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COURAGE OR CAUTION
There was an interesting "Cour- age or caution" discussion at the executive of Britain's National Liberal Federation (Samuelita) last month.
IMPORTANCE OF PAIN TO MANKIND
SAVAGES AND ANIMALS SUFFER LESS
COMMON AILMENTS EXPLAINED
of pay-
Not long ago Sir Herbert Samuel promised that there would be 400 THAT and why is Pain? You relayed from the lower thalamus, or more Samuelite candidates at
may think it. an unneces-that pain is then not only not felt, the next general election. He argued that as the credit and ry evil, but consider how im- but even enjoyed.
Mental abnormality at times portant it is that living organisms power of the present Government should have the power to per- may give rise to spontaneous im declined the country, seeking an ceive sensations that are paintful pressions of pain, which are based effective alternative, might find it
A medical on real disease but are and noxious, writes in Liberalism.
correspondent in the Evening chogenic origin, and known as Other Liberals apparently share Standard. If I felt no pain in my psychalgia. Almost any part of neither his courage nor his hope. foot from a nail sticking up from the body may be thus apparently Bir Charles Hobhouse, an ex-pres the sole, or soreness from a badly afflicted, and it is important to dis- sident of the NLF. and a former atting boot, I might quickly de- tinguish these cases from those Liberal Minister, moved that the
to. velop serious infection from due organic disease. The party shall only contest seata wounds or blisters which would en-metnal outlook of these persons which there is hope of winning.
often gives the clue to the trained,
ARMS AND THE MEN
Facial Pain Common
danger, my life.
Avoidance of painful stimuli is physician. one of the most archale of nerve The Liberal Executive also dis- reflexes; for example, if a frog. cussed a
A very common type of pain of resolution demanding whose brain has been destroyed, that there shall be an inquiry into has its foot dipped into a corro- this kind is felt in the face, which the operations of British arma-sive acid, the limb will be with-may be explained by the fact that ment concerns.
drawn, a purely apinal reflex act it is the face and eyea that parti- The demand was inspired by the in an animal which has no longer cularly represent one's "ego" to |American revelations.
any conscious feeling.
oneself, just as-it-is the face of It has been communicated to Painful impressions. are con-four friend or enemy that repre- the Government and also to the ducted from the skin and organs sents his personality to us,
Facial "paychalgia is a far com- Liberal leaders. The demand will by special nerve fibres, which,
:
be repeated in the House of Com-when they reach the spinal cord moner neurosis in young women
quickly cross over. and
run up- of 20 to 30 than in mea. Women
mons
fbe
never been anything that could be called a war. It is quite true
Your Daily Smile! that big stretches. ofcountry Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 20, 1934 which used to be the hunting
grounds of the black fella now Another thing that puzzles ma is how sible for a know him no more; but that is wires stood in awe of their husbands a subject that would be more during the nightshirt era. suitable for a police than a mili- tary history. There is room for
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The Liberals do not specify the wards, ending in a large basal undoubtedly are more susceptible kind of tribunal they want to have nucleus of the brain known as theta neuralgic ailments. than men set up. They insist that it must thalamus. From these the impres-are. Can this be partly due to the an open inquiry, free from sions are relayed, and sometimes mirror, and the much more con- Government control, so that there amplified, to the sentiment grey (stant study of the face in the look-
Asing glass by women? may be no restriction on witness matter of the cortical centres.
the pain and temperature fibres in Many diseases cause Beyere. who may be called.
the spinal cord cross over in this pain, two of the most severe way and are collected in a special and long-lasting being locomotor. bundle running upwards, it is pos- ataxy, well known for its "light- skilled surgeon to ning pains," and tic douloureux, operate and divide this nerve tract, whose flashing neuralgia in the Melbourne's Centenary
on one or both sides of the cord, face may persist for many years; and thus abolish the sensations of it often used to drive its victims The arrival of the Duke of
pain and of temperature in the to suicide. Until recent years no Dentist: "Open wider, please just Gloucester at Melbourne amid an examination by one of our a little wider."
body and lower limbs. Ordinary cure was available for these suf- scenes of enthusiastic welcome. Pacifists of the effects of con Lady: "Ah-a-amah.”‚' ‚.
