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SHOULD A DOCTOR TELL?
JUSTICE M'CARDIE'S RULING
IN DIVORCE COURT.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927.
ARE THEY POSEURS OR LUNATICS?
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
HEAT STROKE MÁY HAVE BAD RESULTS.
INJURY TO ORGANS.
22
AMAZING ECCENTRICITY IN
NEW "ART."
a now outlet.
When the hearing was resumed
With the appearance of a new at Birmingham Assizes. In mai)
magazine called Ray, full of ec- week of a divorce petition'in which
centric drawings, poetry, and the point was raised as to whe- Two physiciana. of the Unitedish art and letters have found ideas, the ultra-modernist of Eng- ther a doctor is bound to produce States Navy, Dra. Wakefield and documents and give information of Hall, have recently made available confidential character, Mr. Jua survey of the various Injurious tice M'Cardie decided that the effects of heat that occur in the [testimony must be forthcoming. Are and engine rooms of ships, as and the evidence required. was well as other depths from heat in accordingly given.
the naval service. Among the forms of disturbances they list heat cramps, heat exhaustion, sunstroke and thermic fever.
offer to the Court.
Ray proudly proclaims that it is "the most expensive magazine in the world." The price is not stated, but the claim is obviously true. This "remarkable publica- tion would be too dear at any price, says a Homo paper.
abstraction
Mr. Justice M'Cardie, said that while ke fully appreciated the loyalty of the doctors to their pro
It is hard to believe that the Heat stroke was described by group of borderlanders who are fession and the protests they had rightly made to the Court against the most ancient physicians and responsible for Ray can take them- being called upon to give testi-is mentioned definitely in Biblical selves seriously, and the fact that mony, the order of the Court was records. In 1759, Dr. Benjamin pictorial
puzzl. 3 that there being no privilege on Rush called attention to the fact which form the illustrative ma- their part to refuse Information, that, the disorder was occasioned terial are interspersed with little they must give the testimony by drinking cold water in warm cuts from trade catalogues and which it was in their power to weather and this view became 30 agricultural papers would support prevalent that it found place the conclusion that the whole even in the readers used in the thing is a deliberate "spoof.”. Mr. B. T. Rose, a consulting public schools. Highly · moral surgeon, repeated the protest re-atories were written relative to gistered when the case was before the boy who became overheated, the Court last Thursday, and His drank cold water and promptly Lordship asked Mr. H. Eaden. for died. It has been found more re- the petitioner, if he had const-cently that cautious application of dered the question whether or not cold cloths or of ice may be the doctor was bound to disclose helpful... to the Court information obtained
Sometimes the person who re- by him when acting confidentially covers from heat-stroke will have in the special treatment of a par-secondary symptoms. ticular complaint.
of great seriousness, indicating that the effects on the human body are
ent.
Secret Knowledge.
On the other hand, the literacy contributions are headed by a
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20 Possessed in most houses.
Shows decidedly.
23 Lorged.
25 Ropeated.
26 Refined air.
23 Evil,
29 Process in washing.
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36 Suits.
38 Birds of prey.
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40 Upper edgo of a ship's side.
41 What a fowl does.
43 Snake.
44 Requirements.
45 Ridge of sand and gravel.
47 Continent.
48 Hop kiln.
50 Name of two constellations.
51 Party of horses.
Yesterday's Puzzle.
Preposition.
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Peculiar situation of Innd. Foot soldiers of ancient Ireland. Expires,
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prose "abstraction" from the pen 7 Mouth of a volcano, of Miss Gertrude Stein, whose 12 Sudden attack. writings "are now world-13 Flower. famous," and who not only takes 14 Valley. herself seriously but is taken at 15 Creeks. her own valuation by a host of 10 Ruminant quadrupeda,
17 Insects. admirers.
18 Angry. Here is a typical passage which 21 Plan. she has graciously bestowed upon 22 Something out of the ordinary, 37 Within. Ray:
24 Brings down. When I knew him first he was 27 Water jugs. relatively permanent. One may looking looking through the glass 30 No longer a Ruler. Mr. Eaden contended that no also become accustomed gradual and the chicken. When I knew 31 Withered. distinction could be drawn bely to greater degrees of heat. Ahim. then he was looking locking 32 Part of a loom. tween treatment of one kind and study of the conditions of heat at the looking at the look- 33 Horses of a bay colour. the treniment of an ordinary pati-atroke shows that it is far moreing. When I knew him. then 34 Sins.
There was certain protec common among those living in the he was ion and privilege appertaining to northern parts than among those standing. When I knew him then 37 Inactive
torderly then 36 Native of Finland. lawyers, but no such privilege, in born and reared in the south. he was then after then to then by 42 Made holy.
