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MONDAY, JULY 18, 1838.
Blood tests- and what they tell a doctor
An explanation of how one person's
blood is different from another's
MAN came into consulting room other morning.
my which travels round our bodies, the night and day.
called oxy-haemoglobin. In blood returning to the heart in the veins it is darker, because the haemoglobin has then given up most of its oxygen to the tissues.
The liquid part of the blood- the plasma-is yellowish in colour. It acts as a solution in which the corpuscles can circu-
late.
Y-In 1188, however, the sentence;
of excommunication was recalled and a new Pope, Clement III,
I If it's normal in quantity it
But this plasma has got more settled the controversy between could see from the pale tint may still be abnormal in quality, to do than just to serve as a the English and Scottish of his skin that he had got ... it doesn't contain a sufficient liquid. Most of the food you Churches. He issued bull
amount of certain substances. some form of anaemia.
cat finds its way into your blood, addressed 10 William the
If you're anaemic you're short and then travels round until it Lion declaring that "the!
It was a simple matter in one or more of the three im- reaches the particular organ it's Church of Scotland Was alto take a syringe-full of portant constituents--red cor- destined for. daughter of Rome by special blood from the vein which puscles, white corpuscles, and
grace
EL
feet to her and that no appeal bend of his elbow.
and immediately sub-stood out so clearly at the haemoglobin. concerning benefices should" lie out of Scotland unless to the court of Rome."
After this was over the patient said, "I read in the
LET us see what you ordinary table salt. All these
You've got proteins in your blood, fats, and sugars. Also salts of which the most abun- dant is sodium chloride-or
should have, if you're the plasma has to carry, Union might have been effect
It is also busy carrying waste ed at the time of the Reforma-
Red Corpuscles: 5,000,000 of products, like uric acid, to your tion, but that movement took that he was not the father them to the cubic millimetre of kidneys. So it has got plenty different courses in the two of some one's child, simply blood. They're only 1-3,000th to do. countries. The Reformation in
I of an inch in size, but you can't Then also the blood contains
papers this morning that a healthy. man was able to prove
Scotland was effected, according by examining his blood.
and
to Scotland Church historians, had no idea that your live without them because they gases, principally oxygen by the Church itself. There was blood could tell you so much carry the oxygen you need from carbonic acid. And finally it con-
Lains I substance your lungs to the rest of your
which clots CHURCH AND STATEo break of continuity. The old about yourself."
body.
when it comes into contact with priesthood of yesterday becam This is what I told him.
the air. White Corpuscles: 8,000 in The Kettle of the Kirk and the ministry of the new dispen-
Without this are about
we should all Part of the framework
number, and they State, as Burns used to call it, [sation.
1-2,500th of an inch, and of bleed to death the first time we comes to a boil with unfailing of the old system was retained
In their pricked ourselves. People whose and incorporated within the new, SOME one once said that several different kinds.
blood doesn't clot properly go on regularity every time the King In Knox's day the system was
the blood is "the brains own way they're just as impor- announces the appointment of not wholly Episcopal or wholly in solution." As a description it tant as the red ones, but their bleeding, sometimes from quite his personal representative who Presbyterian, but had some wasn't bad-but it wasn't really main job is to protect you against small injuries. They are suffer-
He saw that good.
infection. There are four or five ing from haemophilin. is to perform, according to the elements of both.
Without blood, of course, you'd different kinds their relative law and constitution, the duties compromise was necessary ini
order to maintain a united front have no brain that was any good: proportions depend upon the of High Commissioner to the
against the forces of reaction. and without a brain to control kind of food you're eating. General Assembly of the When Knox's work was done your circulation you'd have no
THERE is another way Haemoglobin is the chemical
to make blood cor- National Church of Scotland. In and the two factions were usa for blood. But it was only a which gives the colour to the puscles pile into clumps-or this act of state the Sovereign assured that the Church was no wise-crack, and hardly worth red corpuscles. It contains iron. agglutinate, as it is technically. exercises a function the signi- longer threatened front outside, saying, because the blood is so in arterial blood (ie., bright red known--and that is to mix ficance of which is but vaguely their differences. In the mean-
they were at liberty to fight out much more than this.
blood which has already been bloods which are not compatible. Your life-and mine-depends purified in the lungs) it is com- It is this technique which is understood by those who are time, English puritan doctrine, upon some five pints of red fluid bined with oxygen-then it's (Continued on Page 11.) unacquainted with the history of blown across the border, had the ancient Kingdom of Scotland, begun to infect the successors of Knox, In the result the which ceased to have
Episcopal feature was removed separate existence as a politi-
from the Church polity. More e cal entity in 1707, at which
important, however, was the Bate the separate existence of displacement of Knox's Book of the mister Kingdom of England Discipline, a work "instinct with likewise came to an end. It was the breath of piety," by a Second then that the two kingdoms Book of Discipline, the work of a Maintance with Merived archerges.
