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Over 700 doctors from the six New England states banqueted at Memorial Hall last night in connection with the fourth Annual New England Postgraduate Assembly, which is holding a two day conference at Harvard ending today.

Speaker at the dinner was Dr. John Ed Fulton, Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale, who has just returned from a trip to England. He described the most recent findings of British doctors concerning brain concussions resulting from bomb explosions. Apparently, he said conclusion results from a too rapid speed increase occasioned by the blast. If the head remained stationary concussion would not result.

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