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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24th, 1928.
DANGERS OF VIOLET RAYS.
PROFESSOR DIXON'S WARNING.
BEAUTY PARLOUR CHARLATANS.-
BLUE LIGHT" BATHS A HARMLESS FRAUD,
A warning that treatment by ultra-violet rays can do as much harm in certain casee as a poisonous drug was uttered by Pro- fessor W. E. Dixon, F.R.S., of Cambridge, the meeting of the British Medical Association at Cardiff--Points from his etriking speech are:
Sun-ray institutes are becoming the fashion.
Charlatans in Europe and America use all kinds of rays to impose on the public.
Hairdressers. employ them for women clients.
Beauty institutions have set up baths of blue-rays- generally harmless frauda.
Ultra-violet rays cure rickets.
and with less risk and trouble.
So does cod liver oil,
Dr. C. B. Heald, of London, declared that the rays adversely affected certain ailments. -
AS BAD AS POISON?
Professor W. E. Dixon said that! it was obviously right that the public should be given auch in- formation as would enable it to dis tinguish between those who had been properly educated to disperse rays and others. At present a
tans
EXPERT REPLIES TO PROFESSOR DIXON.
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QUACKERY.
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THE POWERS OF AN ARCHBISHOP.
CLERGYMAN. AND LICENCE.
TO OFFICATE.
APPLICATION AGAINST
PRIMATE.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, who was represented by Mr FH L. Errington, was cited before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Acton and Branson in King's Bench Divisional Court, to answer a rule obtained by the Rev. Philip Dalby, of Castle Donington, near Derby, calling on him to show cause why he should not hear Mr. Dalby's applications for a licence to preach in the diocèse of Lei- cester.....
The Bishop of Leicester had in- formed Mr. Dalby that his licence to preach would be revoked, where: upon Mr. Dalby wrote to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, who replied that he could rat interfere with the discretion of the Bishop.
M. Errington said that the rule was obtained on the ground that the Archbishop had refused to exercise a discretion given to him by the Act of Uniformity. What Mr. Dalby was granted by the Bishop of Leicester, and what he now wanted, was a licence to officiate, which carried with it the duty of the cure of souls.
Díacese.
Lord Hewart said that in his
Emphatic support of some of the kinds of rays were used by charia-contentions of Professor W. E.
In his affidavit answering the in Europe and America to Dixon, and equally, emphatic denia! had no power to inquire into the rule, the Archbishop said that he'
impose on the public.
of some others were given by Dr.fitness of an applicant for a licence Hairdressers employed them Percy Hall, of Harley-street, W., to officiate that being in the dis especially for their women clients. in a statement to a Daily Mail cretion of the Bishop of the Beauty institutions had set up
Misconceived. baths of blue rays, which were
"I agree," he said, "that there generally harmless frauds, although are a large number of charlatans letter to the Archbishop, Mr. Dalby said that the Bishop of Leicester ultra-violet light had been used.
professing to cure by this treat-stated that he was not dissatisfied Sun-tay institutes were becoming ment. Ons man in Londen dis with the way Mr. Dalby carried out the fashion and the public was buy penses certain forms of coloured his duties, and that the withdrawal ing machines and indulging in self-light and gives them a medical
of the licence had nothing to de significance by occasionally calling himself doctor on the strength of an alleged doctorate in divinity.
treatment.
Gurative Action.
All that was known, for certain regarding the general benefit of the rays was that sunshine excrt- eda curative effect in certain dis ences due to action on the skin and only indirectly on the disease. Morning and evening sunlight were not so useful that at midday since the raya
'had to travel through a greater thickness of atmosphere.
Pigmentation of the skin from lamps was more superficial and transient than that produced by sunshine. Apart from ite action on the skin ultra-violet radiation gave a feeling of well-being and vigour.
Many other beneficial effects have been ascribed to ultra-violet raye, Professor Dixon remarked, bat I believe that most of these are not specife and can be obtain ed just as well with, eay, a mus tard plaster.”
It was sometimee thought that ultra-violet radiations were bene. ficial for almost any condition and that they could do no harm. were not benefited by this treat
In reality very many patients
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with his work as a clergyman.
