"NATURE THAT CURES"
LORD HORDER ON
TREATMENT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933.
BENDIEN TEST FOR THE CANALS OF Vaccine From
TUBERCULOSIS
DEFINITE SCIENTIFIC
VALUE
Criticism of certain of the mo-
Dr. Joseph Fine and Dr. D. M. dorn tendencies in the treatment Dunlop, of Edinburgh, have been of diacase is the substance of a using the Bendion test in cases of recent lecture by Lord Horder, tuberculosis, and their results have published in the current issue been published in the current lasue
MARS
“EXISTENCE CLEARLY
ESTABLISHED”·
NILE VALLEY AS PARALLEL
Eggs
SMALL-POX RESEARCH
DISCOVERY
NEW GIANT TELESCOPE
WORK IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
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Bloemfontein.
Free from Bacteria' largest telescope in the southern
Obfects in tho, sky never before observed can be seen through the of The British Medical Journal of the "Quarterly Journal of Medi- Dealing with the question, of cine." The test has the advantage
hemisphere which has been erected The latest viewa on the pro- A new-laid egg provides, it is at Mazelspoort, near Bloemfontein, whether remedies are often really lover a somewhat similar reaction bability of life existing on tho claimed, the most rapid and pure by the Boydon Station of Harvard as specific for definite discanes as known as the "sedimentation test." planet Mars were discussed before source of vaccine agalest small-University, many doctors bellove, Lord Hor-in that it can be performed on the the Royal Institution by Dr. V. M. Dox. der said: "Most of our treat-blood serum in the laboratory and Sipher, the distinguished Amer
This discovery has been made by and weighs twenty tons. It is Tho telescope cost. £30,000 ments, and some that are quite carried out more or less immediate-ceived the gold medal of the Royal Hamburg Instituto of Tropical mirror, and under favourable con-
does not need, like the latter, to be lean astronomer, who recently re- Professor E. Paschen, of the fitted with successful, are matters of Ex-
a 60-inch reflecting pediency; they are not matters of
ly at the bedside.
Astronomical Society.
Diseases. Eminent authorities in ditions will bring an object 2,000 right or wrong. This arises from
They found the Bendien test of After the lecture Dr. Sliphor, England believe that it may entire times nearer the eye. It can photo- the fact that it is always Nature great value in gauging the outlook who is the director of the Lowellly eliminate the rare complication graph a light of one candle-power that cures, and not we.
in cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, of post-vaccinal encephalitis, "The disharmony we call discase with those obtained by the sedi-planet studies, said that
and the results ran closely parallel which is primarily devoted to which in recent years has been at any distance up to 4,500 miles. an only be adjusted by the operamentation Leat. It is inferred from
regarded in some quarters as an. tion of processes which are already the fact of changes occurring in for life na we knew it were most
Dr. J. Paráskavopoulos, Director Of all the planets the conditions argument against vaccination. inherent in the body; we cannot the degree of reaction shown by the promising on Mars.
of the Observatory, says: "Tho Professor Paschou prepares his distance wo expect to reach is in: Bubstitute new processes, we can two tests that a change in the Ben-
vaccine by Injecting a small comprehensible in terms of miles. only help and control those
amount of cowpox virus into the Scientifically expressed wo expect which life and health are being a change in the sedimentation rate.
He then seals up the hole and its speed of 180,000 miles a second, by dien result is more significant than
centre of a fertile new-lald egg, to reach distance which light, with nlready maintained.” A
This is probably becauso the Lord Hordor is emphatically Bendien test shows a lesser degree
places the egg in an incubator at would take more than 200 million against what he calls "direct ac of sensitivity and does not alter
the usual temperature.
years to span. tlon" in treatment. While ad-with slight changes in the condition mitting that certam emergencies of the patient. In view of tho call for specified direct measures, differences occurred in the he point out that in most other tests when carried out in series on two instances direct, massive attack the same patient it is possible to Upon disease by many of the latest draw somo deductions as to the chemical preparations may and exact significance of the Beadlen docs often do much more harm
reaction. than good.
THE TIME ELEMENT
her, no."
