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A World Full of Engineers:

SURGERY.

Early Efforts.

EXPLORERS.

Research Institute to Be Built at Cambridge.

Princess Marie Louise presided Having promised in jest to in mail week at the annual meet-

An institute for Polar re- address the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Ladies Association, which has Cambridge, in memory of Cap ing of the St. George's Hospital search is about to be built at Club on the subject of the World's been formed to raise funds in tain Robert Falcon Scott, the most crowded profession, Mr. Steen aid of the hospital. Miss P. explorer. Sechested, B.Sc. (Copenhagen), Vaughan Morgan, secretary, Men are still prepared to risk M. I. Dan. C.E. found that he had stated that the Rose Day of the death among the icy wastes of hospital last year raised £3,100. the polar regions Cambridge to.keep to his bargain. He treat- Dr. Stanley Melville, hon. is sending ed the members to a delightfully radiologist to the hospital, spoke north of the Arctic circle this three expeditions whimsical talk, for the most part on the discovery of X-rays and year- in the abstract, but with occasional their value in medicine and Institute will become an inter- and it is hoped that this references to concrete, on aspects surgery. He said that on Nov-national centre for the pooling of of engineering.

ember 8, 1895, Rontgen, working knowledge about the poles. He dismissed the claim of the in his laboratory at the Univer- medical profession to be the most

Dr. A. C, Seward, Master of sity of crowded by reciting the opinion of startled the scientific world by said:-

Wurzburg, Bavaria Downing College, Cambridge, the Emperor Tiberiua that every the announcement of the dis- man over 30 who is not his own covery of new best physician is a fool. And fools from light rays. were legion! He was equally At the same time, in England, cavalierly in his treatment of the Sir William Crookes made a simi- legal profession. People found lar discovery. Rontgen gave themselves repeatedly caught in the the rays the name of "X" (the most dreadful messes, which would unknown) rays, not be possible if they were law- yers! He quoted every man's

"Plans are being prepared, rays differing and building will probably start Institute should be ready early about mid-Summer. The new

next year.

Accidental Discovery.

to Captain Scott was handed over "Money raised as a memorial,

to Cambridge University on con- dition that a Polar Research Institute was founded and a suitable building erected within 10 years.

childhood in support of his conten- The use of the rays in medi- tion, however, that every man was cal practice was said to have by nature an engineer from early been suggested by the accidental playing with puddles as the basia exposure by a careless laboratory "The institute was established of drainage, irrigation and can- boy of some photographic plates largely to a gift of £4,000 from seven years ago. Now, thanks alisation schemes, to the building in a room where experiments of sand castles at the seaside. with X-rays were being carried the Pilgrim Trust, we have, suf- Children were happiest in pursuit out. On one of the plates, when ficient money to erect a suitable of the great profession born in all developed, the shadow of the building." -the profession of engineering. bones of the boy's fingers was dis-

tinctly visible.

In 1898, when he (Dr. He divided the vast body of adult Melville) began the work of de- engineers into two groups; those veloping the use of X-rays to who knew all that was to be known medicine and surgery, he found of the world's greatest and most that a number of enthusiasts intricate science, and those who were similarly engaged, with knew very little, and that in a tiny poor apparatus and little encour- branch, and who knew that, how-agement.

A Warning.

the principle gain of whose little when it

limitations.

Engineering was the one

Results of Expeditions, Professor Frederick Deben- ham, Professor of Geography in the University and director of the institute, explained that the purpose of the institute was es- sentially practical.

Telling Yarns,

"We want to provide facilities for those going on Polar expedi tions," he said, "but most of all ever much they strove, they would In the Tirah Campaign the We. want to prepare and publish never accumulate more than an in- X-rays were used for the first the results of their work. finitesimal store of knowledge; and time in military operations. But "I hope the Institute will be!

was proposed in the come a recognised centre for steps forward was a multiplication House of Commons in 1898 to map-making. A library, which of complexities. These latter were use the rays in the Soudan Cam- we hope will become one of the called qualified engineers, not in paign, the then Secretary of best in the world dealing with counter-distinction to the others, State for War stated that the the Poles, is being gathered to- but mainly as a warning. of their Senior Medical Officer had been gether,

unable to trace a single case

"There will also be a small | pro- among the wounded in the Tirah museum. Specimens of sledging fession that satisfied both spiritual Campaign where the apparatus ments and Polar equipment of gear, clothing, cookers, instru- and physical cravings; which took had been of any special use. one off the beaten track. It was Fortunately, the then Director all kinds will be collected. It is the professoion of high adventure of the R.A.M.C. brought his in- often possible to get good tips on fields of research and in the fluence to bear, and the Army how they managed the old ones. for new expeditions by studying wilds as well.

sent to the Soudan was equip Speaking of "the Rest," who ped with as good apparatus as came behind the titlod engineera was possible. who possessed Westminster offices,

Aid to Diagnosis. Mr. Sechested suggested that the There was no department of planter had done more civil en- medicine or surgery in which gineering in Malays than any other X-rays were not now used. No branch of the engineering profes-longer, had the surgeon" to be

of Sir John Franklin. sion.

asked, except in the rarest cases, for friendship, and apart from "Scott himself had a genius The spell cast by engineering to make an exploratory opera- the scientific side we never quite lost its grip. Oction. In the study of internal provide a place where folk who casionally It produced brainstorms medicine the X-rays did not at love the Arctic can which might pass without damage, first yield much promise of suc-smoke and yarn in comfort." For benefit by producing epoch-cess. But now the diagnosis of making inventions. One might most cheat conditions, diseases play at gold-making and produce of the lungs, pleurisy, tumours early age of Dr. Ironside Bruce In 1920 the death at s very. gun-powder..

of the lung, were all greatly aid and the serious illness of some He attributed the discovery of ed by X-rays.

of the people his own particular medium of “ex- This progress was not arrived handling radium about the same employed in pression. re-inforced concrete, to at without grave difficulties, and time caused a great sensation. humble members of the Rest"-to dangers. More than one of the The very existence of this great Monier, a market gardener who earlier investigators died from aid in diagnosis and treatment wanted to produce satisfactory dangers inherent to the practice was on its trial, and the name of flower-pots, and who had no idea of X-ray work, and what was St. George's Hospital. would for of his good lack; Hennebique, a causing the dangers was un-ever be associated with what stone-mason, and Wayes, a retired known,

was done in the discovery of pro- publican.

(Continued at foot of next column.) tective remedies.

"Certain relics of great Polar explorers will be among our trea- sures. We have already Captain Scott's navigation book for his last expedition and many relics

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