sensations touch are not interferers, but modern sorgery. may and the great air race which is tinual peace on national charge and fist): "Fine, how are
Dentist (interesting towel, spronge, fered with, but all painful impres-relieve the pains of tabes, by the to celebrate the hundredth anni-ter. He would not fall to notice folks?"
all. your sions from below are lost or per- delicate operation on the spinal versary of the date when John that peace did nothing to soften
ceived only as touch, and a hot cord of which I have already Batman arrived with his modest the fibre of the race, which was
bath which would scald the arms spoken, while neuralgle facial tie outfit of native truck which he drawn to seek adventure not only
Was the bus crowded when you and upper part of the body will may be cured either by alcohol in- was able to trade for land on in South Sea exploration, but in came home?"
not be recognised as warm by the Jection or by surgery.. which the whole of the great city supplying voluntary contingents
"No, I had a strap all to myself." legs..
“Agonies Of Sciatica ́ now stands, suggest quite a lot who took a vigorous part in dis-
Passed of trains of thought that run off tant campaigns overseas. First "Yes, we spent our holiday motor-
A frequent cause of agonising to many aspects of our current there was the Soudan contingent, ing on the Continent. It was glori
There is a chronic disease of the pain is neuritis, which is liable to spinal cord called Syringomyelia, attack the main nerves of the arm affairs seemingly rather remote which had a sentimental effect ous." The most obvious is the differ-far beyond the numbers engaged; "Motoring abroad, eh? You must in which the central parts of the or leg near their exits from the lence between the transportation then the Division that found a have passed some glorious scenery," cord are destroyed, thus cutting spine, Known as brachial neuritis, "Oh, we must have done. Why, we the pathway of the pain and temor as sciatica, and anterior crural system that offers a journey from manner of life quite-familiar to averaged 400 miles a day?" Mildenhall in England at a rate it in South Africa; then what
perature fibes as they cross over neuritis, the pain develops acutely of two hundred miles an hour would in earlier days have been
after entry into the cord. Suffer-within a few hours, often waking with a considerable amount of thought to be an army in itself
ers from this disease may show the patient in the early morning, comfort and safety instead of a that made the geography of Gal-
little or-no-signs-for-years-beyond No Tentedy save injections of Isix montha weary tossing on lipoli and Flanders a matter of
capacity for bearing pain or heat morphia will gaieten this agonis strange waters with almost cer-personal knowledge on many an panied by Lady Southorn, sailed on
K.B.E., Colonial Secretary, accom- without complaint, and they usual ing pain, which waxes and wanes tain injury to health in addition up-country sheep farm. Con-
ly carry scars from burns or other in severity sometimes for weeks. to the dangers of wind and wave sidering how firmly the Austra the RMS. Empresa of Canada for injuries which they scarcely no- Usually numbness of the leg, We are assured that in another lian inslets on his national in- Shangbal yesterday.
foot or Angers persists for the re- year or so the rate of travel will dividuality, and how irksome he
It is this latent disease which mainder of life. Lumbago, a
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Much Room In
Personal Pars
The Hon. Sir Thomas Southorn
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Syringomyelia "Heroes"
ticed at the time.
have been increased to two hun-finda camp or barrack life under Mr. R. W. Gardiner, local, mana. has enabled certain misnamed knife-like pain in the small of the dred and fifty miles an hour, and discipline, our Pacifist would no ger of the Commercial Union Assur heroes of heroines to bear un-back, often strikes ite victini with the safety ratio to a hundred per doubt put these combative adance Company, sailed on the RMS.ninchingly operations or other lightning-like suddenness, and I cent. It is already true that ac-ventures down to a double dose of Empress of Canada for Shanghai mutilations without any, auneshte have known a man to be thus sud- cidents in the air are a smaller original sin.
yesterday.
tica.
denly attacked while playing golf percentage of miles travelled What would have happened if
Certain people, of either sex, and totally unable to move on ac-
!
found that they are persons of It is probably due to a sudden. phlegmatic temperament, who strain or rupture of fibrous tissue" have no intensity of feeling in joy in the muscle, of rheumatic or or sorrow, who are, in a sense, gouty origin, and this may and cold-blooded...
often doos start a spreading in Pain cannot be weighed or mea flammation deading to neuritis of
the sciatic nerve sheath.