The "eunala" were real and the reason to suppose that they were latest observations had given no
TEMPERATURE OF MARS.
our
BRITAIN TAKING TO
BASEBALL
SPIRAL NEBULÆ
not artificial. a height of fifteen miles in the Clouds had been measured up to Martian
After four days, Professor Pas- atmosphere, roughly chen states, the egg, contains three times as high ne they are sufficient vaccine to inoculato 400 found above the earth, and that. people. He has also described a new giant telescope," Dr. A. C. D. The great importance of this polar caps were composed of car- cinations of human beings using the Royal Astronomical Society, The theory that the Martian large number of successful vac- Crommelin, formerly President of bon dioxide "snow" which has a the new method, and claims, that stated, "is that it will open up to much lower melting point than his vaccine is completely free observation the remaining three- ABNORMAL FINDINGS
[that of fee, was untenable!
from bacteria of all kinds.
tenths of the sky which is for ever "In thinking of life on the "It may well be," Probably both tests depend upon planets," Dr. Silpher concluded his worker of the Lister Institute com- telescopes of the northern hemi- a research 'round the corner from the great chemical substances getting into the lecture, "we are apt to judge by mented, "that the new method will sphere. He does not believe that the of the body. Certain of the pro-and requirements.
blood stream from the diseased part our own narrow earthly standards entirely replace the preparation time element in the healing protein substances in the blood are cess can ever be eliminated even held to account for abnormal find-como to other planets in
"It is by far the largest telescope What has of vaccine from calves' 'lymph,'” If it can be shortened and many ings in the sedimentation rate, and
come to the earth may very well "That the vaccine is free from in the southern hemisphere, al- bacteria is important, because though its light-collecting power is measures claiming to cut short it is probable that Bendien's test
ayatem. dincana processes have no scient-depends upon the amount of globu-
that from calves' lymph is ad-only about a third of that of the mittedly not."
biggest of all, the 100-inch reflector Ac justification. Nature cannot in present in the blood.
at Mount Wilson, California. be hurried.
The orginal Bendien test has "In the face of such a wonder- "Coax her." anid Lord Horder. been considerably modified by the ful example of a purposeful guid
"Perhaps the most important "Yes; lead her, yes; educate her, Edinburgh workers, whose researing force, how can we be satisfied
THE BAWL GAME work awaiting southern observers yes; but bully, shove, or hectorches are here summarised. The to think that life is an accident
equipped with powerful instruments is the measurement of the speeds at He lecture was an emphatic solutions and glass tubes used have whole plan7"
dimculties with regard to the and not an intended part of the
which the distant spiral nebule in plea for a return to fundamental been met on lines already suggested
their section of the sky are moving The temperature of Mars had physiological principles in the by Bendien during his last visit to been estimated by Lowell at 48
away from us. Only from 75 to 100 of all the nebula have science and art of treatment. this country and discussed in these degrees Fahrenhoft, Dr. Slipher
been Through the patient study of such columns.
Is baseball, the national game of studied in this way, and their im- principles have been evolved the
said, and the general result of America and Japan, making head-portance lies in the fact that they It would seem that the successful the last fifteen years of Martian way in this country? Do English form the basis of the whole discus- striking triumphs of insulin for use of the Bendlen test for tuber-study had been to confirm marked-crowds react favourably to the sion as to whether the universe is culous patients confirms the view by his conclusions as to the con- "rooting," or barracking, that is really expanding, as Einstein tells held consistently in various articles ditions on Mars. If anything, they auch an essential feature of the Us.. in this journal that the test had a appeared to ba more favourable "ball game?" Who is Bud Munro," "Only in talking of the distance definite sclentile value. It Is than he thought.
the world's greatest "Attaboy?" to which his instrument should! known that the sedimentation rate After alluding to the presence is altered in other diseases besides of oxygen and water-vapour in the Post representative) I sought the I should say that he would be lucky Yesterday (writes a Morning penetrate docs it seem to me that Dr. Paraskavopoulos is optimistic. tuberculosis, and the chemical sub-Martian atmosphere, Dr. Slipher answers to these questions from stances occurring in abnormal con- described the
If appearance
of Mr. Charlie Muirhead, secretary of he penetrated to 100 million contration in the blood in tuber- clouds as "a bright streak of light the Anglo-American Baseball Asso-light-years, one half the figure he culosis may also be those responsible catching the morning or holding clation, and the man who has spon- mentions,” for the results obtained by Ben- the evening light while it is darksored the sport in England during dien and others in cancer.
underneath it on the Martian sur-the past 11 years. He gave me the face."
following Information: 32 warships, President Roosevelt "One exceptionally big cloud," Baseball was invented by has agreed to allot $9,362,000 for he said, "representing a
Englishman, General Abner Double- the construction of neroplanes.storm on Mars, covered 300,000 day, of Chipping Norton, who in- Reuter Special.
square miles of the planet's aur.troduced it to the United States. face. It appeared in a night and It is attracting more and more
ARBITRATION URGED changed visibly in size and shape graduates every year.
