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covaries, but
merely that the financial difficulties by which he has been embarassed in his operations are in the
of bown making. It is not dis pute thur he has given many years of this hfe to the study of bucbario- logy in its volation to tuberculosis, or, that he has spent his own for- tune and dissipated that of his family in the prosecution of his re- searches fortunes which might have been recouped long ere this if he had been less elusive, if he had gone the right way to convince a deeply concerned world both of his own bona fides and of the genuine- ness of his claims. His attitude | throughout has bọcu such as to
enst doubt an: bath,
NOVEMBER 4 1925
SHREDS AND PATCHES:
The "colds season TREAT THAT is drawing fear. COLD. Dr. Alexander Drake, writing In
PORTAL MATTER..
the "Lancet, puts in a strong point in what follows plea for a day or two in bed as a Mr. Glibert Murray's complaint. "cold" first makes its presence precautionary measure when a letter is written and duly
felt. As a first stage in a battle stamped and then posted. It is against the common cold" Dr. the duty of the post office people Drake wants to have the name to deliver the latter at its in changed and another substituted,scribed destination, and it is also. which shall be more expressive of its duty to deface the stamp. But its actual nature. He writes does the cost of postage Includo the admission that the post
It is a curious fact that the people are allowed to stamp en- general public has not realised velopes with any old thing they that the common application of like to devise?" Fancy letters from the word "cold" is a complete Hongkong to England bearing on misnomer, and, moreover, the envelope such things as:- actually misleading,
"Hongkong's climate is the best." "The symptoms which are
Our P.W.D. is the best" and so on But hearken to Mr. Gilbert grouped together under the name of a "cold" are due to in- Murray who enquires plaintively vasion of the system within the columns of the "Manchester micro-organisms of varying Guardian" whether there is any viralence, and the results of way of preventing the Post- such invasion are often disas with his correspondence abroad. ---- master-General from interfering trous."
It is well, however, that there. are those in and out of the modical profession who do not slique die: general sceptician and who are at. least prepared to assist the in- vestigator to make good his claims. Of a medical committee of five mem- bers of the House of Commons, wholy to deaths from respiratory (he says) the Postmaster General complaints, many of which owe gets hold of the envelope and their origin to the common stampa on it the statement 'Bri- coldi
tish Goods are Beat. This re- mark is in the first place gratui people suffering from colds, (Dr. untrue, and in the second place is
The circumstances of many tously. irrelevant and often- an agricultural committee at Crewe Drake adda), are such that it is calculated to irritate my foreign to initiate a British fund to assist quite possible for them to remain correspondent. I cannot remem-
The lengths of the obituary contents inside, but stamping in- he does not mean prying into the columns in the daily papers sulting remarks outside. "When- during the winter are due main-ever I write to a friend abroad
visited Geneva, recently to study his methods three were personally satis fied as to their efficacy and, have since persuaded, not Partiament but
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in promoting the crucial test of in bed for the first few days. If ber who the Postmaster-General which there is now a reasonable only they would do so, not only is, and I can believe that, ne fa
would their own disability be dangerously eccentric and tyran- Dr. Spahlinger, after shortened, but many susceptible nical person to interfere with, but persons would be spared a similar surely there must be some legal infection.
method of restraining, him, from not give free advice!
Don't any now that Doctors do this sort of meddling with pri
vate correspondence."
MAN'S BIRTHPLACE
prospect. much pressure by this body, has un- dertaken to go to London und to put his methods for treating bovine Lenberculosis to a convincing trial inj Euglund, where at last the keenest interest is being displayed in the utter. A movement is there afoot, for the micbags of the Spuhlinger
The ampler description which we sands he has unearthed stone im Institute in Geneva and, presum have just received shows that the xements of that rather late and ably, the formulas of its founder discoveries of the Americah Expedi-complished culture which is called: The sun required is, it appears, tion in Mongolia are even more in evidence of this particular civilisa Azilian. There has been no other modest, £30,000. That at any rate tereating and important than the tion existing in Asia. The odd
So.. Mr.
