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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, ···1952..
TEN GREAT DISCOVERIES SINCE PENICILLIN
Not one
STREPTOMYCIN
Discoveted in 1944. Tün first successful treatment for tuberculous meningitis. Now the standard treatment for certain other types of TB. Also effective against pneumonia, septicœmia....f
CHLOROMYCETIN
1947. Effective against typhoid, typhus, pneumonia, whooping cough, moningitis Can be given in tablot form by mouth.
AUREOMYCIN
1948. Effectivo aguinat virus proumonia, spotted faver, heart infections, also given by mouth.
VITAMIN B.12
1948. Now the standard treatment for pernicious anemia.
NEOMYCIN
1949. Effective against pneumonia. meningitla, and eye infections..
W
It
HAT has gone wrong with medical research in Britain since the war? There have been ten since major discoveries penicillin. Run your eye again down the list above to see how important they
are.
Was
WHEN A MARRIAGE LASTS
1.
is ours! FOR 14,000 NIGHTS... by
CORTISONE & ACTH
1948 First hospital tests showed both to be highly effective in the relief of rheuma- * Loid arthritis. Since proved to be extremely valuable in the treatment of ere disorders and other complaints
1050,
TERRAMYCIN
Effective ngainst pacumonia, chest disorders, dysentery, and kidney com plaints.
POLIOMYELITIS VACCINETM
1052
The first hopeful sign that Immunisation against infantile paralysis will, be possible. Many cases have almost certainly been prevented in America this year in the biggest-ever outbreak of polio
ISONIAZID
1052, Tests so far show it to be apparently effective against certain forms of T.B.
is time to THINK BIG
ON DRUGS
The Government is driven to import supplies of the Every one of them made first in America. Only new drugs from America in the case of Vitamin B.12 while the British research was Britain even in the ers are catching up. race.
This list is too long to be explained away as a succes- sion of lucky breaks like the chance discovery which gave us penicillin.
The truth is that the Ameri- cans have got our medical scientists on the run.
They have pro-
duced so many new druge in the
out their own commercial pro-
can reports.
Nathaniel Gubbins
"When marriage hai tasted 30 years, only three - marriages in 100 po 'wrong, and after dự years we pet down to the trivial figure of one in „100.”—Beverley: Baxter. reporting on the Royal Commis- sion on Marriage and Divored.
TVE listened, dear, for
forty years to all the things you've said I've watched you clip your curlers on before you go to bed
Strip Tease, there is a jolly game known as Animals,
As many people bellove they are good at farmyard imitations, they will be only too delighted to extend their repertoire to include the jungle.
will be awarded for the best After explaining that a prize impersonation, of Bay given animal, the hostess chould then curls aach each guest in turn and from say: "At the word 'Go' you are a lion, you are a monkey, you are a donkey, you are a horse, and you are a pig."
I've watched the
throughout the years golden grow to white For forty years - 'you've said Sleep well, and don't forget the light,"
cesses from published Ameri-For forty years you've tried to sleep before I start to sporo For forly heard me gargling
She can then either overcome the awkward silence by having them all roaring, neighing, hea hawing, and grunting together, or she can get a big laugh by whispering to all but one (the
When economies have had to behind the bathroom door be made, laboratory investiga-For forty years, twice twenty donkey) to keep quiet and allow tions, which might have led to
years, you've called to me this foolish guest to hee-haw by now discoveries, have been the agala
himacit. first to be cui.
"Come down, come down to But hostesses should bo breakfast now before you warned that Animals is a dan miss your train."
germus game to play it one. of the guests is, let us assume, an elderly aunt who has not quits enught on to the idea, and is still in two minds about her will.
The germ-killing powers of chloromycetin, aureomycin, terramycin, and isoniazid were discovered In the laboratories of private firms in America,
of streptomycin, Wies discovered at n Arms chipped experts admit that the quality, nearly one million dollars
science Is wards ita early clinical trials. of British medical generally better than theirs.
In the case- Who is to blame for Britain's
British
backwardness in this field? The which
scientists? No, U.S. university,
$ They attribute our. decline to Invariably there are the fact that our scientists are the same chance to not given tragic cases being refused make discoveries as theirs.
dollars drug because a cannot be spared to import all that is needed.
This
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
last seven years that British scientists have been devot- ing most of their time to catching up.
As each promising U.S. drug comes out, the Medi- cal Research Council, stages huge trials to confirm the American claims.
There are far fewer medical scientists in Britain.
Many of the best are working on shoe- happened string budgets, with streptomycin and aurcomycin. 11 is happening
now
with terramycin and
cortisone.
SEARCH
GESTURE
in 10-
THE only way Britain cant. re- THE
gain and keep the initiative in medical research is by Invest- Ing bigger proportion of money in experiments per head of the population than the Amerlcars l.
For more than 14,000 nights, or
near 2,000 weeks
I've seen the face cream shin- ing on your nose and on your checks;
For 14,000 mornings you have heard me breathing deep And stretching, stomach mus-
cles when I think you are asleep.
