MEDICAL ASPECTS OF WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16959, 19 September 1918, Page 8

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF WAR.

♦ LECTURE.-BY DR. MAGUIRE. An interesting lecture entitled "Medical Aspects of the War," was delivered at tho Epsom Library Hall, Manukau Road, last evening by Dr. C. E. Maguire, medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, who served at the front as a lieutenantcolonel in the New Zealand Medical Oorps. The lecturer explained that this war was different from all other campaigns in the fact that, there was a groat deal more scientific knowledge at the disposal of belligerents.. Medical officers had thus been able to cope with certain diseases, such as enteric fever, which had caused a great deal oi mortality among soldiers in former campaigns. Valuable research work had been done in connection with other diseases, such as trench fever and epidemic jaundice. The lecturer described the progress of the wounded from the trenches to the base, and slated that tho introduction of motor-ambulances had changed the whole system of dealing with the wounded. The casualty clearing st& tion had evolved from a comparatively unimportant unit to a very important surgical operating centre. The modern treatment of wounds and the new antiseptics discovered were described. The lecturer exhibited a series of lantern views showing the various methods of transport of the wounded, the wonders of the X-ray, and scenes at the New Zealand hospitals in England. i