lermnuy smallpox had been practic■lllv stamped ent. while American :tat i.- t ivs showed that the incidence i.f typhoid was lift ten times less aim ng ini.rulatcd [icrs ins than those not inocnlaled. THERAPEUTIC ’ REMEDIES. (Received 21, I L2t» a.ni.) Sydney, Sept. 21. At the et nf- ri r.i-e. Dr. Lawrence, president of the Dermolology section. dealing with radi'um iheraphy, declared it was cf great value in :<.im inopenable malignant c.->ndi tions. Occasion illy surprising results followi d the use of laditun. which is often of immense value in the treatment of skin diseases, but a judicious select ion cf eases Io)

treatment was absolutely necessary. Professor -Allen declared that five thousand cases of syphilis had recently been discovered as the result of collect ive inve-l igat ion in Melbi.urne by means <:f the )\ asserm inn

test. It was pr-visicnally estimated that seven per <■< ntum of tli<- population of Melbourne were infected in some stage or degree, but there was no reason to suppose Melbourne was worse than any other capital. Dr. Hayward, in a paper on the treatment : f disease, declared he was becoming convinced that fasting f< i- health vva.- a valuable therapeutic agent, justified <>n physiological grounds, also <:i --mmnon -eiise. Mental S'lgg. St i.m V.m- al- > valuable hi certain c< injilmm - attd rl: .uld be de-. e 1;.|>- d.