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A Mad World.

"Tis a mad world, my mas ters," says one of those wise fools into whose mouths Shake-

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BLACK CROOK TO WHITE CITY -

The offer for sale. of the White City will revive memories of Imre Királfy, its creatore and designer fn 1908.

Kiralfy's career was a landmark in the history of self-made myn. It began more than 50 years agó when he and his brotoher. Bolossy,

WONDERS OF MODERN SURGERY

SYMBOLS OF DREAD DISAPPEARING

THE DIATHERMIC KNIFE

(By A. P. Luscombe Whyte:)

Fear Is the surgeon's greatestfalmplified one of the major pro- enemy. Fear of the black suffoca-blems of surgery- the successful by origin Hungarian Jews, were tion of gas of those long miseries cutting out of deep-rooted growtha dancers 'in America.

of coughing and vain retching and tumours. It has launched a ... Their first success was a dance which were once the Inevitable new technique. By adjusting the act in a play called "The Black penalty of a major operation, the frequency of the current and using Crook." They, appeared in tights|

supreme fear of the slipping knife. a button-ended "knife," the sur and spangles. They saved their The tragedy is that it is unneces-goon can generate sufficient heat money and acquired a chain

theatres.

IN THE MONEY

of

1

Bary. For science has transform-to burn up any growth within ed the operation of yesterday as few moments merely by contact.. Simpson, with chloroform, trans-This is called "coagulation." formed the "medical" butchery of It is early to prophesy, but the whole practice of cancer surgery Imre's arrival in England in the pre-anaesthetic days. "nineties" was a spectacular suc- Greatest of surgical reforma-may be changed, simplified and cess. He became the great show-.tions is the rapid abolition of the made safer by this little button- king of London,

surgeon's knife, that symbol of shaped bit of wire.

executed

What of the preliminary moves? To- The dreaded ordeal of the opera-

He launched the Big Wheel at dread, which so often Earl's Court. One night the Big when it sought to reprieve. Wheel stopped, and everyone had day the scalpel is being replaced tion is, to many people, that of the to spend the night in it. In the by the "diathermic knife," the anaesthetic which, as Shaw ro- marked, "gpares us nothing but. morning each occupant was given a wonder of modern surgery. fiver. The stoppage was inten- Surgeons are actually cutting by the actual cutting." tional. It was one of Imre's pub-an electric current. They are per

But the anaethetist has chang

licity stunts. He staged a Venice forming as routine jobs Intricate ed all that. He has taken the in London at Olympia. The White operations which would have been "barbiturates," once anathema to City was a fairy-land of flip-flaps impossible ten years ago. They coroners, and tamed them into a of series of gentle, merciful and safe and scenic railways. The Olympicare probing into odd corners Gamee of 1983 were held in the the body which the ordinary knife drugs. Stadium.

could not even reach; cutting Avertin, nembutal and evipan Imre made money, but he always without anxiety or fear of hae-are the chief barbiturates, or basaf looked as if he would be happy morrhage through masses of blood-anaesthetics as they are called ow without it. "This show business is vessels; completing in a few un-ing to their property of paralysing very precarious," he would say, hurried minutes what once took the basal ganglia, or seat of con- far that the only thing to be

He died in South Kensington in hours of exactingly, dangerous sciousness, of the brain. An in- done at Lausanne was to wipe 1919, a staunch British Imperial-work. And doing it all without jection of any of these drugs pro the state. Even all attempts to ist. He was a Knight Commander spilling one drop of blood: duces deep sleep within seconds, create a system by which as of the Portuguese Order of Villa The diathermic knife is a direct maintains it without those perila much of the debt due by Great Vicosa and a member of the British off-spring of ordinary diathermy, of heart and respiratory failure or Britain to America might be Empire Club. discharged without upsetting the whole of international finance there was nothing left but re- were defeated or postponed unti! fusal to pay.

