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ADVERSARIA.
The Use of Statues.
that that dreadful bogey of the young and eligible bachelor has gone the way of good manners
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930.
TRACHOMA.
periment that Dr. Erlanger made pon a guinea pig. By using a one } per cent, Bolution of þarfum chlorida' and passing a current from the
course of a few days to produce a total cataract, which is irreversible. But it did not attain to full develop-
and plaits for simpering simple FIGHTING EYE TROUBLE WITH positive pole he was able within the
tons.
There is still the shy,
ELECTRICITY.
|timid darling, with the rich and respectable parents, who take her REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT. ment as the precaution had been
it seema.
use
on a "grand tour." Ocean liners
taken to treat before the experiment Jare full of them. The hotels and
with strychain and albumen sub- boarding establishments of the
After a courageous fight for his cutaneously. Dr. Erlanger, believes Near East and the Far East have erlin oculist, pioneer of the electro-coveries that will establish the Ideas Dr. Gustav Erlanger the that this will lead to further dis- them on, their waiting lists. therapeutic treatment of trachoma great value to humanity of this new Manima, her perverted sexual and other diseases of the eye, is at method of attacking disease. talons cunningly concealed |
last achieving academic recognition, Speaking of the importance of the beneath bright chiffons, pounces
of ionisation in cases of Dr. Erlanger has shown that it is trachoma, Dr, Erlanger said, "It is on the first likely specimen and possible to restore sight to eyes that astonishing to see now the largest begins to experiment. It is dis have had severe diseases by a vlcers disappear, after a few treat- carded, or laid doubtfully aside; method that is both bold and non-ments. I might point out that by
injurious. Its boldness will be real-using a solution of cuprum sul then-"Pounce"-up comes analsed when it is said that he cures furicum it is not necessary to upply other poor, misguided Romeo. If diseases of the most deliente of the the current longer thun two he has no intentions, he is given human organs by electricity. Ab minutes." them; if he doesn't want them,flammations that form on the cornen of monition. Electro-therapy as a acesses and catarrhal ulcers and in- Here Dr. Erlanger added a word they are forced on him by the can be cured after a few treatments. treatment for the curo of eye trou. subtle female powers which He can heal bad cases of inflammables can be easily picked up, but o make womun, according to Kip-on of the iris so effectively that great deal of practical experience fing. "more dangerous than the Persons suffering from trachoma in the matter of finding out the there is no painful after-irritation.and patience is necessary, especially male."
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ning.
his
have every reason to revive hope exact doses to be given. Its right for, as Dr. Erlanger expressly application by oculists and veterin It is the story of points out, what electro-therapy has ary surgeons can under no circum- Tarantula the
Tarantula accomplished so far can be looked stances lead to injurious results. Over Again. over again. The upon as merely a tentative begin- The possibilities it offers cannot be loo greatly emphasised, in Europe as female obeying In view of the interest which such well as in the Near and Far East. the call of the Life Force, and an important discovery must arouse, Furthermore, Dr. Erlanger has the male repelling it. (Vide especially in the East, Dr. Erlanger shown that his electro-therapeutic explained his treatment. As it hap- treatment is able to cure blindness "Man and Superman"), Mamma pened, Dr. Erlanger had spent the resulting from excessive drinking or is but an agent in this sexual major part of his afternoon dictat- drug taking.. conflict, which in history has so ing to his secretary an account of Not a great deal has been written often led to disaster. It is for answer to an inquiry from Profes-nearly every month sees some new more recent discoveries in about this new treatment, but this instinct that men tormentaar Awerbach, the noted Moscow article or notice of it in the medical each other, injure one another eye-specialist, who has been respon- journala. Dr. Erlanger himself re- and kill each other. But it is
sible for introducing the treatment ceives more requests for lectures art-no, not even the gentlemen nothing to that which afterwards
into Russia.
than he can comply with. A short "Only 3 with the bows! If we knew any happens to the man. For, unless Erlanger stated, "I was honoured ment has been published recently in few days ago," Dr. but very clear account of the treat- thing about aesthetles, for exam- he be clever and a master with the visit of the noted Japanese Dic Medizinische Well. (Nr. 17; ple, 'should we allow such a mon-himself, he is devoured by the his
oculist: Profesor Itoh, who was on Berlin, Potsdamer str. 108).. strosity as Queen
tq. the International Victoria's female. This may sound absurd. Trachoma Conference in Geneva. what attitude the International It will be interesting to learn monument to remain as a blight But take a look at your married Professor Itoh tells me that my Trachoma Conference now sitting in to our civic beauty? There may be men friends. Have they not lost cess in Japan in those institutions therapy. At the opening session, the treatment has met with great suc- Geneva takes towards electro- varying opinions about the good practically all the ideals, Queen, but she certainly did not dreams, and ambitions of their is very encouraging.
the where it has been introduced. That chairman, Professor E; von Grosz of
deserve a statue like that.
