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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1949,
Marshal Petain InFine Health, Wife Maintains
lle d'You, September 10, Madame Annie Potain today denied, in an oxclusive interview with the Associated Press recently published reports that the 93-your-old Marshal was a ailing and might not live through the winter.
"He is fine," she said, "though he suffered during At the hot weather carlier in the summer." the same time she warned, however, "things just cannot go on much longer as they are. he is eating his heart out with loneliness." Seventy-two-year-old Madame will be others. Mr. Churchill is
with a great Englishman but herself
crippled
near
there, Fetain,
As a result of her he is an Englishman and that is Theumatism four-year stay on the windswept all you can say.“
Press re- She denied French ber Atlantic island to he husband, denied that the Marshal ports that the Marshal's memory
al-
he 30 failing ever been gravely
bndly that
who no longer remember though he had suffered a lower- could no
she Ing of blood pressure during the was General de Gaulle. "That's
fantasy,," just newspaper recent heatwove.
When the weather is hot, his laughed. "Of course, he is an old
nan and
for recrut memory his room at the fort in like a fur- Under-nice" she said, "The stone walls events is better some days than the others. That is to be expected." reflect the heat in through
when the Madame said that Even at seven: batger window.
Marshal was told an Associated on the correspondent was Press the island, he sent this message: much 1 "Please tell like and admire America,"
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In the evening, it is so hot that he is almost suffocated."
But the worst thing was
loneliness. she added.
"He never sees anyone except me. Other political prisoners are allowed to talk with their fellow prisoners but he has no one, Al- though I um allowed to see him the nights every day, he finds
sleep are terrible. He does not much any move and gets up at all hours to pace like tion in cell. Sometimes, he his alle spends hours of the night in re- arranging his few possessions A deswer by the light of a all lantern."
Thirty Steps
tiny
"If only they would put him
In some other place," Madame.
sighed. "All we want is a little.
man
him how
Porshing's Dooth
Petain suffered a great blow In the death of his old friend General
Madame Pershing. sald. The American Embassy in Paris sent a special message breaking the news to him most
and sympathetically
beaui). fully. But an even greater loss came with the death in a car Accident of Dr. Bernard Mene. physician. trel, the Marshal's who had long been his closest counsellor and was known a the
the eminence" of "grey Vichy regime. Madame saith the Marshal's
house at ground-level where he best friend in his loneliness had would not have to climb thore, been a Hitle
fox terrier which
30 dreadful steps from the he adopted at the fort. "One of courtyard and where we could the guards took him away," she 2 Tow Said. "That was abominable-to garden with have 2 flowers. I would not care if deprive a
of his only A prisoner or pet. He loved that dog" there were guards not so long as t there with him."
Batane emphasised
ur complaint
around could
five
that
t
Madame said she would visit the mainland for two weeks next no month to receive treatment in plea
about his Paris for her rheumatism. "But treatment was coming from the cannot go for longer and leave Marshal himself. Several Um the Marshat all alone up there,” he hul sternly toll her, "No com- she said,
When she returns, the hotel ver to out fram plaints will
he closed where she lives will here."
but she will go
Madame is now permitted to for the winter visit the Marshal in private daily to a sherman's cottage nearby and resume her daily visit to for as long as she likes.
Up there, the food is terrible," the fort, driving there in the on- she said. "They give
him the elent French car which was given same rations as the soldiers. Just her by a group of French working imagine a man of 93 having to men.
eat army beans like
has
Madame declared
the young
that of all
boys doing
their military service, the many letters she has received Lately, he
breen eating since being on the island, not one largely potato purce because he has attacked the Marshal. "They has been suffering with his teeth. have not dared that," she proudly lie drinks a little wine sent him said,Associated Press.
by friends but mixes it with
Nater. He no longer smokes.
Madame, who has little money herself, said she was grateful for
bee parcels which have sent
her by sympathisers In Canaria, the United States
and
Rediffusion
elsewhere. She takes all the can- H.K.T. ned foods up to the fort to supple- A.M. ment her husbands rations.
Daily Stroll
When it is not too hot, Mar shall Petain still takes a dally stroll in the fortress courtyard. which surrounded by high walls and sunken до
76 with the Sun,
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1.15-News.
1991 | 19,000-Moraine Medley. that he 11.00-3tude for Ali.. has not seen the nearby Lea P.M. since he arrived four years ago 12.00-Novatime, He walks at the brisk pace he 12.16-Time Time,
the 12.30-interval Signal. acquired when he served in the 12.12-Boot Call. Chasseurs Alpins (famous French
2013| 1,06-Plano, mountain regiment) as young officer, He seldom uses the cane which he carries behind his straightened back but an army inertical orderly generally watches trom a discreet distance in case he should stumble and fail.
