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PART FOUR
Chemistry of Love
it
is a talent that
is born in you. just like
a taste for music..
by
KENNETH
WALKER
JHAT is the strange compulsive force,
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the chemistry if you like, that deter- mines the attractions and the magnetisms of people who fall in love?
Anil alliance between two people may be n highly unsuitable one. A hundred obstacles my staal in the way of the ultimate fulfil- ment: marriage. But they are "in love."
has
No phrase is used more glibly, nor has become mere cominoB currency, than those "Three Little Words" of the tunesmiths, the incessant, often artificial, dreamland that many industries geared 1151 its promotion.
YET NEVER HAS IT BEEN LESS UNDER-
STOOD.
The mystery
But the greatest mystery run fronting the scientist attempting to put love under his lera-
cope is how the intensity nexun! attraction
of
desire unf
from in-
varies enornausly dividual to Individual.
1 DELIEVE
ATTRACTION
REGARDED
THAT SHOULD AS BEING
Artey Mirect surgeon Walker
Kenneth
A parilentarly Kujtable writer to conclude this series, on the Chemistry of Love. He is one of the country's leading authorities on the medical aspects of sexual-behaviour. And he har that gift * rare In experts-line abilty to present an involved subject
laymen in straight-forward terms. He is the author of a number of popular books.
the love
emotional type, and torce is usually much stronger among pools and artists than it Is among the intellectuals, the scholars, the men of science and the fawyers.
Do you realise that upbring-
ing exeritses u very Strong The development influence over
sexuality?
As adults we derive from our sexunity what we have put into it previously.
IF WE WERE TAUGHT to SEX regard tl sexual manifestations
BE
Its low und degrading, or as the A temptings of the devil, then love
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But we can examine certain
physiological and psychological changes which occur in the
minds and bodies of people who are in love.
put their emotions under the microscope.
to
Senses
Are there optimum condi- tions for people
SOCIALISTS
ABOLISH
HOSPIT
REMOVALS
OPS
OUT-PATIENTS
PARK HERE
"Trust some politician to rob us of one of our few remaining pleasures."
A virus tamed after 13 years - becomes our ally........
Will THIS end Polio?
TAMED lions make good circus; tamed shrews
⚫ make good wives. Tamed polio viruses? They are mankind's newest allies against polio- myelitis.
And the polio virus tamer? Dr Herald R. Cox of the Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Co, New York.
His brainchild-A live-virus oral polio vaccine that gives immunity in a single dose to all three fail into each strains of the crippling disease. other's spell? The rpecial senses play a very important part both in courtship and in establishing sexual attraction,
Love ean and does happen on first sight, but
the sense
of
to
The company hopes have the vaccine approved in time for production And it early next year. will be available in Hong- kong to be sold to medical practitioners and hospitals Touch is the most primitiveļas are other vaccines in
all the special senses, the uau, but not freely to the public. ancestor from which the other Fenses were derived.
that of sight.
PERSONA 1. ENDOWMENT is likely to remain besmirched touch is more powerful than THAT VARIES AS WIDELY for the rest of our lives. IN DIFFERENT PEOPLE AS DOES AN APPRECIATION OF MUSIC.
So we have a long sente In the
human temperature of relationships, reaching from those who, for want of a better phrase, are described as "rold"
for IF IT IS A THEME amazing stories-as it seents to be for inuuy men-then it will remain for ever a hollow Jest.
IF WE HAVE BEEN fortun- ate and have learned from the
to people whose lives are alaust very beginning to regard sex as
ruled by their desires.
In history
Latins are supposed to be obsessed with love, but this is an Huston probably created by thy association of hot weather mud butirat noonery.
Accepting that you are barn with what attractions you have, the what is responsible for marked differences in the ablity to enjoy love?
It is,
to a great extent, question of physical and psycho- logical type.
The Great Lovers of history
have always
been
of
an entirely ateral inouifesta- lion of love between two people of different sexes, then we shall prize it very highly.
of
In the love affairs of creatures as low on the evolutionary seale as the insects, the crabs and the spiders, tactile sensation is the anly speelal sense involved their maling.
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This develops through Bernard Shaw was right when animal world in many forms that more non- and leads directly to the kisses he remarked sense has been written an of bammans,
thin about talked about sex any other subject.
smett
The kiss
Is
To try it out, 700,000 people in U.S., Argenina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Finland, Haiti, Iaraci, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain and Uruguay, have been given 2,000,000 doses of the vaccine in the last nine years.
are Re-
And the entire population of Costu Rien under 11, totalling 600,000, immunised with the new vaccine. sults will come off in autumn.
Follow-up to the trial on the 700,000' "has reported not a
of single instance adverse reaction directly attributable to the vaccine."
And 70 to 100 per cent
MONKEY
HOUSE
KAMSTER
CHICK EMBRYO
CHICK EMSETO
CHICK IMHIYO
MONKEY
VIEUS
By DAVID
LAN
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
The sexual upbringing of the young is of the first importance.
The beginnings
a of many
The special senses of smell case of sexual neurosis can be and taste also contribute to
Dr Cox le tomed the virus. kisses. traced to the schoolroom and huma
In animals
of those on test responded even to the nursery,
1) role that plays
Lo three is quite secondary only to that of touch
straina Be sure of this: i
by In a single swallow the impossible to give a galisfactory.
vaccino but in man smell has showing presence of im-three-in-one
in- explanation of love in terms of runk to a lower place among his munising antibodies in the duces lasting immunity blood serum following vac- faster than previously pos- But smell Is particularly cination.
sible. It requires no "boos- ter" doses,
the science.
