MILITARY MEDICINE
AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. FORTY NATIONS REPRESENTED. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . RUGBY, May 1. One of the most important forthcoming engagements of the Prince of Wales will bo a reception at St. James’s Palace bn Monday evening to distinguished doctors who will come to Loudon to attend the ■lnternational Congress on Military Medicine and Pharmacy. The congress will have a membership of nearly 1000 doctors, dentists, or pharmacists who belong to or have belonged to armed forces or to an organisation connected with military, medical services. Forty different nations will be represented. , The congress developed out of the custom of pooling the medical experience of the Allied armies during the war. It has already been held in Brussels, Paris, Rome, and Warsaw. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans (War Minister) will open the congress. . One of the first subjects to be discussed will be the extremely modern problem of removing the sick and wounded by air.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20707, 3 May 1929, Page 9
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