For the
Bridge Party
Cut some stale bread into thin
slices and fry in butter until they
are crisp; cover them while still hot with
some finely - grated
Gerber's Petit Gruyère Cheese and
spread with
.
3 little mustard.
Garnish with 'slices of gherkin. This makes a delicious savoury.
Gerber's Gruyere Cheese
GREAT CLOSING-UP
THE CHENA
As matka tevidst
MARVELS OF SURGERY
Replacing. The Knife By Fine Art Flame
WOUNDS DARNED
↓
Building Up Entirely New Faces
REDUCING DEATH
事
CAUSE OF SPINNERS* CANCER
| PROGRESS OF RESEARCH AT| MANCHESTER
PREVENTIVE WORK
Progress in research work into the causation and prevention of spinners' cancer is indicated by Dr. R. V. Clark, Medical Officer of No scienco has seen a more speedy or more spectacular develop. Health for Manchester. This form jof-carcinoma is dealt with in a ment than has modern aseptic surgery. Founded only 65 years passage in Dr. Clark's annual re
| ago by Lister's conquest of infection, it has advanced from marvel
to marvel, until to-day the surgeon can:-
Search, by means of X-rays and instruments, for obstru tions and abnormalities in practically every organ of the body
Cut through skin and tissue with a fine arc flame that seals all but the larger blood-vessels in its passage;
port on the health of Manchester. He writes
"Valuable information' bearing upon the causation of malignant disease by the Jabricating oils used in cotton mills. continues to be obtained from the scientific work of the Manchester Committee on Cancer. We have confrmed our previous teats on the cancer- producing power of various lubri
Investigating the concentration of the cancer-producing principle in Remove a plug from an artery; and so save a limb from oils. Search for the actual cancer
producing substance is proceeding gungrene; and
satisfactorily so far that we have
Darn weak or wounded 'parts of the body with a lattice- work of living tissue;
Build up an entirely new face by transplantation of scalp, eating oile and are successfully cartilage, and skin;
Operate successfully in cases of chronic pulmonary con-succeeded in concentrating the sumption.
Yet with this opening up of every hidden corner of the body to his knife, the surgeon has reduced the mortality of the operating
table.
!
A NEW TECHNIQUE '
active principle of a sure artificial- ly-made tar to such an extent that 5 per cent, of this substance is more powerful than shale oil, the most [dangerous of all commercial olla.
"Only two pure compounds of known chemical constitution have been found capable of producing tumours. Further investigations are being carried out to determine,
but no
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TUESDAY
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4
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PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE FOR LONDON
EDGAR WARWICK
ANNOUNCES A SHORT FAREWELL VISIT BY THE.
WARWICK REVUE CO.
FRIDAY,
SATURDAY, SUNDAY,
DEC. 20.
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...
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&
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antiseptic vapours penetrale into the r Higherzmost cavities of the some, throat and ..... chest, killing all gerina and quickly soothe Big the inflamed organis."
Moda in England to the formala of the Liverpool Thrasi Hospital a lá by Chenoa everywherú
EVANS Pastilles
SASVĚŽERTI, TURBANAS
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Opening Daily Official Quotations 17th December, 1929:
"In a large series of major opera- | can now be discovered by modern if possible, factors which change a tions," states Mr. W. H. Ogilvie, means of investigation, are ac-non-carcinogenic to an active can- F.R.C.S., from whose article in the countable for the whole of the ap-for-producing substance. Bitumen ***. ̈ ̈-00097-00-00-0-¶¶_☐☐dgað.¤¤··Dood "Fortnightly Review" these facta parent increase in cancer deatha bas been examined,
are taken, "the death rate is now upon which so many theories have carcinogenicity was demonstrated in the neighbourhood of 3 per cent,, been based."
In it. Pitch has also been tested, and if these for cancer are exclud. Recent progress is particularly and proves to be very active as à ed, the figure is under 1 per cent." striking in the surgery of the head, cancer-producing agent,
Seeing the Brain
chest, and blood-vessels, the plastic "An investigation of the highest surgery of the face, and the trans- practical importance," Dr. Clark plantation of tissues. Operations continues, "has been carried out in can now be carried out on the the laboratory with a view to lungs, gr let, diaphragm, and even destroying the cancer-producing the heart, and Mr. Ogilvie describes power of certain ofls and so making as "brilliant" the results of opera them safe for industrial иве. tion for consumption in chronic and Further methods have been employ. unilateral cases.
ed, and partial success has attended Hong Kong Bank..... 1315 Bome of them, but it is noteworthy (Loa. Reg.)...