For forty years, twice twenty years, as married bliss un- folds, We've caught each other out in los, and caught each other's colds;
We know each thought the other thinks, each word that each will say
In any given circumstance, on
any given day.
Four British firms have just- made a joint endowment at But after 14,000 nights how Oxford University so that a | funny it would seem
I can still remember an even more awkward silence at a par ty, and a young hostess losing a small fortune after the following conversation:
Auntie, you're a plg. What did you say, dear? you're a pig.
I
sald
Did I hear you call me a pig?
I mean you make a noise like a plg.
So far I've only had one small biscuit.
-
It's only a game, auntle, Wo want to hear you grunt.
In that caic I'd better ba
going.
But you don't understand,: auntle
I understand `perfectly.” You
of people THE Government is partly to 'ductor can work full-time in the To watch another curl her hair think I'm a pig and grunt lika
cearch for "wonder drugs.” This
is the right sort gi gesture, but
smear her. face with cream;
odd for How very
you, my dear. to hear another's snoro—.
Scores
and blame for failing to invest owe their lives to enough money in medical re- the generosity
of scurch. American friends who sent over free supplies of British doctors drugs which
could not get.
A stranger's allen gargle bo
hind the bathroom door.
Party Game
a ply. Will you kindly para' my handbag and call a taxi?
My Real Self
By
Queen Lottie,
the Devil Cat.
IN this eagerly awaited story of
It needs repeating a thousand times to produce quicit results. At the State experimental station at Clevedon, Somerset, The day of the backroom dis- where a search is being made covery, like Fleming's penicillin, for a penicillin-type drug effec is passing. All the big advances When our manufacturing live against tuberculosis, there are now being made by big plants Anally start up therekate are only five scientists, Their team of scientists. And big are needed usually royalties to pay to the quality is excellent; their scope teams of engineers
pathetic.
to race them into production, US. patent holders. Or We have to rely on British branches It is in the industrial firms, The lesson of Britain's rapid "In the event of there being My Real Self I shall writa of U.S. fans to build the plants however,
comparison decline in medical research an awkward silence or a party mainly of my meeting with Man- and take the profit.
with America shows up worst, applies to all fields of scientific I am giving I would be glad to haitan Mouser of Broadway
endeavour, The surest road to know of an amusing game to New York City, and how it Since the war. the dollar solvency in through now dis- fill the gap"-Girl writing to a changed the drab life of a simple, Scores of our best doctors
There is always a long, uphill shortage has restricted the sale, coveries, inventions, and ideas. Columnist.
small-town girl into a glamorous and scientists are switched night to compete in the export of US products here. So many
They wit be forthcoming only And Man's
adventure, markets already dominated by British firms have found it for
PART from Musical Chairs, to experiments aimed
who through too easy to make proits by if money is heavily invested in finding out more about the the Americans,
their enterprise, bave been in manufacturing U.S. discoveries the laboratories and workshops quences, Hunt The Thimble, drug its precise nature, at least a year ahead.
under licence, or by working now.
Murder, .Tiddleywinks, and how it works in the body.
GALLING
at
CHEMISTS and engineers in industrial firms spend months designing expensive plant to make it.
where
PEACE MAY COME
THE
JUNGLES
Singapore, Dec. 16.
By R. W.
THE heart has gone out
OF
Baxter
Buff, Consem.
SOON TO MALAYA
Up to the time of the meeting I had beer content with the and friendship of rather-ordinary
lost their initial surliness and are beginning to find life more plasari!
evár batore Malaya's health, education and
than
cots, and rumour was busy Hnk- ing my name with Tibbles, a black and white fireside tounger who
'wore a a little bell round
hla neck to let the birds know ho was coming.
It was because of this that Decret, romantic meetings became mpossible, and the tepid affair that had grown up between us died the moment I saw the ent of my dreams.
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appointment,....in
gorden.
moonlit
Then, by the time they have put the new drug on the market, U.S. scientists
of Malaya's Com- have produced another win- munist revolt. The In large areas of the country The robel is armed with old welfare schemes are impressing Manhattan Mouser, who later ner, and the chase to bandita who took to the bandit gangs are disintegrating. Paclic War weapons and even the cynica; and everyone told me he was King of The catch up begins all over jungle four and
which is scarce realises that, compared with the Ashcans (American for dustbins) 1 half Only in Johore is there any real ammunitions,
in rest of Asia, Malaya
is seemed at least twice the size of again.
years ago, vowing to have re left in the Reds-and a Fill and rapidly deteriorating
battalion which arrived recently Malaya's intense humidity. It the Red flag waving
over is quickly taking the ging out he draws the pin of a grenade prosperous and well-governed. Tibbles when I first met him, by Singapore and Kuala Lum- of that.
it is a toss up whether it goes Less than a year ago thero a year, have
off in his hand, does not explode was despair and dépression in pur within
I cannot describe him as hand- Malaya. This is the prole of a Cpm- at all or lifts the enemy..
