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are acknowledged to be difficult and some almost in possible of attainment. Is it n manifest that the while cuergics of the Government and nation Jought to he bent on these ime- diate objectives instead of being | frittered away on grandiose nar

tionalisation schemes?

AGAINST DISEASE

annes.

of

means the concentration the inhaled druga can be vary considerably reduced, with re- sulting benefit to the patient.

-Much progress has also been made in recent years, and much research is still being carried out for the relief of pain in childbirth. Machines have been ndminis- designed which will

Many and very. Important given by Inhalation. By this advances have taken place in Anaesthesia during the war years. The greatest of them fa probably the tremendous increase in the number of specially trained anaesthetists. The problema' which

be thesla involves can only tnckled, and the new drugs produced by the chemists can only be accurately Avalunted. by those with speelsf training. knowledge ind experience Surgeons have learned that most of the post-operative complications and deaths which have always been A major hazard of surgery, were due,

By DR. B.R.M. JOHNSON, M.R.C.P.

hua!

ter to the patient nt the:: patient's will, a fixed concentra- tinn of nitrous oxide, mixed with oxygen. These machines are not only used in hospitals

but smail and institutions, portable models are made so that the midwife can Carry them to the patients' homes. This teanique, while it her -uot-completely abolish all the pair of childbirth in all cases

dock so in about 75% of the cases, and given some conside. able relief in the remainder Researches are, at the moment being carried out for the in- jection of certain drugs into the lower part of the splne (What is called a caudal block) and for the see of novocaine injected into a vien, for it in, felt that by one of there methods it will be possible to ensure complete absence of the paina of labour.

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By Dick Turner

'COPR, 1948 BY NEA BERVICE, IG: 1

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Social Upheaval In Britain Threatens

not to their disturbance of the' normal anatomy, but often to the disturbances of the normal the physiology produced by anaesthetic. They also know that they can only obtain pro- per access to certain parts of the body, such as the upper bdominal cavity, the heart, and the lungs when the, an aesthetic is administered by someone with special training and experience. The Royal

South American Drug College of Surgeons of Eng lind. realising all this.

The drug mont recently p *createdTM****** Diploma in An-plied to anaesthesia is Bome

acathetics which is given

This of curare, preparation those who can dow that they drug, known to cientista fo: South have had special training and, many

years, is what by examination, can satisfy American Indians use on their the College that they have an poisoned arrows. The chemists

Many British religious lender fails would be filed in 1947 extensive scientific knowledge

have now prepared refined and of the subject, Oxford Un-purified form of this drug, and fear that Britain faces a crisis compared with 650 in 1905 and

in morals as grave as her crials 23,000 in 1945. it in. first anaesthetists use iversity has created the

In fuel.

Skyrocketing divorce and crime Department of Anaesthetics to travenously in order to pro- be not up in Europe, with a duce relaxation of the muscles. rates, falling church attendance

A former home secretary, Vin Professor of Anaesthetics at

in and the rise of vice in London's Such relaxatlon, which

*Enci

*nk ah-fashionable West

worry count Templewool, necessary for the head. The activities of this absolutely department are devoted solely dominal

other churchmen as much us declining criminal offences by women Aurgery, can to research in anaestheala, and wire only be induced-by-high-reduction figures horns indus all its associated selences, and concentrations of the lihala-trialists and Cabinet Minister,

The "grent switch" in to post-graduate teaching.

to

but

or

́By JACK S. SMITH

of families, and darkened homes in the social upheaval that followed the war.

"Britain's two main problema,

Griffin, Roman

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Clergymen

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Increase

Growing List

tha AT

1937

children had doubled since that the number of offender

high concentrations of Ether readily submit to operations, drit over prostitutie einer than poverished. The Sunday

so that today one never acer 2,000 in the West End alone

ram-

TRIP TO THE MOON

By PROF. A. M. LOW

London, Mar. 0. Pioneers wearing suits designed lu give protection against intenso heat and cold and carrying their own oxygen supplies, seated in a giant space-ship. navigated by radar nu driven by atónite energy travelling. at thousands of miles an hour tint is how Professor A. M. Low, Paxt. President of the /

ritish inter-Planetary Society gh the first trip to the noon the being acconipisheit. within next 50 or 60 years.

