TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1250, 13 February 1896, Page 37

TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION.

Dunedin, February 5. A general meeting of the Medical Congress was held to-day to discuss the question of tuberculosis. Professor Watson (Adelaide) opened the discusson, which he explained was intended to wake up the public to the fact that tuberculosis was infectious, therefore a preventable, and under favourable circumstances, a curable disease. Dr Springthorpe, Melbourne, concluded a lengthy address by saying it was by preventative measures rather than by remedial that they would check this fell disease. Dr O’Hara (Melbourne) said that so long as scrofulous children were born, they must expect tubercular disease to flourish. He had known a dock-owner to give 500 guineas for a stud ram and marry bis daughter to a brokendown, strumous object. Dr Murray-Aynsley thought they should protest against persons being sent from the Old Country when seriously affected. Dr Garland brought under notice the treat* raent of cases with creosote.

Various other doctors spoke, amongst them Drs Chappie, Mackenzie and Martin, and a committee was appointed to draft slips of advice suitable for the use of medical men dealing with cases of phthisis ; also, to draft a resolution, to bo brought under the notice of the Governments of the different colonies, having the object of general preventative measures deemed necessary to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Dr Chappie gave an explanation showing that the memorial of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union had not been received with disrespect. A peculiar laryngeal cough habitual to cue of the members had been mistaken for a note of derision.