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President Roosevelt.
HERE THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933.
SURGERY MIRACLES
IN LONDON
BRING DEAD MEN BACK TO LIFE
RAPID PROGRESS
OF SCIENCE
(By George Godwin.)
The orthopaedic
surgeon had which pressure within the eye
Tunes To Trap - Ants. Gardeners who are troubled by ants might find a tune on the fiddle an excellent preliminary tow more drastic measures of extermination, for, according to Dr. H. Eltring- ham, President of the Entomo- logical Society, certain kinds of ant will respond to high staccato notes from a violin and therefore might| be induced to gather round and been showing me how, by grafting, arises and ultimately destroys vi- listen instead of running about like part of a finger may be made to slon, was, only a few years ago, in- scalded hena. They can recognise grow from a rib. Then-
curable.. To-day it is being cured. each other, it seems, although to "Would you care to talk to a man by a truly marvellous operation. the average observer ants look as who has been dead?" he asked.
The surgeon removes the pressure much alike as two peas, and if a
We passed to another ward. by turning down the skin above the stranger from another colony strolls where the man who had been dead cornea and applying to the expos up they know it and he knows it,lay propped up by many pillows, ed surface
a circular saw one- He smiled and talked, saying that twentieth of an inch in diameter. tool
Nearly a hundred cases of glauco-
Moreover, if they have a good he would soon be out and about.
It seemed incredible that this ms are treated every year by this plan for doing something worth) while they can induce others to join man, already renewing bis interest method in a single London hospi
in, the starting-prices, had only ten tal
them.
Call Formation.
The central fact that emerges. from a layman's tour of London's
Dr. Eltringham tells us, too, that days before been "dead," that his bees, can be taught to select boxes heart had ceased to beat, his lungs containing sugar by their colour to bellow. that butterflies can distinguish be-Yet it was so, and such miracles hospitals is the interdependence of tween apple juice and other liquids of modern science are by no means all branches of medical science. by touching them with their feet, unique, for the surgeons of our The surgeon, physiologist, anato and that their eyes often consist of great hospitals de rather more than mist, biochemist, bacteriologist, and 6,000 independent component parts. storm Death's bastions: they carry physicist form a single team, each But he does not tell us how all the the assault beyond that stronghold. ons powerless without the others.
"After all," remarked the sur- Here is a case which well illus geon, "the heart is merely an eight; trates this truth. jounce self-acting pump.. Even For years Dr. R. G. Canti, of St. when it has ceased to beat it may Bartholomew's Hospital, has been be restarted-by massage,"
working on the application of eine- The massaging of the heart is, maphotography to medicine.
wasps for miles around know when we are eating raspberry jams.
Your Daily Smile
A Good Defence.
of course, a desperate remedy. Dr. Canti has made a film which
igress
pro-
A man charged with breaking Sometimes the response is short-reveals the whole process of cell into a dye-works strenuously deni- lived, but sometimes it is perma proliferation. His film makes it ed the charge stating that he fient, and the patient who was dead possible to watch in actual
the living cell; from the favour him, and has let no could not do so as he was but re- lives again, restored to health...
came out into Parliament-swelling of the nucleus to the ul- chance slip. But there has been cently discharged from the Army,; 1
and heard the "familiar Uimate division into two cells where no hasty improvisation about it. This, it is believed, Is the first square He had made his preliminary led the point that old soldiers never shown miracles by a man who saw
case in which the defence has rais- boom of Big Ben. I had been one was before.
But it does even more than that, studies. He had caused bills toį
dye.
in them only sclcfice.
