MEDICAL CONGRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15374, 8 August 1913, Page 7

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

DELIBERATIONS OPENED. ■ '"'■'V'.-' ' ■•■ ■ ' ■''. '\- I -■."■■'■.' LINK IN IMPERIAL IDEAL. • MODERN DISCOVERIES. By Telegraph Association— London, August 6. The International Medical Congress was formally opened to-day in the Albert Hall, a gathering of 8000 delegates and their associates being present. The scene was a picturesque and animated one, many of the delegates wearing their academic gowns. Prince Arthur of Connaught, in welcoming the visitors on behalf of the King, recalled Pasteur's discoveries as a feature of the 1881 Congress, but said the Rontgen ray and radium furnished the medical world with' far more powerful weapons for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Australia, New Zealand, and other Dominions had assisted Great Britain to convene the Congress, thereby forging another link in the Imperial ideal. Sir Thomas Barlow then delivered the • presidential address.

PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.

CANNOT BE DIVORCED. « Sydney Sun Cable.Copyright. (Received August 7, 7.10 p.m.) London, August 7. Dr. Schaefer. president of the physiology section, in a notable address, said that physiology could not be divorced from medicine. It depended on the support it had always received from the medical profession in repelling attacks on its methods by the ignorant fanatics of all countries.