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The Big Medical Claims Of Our Time
IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME STORY IN Claim
MEDICINE
and counter-claim First, the big build-up-- then the second thoughts.
of
Nearly all th wonder drugs" of the modern genera- Tron have been through this process. claim and subsequent challenge
Consider names, which began as laboratory labels and have now beronse almost as fansılar as those on the bottles in the average medicine chest The antibiotic group, for example
By A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 24,′′ 1967.
MY KIND
33 years old, Git, sina., in teader of Britain's foremost Jazz "Eruditional" jazz band, and ru London's
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THE MAESTRO OF MODERN MUSIC BLOWS IN WITH A HOT THEME
OF JAZZ
YO
IT'S FUN-if you care
to take it seriously
by HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
T
IN 10
Since then. the
NATURE'S
POISON
PUNCHES
THE PIERCERS
By Ivan T. Sanderson
Explorer, Naturallst, Author
T
HE
to
groups the waist, and his certain
order knotted highest sarong
of the
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Insects
man was stripped beasts, are the females of
wan
high about his thighs, for known as the "disphragin-
These ELT the tropical sun blazed from winged ones."
been, ants. hornets.
a cloudless sky. In his left the hand he held a light, crook- yellow Jackets, sawflies and Everybody knows these insecta and, to a cer- he tain extent, what they
musical vil stick with which to hook others.
HE kden of getting en- Joyment or recreation age which emerged from out of making music their tumblings has spread by and
a new one--it's alway most as old as Man himself, over the
out of t But nowadays it's fashion.
#li
Was
CHUR
down the great palm fronds,
right with his wielded a long, razor-sharp do with their stings. but machete. His jub
to few realise either how they and clear the gully of its tangled do it or the extent to which
vegetation to make way for they may do so. the planting of young rub- Others worked
the
Krunophone wonid froIZI America Britain and Europe Light down to Austrnila.
world
Humphrey what JAZZ Is
Lyttelton,
marstru of modern misto telin 1yktelon, and what it means to him.
JAYANA
1
biggest
"professional musician,"
tak at
as others take เม
The boot and banking or
trade
who
TU
she some blug Jato.
In Britain
club the Humphrey Lyttelton Glub). He's an Old Blondan,
and an author of his autobiogra wn ex-Guards ofliver phy, Play as 1 Please," published last month, Nanes Spain wrote: "He han siled through life as though it were
a Trumpet Lovejo lary
Mr Flynn
with a
RROL FLYNN mudr
goes on
tra-la-la
By DAVID LEWIN
"Which key do you
in?" wouldn't Flynn.
Li aur pipes burst we send for If we lambire to fix them
et the urge to dance we enll the I medelan to provide
of our Now, most large cities and towns lutve one o inore established jazz bands and countless su.ellites-there's | angle. The Merseysippi Jazz Band Indied in a deep coma three Liverpool. The Saints in Man-
hours later. His only was 23. Brown's chester, Sandy
swollen to almost twice its The Avon City in Edmburgh.
normal size. Band in isristol, and so on.
Bre
I had news recently of New ber trees. la this pral modern
the TCERTVO of Orleans-style bands flourishing to right, and left of him.
L' Gold Coast, which hidden by the foliage.
The stings of these insects. should give the anthropologists ? Suddenly, the man let out
warning, are carried at the inck 10 get their wetha wild shout of
their bodies, and tools of then he dropped his
modified egg-laying and ran. The man to his really
There are count- loft ran, alsn, but a boy on devices, the right was caught in the less kinds that do not sting, As it result, he yet they have "stings," but lese are just hollow tubes or drills through which they
their
into eggs pum animals, plants or the earth. What had happencil was Among Lhone that do that the minn who gave the sting. The apparatus is con- warning had split open verted into a strong, often papery grey ball about the barbed lance, through which size of a football that was poison can be squirted, and beneath a curved the eggs are simply dropped
their and pulm frond just about level out of an opening at
hase. This structure is ex- eeelingly complicated.
record
1.
Thanks to the radio and Pramophone musie is
anl 1 lup 1 waler
It's all very tidy and tricity very depressing
BOW elec-
In
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Dobrik.
asked him.
know."