for It enables the watcher to obser- be drawn. Whenever opportuni-
50 Years' Progress. ye the behaviour of cells.
That discovery has touched the Half a century has brought
revolution WIFE (after husband has read about a
in medical work of the surgeon, and in this
Nor did he
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ty knocked at his door, he was GRASPING THE MOMENT ready to open it. There is still wide discussion omit the subtler influence which of the success of President Roose- he could wield as a President news item concerning embezzlement science, and nowhere will this fact way. The sinuses of the nose are velt's leadership thus far, and with a great mass of patronage of public funda): I consider nothing, come home to the observer with lined with a mucous the announcement yesterday that at his disposal. Only the neces-is too bad for anyone who mis- such force as in London's hospitale. known as cilia-small, flexible pro- the President is ready to defy sary appointments have been appropriates money in these days. Fifty years ago an operation ictions. Seen on the cinema, vast- |Congressional opposition on a made. The great reserve of un- HUSBAND: No, my dear. By meant a nine to one chance against ly enlarged, they have been ob war debt moratorium adds in-filled minor offices has been like the way, a dollar that was in the the patient: to-day the operating served to undulate with a rhythmic terest to a review of his short an army fighting for Mr. Roose-left-hand pocket of my plus-fours, table is safer than the crowded movement towards the main nasal And this cavity. The movement ejects for term of office. Washington cor-velt. His use of it in getting hanging up, behind my dressing thoroughfare outside.
room door seems to have dis despite the fact that the modern cirn substances, and is of impor respondents have offered a new what he wants from Congress
surgeon goes from audacity to au- tance to health. explanation for his success. The recalls the course of President appeared! *
dacity.
Armed with this new fact, the President is strong, because Con- Cleveland in 1893. But for his
Take brain surgery, a branch of surgeon will avoid damage to these gress is weak, Mr. Roosevelt employment of patronage as a has no difficulty in leading, be- political argument, it is doubtful An officer home on leave from Burgical work much advanced by minute scavengers,
The importance of the applica- cause there are no bold and able if he could have secured repeal India brought back a
beautiful the war,
A patient recently admitted to tion of cinemaphotography to me and Influential leaders in either of the mischief-making silver tiger-skin, and proceeded to give a
going dielne is only just being realised.. house of Congress to withstand purchase law. Mr. Roosevelt, in graphic description of the exciting the London Hospital was him, or to propose measures of like manner, is showing what shoot during which he had bagged blind. It was found that he had a By means of it the research worker growth upon a particularly inac-is enabled not only to observe nor- their own superior to those which weapons he has in his hands, the fine specimen.
mal cell behaviour, but what hap he recommends. Thus the Pre- and also that he knows how to The family listened enraptured, cessible part of the brain. sident has been able to get}make them effective. He kas, in įwith the exception of the youngest i Fifteen years ago nothing could pens when disease cells are pre-
have been done for him. Even to-jeent, prompt consideration and gen-all this, surprised even his son,
new knowledge eral acceptance of bill after bill friends. They knew that he was suspiciously, at the end of the re- and new equipment, the operation
"That's all very well," he said, day, armed with which he has caused to be laid intelligent, but perhaps did not
POSER.
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A BIT SHORT “What are you doing nowadays,
man?"
“Running a grocery business.” "Making a success 'of it?" "Yes, in a small weigh.”
whole day was set aside for its per- formance; and no fewer than fivel surgeons assisted at it,
(Continued on Page 11.)
OF WARSHIPS
International Peace Garden Proposed.
CENTENARY PLANS
Melbourne.
before Congress. He has falsi-expect him to be able to put such cital, "but how did you manage to presented such dificulties that “ART-SHIPS" INSTEAD fied the prophecies which were a drive behind his ideas. It is shoot it so flat!" made that after two weeks in not only good fortune which ac- the White House his place would counts for the mastery he has slacken. He continues to take displayed.. Into it has gone a occasion by the hand and secure nice estimate of times and sea-old what he desires, Item after item. sons, of the public temper, and Another and more plausible ex-of public men, along with an planation is that the country has enormous capacity for patient [been strongly behind him." The work, and ability to give the im- great vigour and directness with pression — so indispensable to an which he struck out at the very Executive that he is thinking beginning of his term, together more of the goal to be attained with the promptly remedial effect than of the personal glory to be. of what he did, captured the won popular imagination. This is a
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Governor Smith the latest issue of The New Jutlook. He
Good Speech.
.
Facts You Did Not Know.
was necessary to pass through. the In order to get at the growth itį
delicate tissues of the brain itself. No knife could do that, since any cutting would cause fatal bleeding.VICTORIA This obitacle was overcome by the use of diathermfe current, the in- strument breaking through the cell sand cauterising the cut blood
vessels.