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senses.
linked with our emotions. We catch the scent of a rose and Two threatening polio Euddenly and without any effort outbreaks in Andes (Colombia) and Nicaragua were halted after mass
we are transported back cerlain garden
In which
to п
We
walked many years before,
And so strong is the memory-immunisation with the new reviving power of scent that we | vaccine.
clearly recollect companions
with whom we walked and even
what we auid.
Women, much more than men. know and need the power of Ure smell instinct.
They have realsed the emotional potentialities of treat for their own callsfaction as well as that of their partner's.
Through the ages they have exploited perfumei. Once, only rich women could afford' the bewitching powers of exolie scents
now there 13 A worldwide industry geared to cater for every woman's Iden of their beguiling power.
And sound
Another instinct
which
has
been commercially catered for, until today it looses torrent upon us, is sound.
In nature, the fact that the male bird becomes vocal only during the breeding suasun shows that the femple by pur- ticularly responsive to sound.
From
poets through to troubadours and even Elvis Presley, results endorse nature's techniques.
South China Morning Post Ltd, different sounds,
HONG KONG & KOWLOON
cma-
an
Moods can be created, lions controlled' by skilful un- derstanding of the appeal of
From | African Jungle drum to · the dreamy strings of a hi-fi set, love is set to, and inspires. man's music.
—(London Express Strolce).
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One of the methods used to modify or weaken the virusen was by taking virulent polio viruses found in nature and forcing them to grow in "hosts" which are not their natura! prep. In adapting to live auccessfully, in monkeys, mice, Hamsters, and chick embryos, the character of the virus is changed. It becomes "tame", so that when it is returned as oral vaccine to monkeys or to man following attenuation, it can no longer cause polio, Yet, it can still set of the mechanism In man that produces immunity.
He outlined his plan to fight soldier who died of pollo serving pollo to the company aut- In the Middle East Forces and
called MEF-1. thorities. Its immediate up- Ile weakened it by passing il proval het the wheels in through 157 generations of new- motion.
born tuumsters, 17 times through the chick embryo tissue culture and 17 times through monkey kidney Lasue evllure and ploquing it out three times.
Plaquing is a process to select siruin by placing several drops of modlited virus on agar plates contrining a layer of monkey kidney cells.
The research stuff had no way of knowing that they were embarking on a in 13-year quest, 13 years
which there was to be no the weakest
return on a HK$48 million investment.
Pollo is a virus disease.
The virus enters the body through the alimentary
Punch holes
canal. As long as it remains The strongest viruses, attack- in the intestines, it can do Ing the tissue cells, punch tho little harm.
In the cell layer largest holes
The virolo- gist then collects the weakest
calonics with smallest
result.
End
Salk
liquid in the milk before But if the parasite in- witlun a few days. leaving the hospital and vades other body cells on virus remain protected from which it feeds and mul- holes, tests them and plaques palio throughout child tipl'es, it will kill the cells, out the weakest strain again.
The third type. Fox sirain, hood."
When a sufficient number was isolated from a one-year- of nerve cells are destroyed old child End modified by 15 Thanks to the ease and in the process, paralysis may passagea through monkey kidney "The day is nearing," apced of administration
issue culture and four plaquings. sald
Both Lederle pricing, economical company execu and tive, "when every new public health authorities It is an established vaccines are produced by grow- born infant will be given will have no more worries
ing the virus in monkey kidney fact that a majority of cells but Sclic vaccine differa in half a teapoonful of a over shortage of funds, people have been in that the virus is not weakened fected with polio. Some but killed outright with formalin may have felt 'under the and is injected intramuscularly. In 1952, Dr Cox said, "with weather for a few days patience end perseverance, you without 'oven knowing can train a virus to do almost the lifo and death anything you want.". struggle going on inside.
CHUCKLES
"Don't be silly! Does it look as if we expect him shortly?”
time and trained techni- cians for immunising.whole communities nt short notice.
Though endorsed by recent international con- ference, the live-virus vac-
Dr Ccx's underlying theory an attenuated or weakened live virus vaccine,
cine is still on test. It has was that not yet been approved by given orally, could duplicate the the U.S. Food and Drugs antibody. response achieved! Administration for com- through natural Infection with- mercial production.
out the danger of elinient disease.
However, the company Power lost has started constructing
The trivalent vaccine, when commercially pro duced, will cut in half the
VRC cost of present polio cination.
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And after 13 years of work, Dr Cox has trained a virus protect mankind, from pollomyelitis,
to
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plant capable of producing Earlier in the 19th century.-by Mr W. H. Cornish, Asuis- the vaccine for 40 million Louis Pasteur discovered that ulant Under-Secretary of State at poople a year, bringing the virus could be weakened by the Home Office, at Hereford-
i from generation to thire pollee headquarters:— coЯt of the company's growing ploneering work over 13 generation in an unnatural host 46TT is timo, we stressed that
T. **An animal ordinarily un
the police are doing their years to a total of HK$48 ausceptible to the virus.
duty and performing a publio million.
Somewhere along the way, the service, Police affloers are only virus lost its power to cause ordinary citizens in, uniform.” trouble to man but it kept the ability to immunise,
Here is how De Cox tamed or
the viruses to turn by Fire, Journal of the British weakened
Fire Services them into friends,
For Type I-the SM strain-E fire service is a humsal- mixture of the Sickle and lartan service and will turn Mahoney,
possed them out to everything and anything through 24 generations of mice, where people are in danger or 10 times through monkey kidney need help. But to deliberately tissue culture and 14 times invlie' disaster, be through through chick embryo tissue foellshem or foolhardiness, and culture followed by several final so endanger others, as well, should be made a· punishable He derived Type 11 strain by I offence. Bolating a virus from a British
London Exprém Seruter,
Dates will be arranged for clinical tests Int Hongkong later.
In 1946, when Dr Cox be gan his work, America was in the midst of one of Its worst pollo epidemics.
he
purification steps.
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