1934-10-09 — Page 10

MEDICINE AND MEDICOS

The Problem Of Wound

Infection

(Continued from Saturday)

The following is the fourth and Final instalment of the talk on "Medical and Medicos: Ancient and Modern" given by Prof. L. J. Davis at the University-

HONG KONG DALLY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1934.

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Y.M.C.A. GALA TO-NIGHT

Last of Summer Season

THE CYCLING CLUB

Riding In The Rain

Despite the advent of the cooler weather a further reduction in at- The last gala of the summer tendance marred Sunday's run of Berlin, Oct. 7. season will take place to-night at the Hong Kong Cycling Club, The first three decades of the

The smashing service sent over the European YMCA.. swimming] though present century have not yielded

the drop is far from when Germany's ranking amateur | pobl so many spectacular discoveries by

two

championship sumelent to cause undue alarm tennis player, Gottfried ❘ as the earlier years of bacterio-

von events will form the main items amongst Committee members A logy. Actually howaver, a vast

Cramm to last year's world pro- | on the programme.

high wind harassed the riders for Hans Nuess-- In addition, a large entry in the the first three hours, during which, has been fessional champion, One of the first and most amount of knowledge

match held here on other events will probably make dramatic benefits to practical acquired concerning the more in-lein in a

under the leadership of Mr, E. G. medicine of this new science of timate habits of bacterial life and Sunday, under the auspices of this gala the most successful of bacteriology, was

the infected

German Tennis Association the application of its effects upon of its principles by the

were also Hasty blows for profes- nokt. The British

development of bac

R. B. Wood will start a favourite

teenth century placed in the Now by the middle of the nine-bands of investigators a weapon teenth century anaesthesia was they were not slow to use in at- coming into commen use in the

the

the year.

Tweedy, Farting was reached via Castle Peak and Un-long. The lengthy tree-lined stretches from

WORLD SERIES ADVERTISEMENTS.

BASEBALL

Detroit Tigers Ahead

THE HONG KONG

JOOKEY CLUB

HE

EIGHTH EXTRA

TRACE MEETING will be hald

(Weather Parmitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on. WEDNESDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1934, commanding at 3.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be Rung at

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.

St. Louis, Oct. 6. Detroit Tigers are leading St.1.30 pm. Louis Cardinals by 3 to 3 in the World Baseball series on their via tory here to-day by 3 runs to 1.

The Tigers were faultless in the field and banged seven hits. The Cardinals also had seven tuts but they were responsible for one erroi which proved costly.

Tammy Bridges pitched brü-

Cardinals in six out of seven in nings. Delancy homered for the Cardinals in the seventh inning. in the sixth inning off Dizzy Dean, who was injured the previous day. Carleton took over the pitching in

surgeon Lister, to the problem of teriological technique in the nine-sional tennis since Cramm defeat-in the 100 Yards Breast Stroke; but the latter village to the timin yente vantly for Detroit, fanning the through the SECRETANY upon the

wound infection. ...

tacking the more obvious problems European surgical clinics, and

of infective disease. Their operative technique had become numerous successes testify to the sufficiently advanced to permit efficacy of the new weapon. The quite extensive operations. but work of the later bacteriologists operative surgery was still greatly has largely been concerned with attacking the more fundamental if Jess spectacular questions of infection, the solution of which promises to be of no Uttle prac-

dreaded on account of the fre- quency with which wounds would become septic during convale scence. At that time wound sepsis was known as hospital gangrene. { tical value. It would often spread like wild- fire through the surgical wards, of a hospital, until nearly every would was discharging evil, smelling pus; the tissues in the

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No One without Badge will be admitted to the Mambera Enclosure.

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Olub Rooma st $5.00 for Gentleman and $9.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable

personal application of a Member; such adumber to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for Payment of All Chits, &c.

The Secretary's Office; 3rd Floor," close at 12 o'clock Roon.

ed his professional opponent by he will be closely challenged by the decisive score of 5-7, 6-3, 6-3, Schreuder, the former holder and 6-1 amid cheers from the seven. T. Lange who is also to the thousand spectators. In the men's fore in the event. doubles. Cramm. paired with

Owing to lack of entries in the journey was resumed by way of Gehringer homered for the Tige Gloucester Building. (Tal; 27794), will Henkel, also scored £ striking

Diving event. It has been found victory over the professional pair, necessary to hold the Men's and Transocean Kuŋ Min.

