THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1950.
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WHAT'S NEW IN MEDICINE
Colds, babies and thumbs
THIS
They found the virus of the common cold, lost it, found it: They're wiring mothers for birth signals: There's a faster test for pregnancy: And thumb-sucking
HIS is the story of the common cold virus that
was caught and got away
again.
and was trapped
a new
opinion
Electric activity of the uterus is then recorded by spt club pens on chemically sensitive paper.
When compliention in birth
recordings
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differ
OR
Thumb-suelting, the dentists say, audientes a frustrations of the sucking-feeding Distinct.
If it continuer past the age of
greatly from these of a normal 12 mths, it is a sign of some underlying minindjustment, early always neociated with the feeding routine.
The capture is the result of more than three years' work by three research teams in America delivery. and Britain.
Isolating the romeon cold**
of
Inventor of the new technique
Dr Chmics M. Steer, Columbia University College of flower-puiten at ather Physicians and Surgeons,
substances,
it should result in a visit. to u child specialist and, if the de- to advises, special psycholo- tien freatment. had
virus for study and the pro- Their cate without dnetrare A Marquarie Street specialist
duction of common cokis to order was the essential first step in beating this univer- sal winent.
This year, for the first time,
Ehit
he
not
precription we permitted ave radd montha asto by the US Food heard of the device in Australia, and
Druit often the drugs are lift lying understood.
Administration. In the principle used was well
..
about the home,
Evidence
if looks na though they ve Traps, there a ped it and doctors inay
zuw people realise. develop a vaccine to immunize
people
Drainst
Sneezer,
"Warning of birth complies Crowing! that tions would be valuable, but daniter that not modern hospitals are equipped to deal with emer- nes immediately they occur," be soul.
fre Two deaths of children
couples. fevers inst general reported by New York County misery that cost zhore Run Melical Society's Journal,
than any
brams in production other farle aliment.
A 1-year-o'd who found a A thumb-sucker is
nuti-histamisme pills
tandtles
and swallowed
The first glimmer of hope for et me the common cald victions of the Wrot into ponvulsions and died world appeared in 1943 at the 13 how... despite hospital National B-tute of Heatly in fedranil Maryland, UK.
Doctors
there olated 1 cold virus and natud 10 MIR-1
Minor
Respiratory 1). TV gow it in click embryos and later reproduced it in humate volunteers,
The
American thumb-sucking re- careh mah Dr Maury Masster, of nois Dentistry College, wys that unit-biting does not affect a child's teeth in any way. of nail-biting "Bat parent: children enn be sure their off- Bar LIVD UP print will not habit," BAYR
"They in tran fer to anothy: r---- eventually decene sweet- malers, sun-chewers,
Denest
born every minute biters, up ribblers (17 per cent
THUMB
HUMB SUCKLING, nail-bating and other
But how.
A chand of 16 months who annoying oral nabits are common
pills the infantile probleins. ok four of these maximum adult doe recom- parents want to know, do these mended by the makers died in habits affect children's teeth? 13 hours. This chutel, fee, hand ranvulsos,
There are one of the answers en Thumb-sucking busand on Aus- talum mel American research:~~
A man of 66, ang wasther for research 2721 thought
kirur antitanie they
would Loun know all cezennt, died bærare, it severe- about the cold virus and by ly reducent the production at a children become thumb-
anti-cold white corpuscles in his blood.
able t create
Vaccine.
But last year
un
Shortly after birth rely
Mickers. By the age of tenur years, half of them still suck
the careful Things they find their thumbs occasionally.
Blazed MR-1 viru began to Jose its punch, failed to infect the human guinea-p
The Maryland research men were
mentulog the 1 of Beir precious culture Jast month when a new rejort of surcesful cold virus iolation came from Johns Hopkins tini- versity.
The new Thomas
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in the appendix
DECAUSE Malfa drugs, have combated peri- fritis, leuthan from appen diritis have been reduced by two-thirds.
About 17 per cent of the five to six-year-olds stick to the habit.
