THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
1937.
·
A
NEWS ABOUT MEDICINE edited by John Langdon-Davies
ARMLESS, BUT
THEY
CAN STILL USE
THEIR HANDS
A German surgeon has taught his armless patients to use the fingers of their artificial hands by oxercising the muscles in their upper arms.
Mental Sick
N armless man fitting on artificial arms and hands, f dressing, buttoning his trousers and coat with artificial fingers, while another emptied a box of mutches on a table and with a small forceps picked them all up and replaced them neatly in their box--these were some of the wonders shown on the screen at Glasgow University recently by Professor Sauerbach, of Berlin.
The German surgeon has done miraculous work, making it possible for his patients to move) bands and fingers with the muscles of their upper arm.
Suppose a man has lost his arma above the elbow, Professor Sauerbach makes $2 tunnel. through the triceps behind and the biceps in front and lines it with skin. When this is healed he inserts an
ivory peg fitted with strings leading to various points in the artificial limb.
The patient is able to learn how to
movements)
Who Help
Themselves
PEOPLE are constantly try-
ing to frighten us by claim- ing that Insanity is on the increase and the speech made by the Minister of Health when
control his muscles in such a way opening the new Runwell Meu as to import the desired to the artificial limb in exactly the tal Hospital is reassuring on this same way as If he never lost an arm.
This brings us a long way from point.
the famous "Captain Hook," and the modern armless man can become so!
that
Incidentally he pointed out deft that he is able to earn his living public opinion was becoming more as a telephone operator or at many ane towards mental disease and that joba requiring accurate and quite we now had "Mental Hospitals" in- delicate "Anger" movements. Pro- stead of "Lamatic Asylums."
fensor Sauerbach's artificlaí limbs are
n good deal more handy thon many aj Routy natural hand.
N
AND SO-
VICTORIA
By Vaughan Wilkins
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"O one could shut ears and eyes to this galloping stage- coach of D story, which brings tho Romantic Novel back with rush again.
And So-Victoria bounds along, full of beautiful women and wicked men. Comle relief, a slab of horror here, a scout of mystery there, kidnappings, forced weddings, desperato duela, soft- sighing Interludes, high politles-all the most luscious Ingredients for which the sensation-loving reader could wish.-
Ill they are no artfully mixed, the narrative is so plausible, the buck- ground so vivid and the flavour of fact to dexteroitaly Introduced that the book is sure to be an instant auccERS, "The English Anthony Adverse,” And
:
Go on.
It is hard to femember that kings and queens have not always been në- ceptable to most people in this coun try. Yet it is on record that: Vietoria came to the throne at a time of Sur- moil and distress when it was only too easy to ascribe many of England's troubles to the scandals of the Toure of Hanover, to demand a clean swer
and a republie.
This novel douls with that period.. only a hundred years or so ago.
In a short, dramatic prologue the author describes how the son of George [II, who vaa later Prince Regent aud then George IV, evaded paying his dels to French financlers by deport- Ang his creditors to their own land, then in the throes of revolution.
One woman resented what she con- sidered the murder of her husband by this means, and And 50--Victoria tells how she took her complicated revenge. coming within an ace of murdering the child her to the throne, establishing the notorious Duke of Cumberland na king and thereby making certain that the people would rise and overthrow the dynasty.
Among lier unconscious Instruments Was Christopher Harnish, the hero of this extremely exciting tale, who leaps from adventure to adventure from the moment when, as a timid boy, he was supposed to have shot at the baby Princess Victoria to the day that ho triumphantly defcats his wicked grandmother, the Frenchwoman of the prologue, and known that Victoria and England are safe.
The opening chapters are part cularly good: the child Christopher knows poverty and hunger and is sen- tenced to death for murder at the age of seven, only to be recogniseti and rescued is be a page to the unhappy Queen Carollite.
Later, which his mysterious Hand- verian parentage gets himi a post at a German Court and we are attil further Jvolved in the hatreds and scandal of that family, the story grown more and more melodramatically tangled. Despite which, I fancy it will keep you Danling after it to the end
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Skim Milk Adds Height and Weight
The Indian Research Fund Association at Coonoor have just carried out interesting
research on the thousands of undernourished children of Southern India.
