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THE

CRUSADE AGAINST

DYSENTERY,

WISE WORDS. BE A PHYSICIAN.

Among the pernicions diseases incidental to

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

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force of the winds kept at 49 well distributed

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1910.

ELECTRIC BWELTING FURNACE,

The quotes of electric emelting is indicated LEND ME YOUR EARS AND I WILL NAPIER JOHNSTONES"

by its rapid adoption A German authority counts up 116 electric furnaces that are at work making steel, and his list is incomplete, some important omissions having been pointed out. Of those enamorated, 77 are furnaces, 2

ifo in the tropics dysentery takes an important stations for an average of nearly 21 years. It and 35 are induction furnaces. There are also

place. The reusons for this are many and varied It is, however, unnecessary to ontimerate them here. The great fact which every roeldent in there countries, and therefore every possible. sufferer, has to keep prominently in mind is how to avoid this dread. complaint in the first place, and, in the next, how to take steps to cure it should he be unfortunate enough to contract it.

Speaking broadly, ne tropical disease is more pestilential then dysentery, for it undermines the hoalth, depresses the nervous systems, reduces the tone and vigour of the whole body, diminishes the mental energy, sad, generally, interferes with the individual's physical power of resistance against disease. The result is that, unlike what happens in most other discases, one attack does not act as a proventive, but rather predisposes to another, this rendering the weakened system liable to still further in- roads, until the condition of the sufferer is deplorable indeed, for he may be attacked by many after-effects, like abscess of the livar. dropsy, scurvy, and nervous affections of various sorta.

farmishes the coronaut with an aid correspond ing to the pilet charts of this ocean avigater, For each season and each station, it shows how often, on the average, the wind blows from each of eight directions, and the average frequency of the various degree of wind between a calm ands hurricane. It indicates the best places and times for making ascents, with the direction airships without high power will probably drift. More than this, it suggests the best lo. cation for airship sheds and ports, and gives evidence that not only are places near the coast unsuitable but that many inland stations are uncomfortably stormy. Friedrichshafen, chosen by Count Zeppelin for his grast sheds, is an unfavourable place for handling the hugo airships. The records show that it has an average of 24 atormy days a year, while Celle has only 22 such days, Berlin and Cassel only 4, and seven other stations less than 10,

THE SKY'S BLUE.

of the Soot ish and Irish constitutions, and of

MAKE THEM HEAR.

MESSAGE TO THE DEAF.

BY PROFESSOR HOFFMAN.

I tried the Doctors-British and Continental, I tried massage baths diet electricity

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generate heat by are and resistance combined, some pig iron smelting furnaces, Norway and Sweden having 2 or 3. Of the steel furnaces, 7 are at work in England, and a

The writer of this advertisement was some prévoative to marche, neuralgia, and other are in France and Germany. Most of the number in America, hat the great majority furnaces are of small capacity-1 to 5 tous. time ago as deaf as any one who is likely to res maladies caused by inak of sar protection. I They are employed chiefly on high-class stople it. After going through all the preliminary pata a stop to all unpleasant noises and for special purposes, but a fair proportion are stages of rearing in the cars, strange thrilling rumblings in the car and head. Some people working on ordinary steel, snob as structural noises and thrills in the head, hearing wrongly can hear words and sounds within a cociniss stool, castings, and milway ties, rails, etc.

and hearing spasmodically. I became to all limited pitch only, instead of responding to the intents and purposes STONE DEAF

whole nine octaves which form the usual compass And now I CAN HEAR PERFECTLY. of the human ear. In these eases the car phone i

The blusness of the sky is attributed by Lord

is papecially valuable, as it can be supplied to correst the deficiencies just where help is needed. particles, which he supposes to chiefly netul Raleigh to the dispersal of light, by small This is how I did it. molecules of the air, instead of dust, water vapour,

Nething is so pathetic and tragic as the ote. He believes that Spring's theory of atorp.internal washes and lotions. They didn't help. position of people who want to hear but cannot.. tion by chemical matter is disproved by the Going through all this, I learned, of my own Many of life's greatest pleasures are doxied them intelligende, some knowledge of ear troubles,the rare delights of rannie, the voices of loved. their causes, and the lines usually fallowed in ones: The discomforts which defective hearing rod--instead of blue-of the setting sun.

their treatment. Grown desperate in the fight imposes in social intercourse, the obstacle it KING EDWARD AS FREEMASON. for one of the most precious of senses, I studied forms to business progress, the general aural trouble in men and animals; I studied the enibarrassment and pain it catres, make of His Majesty was initiated into the Masonic delicate anatomy of the ear, I mastered the laws existence a truly burdensome pilgrimaga. order at Stockholm, in December, 1868, by King of sound-carrying and vibration. As a layman partial or spasmodic form is almost worse than Charles XV. of Sweden. The following year, man of unprejudiced mind—I set myself to the complete deprivation, one is then included at the meeting of Grand Lodge on September 1, find out WHY I was cursed with this draad in the eirols of converantion and ornel discom- the rank of Fast Grand Master of England was affiction: I not myself to find the cura. fort results. Moreover, the affects upon the oopferred upon him, and in 1874, on the resigna- Now I can say, "I have found it" I can mind and nerves are of the worst an irritable, tion of the Marquis of Ripon, he succeeded to