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during
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I'm
NETVOUIN
to
sle
r. The middle of the boll wa
Frazt - looking
a preord the other day, In The over-written history of Mr Flynn no meu 1pon has so far been made of his potential as a singer.
This is W ixina medied.
The orchestra through Laguna armin.
At the chud el The ranu ning the
de f
Fa ivearch berland
13 was derkari
Making muste for yourself is f, as anyone knows who has
seriously (AZIO tri
YA
at
Absurd?
to be serious with your COME people, even within the
But people who live to jazz fraternity, regard it as ranging
pre ellies today
absied that bank clerks noviteapped by not having any shop
<it
tt
ever
to piny.
Fe musle, where existed. te beyond recall. Tin Pan Alley off-the-peg dance Inducement anely pilers Blue
Aar "serious" In the amateur
music is much loo technical and Intellectual. Can you sec your- steam self telling off musical
then g
bit
of Bartok
The start
Mr Plynu turned a wooden up at a gramophone record. Hike an outsize parking ense ing session to simp. There
in which was housed that Mr Flynn should continue) Hindemith? hew on the letta
the rhythm section: banje, the ses sons In privas-willzont "ila voice has guitar, and drutos. The The unhestra
penda sality that might be hut was built tu merensC
alone." and separute the sound they
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in a temporary studio fitted up in a Brail Holborn. which Me At fret. It worked indigeten
Flynn Fund was more often. Bere we The
Cengerasing).
meetings f деть tatsu Won still, there were used for
pengele diend | Ethical Society.
Fort 4*,
J
treerdaal injection.
Wiln
challengeci
Herbert
rude.
Flynn stood near the womberts from and sung the words i:5:1:3tuslte E Flat" oid the Perhaps it was Deetous probed the mystery and Wilcox, producer of Flynn's past. "Somebody's flat and latest film, "Lilacs in the Spring," who discovered his hidden talent. Said Wilcox: Llly of Laguna'
tritol the answers,
Even small doses ed penandling
they dis- sunelin vs bulld up to have to the rug
taken for mor is.
* 4
The seths. they decided. weke vhused by a form of shock due te pelin being given to prople who, like Harry Truman, reacted violently to it
The doctors became cautious, In Britain a law was passed to control the drug. And pentellin was established
the most successful of the antlbiolles,
As
It was the sulpha drugs that
Arst made doctors think again.
In 1935 the Germans found that
rexi well-known
31
dye.
Prontosti, could check germs
even in the body itself,
anki
made British scientista tested hundreds of compounds of the original drug. Sir Win- ston Churchill whe cured ol preumenia by one of them 1943.
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19
Doctors prescribed them
and sulpha freely as aspirin, treatment of wounds saved the lives of thousands at service-
men during the war.
But then doctors that,
discovered
like penicillin. sulpha drugs could kill. For the drugs can cause the rare and terrible disease
ugranulocytosis
which wipes out the body's white blood cells.
IN FULL VOICE
in
ERROL FLYNN, with socket of.
recordi Lily of Laguna a London hall ·Flphijng a Alm battle in n studio jungle ta easier." he said.
Flynn.
might be
He loosened his he and ag agan in whal described 45 hazy baritone. After an hour's work he was well in time with the orchestra.
Noon Newell,
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So Flynn sang alone and lus :་་xact* was dubbed
the on to
Now ne cady recorded Land! hits the other side of the record This will feature a quer with Anna Neagle sin
1.
1. r Lilacs
Notilo's
On this that
Win
JN
Wimbledon assistants in Bournemouth should De playing the music of the Negra And sebetion of New Orleans. so it is, on the face of it.
Bo the fact is that they do play it, not for fame or fortune bulter, buil or even bread and because they like it,
A
h
the
Fear of the glant hornel's Ielhai
even wing pulo
animal mightiest Jungle
Alight.
to
The
bee of the apparatus consists of a sort of stiff Spear The and two barbed needles. laties ride along the former on tiny guide-rail, and the three spines together enclose a chan- nel down which the
poison actually pumped by the piston- like motion of the two needles The whole structure and action is cutly much more complicated than can be described in a few is for words, but the process
into the bee to Jab the spear your skin, and then pump the atedles up and down, so forcing
complex,
Jazz In its simplest forms, was by grabbing a violin and cat-
provides
which music
15 the keen within the reach of amateur, and which gives him
for individual ex- some scope pression. I believe that is the chief rasun for Its present popularity. As Richard Murdoch MIS leads me right up to my would say, it fulfils a long-felt with his head. Immediately, the poison into you. THIS
a high-pitched buzzing filled hobby fasturite
horse, want,
The polson also is the air and the man took being derived from two separate which is the theory that jazz is
what this glan.is. One is an NY pet aversions? Yes-the off, knowing
acid, the the amateur music of today.
