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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1959.

What the surgeons

are

up to now A RARE

GLIMPSE OF THE MEN NOW ASKING FOR £3,000,000

FOR 169 years, the Royal College of Surgeons of

England has been fighting two battles against disease and poverty. Today it is winning the first but losing the second-badly.

even

for equipment."

Now the College is appealing 'gas' for £3,000,000. Many organisa tes would dearly love to lay their banda on £3,000,000. But, as one of the first "outsiders" to be allowed to ree Inalde the Im- poring building in Lincoln's Inn Fields, I can report that probably nowhere in Britain today would -£3,000,000 of publle money

better spent.

Lively

be

To папу.

Royal College must seem

Bike some kind of "surgeon's club, Where eles of operations are swopped over good port. Where men Well greal, but crusty.

down marble corridors lined with Old Masters,

Certainly, the club {le"

#club scarf"

and

greet you in the entrance hall from a glass case,

By PETER FAIRLEY

szfer and more different types of air, so that he But the expansion that is tak- efficient. But increased instru- can record the effects of each on ing place-extending laboratory mentallon mens highor costa bis own nose. With adjustment, facilities by 50 per cent wilt And nobody at It elmulates New York in cost £500,000. I watched an experiment in summer, or the air breathed by the Royal College of Surgeons Vivian Fuchs In the knows whore the money will which two doctors were using a Sir

to Antarelle,

come from. For the Govern- "physiological recorder,"

ment gives the college nothing. record the flow of gas in und

-Industry has played D noble There are no human patients out of a patient's lungs.

far. But Industry's trouble—and the change

was at the Royal College of Surgeons. part, so shown visually by a yellow dot Animals take their place. And spare cash is not enough to The this menth, a new animal house. keep pace with the giant strides ort a moving

screen.

in Lincoln's recorder cost £4,000 and was a covering the whole of the top of now being made present from a wealthy indur the college, is being opened. To In Flelds.

(London Express Sérvieė).' Irlalist. Hut beside its the equip such a house. In conditions

"lungs" the patient's

doctors of Rerupulous hygiene, is not a hud to use an crdinary car ofl cheap venture.

drum.

The cost?---Gs,

Deep freeze

Any

Now the department is build ing on crudele set of lungs

which gun be

one

mace 10

There are marble corridors and simulate the lungs of a month-

Uld Masters. But

In

the Department of Anatomy, I watched cancer cells being examined. Previously en ordinary microscope, magnifying At the most 2,000 times. woul have been used. Recently I handling an saw the curgeon cells one millice times bigger. electron microscope, making the

ROUND

UP

COLDS But the Department has only NO

the rest old baby, a drowning man or none of these. For it cost £11,000. men are en lively and active as old edy at will. the viruses they are 8ghting.

Discoveries

They train, and examine, the surgeons of tomorrow. They give post-graduate courses in hout 1,000 doctors, from all over the Communwerth, each year. Dut "upstairs" 'discrivelles are made rach day which are leading, to mujer edvences in the delicate

And to a butter

art of surgery. understanding of the illnesses of a modern age.

F

"There is so much urgent work

LTHOUGH the

eight-man

NOW

No very

in Hongkong, s pertinent coin-

mentary on a subject of

тел

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concern la

lands

together-without

the is a film

which world, has been esrolog bigh It acclaim in America.

Stanley made by Kramer, one of Holly- wood's most provocative film

makers, and tackles in an unusually compelling way the rubject of racial white. division. It is the story of two convicts, one one black, laked by the chain of a chain gana and now on the run. As this China Mali verslan of the flim, by JOHN LAMBERT, reaches lu climax, you can see why it has been called

the chain

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THE DEFIANT ONES

the

Money is needed also to to be done in this field of advance party of the Com- improve the

a year exposed "deep freeza" research," I was told, "that we monwealth trans-Antaretlo ex- process, used

and more could use three or four of these." pedition.spent more

to very severe cold, none of

The boy was today in brain operations. Fer

THE woman picked up over the table. There were vital experiments them suffered serious illness. In

in the other room. it has been found that when the

to a recent issue of the Lancet, with apparatus frozen below 30 going on

The convlet realised how long who accom

empty plates patient

C. his heart begins circulate and control the blood- Dr R. Goldsmith,

panied them to make physiolo- with satisfaction. "I got it was aince he had known a degrees

stroum OUTSIDE the body, so

felin how

woman this close. The woman, "Jumping" larmingly.

coffee," that the heart can be tempor-gical observations,

she with a measureless ache, realised arily by-passed, operated en, and they lived, and of the effect on 8 o me

Nearly all were re-introduced into the circula- their bodies. tion, research into high blood able to work without gloves in offered. Jackson smiled. the emptiness of her life. pressure and the effects of loss temperatures as low as minus "Thanks," he said.