Nuesslein und Messerschmidt.--

Ladies sections together."

:

Fine For Delancey It has been

were decidedly difficult, and it was with much sharpened appetities that the party sat down to the plenic repast. At 1.35 p.m. the

sha-tau-kok. the border route then being. traversed to Sheung- shul: Fanling was reached again at 2.45 p.m. and Tai-po and Shae ninth inning. tin selected for the final lap. - After successfully escaping the rain

revealed that throughout the day's ride, the Delancey was fined $200 for uri- party unfortunately ran into a complimentary remarks regarding The Entries

very heavy storm after passing the umpire's ability. Ladies 50 Yards Agg. cap-through Sha-tin, which succeeded Mrs. A. C. Schrader. Miss A. Fow-in bringing them back to the ler, Ms J. Wilson, Miss M. George Ferry shortly before 5 pm in s and Miss W. George.

drenched but happy condition after a much enjoyed 72 miles spin.

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The finals of the Men's and Ladies 50 Yards Aggregate Handi- statistical investigation is becom-cap events will be featured and in ing increasingly appreciated; par- entries have been received.

these the usual large number of ticularly in assessing the value of various remedies. Many cases of Bio-Chemistry

most diseases do tend to recover Another field of investigation spontaneously as a result of the full of promise is that of bio-

healing power or Nature. "So chemistry: the study of the

when basing his opinion 01 £ chemical nature of the various

Men's Long Plunge:-A, treatment upon its effect un substances composing the body of small number of cases. the phy Greenford, F. Fowler, R. Goldman, mar and also of the microbe foe..ician has been prone to fall into W. Schreuder, H. F. Lange, W. An off-shoot of this line of work the error of "post hoc,,ego Jenkins

chemotherapy has

propter hoc": that is, wrongly Mixed Relay H. G. Lange.

effect. F. Lange, A. G. Donn, F. Fowler, To this error is due the R. Goldman, A./ H.: Moss, C. A. former wide-spread popularity of Higgins. G. H. Fowler, W. Schen-

der, E. F. Selk.

known

the complex

already conferred valuable gifts upon medicine. The pioneer worker in this field was Ehrlich, the German immunologist. His name will ever be remembered in association with compound of arsenic which "he evolved for the specific treatment of syphills. He prepared .605 different arsenical compounds be- fore he was successful. 50 he named the final product "606". In this line of work the Germans, with their chemical traditions. have been supreme. Two recent triumphs have been the prepara tion known as "205", inost, effèc- tive in the treatment of try- panasomiasis, the scourge of man and beast in tropical Africa; and

which

promises tu eclipse quirilne in the treatment of malaria.

neighbourhood of the wound undergoing rapidly spreading de- Composition often ending in the death of the patient. The 'cause of this gangrene was unknown and the condition was regarded as an inevitable risk of surgery Lister, who at the time was pro- at Edinburgh, fessor of surgery having heard of Pasteur's work on fermentation, suspected that to gangrene might also be due bacterial action He tried out the technique of anti-septic surgery, in which the operation is per- formed under conditions calculat- HLS ed to kill all Kving germs. Instruments and dressings were washed in carboflc oll, the atmos- phere of the operating room was sprayed with it and the surgeon wore a clean cost and washed his hands in carbolic.

results were.. most gratifying. for by means of this procedure, wound-atebrin" sepsis became eliminated. As you know, this technique has since ..been replaced by the more refined aseptic technique, which aims at preventing the access of germs by the preliminary sterillation of everything coming into contact with the wound. Surgical gang- rene is hardly ever seeni now-a- days in civil practice.

The

Succession of Discoveries The story of Pasteur and Liste

Considerations of time forbid my making further reference to recent advances in medical science, and it is not my desire do so. I have attempted rather, to. sketch for you a rough outline of the structure upon which modern medical practice has been built.

attributing cause

to

&

various measures we now con- sider useless, 1 not actually harmful; and also flourishing" on this fallacy are the numerous

quacks and charlans. If you treat a number of cases of tuber- culosis with coloured water, some

of them will recover. It is only when you consider a large group of cases, some being treated with coloured. water, and some without, that you can obtain data capable of proper statistical analysis.

