MEDICAL RESEARCH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 15

MEDICAL RESEARCH

ADVANCES IN BRITAIN NEW ZEALANDER IMPRESSED [:by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Great advances in the medical research departments both in London and Edinburgh in his own special field, diseases of the heart and circulatory system, were noted by Dr. F. T. Bowerbank, of Wellington, who returned yesterday from a six months' trip abroad. Dr. Bowerbank, who is director of medical services to the army and air force in the Dominion, also visited the War Office in London.

In this research work, Dr. Bowerhank said, a small committee was now co-ordinating the activities in England and America, and that marked a great advance since he had been Home 12 years ago. There was an excellent post-graduate clinic at Hammersmith. The therapeutic department at Edinburgh University had been reorganised and research workers there were doing very good work. Quite a lot of research of importance was being done both in the iiivcstigation of diseases of the heart and in improving methods of diagnosis. There were New Zealanders here and there wherever one went, Dr. Bowerbank continued, and they were all spoken of very highly. In three different hospitals he went to in London on successive days he found a New Zealander as resident medical officer. The New Zealanders were chiefly postgraduate men who had been at the Wellington Hospital and had gone Home lor experience! and to obtain senior degrees in London