They find that by adding
onc ounce of dried skim milk
to their normal diet it is possible to increase their height,
The cows wore a healthy
lot
Child Infects
205 Families
weight, mentalTHE Growing movement for the he had had a "sore throat" for a
alertness and immunity from disease.
They point out, however, that the price of skim milk is just too much for the masses of poorer Indians to buy owing to there being a 30 per cent. duty on imported dried skim milk.
In England and elsewhere farmers are always wonder- ing how to get rid of their skim milk profitably. Their difficulty would disappear, say the Indian scientists, if the tax disappeared and in course of time the Indian Covernment would regain what it lost by better health through wide areas of Southern India.
compulsory pasteurisation of week. milk will be helped by the report just published of the Doncaster scarlet The M.OJI. deelded to follow up
fever and tonsillitis December,
and
clue Qutbreak last this
investigated the muker's family. The next clue turned at ince; for the milker had
A farm near Doncaster produced a child suffering from discharging fifty gallons of mille a day. This car and he had himself been dress- milk was delivered to 300 families. ing the car. No fewer than 205 families
were affected by a sudden outbreak of sore throats and rashes, and more than a quarter of their members fell 11.
Everything pointed to the milk supply as the source of infection, and fortunately it proved .compara- Bvely simple to verify this.
Swabs were taken from the ear, patients who had drunk the milk. the milker's throat and from
In every case liese proved to .con- tain the same bacteria, "trepto- coccus pyogenes Type II."
At this stage it looked as a clear case had been made out for direct infection from the milker to the customers; but it was necessary to might be infected, too. exclude the possibility that a cow
The Medical Officer of Health visited the suspected farm and found everything In good order. The The veterinary surgeon inspected utensils were clean and cattle all the cows. They were a remark- healthy. The only possibly - ably healthy lot,
and the only piclous thing was a milker who said doubitul case Was a cow with a bruised teat. The dairyman said that this had been accident. Milk was examined from
caused by
cow, and sure enough, exactly
WHAT THE EMPIRE IS
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TALKING
ABOUT
VOU may be British, but if you Malaya (22 days from London half "This is to notify the public," reads
Maluya you
be the size of Britain; population 4 her announcement, "that my husband will astonished to read that women have raillion). Malay women and men, it having left me from the year 1929, stayed away from home for a night reports, met on an equal footing at and I and been meeting strange men
do not know whether he in the fourth annual meeting of the dead or alive, it is my intention to is pubile; yet if you are in a famous Persaudaraan Sahabat Penn, Malaya marry wihtin three months city in Australia you will learn that Malay Pen Friends Society, if you And she gives her address, the de- in future no women may attend civic want to know what it all means). functions.
lectable region of Mandeville, where Most of the 23 women present bad and English, and the manners of the the air is cool and pure, society caim In London you will see men and come from Johore Babru, Batu Pahat, charming women drinking
public and Muar, on Friday, stayed that example to Europe and the buckra Jamaican natives an houses, but in a West Indian colony night in Singapore and remained on (whites). this is an offence, leading to the for the three-day conference. police court.
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Thus the bacteria from the chlid's car-infection had been passed on to the miller and from him to the bruised teat of the cow, and thence to more than a thousand citizens of Doncaster. Nobody was to blame. Every usual precaution to cleanliness had been taken-except LONDON SERVICE the one infallible step of pasteurtsa-
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THAT HAY DIET
secure
In the same issue the husband of Beatrice Laharre reveals that she Now, for a moment, concentrate on his consent one year and three months left his care and protection without bargains. According to the Citizen, ago therefore I do not held myself in the capital city of Ottawa (Canada responsible for her or any debt that is six days from London; area 35 she may contract." Nice and times that of Britain and N. Ireland; prehensive. population,
nine
Ine million-ours is 45), the first customer arriving Take a hurried glance at the sub- local Early Bird Sale, which opens at
the Bermuda jeets that are amusing or annoying 8.30
n.m. will our brothers and sisters across the with good tyres for £2; the second hood and meet Jumes Powell whose eat and not get fat in this case-
get a reliable
Stay in the Caribbean neighbour- motor-ear sca. Begin with Ferth (Western will pay 15 dollars, the third 20, and crime, Australia; 20 days from London; the fourth 25 (45). There is 1 Gazette
according to the
Royal size of
published Great
Hamilton nt ment, except the mere matter of dis- pf Bermuda, 11 days from London: tance from Great Protland Street.