39 Encourager. spite of special regulations go- A scientific study made on ex-then and when I knew him then he 46 Milk dish. verning the treatment of certain perimental animals by the physi-was then we then and then for 40 Apparel. diseases issued by the Localians of the Navy indicated that then. When I knew him then he to Government Board in 1916. to the kidneys are injured by severe was for then by then, as them so Local Authorities, relating either heat-stroke, so that they are un- then to ther is then and so.. to the clergy or the medical pro-able to undertake properly the fession. If that was so, he sub-elimination necessary to keep the mitted, Mr. Rose must produce body. In health. Sometimes the what was properly in his custody, amount of sugar in the blood is
His Lordship said the medical increased, but this varies. profession normally was under the duty of keeping inviolate the secret knowledge that they might gain from treating their patients, and indeed, might become liable to a civil action for damages if. without lawful excuse, the duty of confidence was broken, but in a Court of law, a doctor had no privilege similar to that held by a solicitor or other legal adviser, and he was not privileged from compulsory disclosures of com munications, however confidential. A further point arose in the present case as to whether the doctors were in a specially pri- vileged nosition owing to the fact that they were acting in de- partment under the control of the Ministry of Health. Lhrough the Local Health Committee.
There is also a tendency to- ward the accumulation of acid, or rather a lowering of the alkaline reserve of the body. In other words, the main affects of hent stroke are to bring about a mas- sive increase in the acid material of the body and symptoms as sociated with this are associated with acidosis in general.
FIGHT WITH INDIAN 'BANDITS.
POLICE INVADE' THEIR
HILLSIDE NEST, '
Allahabad, July 15. The last two gangs of armed bandits who have been plundering villages and towns in the United Provinces and in Dholpur State
American writer, Matthew Joseph
A "superb poem" by, another
son, begins with the illuminating and profound lines:
Ah what a glumy day, at feef ocluck.
I gloah about my trask, there sungs the phone.
Kurt Schwitters and I. K. Bonset, Some of the noise-poems by who are, Continental contributors, have at least the advantage that they demand no special linguistic qualifications on the part of the reader, as they are mere phonetic imitations of sound without any. meaning attached to them. Al- together the literary section is a practical demonstration of the all epigram that language is given us. to conceal our thoughts.
In the case of the art contribu- tions no such concealment is re quired. The editor himself gloat- ingly admits that Hans Arp, the sur-realist, makes his pictures "without the intervention of coa- seious reason."
For the typographic frange-
In his view, there was nothing in the regulations, or in any regn- Kting he had heard of, which saved a doctor from the obliga tion of disclosing, if ordered to do so by the Court, all the informa-have been captured. The chief ment of the pages the editor has tion he might have of the facts gang was headed by Bansi, the gone to the Italian futurists- scatterci he had gained while acting under most ferocious and cunning of all type of various sizes the regulations. He accordingly the hooligans, the second gang over the page, some of it upside directed Mr. Rose to produce the by Ram Singh. Ram Singh and down, some printed sideways. To information, and Mr. Rises com- plied.
four of his bandits were cap. Itured without much trouble.
sum up, one cannot do better than
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Bansi was located taking part quote Mr. Schwitters's apt words: in a sing-song at an encampment at o'clock in the morning. By order of the lady of the Police formed a cordon around the Munor of Little Warley, Essex, camp, and, advancing to within 15 the Hon. Mrs. Llewelyn, notie's fact, surprised the bandits with have been posted that motor Verey lights. vehicles are not allowed to park. A hand-to-hand fight followed, on Little Warley Common and the bandits using lathis (bamboo Devil's Head Common, two open poles) taken from the roots
spaces
near
Brentwood. The outs.
of
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commons lic near the arterial The entire gang was secured, road and have become very po- and 45 women, and children were about Ray. pular with motorists. Mrs. Llew also arrested. Large quantities lyn states that she desires to pre-of stolen property and rifles were vent damage to the commons, retrieved.
Recently a fire, caused by pienic-
of
kerst destroyed eight acres grass on Devil's Head. Common. The Little Warley common golf-wop 10q club is supporting the action of
the lady of the Manor, to whom os
they pay fees for the use of the land, which, remains open to the i public.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
"EVERYZING IN THE PLAN SEEMS TO BE EXACTLY WHAT WE. WANY WE SHOULD
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ISAW A PICTURE OF A BUILT-IN FEATURE FOR A BREAKFAST ROOM SOMEWHERE IN ZAIS MAGAZINE
IF I CAN ONLY
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NOW.
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OH, INE 607 THAT ALL FIXED THERE'LL BE A NICE BUFFET IN THE NORTH WALL AND THE ROOM WILL
FACE ON THE
GARDEN!
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