MEDICAL RESEARCHES.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 6

MEDICAL RESEARCHES.

ilu' 11it*-.- along u Inch medical and ..uiycal research Hill probably progresa lining 1!HJ!) were sketched out recently iv Ilu- stall physician ol our of the iii'iil London hospitals. "With regard in cancer," In' said, "there Is little hollo iliiih* tlir Hi'*' vi'iu will bring us tuo olnliun. lull this great problem in being Mudicd in almost every civiliaed '■iimitry in tin- world. Noteworthy among men Imm whom ui' may expect) unod results in cancer research i» Dr de liraeca, <il Paris. His theory that 'cr is a niodilicd form ol tuberculosis is at present the centre of a controversy which may within the nc*l .car give ik a inure Impelnl method ■I attacking ll"' great scourge. A* lias lici'ii the case lor many yearn tbo ireatcst adwincc will doubtless bo ill -uigciy. Surgeons art; now operating mi almost every organ of the body. .Nut loiij: lino the late of the far-ad-vanced consumptive, with cavitien in his lungs, was considered M<alcd. 11l the last lew months there have been operations lor opening and draining these cavities, and cases thus relieved arc being shown as curiosities at medical societies. Drain and spinal surgery are also making rapid strides, and tbo coining year will probably revolutionise I lie treatment ol birth palsy."