R local folk muste.
self-styled "music-tover" meant. He had split open a other an alkaline. It is deadly began as
who is convinced that jazz is o
forest to sinuli onimals and produces nest of giant black In New Orleans at the start kind of sinister Firth Column
death in larger ones, even man, hornets.
If enough of it is Injected at one good overthrowing of the century, men like Buddy bent
In such an emergency, the time. Of course, this amount Bolden the barber, Bunk music. I once played a record
music Johnson
master the truck driver, and by
at Ewn huge insects take only varies not only with the num- Lorenzo To
He listened with a set few the elgar-maker College,
moments to orientate ber of stings you receive, In- face.
And at the end he said themselves and organise the according taught themselves to play
atings you. struments so that they could with the utmost conviction, "It
attack, then the whole make music for their local
WALS
a terrible day for when functions-parades, picnics, and
Chut stuff
allowed swarm takes off in a long, into the country.”
streaming flight straight at the nearest living thing and,
Gather
tended Miss Neagle Nita? cope wall Brook at the vocat part, Mi Flynn will hande os contdbu- trom
conversational
y....
carnivals.
The Chapman Pincher Column:
SMOKING
SAY
A
SERIOUS weakness in
After statistics they have found that the figurus "prove"
re-examining the
or
of one are the
CAN PROTECT THESE
this way. He Take
same
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was
music
YOU,
DOCTORS
into
less
Five
15 action
but
10
the
insect
Chut
at a good forty miles 21 There are enormous kinds of in Africa that can hour, dive-bomb it. Coming homets
&
slagle
in singly or in groups, they paralyse a goat with
sting and which put every
land for only a second, drive animat even the mighty their stings home, and then elephant-to fight. Both these
und several nucl zoom off again.
smat.er They counted one hundred species found in the East Indies and thirty-six stings on the can kill the average inn if he blunders on tu one of their boy who was caught. Most huging wests and receives only were on the back of his a few stings at once. neck, the most vulnerable
spot of his body.
are
used
un
DA
But this is not all, for insects
in can poison you
still with
other thinks that, has gone
this problem, harmful even to people
ways. Most unexpected of all many moderate smokers trans- duodenal or stomach ulcers. the parent leak between
are those beautiful creatures- the statisticians' argu-
kg n! lung cancer, this fer themselves to the category 3 TEA'S TANNIN, which was
the butterflies and moths. First, ment that smoking cause Marina K 11 1 www base It of non-sinokers associated with once believed to harden the
there are several kinds of moths lung cancer has been de- shared on a quirk of statisiles. a higher death rate from stomach lining, is really harm-
that
in their carly stages of The almost endless honts development its because "If one epileet: the figures for cancer."
cater- furry tected independently by two
all cancers, then the expected
seutralised by another substance of insects are divided by pillars. Several of these have doctors.
denths and the uctupl deaths A Cup Of Tea in tea-the stimulant caffeine. scientists into two great to
to be handled with the utmost for both
doctors, lcd by Dr become the smokers ad
Wilmer non-smokers," he
Wirts, made the tests on groups - those that never caution because the soft hair penetrate GOOD strong cup of tea 118 people
including patients have wings, of which there from their back can
the Bays.
pores of your skin and set after a heavy meal may do with
at # digestive upsets, are three sub-groups, and up a terrible Irritation. The Sgures seem to show that
more to relieve your indigestion Philadelphia hospital.
those that have. The latter
Secondly, there are just as strongly that smok- a smoker is more liable to get
Jany any stomach powder,
takes several ing protects the body from enneer in the lungs but he gets than
The caffeine
sub butterflies and moths that have Its antare divided into 29 to produce
mouths minutes all other kinds of cancer. the compensation that he is less doctors report today.