We Don't Deserve Any.
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We in Hong Kong do not deserve to have any statues at: all. We should not, in all probability, appreciate them
If they were
of
way
fonisation of the Eye. Dr. Erlanger's method of treating the eye is called -Iontophoress, or the ionisation of the eye. It is really the injection of a saline solution or
Budapest pointed out that next to tuberculosis and venereal disease trachoma is the most prevalent of the discuses with which humanity is fleted. The Hygienic Bureau of the League of Nations has conducted
youth? Woman is the thief. Listen to what happens to the Tarantula: "Owing to the smaller size of the male and the greater voracity of the female, alkaloid, or a combination of investigations of its prevalence in these two, carried out with the help 57 countries. The report shows the male makes his advances to of a weak electric current. The that the countries where the per- his mate at the risk of his life tiny.clectrically-charged particles, centage of affected population is
good, for no one seems to have and is not infrequently killed and the so-called ions, penetrate far high Include Poland, Czecho.
noticed before that these
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in the
Stomach?
Boul.
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a
were
enten by her either before
deeper into the affected organ than Slovakia, Latvia, the Soviet Union, or is the case with other treatments, China, India, Japan, Palestine and and. with the help of the electric Egypt, Transocean (P. & T. current they bring about a certain Times). change in the living cells and tissues.
This application, which is preced.
GHANDI'S LIFE.
PALESTINE PAPERS.
bad. Except perhaps out of an after pairing has been effected. affected snobbery which some Fully aware of the danger, he pseudo-artistic people affect. pays his addresses with extreme Supposing Mr. Epstein were to caution, frequently waiting for In order to make it clearer, Dr. visit Hong Kong and say to the hours before venturing to come Erlanger showed the
apparatus Government "Ach! I will make to close quarters." Isn't that he uses. Although he takes ble Gandhi is being published in The autobiography of Mahatma electric current from the ordinary English by Allen and Unwin. Sir you one big statue, is it not so"? exactly how we behave?
main-direct current-he has a re- Ernest Benn is about to issue "The [Do not take this too seriously. Ristance and a sensitive milliampere Life and Letters of Joseph Pen- Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 27, 1930. Should we understand the magni- ficence which we may be sure
-Ed.]
meter for regulating strength, nell," prepared by his wife. Mr. Mr. Epstein would create? Wel
which may vary from 1/2 to 2 Cobden-Sanderson promises a life milliampere. To send the electric of Edward John Trelawney, Shel- should not. Neither would Mr.
News in Brief. current through the patient's eye, ley's friend, by Mr. H. J. Massing- Epstein. But that is his job.
the negative electrode is placed in ham. Mr. Eden Phillpotts' various "Without fear, favour or malice."
The Bishop of Victoria (Hong one of the patient's hands. The "Human Bay" stories are being There has ever Kong and South China) and Mrs. positive electrode-In this particular published as an omnibus, volume One of the penal-
Is the Sou! been
Duppuy, hope to leave Home for apparatus I noted that it was a zinc certain ties of civilisa-
Hong Keng on November 18.
by Hutchinson. amount of specu-
rod-is then wrapped in cotton wool, j tion is the abor-
dipped in one or other of the Intion about the The forthcoming wedding is an alkaline solutions and placed direct- tion known as the
location of the nounced of Jens Einar Lyhne, of their upon that part of the eye to be public statue. Not content with
A.P.C.. Chinklang, Surely it would not be Elizabeth Joyce, No. 19, Marmion
to Mona treated. the ugliness of the average too rash to claim its place beside Road, Liverpool,
The Jewish Agency for human countenance, we must
ed by the use of a local anesthe-Palestine 77, Great Russell Street, the seat of pleasure? Pleasure
tic, is in no way injurious and is of London, has just published the plaster our squares with pompous may be intellectual, emotional, or Fele, K.C.B., C.M.G., visited, the of from 80 seconds to 2 minutes. of six pamphlets of topical interest H.E. the Governor, Sir William short duration, lasting only a matter Palestine Papers, being a series resemblances in bronze and mar gastronomic. Therefore, a priori, European Y.M.C.A. yesterday, and This ionisation does not preclude various aspects of the adminia ble. London is full of them; the soul may reside in the after inspecting the premises, he the use of drops and salves. their only excuse being that they stomach of some of us rather had tiffin with the directora.
tration of Palestine and the Jewish On the afford a refuge for the sparrows. than in the head or heart. This
contrary, the effect of the latter is contribution to its development. heightened after (onisation.