of use to the thousands who still suffer. "None the victim of imperfect, hearing, and gradually the Grand Mastership of the Order, and became bar. want, as well, to let my experience be semi-stupid, and yet timid fooling overtakes also chief of Royal Arch Masonry. On his accession to the Throne he relinquished the deaf as those who won't hear"; my message robs him of that alertness and buoyancy which is well worthy the ear of those who are now dent alone make life worth living. Deafness, too, Grand Alastorship, and assumed the title of but who are determined, if cure there be, not to inpresses with age, and I know of no cure anys the ear-phons, which has the power of nerasting, Protector of the Craft, continuing his patrorship requain so a moment longer,

My intention to cure deafness, and its appli- the decay of the auditory songs and enabling it. these of South Australia, New South Wales, cations, are fully described in my book to be used in the fullest efficiency while life Vistoria, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Western Deafness. Its Cause and Cure"; but eésing remains, Australia His Royal predecessors e Patrons it is a simple, common sense one, it can be briefly The car-phone, as its name implies, performa the same fanation as the telephone of bringing of the Craft word Georgo IV who was Grand explained here. Master from 1799 to 1813, and William IV, In a word, it is based on this fact: Deaf people that mast otherwise remain in point of who was initiated in 1786. Another Prince of people can hear over the telephone. A voice that communication for apart in close touch with each Wales-Frederick-was initiated in 1737.

would be raised in vain, were the speaker in the other. In my own case, when people addressed King Edward was installed Grand Mastor at some room with the sufferer, is clearly audible me it was as a shouting from mountain-top to the Royal Albert Hall, in April, 1875, the from miles away by the aid of the electric wire mountain.top; now communication is easy, gathering

on that occasion being the most and receiver. The Ear-phone is a small, port effortless, and pleasurable. Only those who, notable in history. Another special event in able, invisible telephone-for-the-nr. It consists like me, have passed through this valley of the his Masonic career was when he presided at of two small, nooru-shaped, soft-feeling pieces shadow can say how pleasumbis it is to be one of the Dake of Connaught and the Into Daks Grand Lodge, after the appointment, in 1877 of apparatus which it into the ear-neon, more in tune with the universe

"-in touch comfortable, wonderfully efficacious.

with the world. The coming of the bar-phone Albany as his wardens, when the three clairs

Its applications are various. If you are deal was to me like a hand stretched out through the were filled by the Royal brothers. As Master of in one car only, use one ear-phone in the affected night-the helping hand of a friend. Let me the Prince of Wales's Lodge, No. 259, he in-ear The ear without the ear-phone will look stretch this hand out to you. Let me help you tiated the Duke of Connaught in 1874, and in precisely the same is that in which it is being to overcome your impediment in the same way June, 1886, installed him as Provincial Grand used. The earphone, being perfectly comfort as I oversamo mine. First of all, no doubt, you Master of Busser, at Brighton. He also installed able, can be worn always-anywhere and for would like to hear more about my methods, and

son. the inteDake of as Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire, in 1890 the unditory nerve in tune with the round then, the coupon below without delay it is the Clarence and Avondale, gotten. By putting the delicate organism of the arguments upon which it is based. Fill in,

table side of Freemasonry, being Grand Patron is avoided.

His Majesty took a keen interest in the clari. vibrations of the air all strain, friction, and jar first step to regaining eficient hearing and all

The ear-phone also serves as that it brings in its train. of the three central institutions, with 116 votes volent, and thirty for the Girls'. De presided at the anniversary festival of the Bono- velent Institution in 1871 and

1888 centenary year); for the Boys' in 1870 and 1898 (centenary year); and for the Benevolent of his Grand Mastership he performed many public works with full faionio seremonial, the more important being the lying of the foundation stones of how docks at Bombay, new market, at Gibraltar, and the new Post

MYSTERIOUS TRADE DISEASES. The fast-growing list of industrial disonses" 18 Likely to add two mysterious maladies of South Bad as all this is, the patient's case is rendered Wales. Tin-plate workers have pains in the chest, still worse by consideration of the fact that the dificulty of breathing, and wasting, and are often general nutrition of the body is lowered by life obliged to go home when the wind blows from in hot climates, that the digestive system is vertain directions. A flux used is suspected of con- the more depressed as well as the vitality, so that taining some unknown poison. In the fuel for be not only starts heavily handicapped in favour tories, "pitol warts" are very prevalent, at first of the disease, but also heavily handicapped causing little pain or anxiety, but rapidly do. against the conditions which make for recovery.veloping into cancerous growths. The pitch is In these respects dysentery may be said to re-believed to contain some harmful substance that, semble typhoid fever on the one hand, and was not present ten years ago. malaria on the other, and the danger of both is too well known to need more than passing notico. As typhoid is due to ulceration of the small intestine, so dysentery is dus to similar condition of the large or lower bowel, while mularis and dysentery are believed to have a close rela tion, the former predisposing to attacks of

the latter.

