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TROPICAL MEDICINE.
MAN OF MANY, MURDERS.
THE EFFECTS OF
WAR.
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When the U-boat attacks were Sir James Cantlie, formerly of In Spandau, a near suburb of Hongkong, the well-known ex-Berlin, adjoining Charlottenburg, at their height three members of pert on tropical diseases, writes a dangerous criminal has just the crew of the trawler Crucis themselves by in the August Journal of Tro~ been brought to book, whose distinguished pical Medicine, the following violent course ran uninterrupted-gallentry in saving the lives of a article
ly for three and a half years. He torpedoed crew under terrible
One of them- "War advances knowledge in fired at boy scouts picnicking in circumstances. the world in many ways. In the woods, at women in lonely Alfred Elsome, second hand on earlier times it was the chief week-end houses, at lovers walk-the Crucis-has been awarded channel whereby the peoples of ing in the forest and apparently the silver medal; and Joseph and the sarth got to know each other.at anyone who seemed safe game. Ansty, landing seaman, Travelling for other purposes Fortunately for most of them he Harry Curman, deck hand, have than war was, for the most part, was a bad shot, but he killed at both received the bronze medal' The incident occurred in the at a discount, there being neither least five persons and wounded the facilities nor the desire, ex-many others, and set fire to many Mediterranean. The s.s. Lord cept in isolated instances, for small houses and bungalows, Charlemont, of Belfast, was tor individuals to visit other lands sometimes previously robbing pedoed and sunk, and the Crucis, which formed part of the escort, in pursuit of knowledge. Com-them of their contents. mercialism may be said to have He killed a worker walking launched a boat under Elsome's begun with the introduction of with his fiancee, attempted to command, and manned by Anstey steam, and all the long train of overcome the latter, and when and Curman. They succeeded in effects which the introduction of she cried out killed her, too, and picking up the master and four steam brought into the world by threw the bodies into s. late. A Chinese members of the crew.
Difficulties ETCHE however. both sea and land: The long re-teacher named Paul surprised sidence of the Israelites in Egypt him in one of these acts of The boat was driven before a and Babylon it a state of slave violence, whereupon the man powerful wind, and it was found Teruta to the captivity by being brought into came after him, killed him, and impossible to intimate contact with the lead-burat his house in the hope of trawler. Elsome decided to make ing powers, of the time in both destroying his wife and daughter. for the Spanish coast..
The voyage was an heroic Africa and Asia, and later, when This month his activities be- struggle against the heavy seas. the Greeks and Romans overran came so extreme that they could For 27 hours Anstey and Curman
country, they became
break, with acquainted with the ways of the scarcely be longer tolerated. On rowed without greatest of European peoples. August 16 he burnt a house, ap- Elsome at the tiller. The master Their land was so often invaded parently as a decay, for when of the Lord Charlemont had been that, seeing no security in land, people came to extinguish the severly burnt, and Elsome attend- their instincts were directed into flames they were heavily fired ad to his injuries, taking off bis The same day he killed a own shirt and singlet in order to commercial dealings and the acquisition of family wealth worker on the high road, and on bandage the master's face and hands. Curman also took off his BLS the only channel which the 18th he killed a forester.