He said in an interview: "The first useful experiment in this direction undoubtedly will be the American rocket postal sorvico) between the United States and Britain. If you can travel from America to Britnin by rocket And no one doubts you can-you can certainly travel to the moon, Hundreds of thousands of people will almost certainly be killed in the first attempts at inter- ulanetary travel, but if as much money were spent in designing spaccalilos na has been spent on designing weapons of war, a sufo method of making the journey would no doubt he found in time. "A space-ship could be design- ed but it will not be built now because it is quite beyond" "the means of any private society and because it has no immediate finan clal return. Indeed the. only valuabic nsect such a trip would have would be the film rights and for that reason it is quite possiblu the very first, tein to the mben will be made by nothing "more than a camera in a specially de #igned spaco-ship which will fly,

planet

over the earth.

and return

"When, however, He first people do land on the moon they are likely to find no life there animal or human. They may not life. What even find vegetable will they find?

D

Nightmare

on the table.

"A nightmare landscape Again, the White Paper has

nothing but crude rock and lava, much admirable matter at the

On the other hand it might batz agency of restoring and expand

mur-over 21 was up 12 per cent, thai thele advantage to take sample of ing Britain's capital equipment,

And anaesthetica,

minerals they largo tion

ality as some considered it sexual offences rose from 2,321 in whatevar especially in view of the critical

doses of the barbiturates, 20 Fully Competent

for it is quite possible that the of the 1938 to 3,228 In 1947, that offen- came with the horrors dollar situation. Yet out of an And so today in England the that the use of curet, although blitz and the wartime breakup ces by girls were four times more moon is covered with manganes

numerous than betore the war, oxide from which they could import programme of £1,450,000-Augen no longer has to rely it in itself not an unaesthetic

for f

to austaur and that cases involving cruelty manufacture oxygen 1000 for 117 only £69,000,000 is for his Anaesthesia on Rome.

only an agent

ta children rose from 343 in 1915 human life and make people in- llocated to machinery and equip one who has not been specially paralysing the muscles, makes

mortal." 1,170 in 1947. nent, including ships, of which trained, and the patient places it necessary only to administer

Cardinal, Griffin sald only tea"But perhups far more literest | general anaesthetic one sufficient

or the H. there is reason to believe that his life in the hands of

per cent of Engiand's population Ing than, laniling him to casure the patient is not

more wan "attached to any form of would ban irly twif." continued one-third is accounted for by the fully competent to steer

religious organisat on while only Professor Lew. operation, conscious of pain. ships. This

"It should only take about four with safely through the compares

These few advances have

five per cent of tho people, if £50,000,000 to be spent on to and to render his immedinte

less done two extremely Important!

London, regularly, attend church. days for, after getting out of the hacen and -£18,000,000 m films. post-operative state far

Prostitution 1 reported organ-earth's gravitational field, the stormy and hazardous than things for the advancement of sald Cardinal Can a struggling country really used

Sluce the general health of the people Catholic archbishop of Westminised on a big business basis in space-ship would free-wheel for to be the case,

ster, on the eve of the power the West End where the frade the rest of the 240,000 miles, afford £68,000,000 on tobacco practically all anaesthetics are of Britain. It is a noticeable switchoft, "are a decline in raoral reached a peak of prosperity dur- "The space-ahip have to have Land films (the bulk of them to he now administered by skilled ad- fact that the old fear of sur-tandards and an

n slight turning movement ining the war.

to re purchased with precious dollars) ministrators, patients are not gery has practically passed crime"

Few in West

the place the effect of graviy with a London, by away, and patients now quit anaesthetised when it can only spare £40,000, nowadays

are im-trifugal force. Otherwise after newspapers nation's "vite capital,"

