FIGHT AGAINST CANCER.
SURGICAL SHOCK THEORY. HONONLULU, Friday. Dr. Osborne, of Melbourne, addressed a large public session on the cancer plague, comparing cancer to an invading army to which one in five falls a victim. He described the Australian fight against the disease, and predicted a victory, perhaps, within this generation. Dr. Osborne’s physiology paper caused much discussion among the surgeons as developing a new theory regarding surgical shock. Dr. Osborne said that the idea widely held by American surgeons that a combined local and general anaesthetic prevented shock was incorrect, because the real cause of shock was a' poison called hystamine, freed whenever tissue was injured. Prevention should be obtained by the maximum avoidance of injuring tissues. —A. and N.Z. P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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