1937-06-11 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 11, 1937.

Henry Harris Believes

These Will Be 1938's Medical

HE healthy cynic laughs at doc-

THE

tore, the Ill cynic rushes to consult them. FT

Doctors make an easy butt. They have no come-back.

disbelieves

They cannot go on strike-even against the cynic who until he needs.

Miracles

moment.

But gold has its price. Time and gloating over life alone are priceless.

To-day, man seeks the secret of youth.

The biochemist's formula.

this

Sakel, experimenting

clear-cut theo

with no

found that when I

phrenic patients

doses of insulin

diabetes), most

very "shocked" into cure.

Sakel ably.

random or plan

his schizo ously large

used

them were

ked agree-

About 70 per cent, of the fresh have remained completely

Putting Humpty- Dumpty Together Again cases

cured.

Split personality. A tragic pro- Others, less completely, but able blem!

to resume their work. Some not at all.

To-day, even the cynic can rea- sonably expect, to live twenty years longer than his great-grandfather.

That priceless gift of Time and The prescription that will give Life was given him not by dictage back its youth. At least, for a tor, king or president but by the while.

Spell it in Greek-and you have... doctors who fought disease.

Ordinarily, not more than 26 Dictators

Wise doctors for long years hop- schizophrenia (pronounce it shids-o- till crave more--if

30 per cent, had ever been known shorter lives. Medicine still fights, ed to find it in the gonads. The freen-ya and accent the freen).

Tragic, because it is a disorder to recover-even temporarily. for happier and longer even if they Infernal sex glands.

of the mind that strikes the young

(average age is twenty-five).

have to be fewer-lives.

で

Here is a glimpse of Work in Progress. Medical puzzles, that-if

solved will be to-morrow's miracles.

They say that

Men never make passes

At girls who wear glasses True it is that spectacles can cause Inferiority Complexes in those who have worn them from youth. Especi-

ally in women.

Where are we to find it?

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Now at very long last-the che mist has probed the gonads' secrets. Has synthesised their chemical prin- ciples.

Sakel's work is still to be corro

life

is being

difficult

and Wo do not ye

Tragic, because it too often strikes borated. the brilliant and reduces them to In this country,

thoroughly tested. gibbering imbecility!

·Tragic because its victims crowd The technique... our asylums! Because we know so rather risky little about it! Can do so little! know whether the cures are

We have idea why insulin should cure schizophrenics but

does, who

and

Oestrin and progestin-that make

Emotion zophrenic. Thought manent. do not coincide. They woman what she so maddeningly is. walk different avenues.

Testosterone that makes man Tell him his mother is dead—and contented even glad to accept her he may laugh. Tell him he has won Other exp enters - have no as she so maddeningly remains.

-

ایند و

the Irish Sweep and he may cry. At any chemist—to doctor's pre-

The very core of his personality True, too, that "men rarely make passes at girls who barbour Inferi-But still the grand secret eludes.

scription you can buy these.

is tragically split.

People the world ceases to in- ority Complexes.”

The gonads are important, we terest. He shuts them out. Will not How banish this "spectacle- neurosis"? No trivial neurosis, I know. But something in addition talk. Will not move.

is needed. assure you!

Any one of the other important A great help are the modern streamline-patterned rimless flesh- glands of the body may contain the

tinted spectacles.

They blend into the features. Do

Key.

not inartistically separate and Women Who Need Not frame and accentuate the eyes.

now

Be Childless

STATI

Meantime, the search—still hot- has not been fruitless.

Myriads of new possibilities locm

Actors, film stars and othersnim 5 racit whose looks and vanity exceed their visual powers—are-

wearing tiny, unbelievably delicate "contact lenses.” That slip under the eyelids, cover the eyes and are invisible.

But, as yet, not perfect. Still too expensive. Still unsuit- able for too sensitive eyes.

Curing Blindness With

TA SEY

A Circular Saw

If further research removes these imperfections, the mome

up..

up

For instance..

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About one marriage in ten is child- less: We now know that many of them are due to poorly-functioning female gonads,

Plus another factor-not yet dis- covered.

It may be in the pituitary gland -situated just below the brain. Who knows?

"blinker-consci- The moment we track that, key- ous" will see life with different eyes. factor to its lair we bring hap-

Almost

half the blindness in the piness to thousands world is due to a“

4 steamy mistiness homes.

in the cornes the transparent shop-

front of the eyeball Car

SNIMA

childless

How is a doctor to tackle that pro- Women, Who Dare Not

blem ?

Be Mothers

Three surgeons-one British, one American, ore Soviet are now re› The very same knowledge will storing sight with the help of a circular saw.

From the blind ey -with that tiny saw, a sixth of an Inch “diameter the surgeon cuts out

dise of steamy cornea.

In its place he delicately inserts a disc of clear transparent cornea.

frigerator..

Originally

that had to

In So

be emoved by viet Russia, from corpses. | |--

If the technique can be improved and simplified, it may restore the

sight to groping thousands

What Is The Secret Of Youth?

For a thousand years man sought. the Philosopher's Stone. Stone that turned what touched into gold.

give us a new power. To control conception.

T

Women, who dare not marry be- cause the family tree carries. disease that may be inherited, may do so without danger of producing tainted stock.

Women, whose lives would be en- dangered by motherhood, may yet come inspired and inspiring wives.

Men Who Would Be Young

Testosterone is still being tested, Alone it does not seem to give older. men their physical youth

thin'e moret Where is the

Somewhere in this quiet labora tory, an excited scientist may

equalled Sakel's high percentage of successes. That may be due to his superior knowledge and experience in the technique

Meantime

have, a dear one who 18 afidic do not peater your

Dreams the day through. Dreams doctor his life through.

Unchecked phantasy flourishes as if in a jungle. Character rots

Four

Vienna's years ago-in world-famous Psychiatric Clinic

The time is not yet ripe.

And these are but a few --- my own selection- the Chinese puz that doctors and medical scien

are grappling with to-day.

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