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Medical Students Sacrifice To
Aid Doctor In Tests
LOSE SENSE OF
TASTE: SUFFER
FROM CRAMP
A THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD doctor and three medi-
20,000 FOR A
TICKET TO STRATOSPHERE
PICCARD INVITES A "PAYING GUEST"
Chicago, May 1. TICKET to the stratosphere is for sale in Chicago, The
cal students, one of them a young woman, have just price is £20,000. carried out experiments at a house in Dulwich, S.E., have mile on the assumption that led them to:-.
1
This works out at £1,250 per height of 16 miles is reached and that there is no charge for com-
Suffer from unconsciousness, miners' cramp, hearting down.
palpitations, mental languor, and other complaints; The pilot on this first com. Wear special underclothes day and night;
merelal, passenger flight to the Avoid washing of any kind, and become immune to taste. Jean Plecard.
stratosphere will be Professor the stratosphere The man who planned the wore special underclothes day and balloonist.
night which had previously been tests is Dr. R. A. McCance, washed four or five times in distill- to take with him on his next Through his wife he has offered assistant physician in charge ed water.
ascent anyone who will put up the "We shared, but were of bio-chemical research at
very £20,000 he needs to finance it.-- careful to get the lather off, Reuter. King's College Hospital, and we used no sump anywhere London.
else except for hands, so that wei
He was helped by Miss P. M. Edwards, a medical student at
did very little domestle washing Reward For
of any kind.”
Dr. McCance' and his assistants
the hospital, and Mr. R. B. Niven found that. It took a
and Mr. D.- Whitteridge, two into the special condition required
Brave Act
medient students from Oxford. for the experiments. Then they In 1803
The experimenta bave been remained seriously deficient of mule to discover diseases due le salt from three to four days, so deficiency of xait in the human
that deprivation times lasted about
body.
Wife's Help
Mr. McCance, now holidaying in Ireland, tells the story. of the testa In the Lancet.
four hours to recover.
London, Apr, 26.
eleven days. It took front twenty. CONSPICUOUS bravery seven days to: by a naval officer 133 years ago has recently Drank Freely "We have all noticed." he says,
benefited his daughter, now "a peculiar sensation in the mouth, 198. "We have, unfortunately, to which is present all day long. This In 1803. Mr. Gill of H.M.S. diel kitchen at King's Cere is not thirst,, although Miss Ed-Racoon played a large part in the Hospital, so I was impossil towards considered that it was so, leapture of the French national have our special low-salt alets and she drank freely to obtain brig Lod and lost an arm during prepared there.. My wife offered relief. All food seemed to be the action.
to do this for us, so I slept and ate tasteless, even fruit, which con
at home; two of the other sub-tains no salt, and is normally Recently an application was jects have also stayed in my eaten without any. I found that received from Mr. Gill's daughter house during their experiments. cigarettes hnd. lost nil their in view of her circumstances We have lived mostly on salt-flavour. At the same time an and of her father's distinguished
free 'ensein' bread, synthetic apple could never he mistaken for service" by Lloyd's Patriotic sodium chloride-free milk, salt-a pear."
Fund and in consequence an fren butter. Chrice-boiled veget-1 Dr.. McCance tells how they all award has been made to her. ables, jam, frolt, home-made salt- suffered great sickness, and were Free shortbread and toffee.
"To collect perspiration
We
never hungry, but he and Mr. Niven always managed to eat th rations prescribed for the day. All suffered from cramp except
Admirals All Miss Edwards, who, in fact, was
JELLICOE'S FLAG AND
DRAKE'S CANE "Adniirals All" is the title of a
never made really salt-deficient.
"Once or twice I found my arm getting tired while I was shaving. and one day at breakfast I noticed my jaws getting tired eating toast.