Today there is hope some because he wore the honoUT been mostly wiped out. munist rebel in Malaya today."
and confidence.
able
battle scars of manga Perhaps one or two of his Those that have survived He is hungry, for the British gang have
new weapons a The planters give thanks to fought in the lists of love, and both his ears were tom and are hungry, in rags, have taken away the small revolver taken from a planter the men of a dozen nations-men flattened like the ears of op ad diseased, and despairing. holders who used to supply him they butchered in an ambush like the Suffolks who have just prize Bghter. This galling situation en- They have been beaten by with food-mare often than not or a couple of
rifles matched killed their 175th Red in Malaya But I was fascinated Lis
by Hole from a murdered Malay special and tails 'much more than loss
one of the most cosmo-
bie his magnificent whisors of prestige. There is usual-politan forces ever to fight and possibly suffering from berl- there are not nearly enough re-
amaciated, covered with sores constable on a lonely road. But Templer.
placements in this way.
In the last three years hundreds of our best imen have been fully occupied in following up the U.S. dis- coveries of cortisone and ACTH alone.
ly a huge loss of money.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
mean
driver!111?|.
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in fear of their lives.
together on one front..
beri,
Today troops from
Britain, Nepal, Fiji,
East
Africa and Rhodesia fight
And the Navy, patrolling up and down Malaya's consis, see to it that no arms come in from Red China.
This
Is why Chin Peng,
their lender General
bones, his lithe, sinewy
and his great paws, which, akade mine seem like little fluttering mice, when he first grabbed them and told me I had the wellest In nine months of ceaseless little chassis in the English- travel, inspection tours, con- speaking world.
There was also something so alongside locally trained; He is forced sometiates to
ferences on the ground and Malay soldiers and Malay, exist on leaves, and in despera- Indian and Chinese police.
tion occasionally holds up cars Malaya's 34-year-old Communiat persona Interviews, hb has virile and vital about The Mouser breathed the spirit of success that I could not help contesting and lorries in a frantle search boss believed to be in hiding in into Malaya. The man who him favourably with the for anything edible.
the dense jungle in North Johore promised on a dusty February fat my pursuit of -has
his shrinking
Tibbles, who, was always home He knows that the latest forces to switch from terrorism afternoon at Kuala Lumpur air Tibbles, with his silly ditile bél..
port that he would, not:sparo 20 dribble of recruits, mostly school to political infiltration, to get in himself in the task that lay by ten for his supper who never trado unions and ahead, has travelled nearly had the courage to cald a lander
30,000 miles In nine months to and thought fighting rathe meet the people of the country vingar. and to find a solution to their many problems. In addition, ho
Truckers from Borneo and aborigines from the depths of Malaya's Jungles hound out the Reds in the deep forests.
Australian and New Zealand alrmen pound their hideouts.
boys, to the Communist ranks among the. have been told that the most civil service.
important thing is no ·longer sabotage, no longer even the capture of arms and ammunition.
It is to obtain food.".
small
has travelled 24,000 miles to and
Of course, The Mousez was not from London for consultations.
quite the
gentleman, but he was Here in Malaya. Si Gerald's gay and daring, with a lone in
makes
a girl fiel beige-coloured Humber I be his eye that towns and villages,
their doors, pour out vital row: Bearest police station. He even good will to Britain and the coming, a' familiar eight 'in the rather helpleitet to kiss my
aying aircraft telling him where
As I have proraleed
to read and will say ho
atory fit for bistropa, to more about your the "moeting
this
He wants to surrender, and But he is too late to win many All the time, planters and tin miners from Britain, Australla RAF planes shower leaflets into converts to Communism. General and New Zealand and their the jungle promising him good Templer has seen to that Never. wives, keeping: the Reds from treatment if he walks into the before has there been so much materials which help to keep hours loud-speakers from low- British na riowe V Britain solvent,
to go and how to get there. But Up to a year ago the playing When he first set out on his local people ignored, him, or d It has been a hard rond for he, is usually terrified of the of the National Anthem at travole nine months ago. the oors to hear, these men and women, but the gang leaders, fanatical fight to cinema performantes was end of It rooms to be insight. tho-last Communists;, who with #lgnal for a rush to the doors by starod sullenly. A amlie might bewithin a few minutes;;
Aslans in the audience. Today have brought a 'bull from a Mount had asked me, to order his slow. exocation if he the overwhelming majority stand bandit, Today the villaders Sureen of The Dustbins, and Omcial reports, issued shows any
aighs
wanting to to attention. Y
often line the roadside and wave unable to enfuse to anything, show thai * 141 Communist desert,
n-cheery, greeting hun saista rahad?
hed consented. "incident" were reported last naz
The reasons for the change of
That, in itself, is an exemplo Next Week: The Mousta Cabine moguly In November, a year. So, ho says in ... the jungle, heart are manyara may day ago the figure was 531,-
hoping for a chance to slip away.
of how far Malaya. has pro Courting. I Mudy How to Be- to civilian og svon, for aflack by troops, so Jungle amalholders who were, guessed towards anal victory in comey Vincent. This There" wore casualties last month-87. in that he can desert in the con- resettled from their exposed this vital conflict agninas Come November 1951.
"fusion of battle,
homes in new villages have now "munism in Amin..
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