Your Daily Smile!

which, as most people know, uses pneumonfa which lurk behind the the passage of high-frequency elec-old anaesthetics, and leaves be tric currents through the. body as hind no trace of after effect.

a means of artifically raising ita Anaesthetic Progress In a new novel the heroine neither temperature a few degrees. Large

electrodes are placed on either side In practice the patient of to-day- The much-abused Treaty of drinks, smokes nor dances, while the speare was specially fond of put-Versailles provided for its own hero neither swears, gambles nor of the part to be treated, so that never sees the operating theatre. ting his deepest comments on revision; and a great effort was flirts.

This, of course, does. away the current's affect is diluted over He is given a "shot" of drug while the comedy of life. He was un-made to give Germany an oppor with having to mention

that the a considerable area.

still in bed.

Avertina Germon discovery able to contemplate men's con- tunity of presenting her own characters are entirely fictitious.

12 produces a deep sleep up to case on an equal platform; only

A few years ago this obvious hours, after which the patient feels question arose. What would hap- pleasantly dased for two days be

tinual destruction of the work

of their own hands except with a to be defeated by the withdraw amile, a rather wry smile which!

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LOCATED.

Early Experiments

al of that country on the ground "Mr. Neville Chamberlain went implied that it would be equally {that she wanted equality, guar-to Buckingham Palace to sea the Pen if one electrode were reduced fore he even realises that the vain to concur in the proceeding anteed first; moreover her very King." Well, it seems as likely a as reasonable and to try to alter strong argument that the other spot as any.

it. Here in Hong Kong, in what Powers were bound by the letter

is politically a "hermit's isle of the treaty to disarm was de- The Bounders

events.

in size so that the rays converged operation is over. Meanwhile the- upon it like the rays of sunlight wound starts healing quietly, through a lens? The experiment I believe one of the greatest- was tried, and the analogy of the boons of the barbiturats group. lens held good. An area of in-will be in childbirth--if the walls' immediate vicinity of the small, rounding the subject can be batter. ab tense heat was generated in the of prejudice and ignorance sur

électrode.

ed down. For the old anaesthetics (Continued on Page 3)

cut off from all the world" we feated by her own action in open "Everything seems to have can only imitate the melancholy floating the Treaty by re-atmosphere of snobbishness in Jaques, and at most try to arming. The Hitler campaign tennis tournament," complains understand the general drift of appealed mightily to Germanovice. Even the balls have plenty youth as a claim to an equal voice Nothing is easier than to in world affairs; and its first tof bounce. point out that so far as our in-effect was to undo the whole of swings and Roundabouts. Dept. ventions and organisation are the work of Stresemann and concerned there is nothing to leave Germany once more isolat- In Australia, we are told, one's They switched on the current and prevent us from enjoying a perioded in Europe.

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The early experimenters took a plece of raw meat, and connected the electrodes about it in this way, using a thin wire as one electrode.

Iter.

The

OPIUM HAUL ON LAUNCH.

Three Chinese Out On $3,000 Bail.

neighbour often lives fifty miles drew the wire lightly and without of happy prosperity; and that The abolition of the Reichstag away. But there ate advantages; pressure across its surface. "everyman" is in favour of set was supposed to create a form it is comparatively simple for specimen fell apart beneath it, THE KWONG KWUI CO. LTD. thing is more obvious than that that it would be able to resist and roller.

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The descendants of this early abroad which is not explained Germany's own action; the gene- Obviously

invention are to-day in use all away by calling it "psychologi-rous Locarno Pacts being tacitly A girl in court said she fell from over the world for two purposes: www.cal." Nine tenths of the ignored. An Eastern European her fiance's pillion-seat three times for cutting and for what is known wain of No. 1 Post Office launch,

world's catastrophes have been Pact is negotiated which Ger-one Saturday afternoon. One of as "coagulation. caused by some morbid psycho- logical condition. To deal with many only has to sign in-order her off days.