The common saying that "statistics may be made to prove in the anything," is only true sense that eviderice may be made to prove anything. The issue de.. pends upon the reliability of the evidence and of the ability of the Investigator to interpret it.

Another Factor

Novelty Race:A. E. Greenford, F. Fowler, A. H. Moss.

Men's 100 Yards Breast Stroke

Eighty-Mile Run Next Sunday, under Mr. L. A. Anning, new ground will be broken near the borders the run commenc ing from the Jordan Road, Fier of the Vehicular Ferry at 9.15 am It is anticipated that approx mately 80 miles will be covered before the riders return to Sham- shulpo a about 7.30 p.m. All

Championship:-E. B. Wood. H. Feen cyclists are extended a very Lange and W. Schreuder.

Men's and Ladies' Diving Cham- plonshipE. F. Selk, R. Goldman

and Miss J. Wilson.

'cordial welcome.

On Wednesday last Mr. E. Manns

conducted the usual half-day party

Badges admitting ta Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Baca Conroe,

、

On No Protext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.

Tiffins are obtainable at the Club Haase provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone It appears that Delancey used 1920.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. bad language to the umpire, who

The Price of Admission to the. Public fined him $50. Delancey said Enclosure is $1.00 including Tax, for all “Why don't you make it $100," and Parsons, including Ladies, and is payable

acquiesced, the umpire

at the Gate. Soldiers and Sailors in upon Delancey said, "Make It uniform are admitted Half Price

Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, et, $200. The umpire. obliged, and

will not be permitted to operate with- Delancey was finally told to "shut-in the Precincts of Tu HONG KOND up" by his manager, Mickey Jocket Oius during the Race Meeting.

By Onler

O. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

Cochrane.

where

Judge Landis said that he alone could fine Delancey, and added that it was an unheard of incident. Reuter.

FOOTBALL

around the Island leaving Blake The Governor's Cup

near

Men's 50 Yards Agg. Ecap:-Pier at 2 pm. and returning at 4.45. S. Greenford, H. G. Lange, H. F.

p.m. after a splendid run with one Lange, A. G. Donn, W. Schreuder,

Thalt for a short "hike" R. Goldman, A. H. Moss, C. A.

Stanley. Next Wednesday's тип Higgins, G. H. Fowler, W. Jenkins,

will be under the leadership of Mr. Water-Polo:-Selected teams.

H.A. G. Keates who will depart

from Blake Pler at the usual time. At the monthly General Com-

AMY MOLLISON'S mittee Meeting held during the

JOB ENDS

Training For Big

Race

:

(Special Air Mail Services

past week the Club subscription was again reviewed and furthần reduced as follows:

Adults, $2 quarterly. Under 18. $1 quarterly. Qne unpaced road record only was passed by the Committee, this being the 15 miles Agures put up by Keates on September 19. His time of 42 mins, 43 secs is the third Club record to be held at over 21 m.ph.

Faith is another factor which must never be forgotten in assessing the results of treatment. For! there seems reason to con- clude that in many diseases, the outcome may be favourably in- The practice of medicine is influenced by a strong faith on the provides a perfect example of the the hands of the physician, who part of the patient in his doctor prompt application on the part of is concerned with curing patients the practitioner of the funda- when they are , and of whom mental discoveries of the laborat is becoming an increasingly tory investigator.

important function to advise them During the closing years of the how to avoid becoming 111. nineteenth century, bacteriology enlightened was enriched by a succession of discoveries, mainly by the pupils "of either Pasteur or of Koch. The protect it from illness: the pubile 'cine, and fully cognizant of an experience of flying large machines | Seawanhakk Cup when the Bobkat

microbic causes of most cf the

of Pasteur.