is the sun which the Crave comfirst news suggested, says the thing about these Azilian knives.and und labouring in the same field, mittee is asking the British public Daily Telegraph. The story of needles is that they were found in have accomplishid mirades into subscribe, Sir Alfred Mund, the unveiling of cintch after clutch sediment which must be from 10,000 diminishing the sum of human M.P., who with Mr. Ernest Craig of dinosaurian eggs, perfectly preto 20,000 years old, that is, very suffering in the world. Indeed in "the member for Crewe; has been served by a natural, miracle, millions much older than any of the Azilian that can. Dr. Spalinger would be abestutely converted to the belief of years after they were laid is remain in Europe. Overland China Mail.accorded the right to stand at the Spablinger ant-his treatment is head of that illustrious band of among those who are stamping the Melle Annual cubscription, E.Eraman benefactors, Not yet, how country for, saboriptions. Speak over, his the Scientific world been g at Carmarthen in Wales he de persuaded that the pretensions of cured that it would be criminal to phis remarkably Swiss art.soundly
hesitate when millions of pounds a based. It is remarkable that year were being spent in combating although more than three years have the discnee, of consumption.. Dr Telephones Central 22 & 4641. elapsed since Dr. Spallinger's Spahlinger, having definitely a Cable Address:- Kail, Hongkong, alleged discoveries were proclaimed, cepted the oitus of proof as to the
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efficacy of the treatment." At last, respecting these set at rest. however, there is a prospect of Dr. Spablinger's claims being put to a
crucial and atisfying fest. As the LOCAL WEDDING. result of a long correspondence be-f
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tween him and an English agriculSENIOR REVENUE OFFICER tural committee, specially concerned with bovine tuberculosis, be has
one of the best of the fairy tales Andrews reports, and his inférence of science. We must congratulate is that sit had attained to this which led itim, us he puts it, so that it came to Eirope from Asia, Mr. Andrews on the lucky agucity oivilisation long before Eumpo, one of the few places of the world and that on these Mongolian plaina where the efforts of the female man had, his origin. Yet only a dinosaurs could thus survive. The few days ago Sir Arthur Keith was layer of the eggs, it is another piece arguing that an earlier and rader of luck, had the kindness to be of culture spread from Europe to three different families, and are of Palestine, and suggested that we much significance in the genealogy must find the birthplace of man in of the reptiles of the past. But the the dat lands about the Baltic. discovery of the eggs, though the There is, indeed, no adequate evi- pedition's work, is not the most have before us in Central Asia a most picturesque part of the exdence for other conjecting We
important. We haveshitherto been very highly specialised breed of inclined to make u shp distinction man. The Mongol races show such between the age of reptiles and the marked differences from the rest of age of mammals. When the Inge mankind as to suggest that they auring ourished, diplodocus, huye very long been developing in tyrannosaur, dinosaur, and the rest, isolation and under peculiar condi. our world, had not va assumed the tions. It is generally held that aspect, we know, distribution the stock from which they spring of land and sex was different, the diverged at a very early period from NEAVE-On November 1 at undertaken to go to London next both at the Union Church Hennedy vegetation was different. So far nawas shzreguled. Bart where them, There was a large attendance temperature was different, the the rest of primitive humanity, and Colwyn Bay, North Wales,† Thomas Neave, Superinten month tacondust the desired tests, Read, and at the reception at the we can read the recopila that age did mun first attain to humanity? dent Engineer, The Hongkong The prevention and cure of V.R.C. which followed it on the ended in a complete, perhaps a sud Among the most primitive, the most & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd. tuberculosis are of such national-im- of Senior Revenue Officer George were wiped out, a number of sirimal are those found in Java. It Occasion of the wedding yesterday den, revolution. The great reptiles ancient remains of a man-like for 26 years in employment of the Company. Deeply portance that one wonders why Wast and Mies, Margaret M. Pirie, reptilian families oe to be, and is an obvious assumption that "the regretted, i
convincing, experiments have been tier reference to which was me left no descendant, According to first creatures who rose above the so long delayed. Again and again; The Rey. J. Horace Johnson other such change in the population region where monkeys were numer
yesterday.
our knowledge, there has been no monkey, race must have lived in 6 Hongkong, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1925, when applications have been ad- officiated.
dressed to Dr. Spahlinger for sera
of the world. The reptiles wants, The bride, who recently arrived out and the mammals came in, and found that in the foothills of the A few years ago evidence was or vaccines a curand lack of peace in the Colony from Scotland, was to them the future of timal life was Himalayas there lived in the remote has invariably been pleaded as the given way by Mr. A. Taylor committed. What were the causes nge which geologista pall Miocene ase of his inability to supply and eaten in ute. He of the change no man knows. How certain apes showing auch diver It is reasonable to suppose that them. Whether, if he had been bouquet way of white, chrysat there is no guessing. The cothrom Inman structure that they they have dress of satin charmante. Her mammals began to be and when gences from other spes towards sooner or later the truth will be less secretive and no greater pains themums and white heather.
ty accepted estimatoa put the age of been the uncestors of man. It is at known as to the ments, if it has to dispel the sceptician with which Mines Margaret and Mary Agnes reptiles from five to ten million years less crtain thil this part of Asia any, of the Spankinger treatment of his claims have been received in Taylor were bridesinsia and flower ngo, when the chalk of one down was then producing many tuberculosis. Either Dr. Spah quarters whence financial assistance tressed in heliotrope georgette and vanished ocean Were rejecture that from one of these Finde girl respectively, the former being, was being deposited beneath a kinds of monkeys and boule con linger is a victim of self-deception, might lase been infidently looked carrying a bouquet of heliotrope already man with a rare faculty for deceiving for, he would hav others, as well as bimself, a design-difficulty be has ing charisten, bent on extorting funds be needed
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