ETHER SURVEYING FOR WIRELESS

TELEGRAPHY.

A map to show the ether conductivity for Hertzian waves in different latitudes is a new German idos. Sunshine lessons the con- daotivity, and a wireless telegraph station of large range in the north would cover only s much smaller radius in the tropics.

POTATO MEAL,

The treatment of dysentery, like that of typhoid, and, in great measure, that of malaria,

The conversion of potatoes into a dry con is admittedly one of dist. Milk, the blandest of

centrated mont, successfully, accomplished by a foods, was, until a comparatively short time ago, Frassian process described by Consul T. H. the sheet anchor of the physician. In the very Norton, not only prevents loss from hechy but sente stages of the disease many doctors are reduces the cost of transportation. In Germany however, opposed to its use, and many patients are not able to digest it, so that they grow potatoes are much need for fending domestic animals, and the loss from decky smonota to steadily worse,

Happily, science has discovered a food-tonio about 11 per cont, equivalent to a valds of

for the Boys' School, sixty-four for the Bene-

which, as one physician has written, "possessos/528,500,000 annually. The now proosssis Institution in 1873. During twenty-six years. virtuos of a very high order, and is practically claimed to be aimpler and more effective than ammerons earlier ones hedght out by an offer of

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a specific in the modern treatment of dysentery 86,000 in prizes. The potatoes are washed in This is Baratogan. Its composition is well known, for it has been widely stated to consist large vat, passed into a mashing machines

of 95 per cent of pure casein of milk, the inb.ppaped into a roservoir, and then fad between Onos at Glasgow, in 1896; Truro Cathedral,

In 1880; the new Hospital at Great Yarmouth in 1867; the Technical Schools at Blackbara, and Christ's Hospital, at Horsham, in 1897; in 1888; the Sutherland Institute at Longton. | the memorial stone of the Indian Institute at Oxford, and the New Institute of Art, Science, and Literature, at York, in 1883; and the Chapel of the new Schools of the Royal Asylain of St. Anne's, at Redhill, in 1884.

When Grand Lodge presented an address

wo hollow cylinders of perforated plate co- "tance to which that food owes it nutritive vered with linen filtering cloth, the interior of value, in chemical combination-not merely each cylinder being connected with a sire mfred-with 5 per cent. of Glycero-Phosphate haust. The pressure of the aflindors and the of Sodium, the chief vital constituant of their suction remove most of the water. The nervous system. These two substances, in the residual mass is taken by a helical conveyor combination in which they exist in Sanatogen, to smail cars, which pass through a hydraulic are so digestible that the preparation puts no press, removing more liquid and is then trans- atrain on the most enfeebled digestive organsferred to a revolving drum, heated at one end of congratulation to Queen Victoria apon All of it is absorbed or assimilated by the body, by steam-pipes and cooled at the other by water her happy escape from the hands of on So that there is no residue to irritate the ulcers Stirred by prongs in the drum, the dried assassin in 1852, the Grand Master headed the which are formed in the course of the disease potato emerges as coarse meal. This has a quarregalia, at Buckingham Palace.

deputation, which was received in fill Masonic

Accom and prohibit the giving of solid food

ter of the original weight of the tubers and ou | panted by the Princess of Wales, in 1891, his Bazatogen is, thorofure, universally prescribed capies an eight of the space, it smells and tastes Majesty opened the Centenary, Hal and new even in the acutest stages of the severest cases, like fresh bread, and analysis shows it to contain wing of the Masonis Girls' School. At the for it prevents deterioration in nutrition, and 30.69 per cent. of our bobydrates, 11.60 of water which voted an address to the Queen on the Albert Hall he presided over the gathering maintains the patient's power of resistance at a 3.73 of protein, 20s of ash, 1.71 of fibre, and povasion of her Jubilee, and, as Grand Master, high level, thereby giving him a better chance 0.31 of fat. If desired, the meal con En con- he headed the deputation which presented the of recovering quickly and without complications pressed into compact cakes. The residual li congratulations at Osborne. Again, in the More than that, cases which get worse ander quid oo atains sugar and dissolved salts, and Craft voto the Diamond Jubilee address to the Albert Hall be occupied the chair when the dinary conditions rapidly improve when first yielding abent 2 per cent. of albumen, is Queen. The admission feas to these two coca- Sanatogen is added to the diet. One of the used for irrigating forming land.

sions at the Albert Hall, amounting to upwards of £13,300, were devoted to charitable purposes, supremest values of Sanalogen is that it is not

víz,, £3.500 to the Prince of Wales's Hospital Emited to restoring this bealth during or after

Fund, and the reuninder to the three Masonic

· dysentery. It is actually a preventive of the

institutions. His Majesty equally interested disease by strengthening the system so that it

himself in the higher degrees of Freemasonry. He was Grand Master of the Mark Dagree Osh withstand exposure to the infection.

from 1886 natil his secession, and head of the thirty-third degree, and later its Grand Patron

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