The first of these series viz., Hong Kong has its complement; is further borne out by an an- Kowloon Bay yesterday morning about the maximum distension of Payer" is an up-to-date pamphlet
A drowning accident occurred at The Immediate effect is to bring
"Palestine and the British Tax- unnatural, stilted effigies of paat nouncement from our missionary ployee of sampan No. 699, fell minutes what it takes the usual tine Mandate does not entail any when a Chinese boatman, an em- the eyeball, thus accomplishing in 2 based on official sources, showing Governors and rulers. Nobody friends in a certain local health into the water by accident and was methods of injection about 15
that the administration of Pales notices them, save the sparrows, resort. which stain their metal vest-retreat" on the Island, gathered
We read that at drowned. ments with lime. Of what use ostensibly to discuss the "Power are they? Can anybody tell us in the Church," the chief social event was "a beach picnic term
Reviving Dead Cells. The truth is ed by American friends
to amend the Criminal Procedure live cells and tissues around the Dr. Erlanger showed how the Weiner roast.. Bonfires were lit Ordinance of 1899. Symbols. still upcivilised and sausages wero roasted on the
diseased parts are galvanised into
To-day's dollar is worth 4/3 1/4 at root.
wor-ends of thin bamboo sticks. But C. J. Tacchi, reported to the Police attack the disease. One can almost The motor car belonging to Mr. energy under ionisation and made to shipping in the guise of civic tered rolls took the place of as missing, and presumably stolen brought back to the injured part of citizens have left for other places Trade. "Business in Canton is respectability, the dead symbola plates, and added variety to the from the Pedder Street rank on the eye. It is another example of no doubt, because of the present watch the inflammation being very dull because many wealthy
of the things we cherish. We are repast. The 'hot Dog' trade was abandoned and undamaged in Bon-science helping nature to heal Unisettled conditions,"
Thursday night, was discovered no better than the Javanese very brisk, and later marshmal- bam, Road last night. women who idealise the bronze lows were roasted."NV cannon, and ait upon ita barrel, er On the whole the life of a the Phallic wo.shippers in the temples of India. In Britain we set up a statue of a man who in his lifetime may have been a thorough-going 8 scoundrel and who bought with ill-gotten wealth the honours by which fools are so easily deceived. In pears to us to be old-fashioned, Balance of Assets end, Hong Kong we
we set up a statue ilke Bernard Shaw's plays. But 1980 5.24 SANTANE Liabilitic on May 31, from & sense of duty. Certainly isn't it rather, silly to pay that 30, 1980
Revenue from Jana 1 to not from a sense of art. Proeither Shaw (who created them) bably not one person in this or scheming mammes have joined Colony outpf hundred the limbo of thin forgotten? possesses a true sense
No we would hesitate to say
that?
Our Love of that
We are
ment Gazette contains a new Bill cocaine, for instance, it lasts only intituled An Ordinance to amend 34 minutes. the law relating to pawnbrokers; alao a Bill Intituled An Ordinance
minutes to achieve. The resultant charge upon the British tax-payer. number of the cornea lasts. 100 The current issue of the Govern- minutes whereas in the case of
missionary has its compensa-COLONY'S FINANCES
tions.
the scheming REVENUE "AND EXPENDITURE Scheming mamma on the
FOR JUNE Mammas on wane?
It is a
the Wane? phase of human for the month of Jane is as tol
The Colony's financial statement society that ap low-
Eerself.
Ten Years Ago..
[From the "China' Mail," September 27, 1920.3
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- As might be expected, considering School Football League was held "A meeting of the Hong Kong the fact that electro-therapy is one in the Sanitary Board Office on science, Dr. Erlanger, has experi-master of the Anglo-Indian School, of the youngest branches of medical Saturday. Mr. Sutherland, head mented very extensively. upon presided." animals, and it is here that he has
attained some of his most astound- ing results,
Ten Years Hence.
(From the "China Met of September 27, 1940.1
which have become blinded as a People have sent me their dogs
result of distemper. Not only have I been able to restore their sight, the surprising thing is that the
The Hong Kong Government in -$10,701,880.17 Treatment cured them of distemper opposed to the calendar reform This," added Dr. Erlanger "might scheme giving thirteen months in 2,197,837.41 be of Interest to the Conference on h
a-year. Distemper, which is being held this Life inving classes are to be week in London.")
formed in all local schools under
$12,800,670.5
xpenditur
from Ju
to 30%
·Balance
10.28
$10,705.810.40
Produced Cataract.
the Government,attendance at
Of special Importance is an ex- which is to be made compulsory,