It was abundantly plain that what Mr. Dalby asked for was a licence to offeinte in the full sense. That was not a licence to preach which the Archbishop had discre tion to grant.
"I do not think hairdressers now use ultra-violet raya, as Professor Dixon suggests at least, not in "I think," concluded Lord Council requires that no ultra-were misconceived, and they seem London, where the London County Hewart, "that these proceedings violet rays plant can be laid down to exhibit the mischief which arises unless a certificate of proficiency is from not distinguishing things. cutained.
which ought to be distinguished." Acts On Blood Stream.... The rule would be discharged with "I dispute Professor Dixon's costs contention that the beneficial effects of ultra-violet rays are confined to the skin. Sunshine tets also on the blood stream. To say that a mustard plaster will product equal- STOLE TO PAY FOR LESSONS ly beneficiel effects is absurd.
AT 305. A TIME. - Those who are admittedly experts on the subject have been most cere ful to point out that the beneficial Thefts amounting to £190 to effects of ultra-violet rays when gratify her love of finery, cho- rightly applied were due the fact colates, and dancing led to Eva that they stimulated the natural- Ball, aged 19, of Smithy Lodge, defeneca of the body against Heaton Park, Manchester, being disease.
DANCE-MAD GIRL.
bound over at Manchester.
Sho
"I dispute the contention that was placed on probation for two violet rays have resulted in aaa- repeated applications of ultra-attend a dance half during that years on condition that she did not
my own experience I know that ployer, Mr, Isaac Stalberg, a water- cerous form of dermatitis. From period.
correct, ultra-violet treatment bas
The thefts were from her
ment and some might suffer injury. an opposite effect, and this is boras Proof manufacturer.
A common effect of slight over- dosing was sleeplessness, restless- ness, lassitude, loss of weight, and Resistance to bacterial in fection was said to be lowered by treating too large a surface.
nausea.
"Severe Headaches.
FT-
In addition to going to dances. she had paid a professional dancer as much as 30s, a lesson for instruc tion..
out by its use at the Cancer Hos pital, Brompton-road, S.W. It is the patient's resistance. not a cure of cancer, but it raises
"A detective said the girl had be Professor Dixon states that come infatuated with a young man cod liver oil will cure rickets with and had told him be could have
violet rays. There are some cases
i only he would dance with her. To addition to paying him and other men she had run up bills for chocolates amounting to 158. a week.
The most obvious ill-effects werless risk and trouble than ultra- as much money from her as he liked in the nature of burns--the skin of rickets which cod-liver oil will became hot, red, swollen, and in not cure. If all new-born children flamed. Repeated applications had were given a few correct doses of resulted in chronic lesions, a can-ultra-violet rays rickets would be cerous form of dermatitis. The wiped out. skin effects were often associated The ultra-violet rays of the sun with severe pains in the eyes and are most valuable in the hands of headaches, sometimes lasting for experts, but anything that is potent weeks. The public should under- for good is equally potent for evil etand that there was no difference if wrongly used. Many deaths are between an ultra-violet burn and a attributable to the wrong, use by scald.
ignorant people of ultra-violet rays.
MADE GIDDY BY WORK.
EXCUSE FOR LEAVING FIRST JOB IN FIVE YEARS.
There were angry protests from a meeting of Labour members at the Edmonton Guardians when a proposal was carried to hold special
There was one thing these rays
Public Tired Of "Burgery, did: They cured rickets. Rickete
"Professor Dixon, who is could also be cured by cod-liver oil with much less risk and trouble. pharmacologist and not a specialist Ultra-violet raye could even in light treatment, contends that awaken aquiescent tuberculosis morning and evening sunshine is investigations into cases of able- and produce inflammation and de- not so beneficial as that of, mid-bodied unemployed men who had generation of the heart.
day, because the rays had farther been receiving out-relief from the The radiations from ultra-violet to travel; but the fact is that the board for more than one year.. lamps, which emitted rays of a heat rays of the sun, which are shorter wavelength than the solar strongest at midday antagonise spectrum, when applied to the skin the ultra-violet rays, and these are were just as foreign to the body as
nore effective when the atmosphere is colder.
