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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933.
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BAIL OF $35,000
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Professor Gerrard On The Cure Of Tuberculosis
An interesting paper on "An Advance in the Treat- ment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis" was read yesterday evening at the University by Professor Gerrard to the University's Medical Society. There was a very large gathering to hear the lecture, several prominent local doctors being noticed among those present.
Professor Gerrard's paper contained many points of interest from which
the following:
we
extract
Chinese Faces Charge
Of Embezzlement
RESIDENTS CORRESPONDENCE
RETURN FROM LEAVE
Tong Shuk-pin, alias S. P. Tong "Ranchi" Brings In appeared before Mr. Balfour at the
A Good Number
Mingistracy yesterday on a charge of embezzlement of $5,000 from the National Carbon Company.
MAURER'S TREATMENT EXPLAINED Kwong Sang Fat firm, a firm of
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE ** HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]
an.
Owed
Whilst it may be correct to say that Christian Science has gained adherents an account of the former attitude of medicine, the real rea- Eson for the advance of the Chris-
Mr. T. P. K. Kemble, for the prosecution, said he proposed to
With the arrival of the P.&O. put in more charges during the.. Ranchi, from Home via parts, Sin-In yesterday's Hong Kong course of a weak. The sum in- yesterday, many residents returned Dally Fress, under the heading of volved was in the neighbourhood of from long leave, while some
"The Sick Mind," there was Dew $35,000. When the warrant was faces were also seen by our repre interesting report of a recent issued, bail was fixed in the sum of sentative who was on the wharf to address at the Westminster Hospi- $10,000 and he could not reduce it. see the people disembarking. tal Medical School, by Dr. W
Mr. R. C. H. Lim, instructed by
All of them looked very fit and Langdon Brown, Regius ProfessoX Messrs. Russ & Co., for the devell after what was described by a of Physic at the University of Cam fonce-Your Worship must ap- passenger 藤 very enjoyable bridge. Will you kindly grant me preciate at this stage, when Hong-voyage, and it was good to see Mr. brief space to correct some mis- kong is also suffering from the W. H. Bell of the Asiatic Petro statements about Christian Science world economic depression, it is leum Company looking so well, He, which occurred in the address. very, hard to find ten thousand was together with Mrs. Bell who The speaker is reported to have dollars in cash. The defendant's also gave the impression that the said that Christian Science father, who is the owner of the holiday has benefitted ber enorita growth "to"the materialistic mously. Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy also attitude of pre-War medicine and Fong standing here, will stand looked very well as they walked that Christian Science utilizes aug- surely. The charge at present is down the gangway, and Miss gestion. only $5,000, and we are only con- Harry, the popular manageress of the Peak Hotel has come back in tem or even of cavities. Jacob-cerned with that charge now. aeus, Unverricht and others state bond for $10.000 from the firm, I time for the Season which promises that adhesions must be cut rather subunit, will be ample for bail. to be a very full one.
The case was remanded to Thurs-
On this boat was Mrs. R at the periphery. Their unsatis-
her noice, Miss Joan Mollison, a that it is restoring primitive Chris- method alone is not good enough. fixing bail in a bond for $35,000.
young soprano. It is to be hoped tinnity with its lost element of Tie 'great stress laid on the his-
that we shall have the opportunity healing and is meeting human needs. tology of adhesions from thor-
of listening her in the near future in a practical way. What is known acic wall instead of cutting them
The popular headmaster of Queen's as suggestion, having for its source in the ordinary way. It is there
College, Mr. F. J. de Rome looked the human mind, does that they are, with rare excep
not enter very fit and his return will no doubt into tons. almost uniformly fibrous.
strengthen the Civil Service Cricket Science, which employs the Divine the practice of Christian" To obtain the best results the $1,000 Claim To Follow Club's 1st XI considerably. galvano-cautery of Jacobacus and
Other passengers included Enri-ing methods of Christ Jesus,
Mind or the purely spiritual heal its modifications are of little use.
