“VERY FRIENDLY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 10

“VERY FRIENDLY”

EMINENT U S. SURGEON VISITS NEW ZEALAND TRAINS COULD BE BETTER “I think that Captain Cook should fiave named your country the ‘Friendly Islands/ We have been overwhelmed with hospitality.” This tribute comes from one of America’s most distinguished surgeons, Dr. Evarts Ambrose Graham, who arrived in Auckland this morning. He will sail by the Tofua on on jhls return to America, but before doing so he will address the Auckland branch of the British Medical Association on the work in which he is specially interested. Dr. Graham hits just finished a lecturing course at the Melbourne University, which he visited at the invitation of the post graduate committee. He has a high regard for medical work in Australia, which he confjidtrs is on a very high plane. Tnia eminent surgeon, who among Other things i,& a professor of surgery At the Washington University at St ]Louis, disproves the myth that ali Americans like talking about themoelves. He admitted that one field of surg®ry which was making great advances at the present time is surgery of the lung for certain kinds of tuberculosis. In many instances it has been possible to cure T.B. by compressing the lung, but beyond that Dr. Graham Would net go. He is the originator of a method of Mhowing gall bladder with X-rav and this has greatly increased the sibility to diagnose the trouble more acurately. This subject will be discused by Dr. Graham to the Auckland surgeons and doctors. He likes New Zealand as a tourist resort; unlike some of his fellowcountrymen, he thinks the hotels are comfortable, but he is not too fond ©f our trains.