The man arrested, whose name singlet and put it round one of the presented itself to them of main- taining themselves as a people. is Schumann, confesses to these rescued men. Two of the China- Hemen died during the pastage. The Alexander and his people spread crimes and many others. from the wild and hilly districts says he overpowered more than boat ultimately reached of Macedonia to other countries twenty women. Most of those Jose.. where Nature was kinder and he murdered, he says, had irritat- civilization more advanced, and fed him, and latterly he had been brought to Europe knowledge of pursued to such an extent that the Orient with its ancient store he tried to clear the woods of all of literature and of art. The followers and witnesses. crusades gathered the important
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a widespread acquaintance of cine and hygiene. The rush at stolen during the night. other lands and other customs. the present moment is towards polies must be keeping a very The dark ages ended with the Africa. Fresh banks and mer-poor lookout, for they have so far Erst crusade that is, when the chant firms are being opened up been unable to catch or trace the knowledge acquired during that in West Africa. In East Africa robbers. campaign and its successors it is said that since. the war the spread throughout the world. In "better classes in England are more modern times we can trace hurrying thither, partly to escape advance in medicine and surgery their native land, pestered with be required to meet. The removal to their war cradles. The Nap- silly strikes and infested by cor- of the London School of Tropical oleonic wars produced systematic rupt minds, and partly and large-Medicine to the centre of London surgery in Britain and France, ly attracted to a "white man's a wise and an opportune step. for it was the experiences of country where land is cheap and but the authorities of the school McGregor in the Peninsular War productive, and labour is less should look abead and not cramp and of the Baron Larry on many difficult to get than "at home." their space and development by European battlefields that pro- The towns in the East African too hastily deciding on meeting
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The sandiest place on earth Berlin, September 2.-Accord- of the early Victorian era. rate which can only be compared years the space required will be
trebled-ay, The Crimean War gave us to the fables which surrounded doubled.
evening to a Monster telegram to the says Overseas, the magazine of th be multiplied modera bygiene through Farke's cities of mushroom growth in the may
ten-Zeitung Am Mittag, a reply has Overseas Club and Patrioti observations in the Crimea and western parts of the United States fold, if they are to meet the re-been received to a message of Deague, is Walvis, on the South Ahomage recently sent to the er- West African Coast. A visitor t elsewhere. The visit of Cohnheim in the sixties of last century.quirements of the Empire. to Vienna in 1866, when the Nairobi, for instance, a shabby University of Tropical Medicine Kaiser by the Society of German Walvis is declared to have said Prussian Army in which he was village of Eastern Africa some and Hygiene will be theirs, and Catholic Nobility. The reply "If I owned Hell and Walvi a surgeon was so close to the fifteen years ago, is now a modern at no distant date, for Imperial says, his Majesty will do bis and had to sell one of them, Austrian capital, that after city of some pretensions with a wants will grow apace sad out of utmost to stand fast, if not in this, would sell Walvis.”. Sadowa was fought Cohnheim population approximating some all proportion to anything we have then in a better world. It was
GASSING VERMIN. went to Vienna to visit his old 50,000 people. The Cape to Cairo heretofore experienced. The pro-not his Majesty, but others, who A new asphyxiating gas friend and teacher Rokitansky, railway will develop a tract of tected native populations of wanted the war. The reply con-
benefit fo humana who pri What a terrible change and found him in his laboratory country prodigious in its possibil-Africa" will multiply as they are cludes: working at the passage of the red ities and in its size, and requiring protected from disease, and these of fortune, but it is God's dis- cleanliness has been reported
the French Academy of Scien blood corpuscles from the capilla medical staff numbering not will demand an extended medical
by Dr. Roux, Director of th thousands of staff of proportions beyond any aries to the surrounding tissues. hundreds, but
KING'S SHEEP FOR FRANCE Pasteur Institute. It is ve On the way back to Berlin Cohn-doctors trained in the treatment of the past calls upon their teach-
The King has given five South-important discovery for the pr heim, struck by what he beard of tropical ailments. The people ing and training powers. and saw in Vienna, thought: If under the care of doctors in We are frequently told to down ewes for distribution invention of disease as carried the red corpuscles escape through tropical countries
far think imperially; if that were true France by the Agricultural Relief vermin. Experiments were ma the capillary walls, why not the outnumber the white population before the war, it is doubly im- of Allies Committee, of which he by Dr. Rour's helpers with white ?" and on reaching home in the homeland, and British perative now, for the horizon of is patron. This is the second view to findings sure means he proceeded to investigate the practitioners in these lande will work has been extended, and the occasion on which his Majesty destroying vermin in barrack matter, and by establishing the form the larger section of the problem of reconstruction has be- has helped in French agricultural and schools. They began oper fact that the leucocytes do find medical professión in the Empire, come more difficult; let us hope reconstruction, for in 1915 he gave tions in a room of 75 cub
"How is the supply of medical it will not be allowed to be five Southdown rams from his metres, containing eight beds. their way into the tissues from
Sandringham estate, which, with gaseous concentration of chlor the blood through the capillary men for tropical countries to be insoluble.