❤ After ax, children switch to mail-biting; and two-thirds of the x-to-12-years age group org nail-biters,
Thychladnots often 'argus that Ferdog that appendicitis 12 thumb-sucking
perfectly beint taken too lightly, as a normal and nothing to worry result, De Frederick Fitzherbert about unless it becomes a com- Boyce, of New
Orleans, M phases the life-and-teath i
pulsive habit. portance of accurate diagnosis.
vielers -- Doctors Ward and
Donald Practor said they had to test naral volunteer, taking discharges and attempting grow cultures from them, be- fore meters rame.
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Then Mr W. W. contractel a
Motherhood can be
But denticls regard anything more than ecensional thumb-
ruckung as defitely harmful.
It is a potential danger in the
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fresh head cold and start discovered sooner development of dental abuorma-
new chân of artificially grower
rold virus.
Thi
his rubstance was harvested and used to start cols among A group of volunteers at Mary land State Reformatory,
The WW cold started about
days after three day
with a runny
flamed Brat.
C
Inoculation and iux
werd
It lasted four or five day'a and in no wa dil it spreath
*[1¢*N** the chest. exactly the same Wimpdone as These of the original donor, WW.
Trying to trap the
chest cold now
fall adults bite their lips to onur extent), hair-twirlers, "ven pipe smokers.
"AB there hablis offer some Thumb- the confort that cucking gave in childhood."
Metal teeth to anchor plates
AN oral surgeon has in-
Sented an operation anchor false 10 th to Jawbone
Lo
stageon,
UNLIKE most cygnets, this one just doesn't want to get into that water in a park in Seattle, Wash. Although his mother seems to be insisting that her young one follow his brother's example, she hasn't got him to budge an inch. The two baby swans were the first ever born in the park, and they have brought the swan. population of the pond up to ten.
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LONDON DIARY
1734-was and Ro-
for £1350. bought TNGHID BERGMAN
berto Roseliini want A pair of Meisen eagles mado or u The
Di Willians be married in London. He is £320, a Meissen figure Ogns, of Warisington, has tried 13, the 1s 31.
parrot £840, st successfully on two patient, who were unable to wear plates,
Rossellini is expected in Lan- don soon to make arrangements for the wedding.
Lond Hesting, [LIE Easi Anglian Inndowner and farmer, has spoken of the ferce effects
Ming of
whether her be would
Dr Ogus surgery bares the
But first there is a legal prob- jawbone and fixes a thin metallem to be solved. Rosselin is of texation on his estate. strih bo its surface
with four free. The position small 'rerews,
Bergman is not clear.
doubtful Mexican divorce recognised everywhere,
Two
aro London lawyers
of Itosel- handling the
attairs in and Miss Bergman: Italian
Four metal anchor teeth ne fitted, to protrude throath the reclaced over Fun when it is the jawbone. These are a toun!-
dation for detachable bridge work, made to conform with the patient's unline.
work, on
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Elio Nissim (51), who is born expert on international divorce; Porcelain caps in the bridge-al Mr E, Gordon Lawrence.
རྨ་མ་ Lawrence: Said a metal strip, sup
the deep waters Presistent thumb-sucking, in over the metal anchor-feeth to swimming in
of international law; once the Some cases, cause malocchiton make them match the others.
of Miss Bergman's known
buck "It will take five years to per- question
domicle is settled we can go until padaly
teeth.
fect the proness,” says Ogus.
ahead."
MOST 1sts for detec-
My
en
e o definite answer about six weeks after the first day of the last menstrual cycle.
Now, a new test has cut this wasting time by two weeks and enables Doctors in defeet pres- my withi 24 hours the tent made.
The new mufbeu will he help predict whether the pre- money will be mal we wil cut in spontanenus abortion."
Inventer of the pety technique
Ir Edmond Parris,
Institute. Philadelphia's Wistar who has published his di every † ፃ ነ it TH*W American
Now the Johns Hop marazne. Fertility and Sterility
kins ductors are try-
ing to lap two other branil;
Immature rats are uned for
the lost. A few drops of the
of common cold--the chest rold parlent's urine R -injected {
and the very watery Tunny- nose cold.
