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THURSDAY, MARCH

DRUGS AS DOCTORS SEE THEM

WELL KNOWN MEDICO'S WARNING

STRIKING FACTS OF HISTORY

Doctors have again arteed to indicated in certain diseases and differ this time over drugs that time must elapse before we can

Sir William Willcox, Medical know more accurately how and Adviser to the Home Office, has when this danger may be always During the past year American relberated his warning against what anticipated. Disasters have already- diplomats in Europe have been is known as the barbituric acid foccurred; as they have occurred doubly hit by the fall of the dollar group of sleep-producing drugs. with every new drug of similar and the cuts in administrative He considers that this danger is potency salariés.

greater than that from any other). As time goes on the risk of mis- The US. Ambassadors to Great group of drugs, that these drugs are haps becomes smaller, because of Britain and France receive a habit forming, that their continued the accumulated knowledge of ex- annual salary of -17,500 dollars, use may impair speech and gait, perience – experience of idiosyn→ The 15 per cent. cut imposed some paralyse the eye, cause hallucing cracy (that peculiar sensitiveneig time ago on the pay of all Governtions, even lead to suicide. This to a drug possessed by apparently ment employees reduced this Agure expert further states that drugs in normal individumia), of secondary to 14,875 dollarak Me

this class ahould be unobtainable ex- effects, and of suitable dosage and The 40 per cent. devaluation of cent on a doctor's prescription and means of administration. the dollar further reduces it to that in no case should quantities We are now passing through the 8925 dollars (£1787 at present equal to a fatal dose be supplied by phase of enthusiasm for the bar rates).

chemists.

biturate drugs, and Sir William The British Ambassador in Paris

Recently the South London coro-Willcox is right to warn us against Ireceives, in salary and hospitality

ner Issued a warning on similar their dangers-particularly, against fällowances, nearly £18,000 a year.

lines.

that of making them accessible to Both Mr. Bingham, the American

Sir Maurice. Craig and Dr. R. Dall and sundry. Ambassador In London, und Gillespie, mental specialists, have Soon the pendulum' -will swing Mr. Straus, his colleague in Paris. strongly contested some of Sir back to a more seasoned and care- are rich men.

William Willcox's views. They in-ful view and we shall realise their Their subordinates, who are prostat that the drugs in question have limitations when, with the records fessional diplomats, are less for been successfully given to thou of accurate observers at hand, we. jtunate.

sands of patients, and hold that in shall know, the exact limits of snfety only a few instances have their] in each individual instance,

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use in ordinary dones' proved dan One of the greatest dlißiculties In` Mr. Justice Charles has called gerous; further, that there is no medical science to-day is to he attention to the mania for eup-evidence in favour of those who found in the enormous and steadily of remedies hemism which afflicts the allegedly take them becoming addiets, or of increasing number

suicide being one of the results.available for the treatment of the outspoken age. the age are all material, it is al-

"We talk so delicately now," he

It is difficult to exaggerate the sick. Not only are we still 'using most a certainty that in the

said, and instanced the workhouse. importance of the question these more than half the drugs that were realm of high thinking we are which has become an "institution," doctors have raised, for the bar common a hundred years ago, not to-day on the level of the and the warder, who must be ze in the last thirty years and exten- tury, organic chemistry has offered biturates, known to medicine only since half-way through the last cen- Greek philosophers of more than fetred to as a "prison officer." two thousand years ago. Our He might have mentioned the sively used only in the last ten us the choice of a vast number of God is Speed, and with the help jargon of international politics, promise the relief of so much new compounds the medical pos of mechanised travel we have which

suffering.

sibilities of which are, as yet, rela- suffers from a similar made of our appointed star

"In the "barbiturates"> we have a❘tively unexplored, a small place, a dull place, blight. The word "Incident" has covered most remarkable and valuable series) Several striking facts emerge The record attendance at the led with the dull uniformity of a

¡from w study of the history of Rotary Clubs meeting to hear Dr. civilisation of which we are al- the invasion of Manchuria. T

a multitude of sins, among them of drugs.

The Preparations of this group can droga, among them the, antiquity of Norwood speak on the Problem ready getting tired. Our best phrase "for the purposes of fuller induce sleep easily and quickly, can many of the remedies in common of Disarmament. tells us that the brains and our highest monetary

be used to allay nervous irritability | use-to-day," and the time It often plain man is at long last begin-rewards- got the inventor of ning to wake up to the fact that new methods of killing his fel- synonym for deadlock view and excitement, to calm excessive took in the phat before the best use Tel. No. 57088. things are not going well with lows by the city full economical with grave concern meals either mental activity, to relieve states of was made of thert.

Gastil oil is mentioned by I his work-n-day world. Dr. Nor-ly, for the ity of invention is much more or much less than anklety, to control epilepsy and tha

manfacal conditions associated with | Heródóbus in the 5th century B,C. wood, talks of himself as a par- that the corivance designed for

insanity.

qelque eres Opium waa in' use' bafore the birth Combined, as they often are, with of Christ? Alões, still used as an difference. He is not above ora- adapted to the pitiless necessities

other drugs, they possess great aperient,;" was prescribed in a tory. but chiefly he talks as a of r. And still our publicists From the beginning of March the pain-killing power, while their use remedy known Holy Bitter" plain man to plain men. And his talk of this héing the most won-R.A.F. in Irak will be known, official- before a surgical operation not only 2,000 years ago, address W28 p" ked

with derful ge the world has ever ly as the "British Forces In Irak.” allows the patient to be given the Coming to more recent times, tva“ thought, the kind gives the seen. When we get down to There are no British forces in anesthetic while he is sound asleep find Cinchone bark (from which”

furiously,' bräss tacks in what do

our Irak other than airmen, although thus, removing all apprehension quinine' is derived) first, used by For the Doctor is plainly wor- vaunted wonders constat, get there are still some military ad- of the approaching ordeal--but Europeans in 1636, when the wife ried, as any man who has the ting about quicker than we have visers.

necessitates the use of less anger of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru wherewithal to think with must any need to do, and committing Irak has now an embryonic Royal thetic during the operation and the was cured of the "fever" by it, be to-day. He sees war as an mauslaughter by wholesale. Are Air Force of her own. The new experience of less pain and fewer though long before this it had been obsession. "as a futile and extra- these wonders to swank about, designation has presumably been discomforts when it is over. known as a remedy by, the South vagant thing, from which unfor- we hope not. With the result of adopted to distinguish the greater To the question, than, should full; American nativen: tunately we can scarcely break all our inventiveness, all our from the lesser force. It coincides use be made of the barbiturates 1 Digitalis, our most valuable drug. loose" he sees the nations in the modern discoveries, we are no with an increase in the number of would answer unhesitatingly, Yes, in the treatment of heart disease, last war all equally patriotic, all nearer the perfect life. If as trak's ground forces, for the Big-Their advantages are particularly is obtained from the leaf of the equally courageous, all wonder-near, a the old Greeks were two dad Parliament has passed a con- well suited to the requirements of foxglove. It was originally applied fully organised. and all in their thousa odd years ago All our scription law.

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On this measure, the purpose of "But it must be réalised by every-16th century it camá to be used for- the futility of the Great War, of complexes, fear. And the re- and a larger army, the late King nurse, patient-that the drugs in when an English physician, Dr. all war, the pitiful futility. And sons for this as we see it are Felsul had set his hearts The reacquration are powerful steapons and Withering, of Birmingham, learn- words being his chosen and de- three. Our loss... of the Art of veloped medium he told the Thinking, our Education, and on to it of the non-Arabs of Trak not without their dangers. R Rotarians

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