THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 7

THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH

ADAPTABILITY TO VOCATIONS. EMINENT SPECIALISTS ADDRESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 5. (Received June 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Lord Dawson, in an address to tho American doctors’ conference, pointed out that modem life was really an overdose of struggle and was apt to produce not strength but stress. It seemed that the internal combustion engine, the telephone and wireless had outstripped man’s power of adaptation, with the result that he was so tuned up that he remained tuned up even during so-called play and leisure. The profession would have to become an increasingly educational body. They would be consulted on the nature of suitable employment, and should not. hesitate to tell an anxious nam that ho must not become a signalman, and not allow a top-heavy girl with a tendency to varicose veins to become a waitress. By judicious guidance of the health of youth they would be more and more called on to direct the life of the people, • although they would not have accomplished any card-index system.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MEAT DIET ADVOCATED. HEALTH OF NEW ZEALANDERS. LONDON, June 5. (Received June 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Tho English-speaking union gave a luncheon to the American and Canadian doctors. Dr Woods Hutchison, the well-known American medical writer, made a wholehearted appeal for a meat diet. Ho said there was not a particle of evidence to support the old nonsense that meat was bad for gout and the kidneys. Overeating races like the Now Zealanders, the Australians and tho Canadians had tho lowest death-rate in the world. People who lived on cereals had about as much power to resist disease as tows and rabbits. His advice was to eat plenty of blitter and cream—anything full of vitamines. Children did not want bread and butter but butter and bread, and the more intelligent would lick the butter off tho bread.—A. and N.Z. Cable. The conference is being- attended by American and Canadian doctors as part; of the annual Inter-State Post Graduate Assembly of America, which this year is being held in Canada and Euronc. They have already spent six days at tho medical institutions of Canada. They will leave London on Juno 22 and go to Paris, Lyons, and Strasburg, sailing for America on July 4. The Duke of York accepted the presidency of the organisation, formed of many prominent physicians end surgeons, which undertook the reception ot tho visitors. The banquet of the Assembly will be held at the Hotel Cecil on June 5, when Mr Nevills Chamberlain will bo the chief speaker. Receptions will be given by the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons, Lord and Lady Dawson of Penn, .Sir W. Arbuthnot, and Lady Lane, ami the American Women’s Club; and garden parties in honour of the visitors will bo given -by tho London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals. The assembly is being attended by ’many of the best known doctors of America and Canada. Dr C. H. Mayo, the nresiilent, is one of the famous brothers of the Mavo Clinic at Rochester. Minnesota. Dr Franklin Martin is director of the American College of Surgeons, and Dr George W. Crile is well-known as Professor of at Cleveland. Every part of the United States end most pa-rU of Canada will be rejjrosentcd.