Osaka, Mar, 31, The eighth Medical Congress of Japan opens here to-morrow and will Inst for five days.
Professor Yasuhiko Sato, the wollknown pathologist and pathological anatomist, will preside. over a re): gathering' of 5,000 medical men, including q number of distinguished European, American and Chinese specialists, whose presence for the first time gives an international importance to the Congress. These include Professor Hoffman, of che University of Bonn, a famous specialist in skin diseases: Professor Madsen, President of the Serum Institute ' of Denmark: Professor Axenfeld, of the University of Freiburg, a world-famous eye specialist, and Professor Arthur Black, Dean of the North-western University Dental School, The English medical profession is conspicuous by its absence.—Reuter.
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