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Three Chinese, Chan Pul, coxs--

| Leung Tai, a seaman of the-

As a knife, a fine wire is still launch, and Chan Kan, who was used to generate this Intense local arrested on board the s.s. Yupeh, heat which melts away the flesh were charged before Mr. E. W..

these things is the statesman's frontiers as long as it exists; He'd Change His Ideas job, and the trouble is that they and it is received with suspi- The man who says that he un immediately beneath it. And no Hamilton at the Central Magic- cannot be got to do their job con as being, according to one derstands women has probably pressure is needed; the surgeon tracy this morning, for being promptly and simultaneously shrewd commentator, a trick "to never driven behind a woman mo-can cut with infinite delicacy and possession of opium. Contmon action is always too injure her by depriving her of torist. late the sacrifices are made her grievances." And an ex-

accuracy.

Revenue-Officers A. W. Grim= when they cannot any longer tensive plot is revealed to in- Unwelcome

No spot is too inaccessible for mitt said that, althuogh Leung effect, their purpose.

the cutting, wire. It can be bent Tai and Chan Pui were charged · crease the centralisation by put- "Does the man in the street like to turn difficult corners, or form- with being in possession of 22 taals Fifteen years ago an inoculating "army and navy and civil pretty or unattractive flag girls?" ed intas loop which will cut clean- of oplum, they were in the employ tion of altruism was, tried as a administration" under one man. wonders a charity organiser.

prophylactic agalist war; but Apparently the Chancellor him-afraid not, *****

enough; and what was wanted

I'm

"What is the reason that so many

ly round an obstinate growth in a of the Government, and asked for few moments where the scalpel a substantial bail. Chan Kan was would demand hours of finicking charged, with having 66 taels, of, and possibly dangerous work, opium in his possession.

Most Important of all, the sur-

the injection was not strong self was privy to the plot up to was a course of injections. The occurred, and the opposition was

fa certain point; but then a split Just That' U.S.A. withdrew, and has since stood up against a wall. We folk are in debt?" asks a correspon been busy with all kinds of un have not really been told the dent. Oh, just owing to other/geon can cut without bleeding, for on behalf of Chan Pul,

official interventions in a spirit cause of the split, and guesses people.

of highly diluted 'goodwill.. At Genoa a great deal of economic are a waste of time.

After fif

the heat of the "knife, seals up

Mr. W. A. Mackinlay appeared

The case was remanded until

granted at $8,000 each:

the ends of any blood vessels Thursday for hearing, ball being teen years of missed opportuni- Facts You Did Not Know The danger of haemorrhage has

through which it may pass. common sense was talked; it was ties, we can only watch and torpedoed by France through the hope for the appearance of Lumber of any size or thickness fed person of M. Barthou, who has leaders who can, seize the right into one end of a box malling machine/operations on parts, which wers

since then figured again in the

prevented many vitally necessary

same role; and France is to-day moment for doing things instead recently patented in Germany comes surrounded by masses of blood EUROPEAN INJURED

of waiting till the moment has out of the other end as completed vessels. That danger is no more. much poorer than she need be.

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•MOSCOW Former members of the Red Army

exem

Revolutionary Army are to be from paying Income tax,

to a new Sovief law

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An Ohio man has invented a light the brain. Recently a French sur Tried To Avoid Woman. gate made of bamboo to be swang across streets naar schools to keep con operated on a man's brain children in line as they cross and pro-with the diathermic knife. A tect them from traffic. ME

Mr A. Greenberg, of No. 289. local anaesthetic only was given. Prince Edward Road, Kowloon was

Canada produced gold "worth $55,*|

removed to the Kowloon Hospital Less Disfigurement

yesterday, suffering from ankle 688 last year as compared with a production of $43,459,801 in 1930, On- Disfigurement: followed many injuries, following a motor cycle tarlo, mine accounting for more than former operations. But, owing to accident.

70 per cent of the total its peculiar and bloodless action, Mr. Greenberg lost control

Oklahoma's salt desert, which the diathermic knife leaves little bis the alm of socialism cover more than 40,000 acres, is to or no scar

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onverted into the largest artifdal

the

States:as

The other main development of

the diathermic knife has great

ine when endea