STUDY ABROAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27058, 18 April 1949, Page 4

STUDY ABROAD

PATHOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM ESTABLISHMENT OF LOCAL LABORATORY Special Correspondent WELLINGTON. Apl. 17. A laboratory for the study of pathology of the nervous system is to be set up in association with the neurosurgical unit at Dunedin Hospital. As a preliminary to the establishment of this new laboratory, Dr W. S. Alexander, senior lecturer in pathology at Otago University Medical School, has been overseas on a two-year postgraduate course. His study in overseas centres was sponsored jointly by the Dunedin Hospital and the Mental Hygiene Division of the Health Department. Dr Alexander and his wife arc now returning to Dunedin in the Mataroa, which visited Wellington yesterday on its way to Port Chalmers.

Dr Alexander said his studies had taken him to Canada, the United States, England and the Continent, where he studied pathology of the nervous system. Most of his time was spent at the University of Toronto under Professor William Boyd, and at London Hospital under Professor Dorothy Russell. Dr Alexander said that the planned study of pathology of the nervous system was a new development for New Zealand. There had hitherto been no organised attempt to develop this particular field. It was with the. idea of the development of a laboratory for neurological pathology that the University and Department of Health had sent him abroad for study.