Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-08-14
BR|TONS DRINKING
LESS |NTOX|CANTS
Doctors Asked to Check Con-
sumption of Medicated Wines
Clinic by Albee.

London Aug S.--The very remarkable
spread of temperance in the British isles
in every rank of society was recorded by
Sir Thomas BARLOW, president of the IN
ternational medical congress, in speech
delivered to several hundred doctors or
various nationalities at a breakfast gwen
Today in their honor by the National
temperance League in the Grafton CALLER
les
Sir Thomas said that a great improve
ment in this respect had taken place IN
the army and the navy where the young
officers were setting a good example 10
their men There had also been an enor-
nous change among the commercla'
classes while the use of alcohol In hoSpl-
tails and by medical men generally mad
greatly decreased
The president made an appeal to the
doctors to ondeavor to check the con-
sumption of medicatcd wines, all of which
he said were mlschievous.
DR. shirayama OF Toxic ut the meeting
of the section devoted to tropical medi-
cine asserted that students of the disease
Of bcri-hcr had been unable to discover
the cause of the malady He had come to
the conclusion that if the disease was
caused by deficiency of a certain kind OF
nutriment there was no reason why 1t
should not occur among other peoples
than those of the Far East
GIVES CAUSE OF BER1-BERI
Or w L. Braddon of England declared
that beri-bcri was due to the use of rice
which had been deprived Of its surface
layer of cells containing alfurone. He rec
commended the abolition of quarantine for
the disease which had been proven non
infectious.
The degrees of the newly constituted
American College of Surgeons whose first
conVocation is to be held at Chicago on
November 70, are to be presented by Sir
Hickman John GOdlee, president of the
British Royal College of Surgeons who
to-day accepted an invitation handed TO
him by a delegation of distinguished Am
eriCan surgeons. The delegates We're
Franklin II. Martin, Chicago, seCretary of
the American College. John Beniamn
Murphy, Chicago, George Emerson Brow
er, New York, George w. Grille. Cleveland,
and William j. Mayo, Rochester, MINI.
Fcllowships of the American college
are to he bestowed at it's first meeting on
400 prominent surgeons of Canada and
the United States.
The principal social function of the day
was a brilliant reception rendered by the
lord mayor and the lady mayoress at the
Guildhall tonight to delegates from all
parts of the world who are members of
permanent commissions.
DIR. ALBEE'S OPERATION.
Dr. + II, Albee of New York, mem
Der of the medical faculty at the Uni
Nersity of Vermont, performed an opera
ton yesterday never before done in this
country. 1t consisted of the taking of a
shaving Of bone from patients shin
and with 1t plating a section of two or
more vcrtehrae of the spine, The patient
was a fOur-Year-od boy
The actual splint was obtained by cut
ting down ~ the shnbone of the pa
tents left leg and then, with an cleo
tNcallv driven circular saw, cutting out
n portion of the shinbone COR tbia) some
three inches long by a third Of an inch
wide. This bony splint was then inserted
cdgewise into the furrow left in four
diseased vertebrate and was kept in place
by stitching the surrounding tissues over
1t. The skin wounds in the back and in
the leg We're then closed.
The whole operation was done under a
general anaesthetic and took % minutes