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Describing operation by means of a flame Mr. Ogilvie says that this method may profoundly alter the technique of surgery. Electrio currenta of high voltage and ex- tremely rapid alteration produce a fine are flame which cuts with the rapidity and cleanness of 'a knife, yet seals all but the larger blood- vessels in its passage.
Stock,
Banks.
C.
Buyers Sellers Sales Nom Dividend.
New Faces for Old. Describing the reconstruction of that one method has resulted in the Chartered Bank "For some operations the advant the features after industrial ac production of a purified oil which, Mercantile B., A.B. ages of bloodless cutting outweigh cidents, aeroplane crashes, and when subjected to certain teats, Bank of Asia....... 98
Do., any losa thore may be of delicacy burns a development of surgical falled altogether to produce can- Fin touch," Bays Mr. Ogilvie. technique made possible by the cerous growths. The importance of Insurances
"Should such technique prove of tragic experience of the war-he this work can hardly be exaggerat Canton Ins..............$ even wider applicability, it is writes:
ed. This purified oil has bean sub- possible that nearly all the present "Bit by bit, by painstaking ahap mitted to representatives of
the Union Ins. instruments of the surgeon may ing and modelling, the missing cotton industry, who have tested Yanguze fas.M.$ disappear, and the technical features are rebuilt, the eyelids by for us its value as a lubricating China Underwriters ... auslatant be replaced by the elec-smooth skin from the inner side of agent. The report we have recely- China Fire Ins$ 310 trician."
the thigh, the eyebrows by strips ed in the present year is to the H. K. Fire Ins, .................$ of hairbearing scalp; the nose is effect that the lubricating power is fashioned from the skin of the chest un-impaired.
Shipping.
The value of X-rays in diagnosis has been enhanced by the newer methods of Introducing substances opaque to
the rays into hollow organs, so that their outline, other wise unseen, la thrown into relief, Such methods are applied even to the brain, for, though the salts which can be introduced without harm into less delicate organs will not there be tolerated, air can be injected into ita cavities, where it will trace their outline, whether normal or distorted by pressure, in relief against the darker brain.
Diagnoses Advance Diagnoses are now made that were formerly impossible, and Mr. Ogilvie points out that on detailed examination of the figures on which the reported increase in cancer is based:
"We find that those growths which are on the surface of the body, and therefere manifest, are proportionately less common to-day. than 25 years ago; while those which were then undetected, but
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or forehead and supported upon a "The committee are therefore in Douglases framework of cartilage taken from a position to hold out the hope that H. K. Steamboats....$ $7 the ribs, till st the end of some before long it will be possible to Indo-Chinas (Pref.) ..$ months the face is restored to submit to the public an oil which human semblance. Nor are these possesses the practical value re-sell Transports... serious cases the only ones to which quired in industry, and le yet quite Union Waterboat... the plastic surgeon now applies his safe to the workers. We desire, skill; the demand for new noses in, however, to be definitely sure of our Mining. place of old ones misshapen by dis results, and considerable confirma-eng.70 ease or hunting accidents, or even tory work must be carried out be-Kailan Mining A displeasing to their owners because fore action of the kind is taken."- of their pronounced familial or racial peculiarities, keeps him one of the busiest of men."
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Lieut. H.-H. Johnson, R.A., has
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Mr. Ogilvie doubts the possibility been posted to Hong Kong from of the grafting of glands in man. Singapore, and will join the H.K.S. While it is impossible to ignore Brigade, R.A. Voronoff's method of rejuvenation by the transplantation of monkey glands into men, he contends that his publications are not calculated to convince the scientific critle" He adds:
EXCHANGES
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:On London- humanity itself, and the powerful Bank, wire .................. psychic effect of a dramatie opora Bank, on demand
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OF CAGED MEN
Docks, WharVOS,
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HK. Tramways 1.$ 1805
18/19
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