MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 21 September 1911, Page 6

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Sydney, September 20. At the .Medir.il Congress Dr. Purdy declared that fully *lO per cent, of the youth of Australia were unfitted for efficient military service, but in the course of a very few years, owing i.o the groat improvement in the national physique effected by compulsory training, the percentage of unfits would ho greatly’ reduced. ’ Dr. Hayward read a paper dealing with, alcohol. Whereas formerly evary case of acute disease u;as treated mo v or loss with alcohol, it was now gaa>rally recognised that, it was not noec.s-

ssivy, except under certain definite conditions to order neurotic patients alcohol. It was almost as ■ row. as to supply them with mom ua an 1 I>podermic syringes. Professor Alien road a paper on scrum and vaccine therapy. Ino resiut of vaccination in Germany was that, small-pox was practically stamped out, while American statistics showed that luo incidence of typhoid was fifteen times less among inoculated than those not inoculated. The value, of radium, fasting favoured. ’(Received 21, 10.55 a.m. ) y Sydney, September 21; At the Medical Conference Dr. Lawrence,, president of file dctormatology section, dealing with radium theraphy, declared that it was of great value in some inoperable malignant conditions. Occasionally surprising results followed. Radium was often of immense value in the treatment of ski a diseases, but judicious selection of cases for treatment was absolutely necessary. Professor Allen declared that live thousand cases of syphilis were recently discovered as the result of collective investigations in Melbourne by moans of the Washormann test. it was provisionally estimated that 7 per cent of the population of Melbourne was infected in some stage or degree. There was no reason to suppose it was worse tnan any ctiiei capital. Dr. Hayward, in a. paper on the treatment of disease, declared that he was becoming convinced that fasting for health was a valuable therapeutic 1 agent, which was justified on physiological grounds ami also common sense. Mental suggestion aas also valuable in certain complaints and should bo developed.