By June this year they hope to be able to reproduce them in human beings.
The next step will be to
anti-cold develop an and
to
ander the rat's skin.
If the woman is pregnant, the rat's ovation will turn a strong
red colour after the injection. The shade of red is important.
thal
vaccines A bright red indicates discover chemical the pregnancy will probably methods of treating colds. follow a urmat course, but n Despite all, their attempts to weak shade of red is a danger transitant Estiman cold into sign that abortion might follow. laboratory animals such as If the woman is not pregnant,
mlet the white
guinea pigs, rals, and monkeys have failed.
Only
a
buman being
eatch
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cok,
מוזC
It
rat's ovarica
normal calor.
rekun their
In Sydney, a senior patholo communist a Crown Street Women's Trospital cald that only the standard tests for pregnancy Apart from the greater con were used there.
animals venience of handling
there is question of cost. cold for comman
for cold experiments,
also
the
Volunteers
He midled: "They are reliable, and adequate for our purposes.
"Al one stage we carried out
experiments get £4 for each rapid pregnancy tests on female infection.
WW's contribution to medical eads, but abandoned the tests because of pressure of other cience may be one of the most work." important of the year, but the hunters of MR-1 are continuing their work because variety
Another US invention to nid thel prenotat slingnosis is a machine cold vihich measures the electric im- than pulses generated during labour.
of the common viru is more severe WW's and lasts longer.
Doctors warnings that anti- histaminic drugs can be dan gerous have not deterred anlf- fing Americans
from buying chemists, them from prescriptions
Front doctors can now tell whether a birth will be normal or complicated hours before they could normally detect the need for surgery or special drugs.
The device, used at the onset of labour, la called an electro- These drugs are advertised hyæterograph, hus six wires be- which are attached by adhesive coldin as preventiven lleved to be caused by allergy tape to the mother's abdomen
ot
without
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little papoose
ONE-year-old Jean McDonough is a modern papoose in the handy basket that her mother, Mrs James McDonough, uses for trips to market in Boston, Mass. It's proving a safe and comfortable hideaway for baby.
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Jet locomotives
PPOINTED chairman
of
Power Jels: Sir Willun Arthur Stanter, 74. scientifle
arivierr
Supply,
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Sir William
the Ministry
(married, lives
at Churley Wood) has spent onest of his life with railways. He was with the GWR for 40 years, ending as chief mechan[- switched to cal engineer. He the board of Power Jet in 1944.
There seems litle doubt that his promotion means more at- fention will now be devoted to developing jet engines for our railwaya.
Mine stay down.
Dr Edith's ankles
PRINCESS'S HUSBAND SAYS: I'M TRAPPED
From EVELYN WEBBEN: San Francisco,
THIN, worried man, in a mauve Cashmere jacket and lavender-coloured trousers, sat enting meatballs in his hotel here and told me: "I know what will happen
if my brother-in-law, King Farouk, gets me back to Egypt
I'll be exiled or gaoled."
He was Rind Gali, 31-year- “Atty" ("I am not a princess old Egyptian commoner who any more. My brother stripped me of tiles and money when I defied · Farouk to marry married"), went over to kiss Princess Fathin, the king's him. He went to the kitchen to 19-year-old sister.
pour thum both a drink. Fathio, dark and pretty in n
Fathia flourished black Paris gown, at holding strands of pearls festooning her the long
his hand as
they talked
1 dress. Sliver sandals and sheer Faruk's opposition 10 their
nylons showed her painted union.
tornalia.
"My passport ling expired,"* paid Gali. "Farouk refuses to We are practically penniless
ronew
31, so I must leave America on August 1. Without a passport I cannot enter another country but my ows. 3. mt trapped."
