SPAHLINGER SERUM
SIR DONALD McGAVIN IMPRESSED. FAIR EXPENDITURE JUSTIFIED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 13. Sir Donald McGavin, formerly DirectorGeneral of Medical Services in the New Zealand Defence Department, who returned to Wellington yesterday from a tour of Europe, discussing the Spahlinger treatment for consumption, said there was sufficient evidence in favour of the treatment to justify the expenditure of a fair sum in acquiring material for treatment to be carried out in the Dominion. It should be made clear, however, that the evidence was not complete in its scientific requirements, i.e., accurate cases of records before, during and after treatment were not available, except in a few cases. There was written evidence of competent authorities who visited the Spahlinger laboratory, including French, British and other medical men. Continuing, Sir Donald McGavin said the attitude of medical men towards the treatment had been construed as narrow-minded, which was quite unfair in view of the incomplete state of the investigation. If the preparation was only a fraction as valauble as Spahlinger and others claimed it to be the money devoted to its development would be profitably expended.
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Southland Times, Issue 19122, 14 December 1923, Page 5
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187SPAHLINGER SERUM Southland Times, Issue 19122, 14 December 1923, Page 5
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