than on the roads.". This enor-John Batman had retained the Mr. L. N. Murphy, of the Hong though suffering from no spinal count of the pain which any move- mous quickening up of inter- whole of the lard that was given Kong and Shanghal Banking Co- for brain disease, undoubtedly feel ment induced; he had to be fetch- course has not yet found any re-him in return for this blankets poration accompanied by Mr less pain and less discomfort thaned back to the clubhouse in an am- cognition in the laws of the civil- and scissors and miscellaneous Murphy, were passengers aboard normal individuals, and it will be bulance. ised countries. In the conditions bits of truck? What a subject the R.M.S. Empress of Canada of naturalleation, in the strict for Henry · George. Quaintly which left for Vancouver, via enforcement of the passport enough at about the same time Shanghai and Japan, yesterday. system, in the embargos and the Government of the Cape exactions intended to prevent Colony, feeling a temporary finan- Among the passengers who left people from buying what they clal pinch, offered to the head of on the RM.S. Empress of Canada want wherever they can best ob- one of the old families there the yesterday was Mr. G. L. Wilson, sured, and its intensity in dif- tain it and bringing it with them, whole of the "Cape Flata" for partner of Mesars Paliner and ferent individuals is difficult to we find obstacles placed in the twelve thousand pounds. The Turner. He is accompanied by conjecture, for one man may way of any general use of the land offered includes all the sites Mrs. Wilson on a visit to Shang-| scream with agony from that new facilities. In the struggle of the well-to-do residential hai.
spasm which another may bear between science and exclusive suburbs of the modern Cane ness it is safe to say that science Town. He did not think the
with de fortitude. - Temperaments Mr. A. H. Harbord, of Messrs and racial characteristice vary will win in the end.
offer good enough, and preferred Lowe, Bingham and Matthews, sail- In the rerspective of history, bonds at five per cent. To-day led for Shanghai yesterday by the century is very frequently a very there are long roads full of beau-R.M.S. Empress of Canada: unimportant detail; the school tiful houses any one of which
dia
of no education may easily put up enormously, and the bucolic rustic
with an amount of pain which would reduce to tears a highly- strung individual who has always
textbook for a "general period" would fetch a larger sum than The Hom Mr. C. L. Hoover is a), may even pass it over without that. The great struggle of passenger on the as President lived softly. mention; but that does not apply early politics in Australia and Coolidge, which is due to arrive to the period that includes a New Zealand was the splitting here next Thursday. migration which plants a new up of the big holdings of the
Savages Suffer Lea
PICNIC FOR BLIND
Further Donations And Aid Acknowledged
Further donations to the picnic for the blind on October 27 are £3 follow
Directors & Committee Tung Savage, races undoubtedly suffer, Wah Hospital- race in a land where it has room Squatters, and the solution was Dr. Wang Chung-hut, Chinese less intensely from pain, and with Mrs. H. S, Rouse to develope and start a new cur- looked at askance as "Socialism." Judge at the International Court of animals this is obvious, for cattle MJ, Quist rent of influence on the world's Would anyone advocate a return Justice, The Hague, who has been and horses may continue feeding KC. Tsang, Canton affairs such as the settlement of to the old condition in which the endeavouring to bring about an un- the temperate parts of Australia sacred rights of the landholder derstanding between the Nanking wounded. Under the stress of in-ra. Hallowes.
tranquilly even when severely Uncle Alick by English-speaking people in were allowed to override all other and Canton Governments since his the nineteenth century is bound rightë? And yet no such un-return, from Europe, left again for to have on the destiny of the earned increment has ever fallen the north yesterday by the R. M. Sjuries may be borne, or even self Proviously acknowledged Pacific countries. The enter to any family in the Dominions Empress of Canada, prising shopkeeper started more comparable with the Grosvenor history than he ever dreamed of; estate, in London,
the celebrations.
tense emotion, and in certain Annonymous forms of delusional Insanity, In- J.Barrow-
inflicted, by delicate women, which would be Impossible for a person but is it possible to assert that The Squatter controversy besary is not only the end of a dure without scream
An anniver in a normal state of mind to en the quiet commercial beginning longs to the past, and the present period, but the beginn
of an- This is evidence that in'" In bound to be carried out along problems have to do with new other and we all unit
with the phases of emotion the same lines to the end?/One Industries and this detestable de considerable colony of distinction Australia has alone in pression; but no one will be in our midst in wish the world. It is the only large thinking of such things when the tract of country where there has great crowds of visitors lom
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