'Slow: In. Head'
"Whitteridge and Niven got inio
were
ARCTIC FLIGHT BY SOVIET PLANES
"CHELYUSKIN" HERO'S NEW VENTURE
Muséoy! Apr. 30. Two planes, one piloted by M.
now exhibition at the Royal the state in which they
Vodopyanov, hero of the "Che-
yuskin" rescues, the other by: United Service Museum, White- content to sit and do nothing in V. Makhotkin, left to-day in an ball, one of the most fascinating a chair, sometimes for hours on attempt to fly to Franz Josef and yet, for some reason, one of end. They both commented on Land, the most northerly terri-] the least appreciated museums feeling slow In the head,'tory of the earth. in London.
One experiment the doctor and - Euch of the planes carries a wire- Under a line of portraits of great was that of over-breathing, dur-will land at Archangel and Nova his students made several times less operator and one mechanic. They Admirals are enses containing their person relies, These include: |ing normal health and when salt- Zembla. From their Arctic base, the
jaliman intend to make fights of
ploration. They are taking food to last for 45 days.
bone or
A browit cane with ivory knob, on which is engraved, "Drake, 1581":
deficient.
During the recovery periods the doctor and his assistants ate sult!
*x-
consisting of several large, and about Franz Josef Land is au urchipelago
A pleen of the wedding dress of bacon out of the frying pan to the wife of Cupt, Cook, the 18th avoid losing any of its salt, and 100 small islands. Although moun- century circumnavigator;
then washed out the pan with hot [tainous and largely covered with
The saw with which Nelson's water and drank the washings. laciers they are not entirely barren. amputated, the silver- Dr. McCance has great hopes A profusion of Arctic plants grows pinted tea-pot presented to him after the balli of the Nile, and the that his experiments will unravel on the shares and animals and birds
abound. gold watch he were during the the causes of a number of disenses
battle of Trafalgar.
A large party of Soviet scientists
-Reuter asid B. U. P.
which up to now have appeared is already established in the islanda.
THE ENGLISH LONG BOW obscure.
วัน this collection, the exhibits range from 11 long-bow. recovered from the Mary Rose, which was wrched in 1849, to the uniform worn by Eari Jelliese at Jutland, the tele scope he used in the battle, and the telescopic sight he used for rifie aboting.
are
On the opposite side there res of the admiral's battles and mdels of the ships that fought in tim
A cannon ball recovered 'from the weck, in Tobermory Boy, of a Spanish ship which fought in Ee Armada is the size of a cricket ball. A tablet of desiccated, soup' taken by Capt. Cook on one of his
Voyages Jooks and it
like a
a thin.slab of grey stone,
there in a CRAC.
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Methods
Planned
tection.
marked with a broad arrow. Morley, near Leeds, had fags The flag Jellicoe flow at Jutland is and bunting out one week last Another interesting exhibit con-month. The town was celebrating
Special methods of pro- sists of photographs of all the ships fifty years an incorporated in which the Inte King George Vborough:
for young children The vicar (the Rev. D. M. Wis- and babies against gas at three-masted iron-clad, in which he well), in his parish magazino, tacks from the air are being wds a Midshipman, and his The PLATE-LOCK-Stardy trips of command---H.M.S. Crescent, a first. denounces the decorations as "un-developed.
For VESTA'S Long Life served. There is the Bacchante,
Inst
was
christian.” He
ebonite, that do a very big jab...
reminded They keep the plates apart, preventing
cinss cruiser, of which he
his Mr. Geoffrey, Lloyd (Home buckling and short circuiting. Thus
captain.
parishioners that it was Holy Office Under-Secretary) an- the cause of 75% of battery break lection of models of every ship in the
The museum is completing a cot Week
nounced this in the House of downs la praktically eliminated, pr
The mayor (Mr. Harold Smith Commons last month. Navy to-day and n vory meagre retorted: "We don't stand still affair' our Fleet looks compared with the array of models of our Flett, in because it is Holy Week! So the
celebrations go on.
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He said an effective„form of
respirator for use by the civil population, had been devised..|| These respirators would be issued freo in areas exposed to danger.
Home Office Mark - Factories putting respirators of their own "design" on the market, he said, would have to.. submit their products to Govern. ment inspection,
If satisfactory, the respirators would be stamped with a Home Olfito certification mark: People. would be unwise Mr. Lloyd added, to buy respirators which did not bear this mark
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