Gali was Arst told to leave America on May 25, but on that date he arranged for
il
Moslem ceremony ut which he could renounce Christianity and become a Moslem, regular- sing the Carlier register-oflee wedding
MONEY COING
Birt that did not pacify Farouk. Suice then Gali hay nsked twice
for respite. "Bui the delay is only making Farouk ongrier," he said. "He is put- the ting pressure
5321 now
Gall jumped up to pace the
Dr Edith Summerskill, Minis-American Government,” ter of National Insurance, pro- tested against the fashion dicta-room. Mrs Gali, whom he calls tors who ordered the women of Channel tunnel KC
Brita to put up their hema MR CHRISTOPHER SHAW "just as we had got them down."
"Mine stay down." KC, younger Suld she: brother of the Attorney-General, REDITI with some passion for Rais at man-makic female Widnes, has become a director fashion,
M
CROSS,
and former Socialist
M
of the Channel Tunnel Com-
13
pany. Other directors are: Me Says the question of her knees F. A. D'Erlanger, Chairman; Mr Ong she'll deal with as she F. W. Case; Mr W. H. Mertou.
pleases.
Last year the directors shared on the rood
£60.
discuss
leadeth
where Lashlan
Shawcross, 44, prefers not to You will see no sign of Edith.
the prospects of the As for skirts the new style Channel Tunnel project. "It will have come in time," he she likes hims
saya. "But speaking an an out- sider from politics, the out- look is not too good at prezent," he says.
The Channel parry
Tunnel
rankies,
ankles.
around her
We'll not complain If Edith's
skirts
Defy the fashion till it hurts. Cum- But we'd care more than a hoot
speeches
sult.
formed in 1872. has It Edith's assets of £21,045, according to the latest published accounts. Issued capital of the company was £91,351,
Biggest shareholders are the I
Transport Commission.
Women judges?
followed
Geranium time
is geranium
West End. Thousands of
time la the
scarlet big. 3in. blooms have been laid out around Buckingham Palace
IN the Temple there is talk and planted in the War Office
that the Lord Chancellor window boxes.
Pink geraniums decorate the tour new Intends to
appoint
offices in White- judges; and that there will also Govenument
hall. be three County Court judges
All is ready for the tradi- tional appointed,
tea-and-strawberries on of the terrace of the House Cummons after the Whitsun recess. Wallflowers and daffo- dik have been uprooted And replaced by royal rcd ger- anlums.
Women barristers are won- dering whether one of these appointments will go to women. They speak bitterly about the fact that it is 30 years since women were first called to the Bar in that time no woman luas been raised to the Judges' bench.
I should say there
of some of
Even the bacles the London burcs carry a "Before your wite ittle Blogun:
chance that their hope will be swops it for a geranium, sell us fullled this time.
Porcelain vulture
£1350
LORD HASTINGS
Fold
your camera."
Incidental intelligence
DUSINESS COLLEGE parder announcing a Short Accounting for shortly removed
collection of English and Course Continental
nt a Women was porcelain London auction. Total realised after this judgment, written in was £12,J81.
firm, masculine hand; had
“There--is (no që- coloured figure of a vuluro by counting for women"--This J. J. Kaendler, dated. around; Wrek...............
Ona ploce "a"` life-sized, been added:
she said. "We have now," enough money left to last jurt two months.
LAST CHANCE
"This suite costs us 28 dollarn
a day without food," she said. "But Riad and I will not move Anywhere cheaper. If we have only six weeks to be together We are going to enjoy them. When we need moco money lad will learn to get up early
and work."
There wa
knock on the elsor. A friend arrived to tell Gall that he could arrange to HOL the couple into Mexico-
and, possibly, back to America.
Gall brightened. He kissed
down to
his wife, He poured himself an other drink and sat finish his meatballs.
~(Londỏn Express Servicej
Easy On
The Legs
EWING Tratt, of Bermuda, and Virginia Scharf, of Rochester, N. Y., are shown cycling through New York's Central Park, before Tratt began a tour of the U. B. Tratt met Miss Beharf when she was in Bermuda,.and he flew to the U. B. with two cycles for his trip. The vehicles have small moiery attached to them, making it easfer on the pedaling, department..