Let us not have warshipa present. The nation should be invited to send Mexico City's population has
"Delayed Shock"
ships laden with examples of their arts and crafts." Only a few years ago the sur- This is the latest proposal in con- doubled in the Inst decade while that of the entire country has re-geon was obliged to decline opera nection with the celebrations to mained about stationary.
tion because of the patient's age or commemorate the Centenary of the feebleness. It is true that anses State of Victoria, Although the thetics make possible painless celebrations do not take place until operations; but the nervous system, October 1934, plans are already brain is affected, and the patient being made and suggestions pour nevertheless, registers shock. The
in from all quarters. experiences what is known as de-
knife blades..
writes: "A great many things Insufficient attention is paid to driven machine has been invented For stripping logs of bark a motor can be done now which cannot be the importance of good speech in that operatee an endless chain carry done later. Public opinion is our daily life. As an educational
ing⋅ aroused, and will fully support objective it deserves a first the Executive in these and simi- place. Goethe gave it this place Although there are fewer than layed surgical shock. The Society of Friends put in the lar measures of an emergency when he said that "if language to privately owned airplaneí' In
Nowadays the surgeon can oper- Proposal to ban warships. They character. This it will be ob-were not incontestably the high- Italy there are 86 flying clubs, ate on the old and feeble with also urge the laying down of a served is not exactly the theory est gift that we possess, music supported largely by the govern, safety, an advance made possible Garden of International Peace.".. Another auggestion is that women of "honeymoon politics," which would be." He was thinking in ment, for the promotion of avin-by "regional anaesthetics."
all over the world should co-operate prevailed for a time. It is not a this comparison, no doubt, of tlon in general
Regional anaesthesia consists of an injection of a group of local an-sex's, achievements throughout civil- in devizing demonstrations of the case of granting whatever is ask- of the spoken word and it has ---
aesthetics into the nerves serving justion." Avalan
who
Other projects for what is known,
ed, but of approving one thing to be taught from generation to as the complexities of social the part to be operated upon. It after another that the President generation. The beaver some existence increase and as.com-creates a complete barrier between her as the "Big Show" Include die does.ask. To account for such a how transmits without vocation- munication becomes an essential the brain and spinal cord on the result something more is neces-al instruction its rare skill in factor in every life that asso-one hand and the part to be opera plays of every kind of ahletics and sary than the supposition of the dam-building. The ability of ciates itself with humanity and fed upon on the other. The brain
apert, musical. festivals, a scientific happy emotions of the first few the wasp unassisted by a surgical entera into the race mind. More is isolated and registers no shock, congress, and exhibitions of paint- days. In office. Such an effect clinic is passed on through cen- and more, too, is there depen. A few days ago a patient. comes by causes which have to turies unimpaired of locating dence upon the "disembodied had lost the sight of an eye was ade
ing, literature and other Beater, do with political management, the three nerve centres of a voice of the telephone or the mitted to Moornalds Eye In a quiet and unostentatious way cricket so that with unerring radio, divested of any assistance for its removal In the hospital BUTTERFLY CAUSES TRAGEDY President Roosevelt has been dagger thrusts, as of a major of facial expression or gesture was a patient with nighilens showing himself a skilful poll-operation the cricket's life is ex-The Good Speech Bociety of New From the membrane of the rem tician. With consummate art, tinguished. But man's new skills York has recently been organized ed eye & young, Welsh su he has concealed his art. What are not so transmitted. The to encourage and assist the tea
A
could be more simple and easy biologists are insistent that there chers to whom is entrusted the
than his frequent conferences
with the leading Represen
and Senators? Without any blaring of trumpets or
docio he has proceeds
from one conquest to ano Undoubtedly he ha how time and
circums
nsmission of acquired preservation of the purity of the
and
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As
tongue nguage, both|sion to millions of is incontext.
both the business.
art with such
-- is incontestably the businės
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Bbs leaned foo far out and foll her death in the court below. Rent
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