Ple-taking a drink from a glans of 000 for machinery and equipment

torial" reports that some paid water, the glass, would remain in other than ships? One consequence or Chloroform poured by hand of the policy of "tobacco before on to an open face-mask, where the enormous tumours and ad. and over a rise in the number of £50 a week to a gangster organi- mid-air if you tried to replace It

one home where parents mia murky side street. machinery" is that capital equip the amount of anaesthetic the vanced states of diseases which cases involving cruelty to children sation for the right to lurk in a

patient absorbs depends on the were so common a for years treated small children was des Venereal disease likes am ment and maintenance (other depth of his respirations, the ag. From the purely scientificribed in court as " Belsen camp pant than a year ago but there than work on houses) is, to ex temperature of the room, and point of view, these advances all over again."

was at twice as much as before ceed that of à normal pre-war the amount and frequency of have very considerably added Britain's highest Judicial figure, the war. In the West End where year by only 15 per cent.; despite the applications of the drugs to the possibilities of surgery. Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor. the rate is reported rising. anu Certainty the enormous wartime arrears to to the mask. All inhalation an-

csumated that 50,000 divorce be made up. On manpower shut- aesthetica arc administered age, which is a continuous refrain now through scientifically de- throughout the White Paper, it signed machines, so that is found that the public service is very accurate control of absorbing 665,000 more people percentage of drugs in uso can than before the war and that the be maintained unaffected by excess is to be reducer hy only any factor except the decision 80,000 during the year. Can such of the annenthetist. So accurate and reliable are these machines an army of public servants and that anaesthetists can, and do, bureaucrats be pulling their administer cyclo-propane, weight? Then it seems that comparatively new gaseous an- 160,000 more juveniles could be aesthetic, similar to Kained for industry by the post- oxide-"laughing Kas" but ponement for a few months of the more potent, in such concentra- raising of the school-leaving age. tions that natural respiration Refusal to postpone it is an ex-1 in stopped and the anaesthetist cellent instance of the danger (in artificially controls the the words of the White Paper) and depth of the patient's that "in our present

breathing. This procedure has situation there is so much that we want to

made possible those operations the heart. the upon

kreat do, and so much that seems in blood vessels within the chest.

little will be and upon the lungs themselves. END REMOTE RISKS hoping to discard all his 3:sers. concentrated on the things that Another important and valu-

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Funny Effects--

would be experienced on the moon "Many funny effects of gravity itself. For instance, dancing would become a nightmare; you could easily jump over a small house, "drive a golf ball a mile or War Troubles

send a person more than a hun- began when drød yards with a blow of your British men wont off to war and fat.” * British streets went dark,.

clinte had 1,000 cases compare with 500 year ago,

The case of the Army sergeant was typical,

it

Operations can now be per- formed with the. absolute cor-

Other troubles tainty that the patient will re. any longer any need for the the cover fully and not merely surgeon to hurry over hto scrape through the difficulties work. The time factor no lon-

impossible in a classic example of "To say a trip to the moon ta and sufferings of a stormy ger limits the possibility of convalescence after his opern operations. Two hours is quite "I came home a year ago frim pejudice." Prof. Low declared,

a common time for the per- Italy," he said, "and

"Ninety years ago doctors said what did tion. There is no age limit to

of many major I find. The old woman

would be fatal to the human surgery today; the days when formance

1lving doctors said a patient was Loc operations. while

operations with a blighter who used to heart to travel at more than 60 young, or too old to be operat on the brain frequently take u pal of mine. The kids called miles an hour; the Army sold ed on are past. Nor is there eight to ten hours.

him dad-still do. Bilmey if i alreraft could never be used for patch it up."

military purposes; and the... Ad- The Roman Catholle archbishop team would prove the downfall of miralty said the introduction of of Liverpool, Dr. R. Downey, put the Royal Navy. it one way in a pastoral letter to his churches:

"Members of the British Inter- The world has long been Planetary Society scoff at tho suggestion that the danger dur- hading for spiritual bankrupting the initial trip will come from cy."

failing meteorites; simple calcula- tion shows the danger in no

nitrous

rate

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

break:

The general assembly of the Church of Scotland, through. Its

circus.

take that risk to be able to say Who would not be prepared to

committee on Church and Nation, greater than crossing Piccadilly put it another;

"It is only too clear that what were orice acknowledged to Breaches of an accepted norat cado are now regarded by many as quite hatural. Associated

most popular being called penfer what is really most likely in the dummy, he would lend Browbeating

Brazil

Britain?