They are trying to find ways of keeping the heart warm, while the body is frozen still further. In the Department of Phy-

of blood: a search for the cruces siclogy they have just found clue which may eventually led of pyorhees and other dental tu better protection for Britons diseases.

They against H-bomb attack, subjected rabbits, wounds in their ears, to

X-rays. by bardinent wounds would not heal. Ife they gave the rubbis

anti-radiation powder-and Ing Improved.

just

All these cost money,

Take anesthetics, for exam- ple. In this department, two years old, I talked with Professor R. F. Woolmer. explained:

"The anaesthetist's table tu- complexity

day has grown in

As much as a jet pilot's cockpit has from the days of Bleriot

and the Wright Brothers. In Now the the past, he has had to

Effects

Burgeons

with

heal-

She

Her husband had wasteland The had known nothing but the

Jackson told her of his bright,

48 degrees Centiarade. One man woman jerked her head diserted her eight months ng

was even able to describe as "comfortable" digging at minus towards

new

the Negro, futile dreams. "And there's

without glancing at him. always somebody. waiting for

her

She outlined

schem quickly. Cullen would stand a betler chance alone.

They would drop her son off at rela- tives. Then, with the money she had saved, they would be free. It all elleked, Jackson thought. But when they turned. around Cullen was standing in the doorway, hate in his eyes.

Agnin, it was the woman's reasoning that won She told Cullen that Jackson was too weak to go on foot. She offered She even told him him food. of a short cut to the railway.

"Go through the swamp, she said. "Save you

a couple of hours, and make it harder for the dogs. The water ain't ver a foot deep. It all clicked, Cullen thought.

Compulsively the white man called: "Hey, Culien."

The Negro turned. "Yeah?" The white man shook his head

going on," he said.

"So Joker," said the Negro,

Quicksand

A shot silenced her hysteria. Her son had picked up his hunt- ing gun and fred at Jackson. But the convict only paused for a starlied second bafore he staggered out to the swamp.

Lonely

NOON. The police arrived at the shack,

DOSSO

Sherlit Muller was sure that the roman knew more than she would tell. But she just stood there, with the lonely look back on her face,

a

ONE P.M. Jackson's volco echoed through the swamp, He wits weak and getting weaker, Then he staggered around cypress tree into the Negro'a arms, how the woman had lied. His Sobbing, be told Cullen shoulder, where the gun shot had caught him, was bleeding heavily.

The killer ONE-THIRTY: dogs picked up the scent of the But Convlets in the swamp. Muller Sherif

rolused to them. unleash

"it anything happens to me you can let the dogs loose," he said. "Not before." He was a man with a kind face again.

д

48 degrees in a 17-knal wind,

clean....and me....somebody Kiny The college is anxious, too, to In the whole year only one

"Ilm too?" she asked. bom-re-house and increase the Hunt-man-day was lost from liness,

and warm.... and nice." The woman Jackson, scowled et her The er Museum of specimens, ruined

nodded. She seemed flustered was sitting very close now. "Is

she prettier than me?" Then and largely destroyed during the TAPED LESSONS

TEN A.M The woman was The convict gave a shuddering new blitz. It is the physical textbook | THE 'Seafarers Education Ser. by his pititude, but kept her volca deliberately light. "Where

"Oh, it's been so long, smiling nervously. Everything of all textbooks. There are

vice has started

you from?" she asked. "You sigh.

TWO PAI. With a belch of "I get the dreams was ready. But Jackson brood- 1,252 specimens of brain alone,

service of French lessons onean lalk to me. Why, you don't he said. and Furgeons from all over the

tape recordings for Brush have to be afraid to talk to me, mixed up with the real thing." ed. "I wonder what they'll do saoke the freight train climbed

"It's to Cullen if they catch him."

the ridge. The convicts stug world travel to view some of the

She stroked his face.

She laughed abruptly. "Look, gered along the trucks beside it. merchant scamcn. The tape J's lonesome here." "freaks."

w!!! sent

trading to ships

real now," she whispered,

Hla hand tightened on her will you stop worrying?" she Cullen flung himself on to

"Don't go away said. "They ain't gonna catch at car. 'Come on, Jakoel, ho towny hair. ....don't go away," he pleader him 'cause he ain't never gonna cried, holding out his hand.

Jackson reached desperately. "I ain't goin' anywhere," she

get out of that swamp alive." . Jackson rorang to his feet and His white hand caught the But his battered auswered,

grabbed her shoulders. "What're black one,

Lalkin' you

about?" he body refused to follow, "I-can't-

he

and demanded. "Didn't you tell make-it,"

sobbed, br right?"

crumpled on the embankment, Above the rumble of the train Cullen heard the yelping of the Killer dogs in the distance, Then be humped to Join the white man.

see the

In another new department I sew fats being separated from blood. Fat in the blood is now suspected as a major cause of the heart attack currently Only In the same department, Sir Britain's biggest killer.

rely possibility of partially "immunis largely on what his eye can tell ing" the public against radiation him about the patient's external if warning of an attack -ecmes. look. We pre now trying to give Him instruments to enable him

13

to see what- Is happening Victor Negus has built his own two surgeons were engaged on INSIDE the pallent, thereby machine" to study blood the work. The department making the administration of vessels in the nose. 11 "creates" iching to expand

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The women kept smoothing her tawny hal as she talke Jackson kept looking at her with narrowed eyes and a half mile. She tugged at her work- soiled

jeans. shirt and

She wished she was dressed in lace.

