MEDICAL RESEARCH WORK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 9

MEDICAL RESEARCH WORK.

PAST YEAR’S OPERATIONS. VIEWS OF SPECIALISTS. (Special to Daili Times.) AUCKLAND, December 27. Few discoveries and advances of major importance, state several of the city s leading surgeons and physicians, were made during 1927, but that year has not been barren of effective research work is indicated. “ There has been material elaboration of X-ray work,’’ said it specialist in this medium of diagnosis. Particularly was this the case in its wider application to the investigation ot internal troubles. No longer was the use of X-rays restricted to the photographing of fractures. To-day it was a valuable medium in revealing the extent and progress of the disease in many forms. What was perhaps one of the most gratifying features of modern X-ray exploitation was the increasing degree of safety with which it was used. “In the realm of medicine,” said a leading physician, “ the year has been disappointing in its failure to realise the hopes of important advances. There has, however, been a great deal achieved in innoculative treatment of scarlet fever and diphtheria.” At a "recent meetintr of the British Medical Association in England, he mentioned, papers of interest had been read on the treatment of pernicious anaemia by liver extract. In' some cases .he treatment of this common disease ordinary calf’s liver had been used, but a successful attempt had been made to isolate from livers the active ingredients for curing graver forms of anaemia. It was, he believed, the outstanding event of the, year in medicine. Incidentally, the result of this branch of research had been successfully exploited in Now Zealand.