Beer subject.
it is
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It was stated that no fewer than 150 such men had been drawing out-relief from the board, for the past four years or more and that 40 of these had been receiving re-
more to be comparable with the adminis
tration of a poisonous drug. It The whole question is one in lief for more than five years.
A Labour member, Mrs. Lynch, might be beneficial in a suitable which the public, which is tired of said she was ashamed at the way rabject or harmful in an unsuitable drugs and tired of surgery, is great-the board were badgering some of ly interested. The public is turn the men about work, Many of Forbidden By Law.
ing to the natural curativo agencies them could not get employment Dr. C. B. Heald, of the Royal of exercise, diet, light, and electri- owing to their weak condition. Free Hospital, London, said that if city.
Labour members shouted for an the unqualified, unregistered chem
explanation regarding a case which iet, dentist, and midwife were to
they described as "the man who be forbidden by law then the un-
was starved by the guardiana."
In reply Mr. Knight said that man had been unemployed for five years. He went to work one day: recently, but after three hours gave up bis job saying it made him feel giddy.
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Dr. E. W. Reed, radiologist, of Manchester also said:
Much harm is being done by the exploitation, of ultra-violet ray' treatment by people who have not sufficient medical knowledge to understand its uses. Wrong treatment may mara woman's beauty for life...
tainly handled therapeutic mea- aures as dangerous as those of any chemist's chop and performed operations as delicate and difficult as those of any midwife or dentist, cught to be put in the same posi- tion. Ailments that had been ad- versely affected by ultra-violet light treatment included quiescent phthisis chronic enhritia, and arteriosclerosis. Those alone--fions.hould be wary of using the lief and took him into the work
treatment in public bathe with house so that his two rooms could out proper medical supervision. be thoroughly cleaned.
should be sufficient to warn off the unqualified therapist.
Blue veins, burns, and ulcers His wife had left him, his son and are a few of the effects.which may daughter had refused situations. result. I deplore the idea of peo- offered to thep, and his two rooms. ple using the ultra-violet light were in such a filthy condition that in thiniz hatbrown, and corpora, the board refused to give
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ARSENIC EATERS.
TYROL PEASANTS WHO TAKE
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THE ODD ENGLISH.
AN IRISHMAN PUZZLED...
Professor Percy Carter Buck, King Edward Professor of Music,
The arcaic eaters of the Forest: University of London, welcomed 300 foreign students on a holidayol Dean who have figured rather King's College for prominently, of late in the Home course at
their counterpart Women. Professor Buck, who is papers, have
among the cowherds of Styria and Trish, said:
The English are extremely dif. the Tyrol, where the practice bas ficult to understand. They are been indulged in for many cen- not at all the people they seem turies, producing numerous im- to be. Whether they be angry, munised families, members of which unhappy, hurt, or anything else regularly take doses that would they will not show it. You may promptly kill any 'amateur experi watch Englishmen opening tele-
menter.
grams containing news of the The custom appears to have be greatest tragedy or amazing luck, gun with certain peasant, assum but from their behaviour or facialing that the little daily doses of expression you will not be able of arsenic given to their cattle to to say which it in.
impart a sleek glow to the cost Do not think that because Eng- would keep their own hair in better lishmen are not very effusive or condition. Tyrol doctors describe. exuberant that they are not kind them as sreenic addicts, and and do not take an interest in declare that their craving is 83. things. They are truly odd abject and incurable by mere effort people. I believe they are the of will as the craving of cocaine only people who play games just and heroin addicts. because they love them and not Dr. Knapp, a Styrian physician, because they want to win. They started a medical congress at Gratz in 1875 by producing one cowherd don't care a bit if they lose,
I honestly believe that when who ate, the spot, a dose that, French tennis players and Ger divided into three, would have man runners come over here and proved fatal to three ordinary men beat them they are pleased, Then he handed to another peasant whereas I, as an Irishman, want accompanying him a dose enough to fellow who kill two men. Neither demonstra to knock out any fellow
tor "suffered any perceptible ill- beats me.
You never know why an Eng, effects. lishman does anything in the Tyrol physicians say, however, world. I therefore advise you to that much suffering and hundreds study these curious pachates off premature deaths must have.or humanity while
the curred in the slow course of the
development of immunity.. chance.