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TO CONQUER - MALARIA.

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM A PHYSICIAN'S PEN,

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 30rk, 1910.

A PLAGUE FROM BAND FLIES. Thononwho conquer Malaria conquer the the United States, is a great scourge in Pellagra, which has given much slarm in Ігорівні," a proverb with which every resident south-eastern Europe, and a serious disorder in in the tropics is familiar. While in consequence the West Indies, Egypt and elsewhere. Among of the onward march of kentifia ashievement, first symptoms is usually a kind of this disias, no depressing in its onset, Hanbara" of face, chest and hands. This is devitalising in its effect, and so disorganising in followed by akin rash, catarrh of stomach and its result to the whole system is better under-intestines, feverishness, lassitude and weakness, stood than it used to be, it is still, unhappily and as the troable roours in spring and autumn exceedingly praradont, and in Bely to continus until the conditions which produce it have been year after year, the weakness increases mail often leads to lunacy and death. The disease bunished.

has been generally attributed to esting dam.. D. J. J. Wolfe, of Darham, N. C., has been aged Indian corn. Believing it to be infectious, Intely angking its organism in pellegrous blood, and has obtained Spine phorical

Mest people know that white Malaria rany lake various forms it is dao to a special germ or microl, which destroys the red corpuscles by which the oxygen of the air is carried by the blood to every part of the body to burn up itehacteria, without certain evidence that they imparitics. The destruction of those corpuscles are the cause of the disease. He has found a produces, the marked symptoms so characteristic similar organism in a culture from damaged of the disease--the pale, saltose, earthy con- Indian corn. On the other hand, Dr. L.W. plotion, the atental and physical lassitule, the Sangbon, a British investigator, has long doubted depression, the morbid thoughts and feelings, the accepted theory, and in a recent visit to the aching muscles and the tender joints.

Italy with a Pollingra Investigation Committee, he convinced himself definitely that. Indium corn is not a cause of pellagra. The evidenco tended to show that the disease is due to a parasite conveyed by the simulium reptans, à kind of "sand fly "brooding on stones along the streas of pellagrons countries,

Find as all this, the result of Anemia or poverty of the blood, as it in commonly called. which makes life a burden to the sufforer, it fany go considerably further until it produces that wasted and dangerous condition of the system doctors call Cachexia."

For long Quinim hus byon the sheat anchor of the physician, and in the sento kloges it generally answers almirally, but in the later stages something else must be employed to destroy the effects wrought by the microbes,

A PIGMENT WANTED,

The yellow colour of balloons has resulted from ecessity, not chance or idle fancy. Lieut- Col. Expitallior, & French-peronant, explains that the textile fabric of the balloon is made impermeable by a layer of caoutchone, and that this, even whoa vulcanized, is rapidly disinteg- rated by violet or ultra-violet light, so that it the harmful rays. A now Follow pigment is must be protected by a yellow pigment to absorb (

Happily, in this conquest of the hosts of tho discase germs which invade the badly under the banner of Malaria, the physician has boon pro wonted with a weapon a potent over them as the modern machine gna is potent against the old fint lock gun. This weapon is Sauntogon, one of the most powerful restoratives and agents over proporties are due to in two constituents Cussin. the solid portion of pare, now milk, and Glycore: phosphate of Soda, a preparation containing phosphorns in the precisa form in which it uxista in the body. Phosphorus, us

us everyone know one only as a

as a physician has w

riven to the world. It rear much wanted, however, as noither the chromate

i

BERM

of lead usod in Fruce nor the aniline dye of Germany is satisfactory.