He still shaves himself daily and reads without glasses. Some- times he passes an hour or two in perfecting his studies in Eng-
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Petain likes to glance through 7.45 The Super-Cola Programme.
7.03-Candlelight and Blver (Rondon). newspaper headlines but 8.cc-uto News.
prefers his wife to read to him.
.15--The Star Ring (Nestle'a).
"Tell me what it is all about," he 8.30 The Dairy Farm Programme, said, indicating some item which 9.00-Rediffusion Request Show. has caught his eye.
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"And, of course, he reads all 10.00-DBC World News
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London Physician Lists Medicine's Seven Sins
London, September 1.0%,
9.32 megacycles per second in the A London physician, anxious to make the profession more efficient and
human, today listed what he called the "Sins of Medicino.” Writing in the authoritative medical journal "The
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Lancet," Dr. Richard Asher, physician at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London, listed the Seven Sins as: Obscurity, Cruelty, Bad Manners, Over-specialisation Love of the Rare, Stupidity and Sloth."
LOVE OF THE RARE (spano-. philia)—"This sin is more preva- lent among students because they lack the experience that teaches which illnesses are common and which are rare....... Headache and vomiting is more often due to migraine than to cerebral tumour;
He wrote concerning each: is dying of secondary cancer and A nose-bleeding is more often due the primary cancer will soon be to picking the nose than to mul- OBSCURITY-Doctors talic and discovered at necropsy (post-tiple heriditary haemorrhagic te- write in terms confused with pre-mortem examination), it is cruel langlectasis,” fundity. An example he gave was to make his last days uncomfor-
fellow-doctor's statement "It] table by playing at "Hunt the COMMON STUPIDITY "No
of
is generally accepted that the slipper." Evaluation of the nutritional sta-
Dr. Asher said "Patients "dying tus of a community should include assessment of the environmental of heart failure are happier with
cardiac conditions under which individual out
catheters. arterial punctures and other testa, ete." members live and work."
wonte to What he
soy, Dr. Asher said, was "We judge men's health by their working places and their homes."
CRUELTY~~"Probably the most)
8.30-1 Like What 1 Like"-Present-Important and prevalent sin in
et by St. John Gillum. (Studly). 11.00"Fr the Editorials". (London
Relay). 9.10-Weather Report.
9.11-Forces Theatre"-"The Glove"
the list," he wrote. "Usually it is not due to thoughtlessness and deliberate. Mental cruelty is com- three woys: A Mystery ey by Stuart mon and, arises in Ready. BBCTS).
(1) By saying too much; (2) Dy 9.40 Canceria Plana Concerto in saying 100 little; and (3) By the
"Coronation" K 537 Wandu
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He warned "Patients have cars
What A Beauty
the
Illness has a rigid code of treat- ment which must be advised In-
one must cut all circumstances; one's therapeutic cont according to the mental and economic cloth of one's patient.”
SLOTH "Can be physical or mental." Physieni sloth, he wrote, "often causes the omissld of blood
·BAD- MANNERS"] once
pressure estimations, opthalmos- anked a student to examine the abdomen of a patient lying in copy, or rectal examination and
leads to lapses in aseptic Stual." an outpatient cubicle. He dash. ed into the cubicle where she
MENTAL
not SLOTII "Do lay, flung back
blanket,
accept the patient's dingnosis plumped his hand on her ab when taking a history--and out domen, shouted 'Gosh, what his symptoms. If the day is hot, beauty (he was referring to the patient dent, the doctor in a the patient's enlarged sploon). hurry, and the history garnished The greeting "Good morning, with reminiscences and irrele-
should sister"
avolited, vances, it requires enormous pa since in America it is equivalent tience and rencentration to distill
the casence from it."* કૂ to saying "How goes it, honey?"
be
OVER-SPECILISATION --
and sotto-voce murmurings about poly syllable disenses strike need-
is right that a doctor should have
"If you are too lazy to think less terror into their hearts."
special interest and knowledge for yourselves, you will fail an Doctore are too often physical about one subject. It is wrong for easy prey to the less thoughtful Asher him to show special Indifference papers ond publications, blindly a' and ignorance about all other sub-accepting the muth and mump-
ly cruel to patients. Dr. said. "Over-investigation is form of physical cruelty. If a man Jects."
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