ILLS OF HUMANITY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 5 September 1929, Page 9

ILLS OF HUMANITY

MEDICAL MEN IN CONFERENCE MANY QUESTIONS DISCUSSED. I United Pres> Association—By CableCopyright.l (Australian and N Z. Press Association.) Sydney, September 4. Seven hundred medical men and women taking part in the Australasian Medical Congress are holding meetings in various rooms at the University Medical School. At some there are only lonely little groups ot three or four specialists; at others fifty or sixty doctors listened to the '■ending of papers on the ills of huinanity One discussion relates to the use of anaesthetics. Dr. Robert Fowler, of Melbourne, described the work of the Australian inland missions and of the flying doctor, who seveial times had flown 309 miles before breakfast, operated on patients and then icturued to his base. Other interesting papers concerned diseases of the eye, heart and limbs, the medical aspect of gas in warfare, the immunisation of children from diphtheria, and the treatment of stammering. An animated discussion occurred on the subject of septic ulcers. Still unothe.' section took up the question of obstetrics and gynaecology. Dr. Cook, of Darwin, read an absorbing paper on the health of whites in the Northern Territory. There was a paper on animism and determinism read by Dr. Young, of Invercargill, while the surgery section was addressed by D. Gordon Bell, of Dunedin.