"Other countries require our others sent by the committee, picrine was applied at the rate wall gave us modern pathology met? Their services will be
belp in Africa. The increase in have been of great service in the 10 grammes per cubic metre, a "In the Russo-Turkish War of required soon-nay, is in urgent 1878 Reyber, the Russian surgeon, demand now. But the medical the Portuguese territories will restocking of the sheep farms of at the end of four hours all after 3 visit to Edinburgh schools have for five years been require help from Britain in the the Marne. The ewes which the sects, on beds, floor, and wal see Lister and his meth-depleted, and the number of matter of the prevention of dis- King is now contributing are to were dead. It was a clean awe the form part of a special flock as a Not. a single insect surviv was the first to apply graduates must for another five eases; in pre-war days
Portuguese were not equal to the gift from British farmers to those Chloropicrins is not sold in she Listerian methods on the battle- years be far below the average beary burden placed upon them in the war zone in France who at the present moment, but c field, and
be had from the military servic demonstrated their
required in pre-war times at home. applicability in military work. The
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STARVED IN LONDON, War," has demonstrated how to imedical officers of health to
At the Barlow aircraft works
At a Chelsea inquest on. keep armies in the field free from satisfy the increasing demand task. Still other places not within
the British sphere of action, must of Messrs. Armstrong. Whitworth, epidemics, which up to the pre-of the Ministry of Health. Both be helped; the Republic of Liberia and Co., to-day, writes a Daily homeless man who was for cent have been the most deadly these health officers and tropical accompaniment of all campaigns practitioner require not a five has neither a public hospital, and News correspondent, I saw Major, lying on the pavement in Ba of which wo have an
even years course, but rather a six or but few if any medical men train- General Sir Percy Gerouard. He ingham Palace road, and died
ed in modern medicine. It is could say nothing definite, but Westminster Infirmary, the LONDON DIRECTORY.approximately accurate bistory. seven years' course of study to fit
The effect of the Great War them for their special work, so useless dealing with the problem thought the works would even was said to be George Allen, has been an opening up of several that, although our medical scho-ls of epidemics without the co-tually be taken over by Arms-and believed to have been at parts of the earth hitherto closed are being crowded with students operation of all powers interested trong, Whitworth and Co., either time a tobacconist at Hull. W to modern travel and to modern for the coming winter session, it in the future of Africa. For both for aircraft work or some other discovered the man told's c observers in the field of tropical will be five to seven years before men and animals prevention of branch of manufacture: R93, stable that he was very ill, t biggest of he had no friends, and had b medicine. The Near East, by they are qualified for their epidemic disease is essential if which the visit of Western European work, so that a scarcity of doctors Africa as a whole is to be advanced her class under construction, roaming about Loudon for ye armies to the Balkans. Turkey, is certain during the coming years commercially and economically. was well on the way to com- He was in a very filthy condit Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine, 1920 to 1924.
All the powers must devote them-pletion. He did not think it and his pockets contained ple serangać moder sos Paris to which they mo,||has opened the way for observa "The Schools of Tropical Me-selves to the task; the poorer feasible to tranship the parts to of coke and fish skins CONT
tion and work in a fresh, field of dicine in this country are but States must be helped. There is other works, as they would have with dirt. clinical observation, and a study twenty years old, and they have no occasion for despair, for the to be unriveted. R39 and her the mas of epidemics at close quarters-a been gradually added to and en- principles of the prevention class were only toy ships compar-warst study denied them in Western larged since they begun their of disease are now well under-ed with those which would be seen. Death was da Europe where sanitation has tentative existence. It requires stood it is the practice of these built, and these new big serial accelera well-nigh abolished typhoid, no skilled statesman to see that principles that is now required. liners would be constructed with tion: The Coroner, in a cept at the direcovery will be next, by passtyphus, pholera, tetanus, etc. their even increased size will not and this can only be done by steel instead of the composita a verdict in acco
1 The campaigns in Africa, both in meet the requirements of the near organisation and by extension of metal used now. They would be medical sy
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