FIRRE-REINFORCED RUFREE,

A process for combining pure rubber with ritton ini- timedia indispensable for the discharge of material in minute (breads in all the directions

-associated with e-health-of-the-getable fibre-so-that-tho-latter-paustrates-the- the functions of the nervous centres," but is she is claimed by a London tyre company. The

abolutely

essential for the growth of what physiologiste term the cells of the body, the rod not in sumarkably tough and resistant to microcopie bricks of which the human edifice is pressure and tensile strain, constructed. This coll growth is greatly inter- ferred with in Malaria, and s Happly of phosphorus which is smsily absorbed by the doplated

tu restore tes its standard notivity. Nothing floss this so well as Sanatogen, as nothing so rapidly restores the vitality

of the blood at this preparation, which is prescribed by over twelve thousand physicians in the world because no secret has been made of its constituent and they realise its overwhelming value in routing the functions of the body to do their duty,

is

GETTING THE BURGLAR'S MEASURE. Bertillon's dynamometer, the new apparates added to the equipment of the French police by the famous chief of the anthropometric ser-

ie, is expected to interpret the marks of the, burglar's jimmy, and makes it possible to show whether a forcible entrance was made by a man, woman, ebild or several persons. A strong upright steel frame has a borizontal sliding How rapidly Sapatogen restores the blood plate as a base with a steel plate sliding in verti- Anemia aray be judged from the fact that cal grooves for the top. The spring of the top minent physician records that the red blood plate is connected to a dynamometer capable of Forpuscles in a patient increased eighty thousand per cubic milli-motto is a week, and the per registering vertical effort up to one tun, and contage of red

red colouring matter in thoni amali dynamometer records the bori- advanced from 61 per orat. to 625 per cent, zontal pressure while another patient who was unable to take

or the base plate. Tests any solid food and was losing weight rapidly are made by measuring the effort necessary improved in a fortuight that the red corpuscles to reproduce on a suitable board or other ma increased two hundred thousand per cubic milli-terial the marks found on doors or furniture, motre, their red colouring matter from 48 cent, to 52 por cent, and she was able to resi Vertical or pressure effort is always greater than to resume horizontal effort, and a laver 20 inches long gave her household duties, completely cured of the tor- rible melancholia from which she was suffering a vertical pressure of 1300 pounds simultaneously Children are especially liable to Malarin and with a horizontal traction of 330 pounds. On a rnicious after effects which may dolay hard walnut plank, a strong man can develop a ils Tevelopmund and strut their growth pressure effort of 1,503 pounds. Point impres When given Sanatogen they rapidly improve. One child who at three years old, in consequence

vesions are most serviceable in identifying the tool- of Malaria, weighed only half-u-pound more

Hore used by, barglar, and the tool indicated in than it did when it was a year and a half, was employed in investigating the opening of a win- given a small quantity of Suautogor daily, and dow, drawer, deak, etc. its weight at ones began to go up half-a-pound

their

B week.

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A PADDLE-WHEEL DRAKE..

utilized in a novel French brake for motor cars. The resistance of water to a paddle-wheel is A hovel-wheel is loosely mounted on the shaft between the engine and the gear box and cau be elutehed to tho abatt se desired. The boval whoul'

Just as Malaria cause wasting in chikiron, it' makes adatta prematurely old, in consequence of the depression of the vitality of the system. This condition is rapidly cured by Baustores, which removes the prematurely old look sad som substitute for the fortio will and listless spirit a boulthy interest in normal pursuits.

An exceedingly interesting pamphlet on theeshes with a pinion having attached a fat or

subject

paddle-wheel in a small water tank. On using

of Malaria has been written by a pivsician who had a wide experietico of it in the the brake, the paddle is set in motion, and the tropies.

In order to give his momentous pub. resistance of the water exerts a braking-effect lication, Malaria, its Cassos and Effecta," the that is considerable at high sponds, decreasing widest publicity, the proprietors of the copy with lower ratos,

if bare instructed Messra, A. S. WATSON C. Hongkong, to distribute a limited number of copies free of charge, to anyone who may feel interested in it, sal will send a post card mendoning the HowGRONG DAILY PRESS.

Sanategen, by the way, may be obtained direct from Messrs. A. B. WATSON & Co., Hongkong, and at all chemists,

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