Judgment for plaintiff with costsque Carrion, Marquis de Molin, contained in the Holy Scriptures. Do not forget that the insertions was awarded the Chung Wo Kait- who for twenty-four years was of adhesions are generally veryting Company of 12 Fuk Tsunattached to
On page x of the Preface, in the Alfonso's Christian ex-King vascular and there exists the Street, who sued Li Yik Chan, for household, Mrs, and Miss Jamieson, "Science and Health with Key to Science tart-book, great danger of injury to an in- $550 for goods sold and delivered. the Misses N..and J. Rodger, Rev. the tercostal vessel This complica- After hearing the evidence, His
Scriptures," Mora. Eddy About one hundred years ago tion is the more "dangerous be- Lordship gava Judgment with eats, James Carson suggested that the cause we And it impossible to for plaintiff and ordered the money most rational treatment of Pul-ligature the vessel without open- to be paid into court and there re- monary Tuberculosis would be Ing the chest, Even small ained until the hearing of a claim'
"Switzerland. as many of you, may know, is the land of Senator iums, situated away up from the lowlands and in the wonderful
alpine climate. This alpine cli-"; factory statistics show that that day next at 2.30 p.m. his Worship Landsall who was accompanied by tian Science movement is the fact:
mate is specially ideal for the successful treatment of Pulmonary and, in fact, all..forms of Tuber- culosis. I would impress on you the prime importance of the cli- matic factor in dealing with tu- berculosis. In
comparison the hot, humid months here are immense drawback to success in the treatment of Pulmonary Tu- berculosis in Hong Kong. That fact, however, is no excuse for not exploring all means by which the ravages of Tuberculosis in China can best be reduced.
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R. Royce, Mrs. E. Schofield and in-writes: "...the human mind.....is fant and Mrs. J. Whyte.
not a factor in the Principle of Christian Science."
collapse of the effected lung. In haemorrhage is important be by defendant against plaintiff for LOCAL POOR MAY BE HIT
cause it facilitates the possible 81,000 for alleged unlawful arrest. production of Empyema.
ni of Pavia Arst induced artificial pneumothorax for therapeutio purposes. No great attention was paid to the method until Brauer, Spengler and others took it up in Germany. At present it is one of the recognised methods of treat- ment of certain cases of phthisis. It is a valuable method because it is mostly indicated in cases in which all else
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The region between the parietal pleura and the inner surface of the thorax generally contains supple and non-infected
THE UNIVERSITY
November Number Of The.
Education Journal
(Continued from Page 6.) ·
In addition to paying rents in such cases the Society bas on lease certain flats in Kwong Ming Street, where a number of families are housed. The expenditure on hous- whole of 1931 amounted to $2,000.84, ing accommodation during the
whils for the nine months January This increased to $2,086.46 for 1832, to September, 1933, the disburse- ment was $1,854.48. Of this sum $139.90 represents grants made to distraint for rent, assist distressed families
under
Yours, etc.
WILLIAM HALDER Christian Science. Com- mittee on Publication for Hongkong & Canton. Hong Kong, Nov 16...
MARINE COURT CASES
UNLAWFUL MOORING
Eleven Chinese Boatmen Fined
at
those early days two patients were induced to submilt "to the operation of allowing air to exter
Maurer. who was first assistant the pleural cavity through an opening in the
to Brayer in Hamburg. has aban- chest wall. In neither of the two cases did the
doned the former method of Jaco- baeus and others of dealing with lung collapse because of the pre-
'cases of sence of pleural adhesions. That
incomplete pneumotho- rax and I will deal was in 1822" and
the suggestion with his new technique.
more fully was forgotten for some years un-
We have just received the Novem- til Stokes in 1837 observed mark-
Around the thoracic insertion ber. number of the of an adhesion he makes an inci-Education Journal, which, as usual, University éd Improvement
casca of phthisis who developed spontan
slon of the parietal pleura. Be contains some very interesting eous pneumothorax.
reaches the periosteum and the articles. It was until 1894 that a real intercostal muscles without touch- Included in this number are con- advance was made when Forleni-ing the adhesion even at its in-tributions from such well-known writers as Fr. G. Byrne, S. Ja, sertion.
Mr. B. G. Birch, Fr. D. J. Fiam, S. J., and Fr. D. MacDonald, S.J. EDUCATION OF THE
Before Commander. Newill The Journal reports that there
CHILDREN OF THE POOR
the Marine Court yesterday, has been a big increase in member- tigane.