But the bad break of the suit limited his discards to three hearts Jund one club. we lie had to los profits the White Paper says that ment of injection Into the To gain the best possible rea club at the end and be set. "any further general increases patient's vein of the bar.sults in the long run, you must

Press, "My proverbial luck!" he ex- protect yourself against not only claimed. "A seven-card sult hend must be accompanied by a corres-biturate group of narcotic the probable dangers, but also ed by four tops should ponding increase in production." drugs as a means of inducing the improbable ones, when you every time for anyone else."

There are many can. In a cholce between protec- Here, at last, is a definite pro anaesthesia,

It would breuk für a more care- for this tion from two diferent risks, no-ful, thorough and soumler player. nouncement but there are few preparations mado

purpose, the commonest ang lurally the thing to do la provide After scoring, che diamond honour signs of an attempt to implement it. Similarly, an increase in out tothal. From the patients point But sometimes you can guard low spade and ruff it. That would put. per man-year is hailed as one of view this type of anaesthesia hazards, and the player who does against any spade division except yourself against both kinds have made his contract alright of the most urgent of all neces is a great boon, for there is not takes many a bump which halt aix in one hand. He could have sities, and it is plainly stated that no necenalty for them to have attributes to hard luck. "the nation connot afford (shorter a mask over their face. All the hours of work unless these can patient knows is a prick in the be shown to increase output per arm, for no rapid is the onset man-year."! Why, then, have the of unconsciousness that Government pronounced their has no sensation, of going to

wakes with benediction on shorter hours? In sleep, and the cutton industry they have al vomiting or restlessness. ready reduced output, and will

The Barbiturates

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London, Mar. 11. | morning on a four-day Juúrney The Brazilian Government into guerilla controlled ter- have been informed that the de-ritory to meet General Markos,·· cision of the Bank of Brazil to the guerila leader, at a place ccase buying sterling Is regarded so secret that none of the mem by the British Government anó

contravention of existing arrange-bern will knihy its location. ment and that they are request General Markos, who is od to resume such purchases. wanted by the Greek Govern- Mr. Hugh Dalton. Chancellorment on a series of charges of of the Exchequer, said this in the looting and murder, will it fa House of Commons, today Ins ply to a question by the Conser the team somewhere th, the thought' come half-way to meet valive member Colonel Croath meuntain fustness of Western' waita-Eyre, asking what repro rentations had been made by the Macedonia: 4

· British Government to Brasil over Guorilla couriers are expected. that country's refusal to

accept to meet the team tomorrow out- J1004 A further sterling for.. payment alde the Government controlled

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do the same in the coal industry, These drugs are always used.

of inducing""'an- where they are due to be intro- us a' means duced in two months' time., If, aesthesia if the patient is to be an the White Paper assures us, kept anaesthatleed by some In

haled `anaesthetic. The bar.. 11,000,000, tons more coal in 1947| U.S.1850 is the sine qua non of the achieve biturates are also frequently used 'an' the koloninaesthetic,

Dealer: North. Both sides vul- ment of all the other, targets that particularly for operations of nerable.) is certainly not the way to get it, short duration. For one who North

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Kinda, soris, funny bidding. with ju do doses of champagne up to which they are put into Yet South bould have made hit Dealer North. Nefther side ubatituted for food while ouvi Kuministor intermittent doses was won by the A and East re- vulnerable.) ing, with Dr Walter -Rendy i intravenously v during the turned the heart K to the A. If North bid 1-Spade, South 3- A meárage was hunt, in the last Coon 1898, today-United course of an operation. In South cleared, trumpy with Q. K Dienuto and west doubled, three days, and wale must, allow warrant has been salio for Press.

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"General Markos' strong ➡Router,