AUSTRALASIAN MEDICAL CONGRESS.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 13. The Medical Congress practically concluded to-3ay. . To-morrow there will be a final meeting of the Congress in the morning. At 9 o'clock and at 11.30 a special train will take the visitors to Rotoroia. A RARE DISEASE. In a short paper before the section of bacteriology, pathology and tropical medicine this morning, Professor Champtalouip (of the Otago University) gave an account of an interesting discovery of sporotrichosis, which causes tuberculosis of the kidneys, which was (made in Auckland by Mr Armitage. It was the first case of the kind in New Zealand, and it is extremely rare elsewhere. It is thought the. condition is possibly due to eating decayed fruit 3 on wihich the fungus occurs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20011, 14 February 1914, Page 2
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