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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST | 28; ; 1956,
CANAL BUILDER'S GODCHILD
LOOKS BACK Spent Childhood Watching
The Suez Made
Mexico City, Aug. 27.
Lying bed-ridden in a hospital here is an 89-year old French woman, the godchild of the builder of the Suez Canal, who spent part of her childhood watching the Canal take shape.
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MAO RECEIVES DELEGATION
AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS
WHO BITE TO KILL
Melboorne, Aug. 27.
In a few months, science, may have taken the threat of almost certain death from the bite of Australia's funnel-web spider which goes for the kill with tigerish ferocity and courage.
Working in the Government | was known, too, that the venom serum Inbornlorics here,
the permeability of a Increased German-born scientist, Dr Saut the blood vessels so that fluid Wiener has produced nn oozed from them, flooding the antidote for the lethal bite of lungs. the Internationally-known red- back, the second most powerful slayer-spider in Australia. This,
10 experts, according
gave "dramalie" results.
Now, Dr Wiener is hoping to have ready by the summer an anti-vement for the funnel-web bite, which can bring death humans in an hour or two and to animals in #1 Imatter Iminutes,
Blacker Record
by
Cut Out Clands
It is on this venom that Dr Wiener and his assistants are working.
"With a drop of ether we will kill the spider," he walk "Then we cut out the venom glands. It is a delicate job und work must be fast because they roon deteriorate. "
Producing the serum begins with injecting venom with in- creasing strength into an animal until an Immunity is bulit up.
In this work, Dr Wiener uses a method enabling him to get much stronger serum from less venom than is accomplished by methods used elsewhere,
Dr Wiener believes that both spiders have a blacker record of Human kills than the rince eighteen officially listed 126 and that some deaths re-
AN from gistered
"VENDITIOUS bites, bellevedly
snakes, could more truly be laid at the doors of the spicture airs.
Instead of injecting straight The
named hinac-web,
venom he first adds alumitham
Microscopic phosphate to it. because of the web-lined hole it
of the aluminium builds in the ground, is some-particles
imes mistakenly called a trap- phosphate absorb the venom, he but it does not raid, and when injected, relense vioor spider,
it slowly in the animal's body
Ko
make a hinged lid to its nest
as that spider does. The giving & prolonged stimulus
is
H
funnel-web. however, memder of the
the Kroup, Mygalomorphae. That includes the true trap-door spiders, number of which are found in Australia.
The funnel-web is found only around Sydney and mainly in one area of about Arteen miles radius.
It goes
more
movement
through life full of
aggressive fight, meeting trouble
than halfway
Just n niid nearby
the whleh is anything of heavily- jet black
funnel-wub,
necessary for the production of serum.
His anxiety to have the serum ready by the summer is based on the fact that all recorded
to trogedies attributed
the tunnel web have occurred be- tween Derember and March.
Die Within Minutes
He does not vouch for the accuracy of the theory of seme authorities that
funnel- U4 web's death-dealing potency is He has seen or greater in summer
animals dle within ន instantly laboratory
the of a bite from spider in non-summer months,
to two inches bullt. shiny, reddish-brown, braced
n hinder legs. forelegs minutes elevatest menacingly and venom glands ready to unload at the Airike.
Lantion. Aug. 27. Chainman Mao Tse-tung. China's head of state, gave a audience in Peking today to the
Speedy death of an untreated. women's delegation from Tibet attended by Premler Chou En- victim, Dr Wiener said,
senior im and other
Chinese Indicated that the venom con- offelals, the New China News tained a general toxin affecting
the whole body. He said, Agency reported.-Reuter.
Philippines, Robaui, ap.m Macao, 0 p.m.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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STRANGE--HE NEVER TRIED
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The chances of being bitten In summer were greater, he sold, because more people were outsile in summer and were inore locly to be doing things which exposed them to greater risis.
Bail as the red-bock spider was, Dr Wiener said, I struck only when disturbed. Most of the recorded cases of bites were traced to the victims picking up a piece of wood or rock under which the red-buck was sheltering.
Its Lally of fatal bltes greater than the funnel-web's, but then the pen-sized blnek- bodfod spider with the vivid crimson stripe or red spots down the middle of its back is common everywhere in Australia,
Its family in known In many other parts of the world. has kinship with the kalipo of New Zealand,
blackt widow of North
the
America, the knopple of South Africa, the malmignatte of Italy, the kara- kurt of Russia and other spiders in routher and southwestern Europe, In Arabia, Asia, through the Malaya Archipe). ugo and across the Pacific.
Dr
Attacks Spinal Cord Cell
Venom from the red-back, Wiener explained, attacks
poliomyelitis
the
the same spinal-cord cells as thore affected by
virus,
causing paralysis and death when the respiratory muscles become effected.
The red-back scrum, in re- gular use this year after eighteen months research, Dr Wiener raid, relieved in half an hour pain that had been constant for some time, The patients then felt quite normal, "Just as it they had never been bitten. und quickly recovered from the effects of the bite.
In this sarun, too, Dr Wiener used the aluminium phosphate proces', He said he had usad 38 red-backs to produce serum for a horse whereas in similar work uverstis 3,000 spiders were used on a sheep.
Not Normally Fatal
Although the known death' rate from bites of the red-back- and funnel-web spiders was not alarmingly high, Tald Dr Wiener, it was high enough to make worthwhile.
the work on serum
These two spiders were the
only, ones in Australia really harmful to mun, he said. Other venomous spiders caused focal reactions and perhaps Soma sickness but they were not normally fatal, — China Mall' Special.
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