Public School boys and under- from one night to another. From
Arbitration to settle all matters such clouds we see quite clearly world, and it cannot be played by a committee representative of It is the noisiest game in the in dispute is again auggested by that the atmosphere of Mars must women, who, however, indulge in theatre managerial organisations be quite considerable, even as high as 16 miles,"
ja sport-known as "softball:”--- In reply to a letter from "Mr." An atmosphere, he said. was Association was formed in 1922," British Actors' Equity Associa
The Anglo-American Baseball Alfred Wall, secretary of the also required to account for the said Mr. Muirhead, "since when we tion. seasonal appearance and disappear- have ance of the polar caps. There was American sailors, Rhodes scholars, welcome "your council's conver- entertained thousands of The Committee state."that they good proof that they were ice, and actors and other devotees of the sion to a polley of peace and con. in regard to the old suggestion pastime. Our seasons last for four cillation, and are convinced that that they were frozen carbonic months, from May to August, and it is more likely to result in last- oxide gas he stated that we were we have averaged a game a week now sure that the necessary con- in London every season. ditiona of pressure and tem- |perature could not prevail.
diabetes and liver for pernicinus anaemin. Lord Iforder holds that only through similar patient thought and study will further advances come.
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KILLING THE UMPIRE "Our teams are mostly recruited from young Americans resident in "We entirely disagree with England, but anyone who wishes to you," the letter continues, "that Although there was the same play the game has only to come to an award embodying a model form depth of casonal change on Mars us. We hope that one of America's of contract would be valueless na on the earth, 'Dr. Sliphor pro-finest league teams will shortly be without some dictatorial power ceeded, their polar caps shrank in coming to tour the, country."
boing.conferred upon your associa- summer to only a few degrees, Mr. Muirhead assured me that tion. considerably smaller than our baseball spectators were responsible "We are unaware that the ro for the birth of the "wisecrack."lationship between managers and "A Martian," he said, "might"The ball game is a case of the artists had, as you state, fallen well conclude that the earth was survival of the fittest," ho said not any warmer than Mara be grimly, "and whereas
into a sorry and precarious plight." In former and we think that statements like cause he would see that our polar days it was fought out with a club, this can serve on useful purpose. caps never shrunk as small as now it is settled by the team with his."
the best vocabulary,. urged on by largely used, and even where new "The Valentine contract is very Turning to the vexed question the rootors "Killing" of the Martian canals Dr. Slipher
conditons necessitated a variation the umpire merely in that form, many hundreds of stated that while there was Moderate
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Ivory" conveys to the unfortunate "They have been photographed," pitcher what the onlookers think his he said, "and many experienced head is made of.
obsorvers with excellent instru- digging of artificial canals would ments have repeatedly observed them." In support of his views, be a possibility. There would be Dr. Slipher quoted the reports of no possibility of seeing the canals the Lick Observatory in Call of the Nile valley would present themselves but the cultivated area fornia, which he selected de liberately as that observatory was Parallel appearance as scen "if anything unfriendly to Lowell's conclusions?
"While it is true," he proceeded, "that the observations of different observers have not always been in complete agreement In what was neen by thom, it has long bean my conviction that critics have done harm By Judging thom wrongly.
This comes from the too com mon error of assuming that no chango la taking place on the planet whereas much change takes place, sometimes within a few
-hours."
CANALS POSSIBLY DUG
from Mars.
The darkening of the large blue- green areas and the canals as the
on came round for the growth the belief that vegetable life was of vegetation, he said, had led to
animated life of some degree of present, and honce probably Intelligence.
Discussing the general relations between the planets, Dr. Slipher sald, that the terrestrial group, Mercury wore more like the earth consisting of Mars, Venus, and in size; density and the amount of
onergy derived from the sun. The giant group-Jupiter, Saturn, After the lecture Dr. Bilpher different atmospheres so far as Uranus,, and Neptune had very expressed his conviction that the could be judged from their absorp conditions word such that the tion of light, w
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