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THE CHINA MAIL,
THE MAN WITH THE SCALPEL
The Art Of Surgery → Ancient And Modern
EVIL SPIRITS
Why The Heart Of King Pharaoh Hardened
OPERATIONS DESCRIBED
Lord Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, who lectured at Leeds on "Surgery, ancient and modern," showed some remarkable photographic slides of the results of surgical operations performed a thousand years before Christ and of the actual anatomi- cal remains of the Pharaoh of Moses's time, and also of Napoleon.
WELL-PRESERVED HEART
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KING'S INQUIRY OF “MOTHER OF THE BRITISH ARMY”'
WAR MEMORIES
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Innumerable British soldiers who fought in the war met the Baroness Ernest, de la Grange, owner of the famous old chateau, La Motte au Bois, who was better known those who served in the Messines sector of Flanders as the "Mother of the British Army." Her re- miniscences. published under the title of "Open House in Flanders," Perhaps the most interesting, or five holes were sometimes will come as a reminder that there visceral discovery, he said, was found, and in one skull found in was sometimes a lighter side to the that which afflicted the Pharaoh Peru a allver plate was found at-war, at least on the Lines of Com- of the Oppression. The large ted to the cranial defect, no doubt munication. vessel springing from the heart to prevent a too considerable ex- Not that the chateau was always of This monarch Was found intrusion of the brain. The opera- behind the lines. Early in October. such a well-preserved state that tion of trepanning must have 1914, it was in danger from Mr. S. G. Shattalk, of the Royal been successful as a rule, for the marauding Uhlans, and when these College of Surgeons, was able to vary great majority of the skulls were driven back the chateau be- take sections of it and comparo examined showed a more satisfac- came the headquarters of succes- them with those taken from a man tory healing of the hone edges. sive staffs of British Generals. recently dead. The two sections The Royal College of Surgeons Then came the German offensive of were seen side by side on a lan- now possessed wonderful collec-1918, and the chateau, situated in tern alide, and no pathologist tions of skulls recently brought the Forest of Nieppe, midway could tell him which was the an- home from Peru in which all between Merville and Hazebrouck, cient and which the modern ves varieties of openings were found came in for heavy damage from scl. Both were attacked by the and all stages of healing. In close-range artillery fire. disease atheroma, a condition in
some cases infection followed, The book, with its chat about the which calcium salts are deposited and the bone around the opening billeted staffs, the inroads made by in the walls of the vessel, mak- was in consequenco much diseas-bagge, horses, and engineeers on ing It rigid and inelastic, The ed. In one mummy from Peru the the lawns and in the gardens, and vessal did not expand adequately operation had so damaged the un-the hysterica of French domestics to the stream of blood coming derlying brain that paralysis of at the wholesale methods of the from the heart.
the opposite side of the face had orderlles, makes it as fascinating High Blood Pressure
resulted.
to read as a novel by Maurois. Blood pressure WAS therefore Other skulls found In the same
Visit from the King high, and the vessel was apt to į tomb- showed injuries received in give way, forming an ancurism warfare-sabre cuts, so to speak "I am already beginning to have or, if the ruptured vessel was in and the survival of one patti-domestic worries," writes the the brain, a "stroke." Mental cular warrior after three desper- Baroness in her diary. "My cook changes went with that rigid ar- ate wounds after long Intervals is frightfully bad-tempered.... terial system. There was a nar- showed that the art of the sur-She cannot endure the dirt and un- rownless and rigidity of outlook.
geon or the vigour of the patient loss of enthusiasm, or dread of would do credit' to ourselves. new adventure and restriction in Ancient and Modern Soldiers all enterprise. They had the The profession of medicine had clearest proof that those mental always had a close relation with defects were not lacking in Mer-religion and magic. The "step row with the General's cook, and En-Ptah, for the Book of Exodus, pyramid” at Saggarah was the threw a pan of boiling water chapter IX., verse 12, said: oldest stone building still stand-him. "She seized the man by the ing in the world, and during # throat and had nearly strangled visit to this pyramid with Mr. him when the General and myself, Firth, head of the antiquities de-attracted by the uproar, intervened, partment, Mr. Firth called his
striving to 'collect' (Lord Moynihan's) attention to respective combatants." two, linea of black hieroglyphics These squabbles, however, aank in the passage leading to a side into insignificance when the King, chapel. During the war Austra who visited the troops in 1914, call- lian troops had left their names cd on the Baroness at the chateau. and initials scribbled on various He delighted her by asking: columns on the altar of the tem- "Madame, I hope you have no com- ple. One man had written:- plaints against the British Army."
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he heark- ened not unto them.
Survival of Viscera
It is interesting (said Lord Moynihan) to have an ocular de- monstration of the truth of the Old Testament. The preservation of specimens illustrated by this survival of the viscera of Pharaoh is always interesting and some. times very informing.
A portion of the viscera of Napoleon the First is in our museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Certain little tumours found on the intestine were be lieved at the time of Napoleon's death to be cancerous. A re-ex- amination of them by Sir Arthur Keith shows that the tumours are not malignant but are similar to perhaps identical with, those found in the case of "Malta fever."
Old Disease Rampant Another disease found in Egypt was Infantile palsy, with which we were unhappily made very familiar once again in an epidemic of only two years ago.
tidiness produced by Army order- lies and cooks in her hitherto spot- less kitchen.... I act as buffer
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When she ventured to ask the company which fought in Galli-King his opinion of the war, he re- poli. John Smith, Melbourne, plied, "with an energy which de- lighted me: 'My cousin Williams thinks he will win, but he won't. We shall conquer"."
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Mr. Firth, pointing to the hiero. glyphics just uncovered, said that they' ad:—
I the only survivor of my company which fought in Punt, and I have come to worship at the temple of my fathers.
And there followed his name and date, about 1250 B.C.
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The hand of the aunt Tutankhamen showed a fracture of the bone at the base of the ring finger. The healing was ad- mirable. The most interesting of all the fractures found in Egypt were found in a young girl who had broken both forearms and had presumably died of other injuries, for the bones were, only just unit-
The earliest operation known was practised for the relief of the malady of the possession of evil spirits. Holes were made in the skull to permit of the escape of the spirits. Sometimes one opened, and all the splints and band- ing sufficed, but two, three, four, ages were still in position
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