But psychological groups. About half of these very strong tubular Hable than the non-smoker to After the most elaborate roops effect.
contain Home which they roll up under their So a man's chances of t
#et it elsewhere. Dr Fair experiments ever made to dis- tests show that a "cappa" un-sub-groups
heads, but which can be dying from cancer
weather belleves that smokers cover the precise effects of, tea accountably gives sere degree species that can poison other rolled-in one case to a length
of "lift from the first slp. alarmed have been needlessly kind
animals, but, the degree of of ten inches and another
on digestion, they claim: on the evidence to for available. same whether he smokes or He is supported by Dr Geaffrey | TEA TONES UP the stomach
Cheep, Cheep poisoning varies from the hypodermice, to pierce the barks THE LOVE-CALL of the almost unnoticeable irrita. of plants. a great many | not.
n, of St Loxton,
Bartholomew's Frequent blood checks, now
muscles which tend to get
It has been reported that one male grasshopper is no per- tion caused by the sting of of these, living in Venezuela, London, In a Medical Research Cqua- Hospital,
has "red" when overlooded with a who routine in prolonged treatment things about Errol, but not
Any heavy meal, Peetly imitated by Dr W. Lohor, small files, like summer may, if it alights upon you, with sulpha druga. guard that he could sing.
cll's inquiry into the deaths of reached similar conclusions in large meal. 789 doctors, Professor Bradford dependently.
especially one containing much a French scientist, that female against this danger.
"Non-smoking is accoclated starchy food, loaves the stomach grasshoppers fly to his lips midges, to the possibly fatal unrell its hypodermic and pleres "Nice, rich voice he has,Hill and De Richard Doll, who
-to man-sting of some of your skin by mistake, and give a greater mortality from sooner when it is followed by when he starts chirping.
you a most awful sting. If this too. Better than Laurence are medical statisticians, found with
that 36 who
lung nl!
He has proved his prowess to the giant tropical hornets. than moderate contracted
CONCETS
is true and it has not been a cup of tea.
The real stinging insects, fully confirmod--it wil un- disbelieving colleagues by show- We're not dub-cancer were
the Olivier's.
smokern. smoking," he writes rogular argued that this was British Medical Journal.
2 TEA MAKES the stomach no ing a colour-film of himself in A few years after the Second bing Errol in the film-he They
"It would be a tragedy il, as more acid than a cup of hot action at a Paris conference of and those which can cause doubtedly be the most unexpect the most harm to men and ed of Nature's poison punches. the a result of the fina work smoking
that between World War three new Ameri- sings for himself now.""significunt" evidence of a lak
cannot be grasshopper fanciers. astounded the (Olivior also kang drugs
for disease, because not more than medical world, in each case Wilcox-in "The Beggar'a 32 should have died of this their discoverers claimed:
the laws complaint according Opera.") "Beter than penicillih,
of chance."
The announcement of this: So Mr Flynn put it on re- anding caused a temporary cord as well, and in the hall slump in tobacco shares.
Now Dr Roy Fairweather line! men plus a chorus of eight. shown that the death rate from MON AM. WE ARE ABOUT TAKE YOUR KING-SIZE
skilful all other types of cancer
can
Three new drugs
In some respects they were.
Take chloramphenicol. It could do what penicillin could not- kill typhus and typhold microbes.
But it also sometimos killed the Blood's rod cells,
“The doctors had second
"thoughts. An inquiry was held
"We knew
faced an orchestra of 28
They
played A
modern
arrangement "Lily of Laguna."
of
and
WR3
of
higher among the non-smoking
than the doctors
**RWS chance" prodicted. There were 15 death from 'this cause, in- "The first run-through is stead of an expected 10.
"This would Justify
In Amerion. And the Instruc- Just to get the balance elusion that smoking in
with the greatest caution,
right,” said Norman Nawell, way protects
соп soma
tion went out:-/Use this and in charge of the gramophone'jfrom other chicory ho points
make" Trequent biðõà thờcks,"
Then there wore aureomycin recording. Flynn, surround-out
Individumi
in the Brush Medical
and terramycin by Ware ded by three friends took Journal
De Fairweather, a Bradford:
fresh"/"hope"for"="" the; alleosom for; intently scorela
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