THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13930, 11 February 1914, Page 6

THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.

SOME ILLUMINATING ADDRESSES

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Auckland, Feb. 10

'tJie Medical Congress settled down to its work this morning. Each of the eleven sections held conferences, and papers were read-aiid discussed at all of them. Most-of the addresses were of"a. highly techißcal character, dealing with the care- and prevention of various diseases. .The mdmbers of the surgery section have arranged to. pay visits to the Auckland Hospital, where demonstrations will be given by some of the-highly skilled surgeons and specialists. . In the section of medicine Dr. Sinclair Gillies gave a brilliant address, in which ho made special reference to the combating of tuberculosis. The stethoscope was yielding some of its priority in diagnosis to the thermometer weighing machine, microscopic, X rays, and the specific erection or tuberlin test. Many alleged cures of tuberculosis had been brought forward, but no preparation had yet established- its claim to cure. In the mental disease section Dr. Godfrey* (Hospital for the Insane, Melbourne) renewed the progress made in the treatment of mental disorders, during the last thirty years. A very interesting paper by Dr. Anfopw Davidson showed the increasing regaM medical men have- for the psychological aspect in combating mental disease. In the diseases of -children section Dr. Latchfield, of Sydney, quoted figures from all parts of -the world to show, that by placing children out in homes under proper supervision, instead of keeping them in central institutions, the mortality among them was reduced by 50 per cent. Other papers read, and ordered to be printed, dealt with the physical condition of young Territorials, the health of school children, and diseases of the eve, ear, and throat, etc.