Perhaps none of the objects of eleven. Chinese boatmen were It is in this extra-pleural region while a hearty welcome is extend-tance than the provision of suits their boats at a distance of less ship in the Education Society, the Society is of greater impor-charged for unlawfully mooring that he trees the adhesion. He avoids wounding not only pulmoned to Fr. Byrne as their new Preble, well-paid and respectable em- aty, tissue but the detached ad-sident. The progress made by the ployment for the children of the hesion is protected by the two old commented upon and in this direcciety to afford as good an educa- Society's frea night school was also Poor. It is the, Policy of the So- has been tried Pleural layers. There is only ation mention was
made of the tion to the children of the Poor as where the periosteam of the ribs great deal of work put in by Mr.funds permit. To ensure this there and the intercostal muscles
Wong Shiu Ming and his staff is an Education Sub-Committee, cuposed. The principle of the
whose chief duties are to examine; at present for the "cure of Pul- wants to cut he coagulates first
have operation is, simple. Where he LOITËRERS GAOLED and sign the weekly reports of the monary Tuberculosis. We aim at by very special diathermy suf
students, to look their moral and augmenting the forces of nature clently powerful to solidly close
intellectual improvement and to Arrested At Night In in its cure of Tuberculosis lésions, the intercostal
provide them with clothes, shoes, ber of passengers on board the For carrying an excessive qum- vessels in the
Ice House Street.
books, stationery, etc. when requir-steam launch "K", ad. Out of 150 children whose coxswain named Chan Yau was Chinese parents are the Society's benefi- ciaries, 105 are receiving an English will at the Marine Court yester- charged before Commander Ne-
Society at St. Joseph's College, La education at the expense at the Italian Convent and St. Joseph's was fined $20.
Defendant pleaded guilty and Salle College, Bt. Mary's School, College, La Salle College, St. Mary's School, Italian Convent *** NOTICE TO MARINERS
School, the Kailap School at Wan- and St. Francis School, or are at- tending the Society's Vernacular Guide Stagings At Kowloon
Bay
Contrasted
without avail.
with other methods of treatment it is to be considered one of the best therapeutic procedures we
scar
on the
thoracic
surface
are
In 1910 Jacobaeus dret cpacely-region he wishes, to penetratë. ed and worked out a technique If &
vesel does
ful technique
CATI
for dividing adhesions intrapleur-the pleural cavity you
bleed. Into When a shop assistant who had ally with the aid of a thoracos- ture
pic-been sent out at midnight to make cope or pleuroscope as it is now of the pleuroscope is suddenly ing to a first floor window in Ice the difficulties. The lens some purchases, found a man cling called. The instrument he used covered with blood and a clear House Street, and a second man Was sumilar to a cystoscope. It view becomes impossible. A large watching from the street below, he slipped into a cannula with the opening in the thorax is necesary raised an alarm, and both men were aid of a trocar which was intro- for a ligature of the vesset and a arrested. duced, under local anaesthests, purulent effusion almost always between two ribs. By turning the results in spite of the most care- Mr. Balfour yesterday with loiter
The two men were charged before pleuroscope through different an-
and haemothorax ing and were sentenced to two and gies one can examine the pleural is therefore to be dreaded from three mouth's hard labour respec- cavity and fix the adhesions in the point of view of infection.
tively. The man with the longer the visual field. Their shape, size
Since we are on the thoracic sentence had a previous conviction and thickness, in short, their wall we must remember the im- on his record. operability is studied. Through portance of a firm coagulation of another cannula which is pushed the intercostal vessels. An am- through an intercostal space in peremeter shows the intensity of the same manner as the first a
thediathermy current which cautery is passed. Under the con- Dasses through the tissues. When trol of the pleuroscope the cau of the amperemeter falls back to coagulation is complete the needle "tery is directed on to the adhes-
ion so as to sever it..
the zero mark since the coagu 'The
Iated tissue is insulating. It is results of this methoo, only at this moment that we can showed that * remarkable Im-
change the pedal to cut with the provement was established in 66 galvano-cautery. per cent, of cases. The complica- tion most to be feared was Em-trating deeply are dangerous be- Talkoo Street Sales pyema. Jacobaeus and Unverricht cause the stretched lung may be Sandry Street Sales noted 10 per cent. of mixed Em- very near the thoracic wall and Church Collections pyemas and 15 per cent. of or might be opened in the zone of 8. Jarvis, Esq. dinary bacillary effusions as a coagulation. Maurer uses result of the operation. We know rents of high frequency but of a
J. E. Bach, Esq. that the prognosis of purulent minimum intensity of 01 to 03 exudates is grave shd often fatal amperes, just sufficient to bring La face of those unsatisfactory re- about slight coagulation over an, sults one might seem justifled in area of 2-3 millimetres. His aim replacing incomplete pneumotho is to obtain this fine band of rax by thoracoplasty. Now there Coagulation superficial and strict are different origins of Empyemay limited in area.