The boy come in

with a hammer and chizel. Together

Scheming

all over the world. It will cost £3 it bought outright, or it can be hired for 48. a month. the lape are 24 lessons, consist- ing of 24 passages of French prose, each followed by 10 ques- tions and answers, They can be followed with the ald of a book which the college lend free.

the convicts pounded at their SEVEN AM. Loneliness. The "There ain't no right," sho chain Viciously. Venomously. woman brooded on it as the sold slowly. "It all bogs and NEW LIFE

It clanked beneath the blows made breakfast for the brawny · quicksand," Wo

faithfuls old

the Then it fell apart. "We cut convict sleeping on the bed. She between lonsc

now," eaki the Negro. derided to ask Jackson to take passenger servico London and Bouth America may Bet immediately the white mon her with him. But he laughed

Hife fell into his arms.

is her face when she suggested A new soon be starting carrying migrants to Australia. A Greek-owned company want to buy the 30-year-old 14,216 Highland Bri- ton sister-ships

on

and Highland Princess gade from the Royal Mail Line. It is planned to carry 490 passengers eset in one class instead of the present first and tourist clamer. The iners would bring back frozen meat, butter and cheese from Australia.

"What's the matter with him? What is it?" said the WOMBI hystericnity.

"He's sick; He's got poison in his system," Cullen answered.

The dogs

SIX FBI. The posse was closing in. They had reached the mining comp. But they got to help from the miners, because Big Sam was their spokesman.

Now it was Sheriff Muller, in spite of his kind face, who the killer dogs ordered that should carry on. As the dogs went yelping into the dusk a smile cracked the granite face, of Gibbons, the police chief 15 was the first time. I saw him smile.

Jackson shook her savagely. "hy'd you do it?" he asked, She began to sob. "So they wouldn't

looking....so come

The sheriff

TWO-TEN PM. The white man and the Negro tay sprawled in the long grass. Them the dogs?" asked Jackson,

Cullen crawled to him. "You casy, Joker," he said, cradling the white man in his

rost

nema,

it as he washed at the pump. we....so we'd have time," she "I'm long gone, lady," he babbled. "Time! To get away said. "I'm bound for Riv, I to a city big city-so big Uke you. I like you a lot. But they could never find you'. Oh, the law's on my tail. I'm look, we could live good. You

scored. running

What you could start a whole new life. gonna do? Ride my back. You And when we needed more gonna ride tho freight trains money I could sell the farm." with me?"

She tried to cover her face

Jackson smiled weekly. We In a steady, low volce the with her hands, so she would gave 'em a helluva run for it, answered: "We don't have to, not see the loathing in his eyes.

didn't we?" he laughed gently. I got a car."

"Oh, what are you getika' 90 "Charlie Potatoes, I'm mashed She took him to's shed at the excited about that nigger for?"

potatoes now. So, are you.” 11 "I did it for you. back of the shack. There was a she cried.

"We don't right, Jeker," And, after

Jackson cor.

his

flung her violently said the Negro tenderly. car racchanic's hands had probed against the wall. "You don't That was the way they were the engine, i worked. He gave know anything about me," ho

as I watched Sherif Muiler a small cry of triumph. “Yeah,” shouted, almost sobbing. "Get walk towards them. They saw he said, "I gotta get Cullen." out of my way." She groped him, but did not move, The The woman lightened her grip after him wildly as he went to Negro with the white man, in

"No!" she said. on his bra. "We can't take him! They'l "Listen to me, please, listen,"

recognise you in a minute that she pleaded. "All my life I've way. They'll be lookin for en waiting to get away from for men Wo'll travel as manure from the mud and the

Tometimess, Please, I beg you

BRITAIN'S YOUNGEST

that the new iz belleved

of Wokingham. town erler Berkshire, may be the youngest in Briinin. He is Mr Harold Cornish, 20. assistant keeper at the Town Hall Mr. Comish-re ceives a nominal 10s. for each occasion on which he "cries,"

TWO AM. Jackson awoke in with Avo guineas annually as a retainer. He expects to make his bly bed with clean sheets. announcements-in-fall-Regalia. The man wax at the bedside only about seven times a year. The Negro was slumped in sleep End wife."",

The door

kis arms, began to sing. It was the blues song he sang before their escape. But his voice was no longer defont,

THE END

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