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İNTERESTING DISCUSSIONS AT SURGICAL CONFERENCE.

NAVIGATORS WHO WERE QUITE COLOUR-BLIND.

EXPERT'S PLEA FOR PERIODICAL EXAMINATIONS.

[By REUEL S. MOORE, United Press Staff Correspondent.]

HosoLCLE, T. That medical science has advanced to a point where a wide variety of anesthetics are available to the modern sur- geon, Dr. J. S. Lundy, specialist

Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and consulting occulist of the Royal Australian navy, addressed the con- foresee the next day.

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see it, there are three factors in vision, colour, form and

on anesthesia at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., told surgeons at-right sense," he said,

been effected within four seconds Experts subsequently told me that. rectification had become impos. sible, the moment the helm was put over,

Sir James suggested that for tending the Pan-Pacific Union's

ordinary mariners a 3-year examina. In terms of the occulist' classi. tion should be made up to 30 years surgical conference here."

fication, Sir James fixed a 6/12 of age. For pilots and railway There is no place in anesthesia vision as the lowest standard of enginecere the examination should for any method to be used as visual

acuity compatible with be annual until the age of 80, routine, and with so great a variety anfety. The colour vision should thereafter every six months to 65, of agents and methods at one's dis-be normal.

where 65 is fixed as the retiring posal there is no accepting excuse for fitting the patient to the ance thetic rather than the anesthetic to the patient," Dr, Landy said

Many Agents.

Various agente are available to the surgeon for general anesthesia, including ether, nitrous oxide, ethylene and carbon dioxide. Sometimes more than one agent is

used to advantage.

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Local anesthesia, spinal anesthe. sia and sacral block anesthesia are adaptable and advantageous ia cer- tain areas and cases over general anesthesia, he said.

age.

Tonsils and Vocalists. Removal of the tonsils is no menace to the voica of a trained singer, Dr. Richard Francis of Sydney, Australia, told the confer-

Sir James suggested that in establishing standards of vision the initial standard on entrance in a service should be higher than the standard required from veterans, which would allow for a deteriora tion in eyesight without penalty, ence. and also because someone old in

It is a popular misbelief that fixed service may profit by bie

a singers are apt familiarity with routine and cir-voices ruined by tonsil operations," to have their cumstances, providing they do rot Dr. Francis said. fall below the minimam standard set.

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"I have known & grossly colour blind officer to navigate a ship for years without disaater," Sir James declared.

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"I do not think careful dissection of the tonsils, without damage to the soft palate, affect the voice. All patients of mine haro had definite beneficial results.”

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Sources of Poison."

Dr. Francis said the tonsile may be obvious or inobvious sources of display the typical and familia poison for the syetem. Many cases

The choice of anesthetics to be used for operations in the lower

Five-Yearly Examinations, portion of the abdomea remaina "He was a highly capable man, wider than for the upper portion, who usually had someone else on as past-operative pulmonary com- the watch for him. Furthermore, plications are less frequent in the particular conjunction of events lower abdominal cases, according to rendering the fate of the ship de Dr. Lundy.

pendent upon his colour sense. "However, the tonsil is frequent-

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Despite the wide variety of never developed. This officer havi-17 symptomatically quite quiet THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

was examined by when it is in a highly septic state," nnesthetic methods available, how. gated until he ever, in ordinary lower-abdominal me. Had he been properly examin the specialist continued.

ed when he went to sen,

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he is not suffering from say malig nant lesion, other remains probably the safest and most satisfactory, Dr. Luody said.

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The dize of the tonsil is no

operations, where Junge and beart are normal and career would not have been partial. guide in itself."

before I saw him, he made a bad a wealthy Australian, who spent ly wasted. As it happened, just Dr. Francis described the case of

mistake, but nothing happened.

two years in London suffering from "Instances many be given, as in post-nasal catarrh, and during that the foregoing, of people with poor time underwent a variety of treat. vision successfully following such a ments. His tonsils were symptom- enlling: Sooner or later, however, leap. through mist and rain, safety may depend solely on their colour vision and instant action.

Three Factors In Vision. Uniform standards and proper methods of examination should be adopted for determining the accept ibility of persons employed in navigation and the railway services from a standpoint of vision, Sir James Barrett declared.

"In the case of the wreck of the Australia fa 1904, the vision of

Dr. Francis, however, decided to remove the tonsils, which brought an immediate eure.

He said it was surprising how frequent dormant septic tonsils will

the pilot was investigated. After cause definite constant, or recur. The Melbourne, Australia, oc- he made the first wistake, I esti- ring symptoms in nearby organa, as calist, consulting surgeon to the mated that rectification could have in the foregoing case.

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