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High frequency current pene-.
CUT-
POPPY DAY FUND
Further Contributions Previously acknowledged $11,679.92 Royal Navy, Hong Kong Royal Air Force South Wales Borderers Lincolnshire Regiment Royal Artillery, Hong
Kont
ehaï.
than 100 yards from Low Water Mark between the Yaumati tentr
during prohibited hours. Whart and the Dead Body Pier
They "all pleaded guilty and were each fined $5.
day.
CHINESE COXSWAIN FINED $20
to
these children, the Society is also notice
Besides providing education "for
The Harbour Master issued a maintaining destitute orphan to the effect that a series of guide mariners yesterday girls at the Italian Convent, Caine stagings and frames are about
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CHRISTMAS GRANTS. The following are the particulars, 785,55 of the grants made:
39.63 Home for the Aged Poor, $100.00; 204.88 Foundling Home, West Point, 191.49 23.00; Home of the Blind
sharitable organizations to run and Crippled, Hunghom, $25.00 Or- raffles quoo A year in support of 71.77 phens of St. Louis Industrial their funds. This is a particularly 110.60 | Sobool, #100.00; Deformed and heavy blow to our Society, since 270.16 Crippled at Le Calvaire, 25.00.
approximately one half of the pro- Owing to the depleted stats of the ceeds of the annual Bazaar (includ- 10.00 Society's funds at the end of 1900, ing the Sale of Roses) was derived 20.00 it was not possible to make the usual Christmas grants to the Poor under the Society's itmediate care. This was the first time in many years that the Society was unable to give this little extra re- Jief at Christmas, and it was a dis. tressing disappointment to our poor people.
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*Total: 813,408.00 Further contributions will be gratefully received by Mr. F. G. Maunder, Secretary to Earl Haig's Fand, York Building Hong Kong..
a series of short adhesions of y
can sources which are now pro- inbited the annual Motor Car Draw, and various smaller raffles. The outlook for 1894 is, therefore, very gloomy, and unless this heavy loss in our income is made good by the more generous support of the charitable people of Hong Kong, the Bociety will have to be prepar ed to curtail its activities very con- siderably after the end of this year which one can see only one sur- ly lucid in his exposition of public of Hong Kong for their gen- the Poor and the discontinuance of The Bocisty desires to make a probably by the giving up of the special appeal this year to the quarters which it has rented for that, in such cases, behind the ture on in these words: By this Day sale of roses on the 1st De children, L face. Never forget the possibility Mearer's methods, closing his lecerous support at the "Our Foor its educational work for poor obstructed view, the lung may ex- method of Maurer's in a large cember and the "Al Frasco Fete We would, therefore, make The Professor went on to talk tend right to the theracie wall, proportion of incomplete: pneumo-to be held in the compound of the special appear this year for the of adhesions. Mod
To arold an injury of lung tissue thorax cases it is possible to pro- Roman Catholic Cathedral on the Colony's generous support on the "The thicker an adhesion is, or the opening of a cavity cure total collapse and thus in afternoon and evening of the 3rd occasion of the "Our Poor Day the more, is it short and trouble luminous sound is used. This increase the number of definite December, The Society is now sale of roses on the 1st December, some and the more the pulmonary strument, of the same size as the cures without resorting to thors faced with very serious situation, and the Al Fresco Fete" on the f tissue approaches the chest wall. cautery, has at its point a lateral coplasty In cases where resec and has never been mare in need 3rd December. The Society de- If the agherions are short and opening through which we can tion of ribs is centre indicated the of the sympathy and support of the pends almost entirely on these two thick the operator rists, by cut-push & sound Atted with a small new method has the value of charitable publie of this Colony, public zoneals for the maintenance ting them in the ordinary way, lamp.g
thorapeutic resort last and very often, muccessful The Government has recently Tom of its work among the Pocket
voked its permission for certain Colony.
as a sequela of pneumothorax. Meurer's technique is delicate
Cheques should be made pay The pleural cavity is infected by and needs practice. Sometimes able to Thomson & Co. and cross- A SPECIAL APPEAL the operator himself rather more one finds oneself confronted with ed "Poppy Day Fund". often than we care to admit Thoracoplasty, without any doubt. 1838 a case open to grave risk of infection." RA
the opening of the bronchical sys Professor Gerrard was brilliant
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