20 square miles; population, 24,000), was that he took a drink of plain beer in Parliament Street.
eight times
the
INNUMERABLE people who like to eat their cake and have 1-to
have pinned their faith to the "Hay
Britain; city population, "enght add, no calch in the advertise- (capital of Brtish West Indian colony/ Diet"
where, according to the Times.
"Women are Taboo." Says this paper: "Believe it
it or not, New Zealand
women are taboo from City
Council
As a result Powell appeared in have court. The charge against him was
One of the main points in this creed is that carbohydrates and pro- teins should not be eaten at the same meal, because the protein In- creases the urnount of gastric secre tion of acid
and to hinders the digestion of starch by the saliva producing poisoning by fermentation. Dr. Eugene Foldes, of New York, has just published exhaustive ac-
receptions." And quoting the nu- Population problems may be boring thority of the administrators of the Us in Europe, but they city, it goes on. "This is the been gravely disconcerting far-seeing taking intoxicating ilquet in n pub- twentieth century... and they have statesmen in New Zealand (five tie place. Powell was lucky. He was laid down a rule almost monastle." weeks from London; a Hide
bound over. than Britain and Northern I Malaya
Banu, population 14 million). To them Bahamas
Premier, the Hon. J. M. Savage, said recently: "We have no strong women are making history in cinim to the territory we hold unless glorious West Indian territories which tons of experiments to see if this
we secune the pupulation necessary to are the pleasure-ground of rich Is true. He finds: develop it to the fullest extent." Americans, as for example, the
(1) That almost That, he added, would be the best Bahamas (300 years ours; uren, 4,400 same amount of hydrochloric neid is exactly 1110 method of defence, and it would no square miles: population 60,000). longer provide the same temptation
produced in the stomach when carbo-
But, according to the Straits Bud- and
get,
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Queensland
This kindness is typical of
the
to the covetousness of other peoples. According to the Nassau Guardian hydrates are eaten as when proteins ♫ new law has just come into force; horse-drawn vehicles must no are eaten, so that it would do no longer carry more than two passen-food not eating proteins so as to But are the people ready for child gers and the driver. It the cab has reduce the acld.
sleep 18- bearing? Listening to near nighbour & fare and is mounting a
in- (2) Anyway the Dr. Graham
Metropolitan cline, the driver is obliged to get out acid does not Drew. | Medical Oficer of Health for Bris- Owners of vehicles are asked to co-
bane (capital of Queensland, seven operate with the Government in not digestion of the starch. Umes the size of Britain, population working their cabs day and night, of State, 842,000) one would scarcely "as is so often the case." think so.
According to the Courier Mail he
| sald in Sydney; "I was horrified by
Ceylon
Now for a harsher side.
hydrochloric interfere with the
(3) Even if it did interfere there would be no fermentation In the
stomach,
(4) If any fermentation occurs in the large intestine, it does not produce harmful polsons.
poisons were
the state of illness I found here." Ellis Island in the United States After dilating on stupid noises and is not the only place which travellers cocktail parties he added, "What we claim ought to be destroyed. need as a thriving democratic country Listen to the enraged Hon. F. E. (5). Even if such are women who will build up their T. Krause, Chief Justice of the produced the body is perfectly cap. homes and have children, Inrge Orange Free State, who recently able of dealing with them. familles, Instead of thinking of visited Mandapam Camp in Ceylon
pleasure....
Jamaica
Island 10 days from London: ores, In short there is nothing in the
population, | main contention square miles;
of the Hay diet <DD>. He crosTED
over from philosophy. That does not menn and had a camp problem to that no one has benefited by follow- This is precisely what the wife of face. Said he to the Ceylon Obing it. It means that the beneft has Mr. Vernal Riley in thinking about server: "I had to return to Me Town been due to psychological reasona and she so informs readers of the 14 miles away in a kind of cooly or perhaps Gleaner in Jamaica (largest pear? In train.
a reduction of the total be nourishment taken. At least ought to the British West Indies; 14 days from abolished. London; population of island, 1,000,- venience to people who wish to go to it leads to too great a reduction of great incon-harm can come of the Hay diet unless 000; area, 4,200 square miles).
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