MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 7

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

(Per Press Association.) '.. AUCKLAND, last lyght. i It, is 18 yeavs.aince the Jast congress ] of the .Australasian Medical Congress t wasfheld m New Zealand, and it will be 1 18 yeari before another is held, ; so local 'i doctors are de f t#rinined to make a mem- . orable" event of the congress, which opens at Auckland on Monday next. The. most prominent' medical ':hien m Australasia and -'New Zealand will attend the . meetings, and, m addition, there will be some distinguished naen from other parts of the world, notable being Dr. J. A. Mac Donald, president of the British. Medical; Association, who will repl^e'senj>,^thab body, i The. ' Ameri- j can Society of Medicine, .and the Can- \ adian branch of the B.M. A. are also J sending representatives. The Governor l is: coming up from Wellington to wel- ( come the guests, and members pf . the : Cabinet win, also be present: ' The work of the congress has^ been divided into 11 sections, each, with its ] own president, viz : -—. v . ''■ ' (1) Medicine — President, Dr. Sinclair j Gillies, Sydney. (2). Surgery— President, Mr Hamilton Russell, Melbourne. . {3) GbStetrics arid .Gynaecology—President, Sir David ,"gardie, Melbquirne. (4) Pathology/ etc.— President, Professor D. A. Welsh Sydney! {5) Public health and Slate Medicine —President, Dr. J. Ri S. Elkinglori, . Brisbane. . • i (6) Ophthalmology— President, Dr F. Anti 11 Pockley, ' Sydney. >. (7) Psychological medicine .and neurology—Presideht,rD>: C&ishelm rßoss, , Sydney., ' - (8) Diseases of children and'ortho--Kiedics^-President,- Dr. H. Swift, Ade-' i'de. „ (9) .Naval and ..military medicine and suygery "f- President, Colonel Chirjes R i v.B%,''M&bourne." ■** "' ' \ '.'■' OtGj' Dermatology, radiology, etc—President,' Dr. H'evsehel Harris. Sydney. i\)<l\. •Laryngology, etc.— President, Dr. H:c. Rupselr- Nolan, o^Mney-./' . ••"■' ;E»Jx^of ~ the ':.ll kections will hold a copfareitce ; every morning, next week -at which^pai t>c.rs will; be read and discussed: *'Ai£oombined meeting' of the medical nnd:'<(ublic. health section? will' be hqld to ''discuss ■ the .diagnosis of smallpox, ripd l^tbe', best- means of preventing its • *i" • the light of ■' experience gi}j*msfj ,r i" the recent- epidemics iiv.Syd-nev^id'<New'-'Zealand. .'this -subject will tc read .byjDrv Park, 1 of .Sydney, and Dr. Monk, ot" Auckland.''" J ■ '|; Following the; lines of the.recont.congress- m "the Old Country, a good deal of will, be paid to the subject of 'venereal diseases. ...•'.