Polly dates; back to view my newly-acquired; obstreperous and entertain the bored, iny aim was slightly askew, I think lawyer, Ominously enough, it school, suspiciously clutching her; "Ma Gode." fervently remarked a 1 might reasonably have been par agreed to become one realm and began with a consideration of mother and her birthlines, to cintm departing parent, "ye'd be better doned, I was to have no charllable
overeignty and the name the relation of Church and State, admittance to our new Baby Class, mairrit"
concessions from Polly!" | "Great Britain," hitherto merely and declared with an emphasis For several weeks afterwards, in I laughed with the indulgent scorn "Ivo tell you three times I'm my more sadistic moments, I was of one who is sublimely sure she Polly!" she remarked, in tenes so a geographical expression, took that Hildebrand himself could wont to recall the benevolent smile knows better, and I expect the Fates, cold expressive of her estimate of jon a true political significance. hardly improve upon, that the with which I went forward to meet cucking speculative eyes at Polly, my intelligence that I quailed before One essential condition of that Church should command and the her, and the graciously approving laughed with me-but for a different them, and nervously tried to ruise
in which I informed her reason. State obey. This made it in-tones
my stock with an offer of some gally- auspicious event was that while evitable that sooner or later the mother that she looked bright.
coloured beads and a string on which to thread them. the two
countries became one Church and the State in Scotland was only as my Introduction to Polly Five neglected years in
was painfully burgeoning that I be- different world, with precious little
But my stern lttle Communist was and indivisible, the two Churches would collide.
gon to appreciate all the implications to give thanks for, had not un-
not to be won over by such During the three-quarters of of the strange lack of answering were to remain separate and
bureaucratie baubles, and cory set intelligent little Polly naturally distinct, provision whose a century, which followed until maternal enthusiasm which seemed "agin" whatever happened to be the temptuous, "Och, have ye nuthin' the Revolution Settlement of so distressingly unnatural at the government, and, in this case, also! ise fisus te play wi's We've had Banctity was solemnly recognis-1690, there were two attempts at
it happened to be
them afore!" put ine still more firmly ed and enshrined in the famous Church Union in Britain, both blissfully unaware of what was in class-room the very first day. I was
However, on that first day, still The Red Flag was hoisted in the in my place.
I revived a little with the sweet,
of the confiding affection
other Act of Security. The Establish- 1 failures. James VI of Scotland, store for me, I gaily deposited Polly's bewildering new names to forty- Children became positively con- ed Church of Scotland thus who ascended the England lively, gamin-like face and woefully five standa In a peculiarly strong throne as James I in 1603, and meagre little body in the scat right five strange, small persons, and if, celted, indeed, under
under my eye, ominously recom-with the additional
declared admitration position. Its age-old connection his son Charles I after him, both mended by her mother, then stepped comfort the wailers, subdue the bright red hair and a choice crop of attentions of the sturdy owner of with the Kingdom of Scotland tried by various methods to induce the Scots to accept
freckles, whe sat next to Polly.
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"The Red Flag" in School
time.
It
is further fortified by an Act of episcopacy. Another attempt at GRIN AND BEAR IT Security which is an organic part union was made in 1643.
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of the fundamental constitu- that year the General Assembly tional law of Great Britain. of the Church of Scotland, the Assembly of the Westminster An age which has scen advent of such wonders as the Divines, and both Houses of Parliament in England approved aeroplane, the submarine and and subscribed a Solemn League Chater Road. the radio might perhaps consi- and Covenant for the establish- der the union of the two Nationalment of uniformity of religion Churches into one as un achieve-in the three Kingdoms, England, ment easily within the realm of Scotland and Ireland, possibility. The statesmen who Presbyterian basis. This Coven- framed the Act of Union in 1707ant was observed in England for had other views. They were a dozen years or so, but in 1660 well aware that history had King Charles the Second was record of several attempts to had never taken kindly to the restored and the English, who unito the Churches in the past, Presbyterian system, gladly re- They knew that in 1176 a great turned to Episcopacy. Such was conference was held at North- the fate of these attempts at ampton at which Henry II of Church union. The Act of England, William the Lion of Union, 1707, provided for the Scotland, and the Papal Legate continued existence of the were present, The Scottish Scottish establishment. The clergy were strongly urged to King has a right to be present vick obedience to the Arch-at the General Assembly. It is bishop of York. This, however, an interesting fact that this the Scots, possibly because they "right" was in the words of the feared political consequences, historian Green, "all that James stubbornly refused to do. More could save" in his struggle with over, in a controversy with the the Church when it adopted thei Church of Rome, the King and Calvinistic theory of the relation Kirk of Scotland maintained of Church and State. Since the their national rights with equal days of James this right has stubbornness in defiance of a beeh preserved and King George Hontence of excommunication, exercises it to-day.
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However, it is a little difficult to sustain simultaneously the roles of teacher and inamorata, and the day arrived when I had regretfully to try to induce Tommy to cling to another hand than mine.
"Will
you not take Topsy for a partner to-day, Tommy?" I coaxingly inquired. "Well,
what about little Curlytop or Pegry here?
"Naw," came the shattering reply. "I've looked at them a', an' you're the nleest!'
My heart started out on a fatuous little flutter, but was rudely inter- rupted by a purposeful damsel, who seized my cavaller with unmaidenly force and scornfully informed him: |--"Ye cannne take the teacher-she's
owre auld!"
Dimly I felt that perhaps after all, there was something to be sold for the ways of the Farcisti.
There exists in many infant schools an institution known as "Newstime, which
Eerves a useful double pur- pose. It first of all allows all the exciting stories about the new baby next door, or the dead fodger In the Into
house below, to be compead of
the one ten minutes,
bubbling
over and assailing the teacher at odd (and usually, in- opportune!)
moments throughout the day, sides acting as a kind of jam, bmely concealing the educational pili known to time tables and Schemes-of-Work on "Correction of Speech."
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* Unlike the other children, Polly na a rule was neither Ingenuously con- (Continued on Page 11.)