MEDICAL CONGRESS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8655, 13 February 1914, Page 4

MEDICAL CONGRESS

INTERESTING PAPERS DISCUSSED, Press Association, AUCKLAND, February 11. The sittings of' tho Medical Congress were continued to-day. Papers ivoro read and interesting discussions -took place in practically every one of the eleven departments of tbe conferDr Robertson, of read a paper giving the results of a comparatively new method of curing tho land of deafness that, in the past, Ims been considered hopeless. This is the deafness in, which tho patient , hears well in a noise, as when riding in a tram, a train, or in a ball room. Of thirty cases quoted eighteen did very well,, five were improved and seven were not affected. The good results were obtained in young people, the. older patients giving less satisfactory results. , Other members of the section quoted their experiences with the method and agreed with Dr Robertson in his conclusions.

In an. interesting paper on “The Mental Measurement of Children,” contributed by Dr Harvey Sutton (of the Melbourne Education Department),- the subject of standardising tho powers of thought was dealt with as necessary in practical work, and- in the interests of the movement designed for the benefit of the children. The Binet system of testing and fixing a cctrtain ' standard to constitute normality for each age was mentioned favourably. There was a large attendance of members of tho section of medicine to hear Dr. Colquhoun, of Dunedin, road a masterly paper on “Rheumatoid Arthritis,” a disease similar to, but in no way connected with rheumatism. The exapt origin of tho disease is yet a matter of speculation and discussion. This condition is at present being treated by radium emanations, and apparently with some success.