篩 states

In

growing

number of doctors are paid by the states community solely

health service. Whether

from

to

he

turn

the

important diseases of man and be a practicing physician, or

officer, animals were isolated and describa public health

the ed. To mention a few-diph doctor is becoming more and

dependant theria typhoid fever. cholera, more"

for further dysentery, cerebro-spinal menin-advances upon the specialist gita, pneumonia, tetanus, un-laboratory worker, the pathologist, dulant fever, plague. The last bacteriologist, physiologist and mentioned has special interest for blo-chemist, and these in

the pure scientists, you, for the plague bacillus was upon discovered here in Hong Kong in chemists, physicists and biologists. .1894 by the Japanese, Kitasato, The growth and complexity of pupil of Koch, and independantly various branches of medical by the Frenchman, Yersin, pupil knowledge render its investigation unprofitable except by one' with To the scientifically minded, training, leisure and facilities to bacteriological investigations of concentrate upon one narrow this nature are of such interest front. Undoubtedly a danger lles is to render any additional in-in this narrow specalism" There ducement superfigous put the tends to be a lack of correlation severely practical may enquire the between workers on various fronts, direct utility of such researches. and worse a danger of DAITOW Knowledge concerning the bac-mental horizons. However, it is teriology of disease has helped difficult to see the remedy apart

encouragement the physician in two main ways.

of team: In the first place it takes sanita-work and of intellectual Inter- Hop or preventive medicine out of course between various kinds of the realm of guess-work and puts worker... it on a rational footing. Exact knowledge of the cause of typhoid I do not what to indicate that fever, for example, has been of all further discoveries will be essenti value to public health made by the laboratory worker administration simed at its pre-and none by the clinician. There vention. In the case of plague are lindoubtedly many as yet the further knowledge gained by unborn clinical discoveries of vast the English Investigators in Bom importance; but like the others, bay concerning the parts played the field of clinical research can by the rat and the rat flea in the be explored most prontably by one smission of the bac (ns, was with sultable mental and material for the pro control equipment To this end, whole- second time posts are being crested In aded they many countries for research phy- at pis dis-sicians who are prepared to de-

actions vote themselves to investigation:

tawho other words, are content this to regard the hospital ward as their final field of activity and inst not as a stepping-stone to con- and sulting practice. trent-

place

of

Enborn Discoveries

In clinical research, the im- nus portance of dealing with cases

sufficiently numerous, to, permit

or his medicine. And that brings us back again to the personal qualities desirable in the physi clan if he is to be a successful healer.

· London, Sept. 20, Mrs. Amy Mollison, who, three weeks ago made her first journey in Europe as a comrheriai pilot of a cross Channel air liner, has now given up the post.

Our present day conception of the ideal physician then. is one who thoroughly grounded in the

"It was merely a temporary en- sciences "fundamental to medi-gagement in order that could gain

recent scientific advances in medicine, utilizes for the well- being of his patients, every re- source at his "command. Dealing with some diseases, he will find that success depends mainly upon his scientific competence. Such a disease is malaria, of which most early cases at any rate, can be treated satisfactorily by one

under bad weather conditions not that I experienced any bad weather," she explained to a Press Association reporter.

It also helped me to fill up time until the Comet, in which" my husband and I are to fy in the London-Melbourne air race, was

ready

"I shall now begin training for

competent with the microscope the big race,"

100 per Cent. Fit and having an adequate know-

Mrs. Mollison denied a report ledge of parasitology and phar-that the Air Ministry had with- macology. In other conditions,

drawn her "F* yng Licence such as neurasthenia, his success enabling her to carry passengers will depend largely upon his

on the grounds of If health. ability to treat not disease, but an individual patient, unaided by the resources of the laboratory: short his clinical art.

in

It a perfectly ridiculous and a cruel rumour, she said. "I can give no explanation for it but that may have originated when I re- turned from Americ

My "B" licence had then expired. but 1 had no dimenity in getting it renewed after a medical ex- amination. I have always been passed as 100 per cent. Et

SEAWANHAKA CUP YACHTING

Oyster Bay, Oct. 7." The United States retained the

defeated the "British contender, Kyla, by ten minutes 15 seconds in the third race of the series.

America thus has won all three of the contests.— Router.

SIR EDWARD CROWE'S SON

Marriage In Cochin China

(Special. Aix-Mail Serviče).

London, Sept. 21. "The marriage at Saigon, Cochia: China, of Alfred Edward (Peter), elder son of Bir-Edward and Lady Crowe, of Neville-terrace, S.W.. to Sophie Everding, daughter of the

late Jonkbeer Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Kreuzwendedich von dem Borne and Mme. C. Carp, of The Hague,

Is azınounced in London,

The

ceremony took place on Aug. 25.

Bir Edwards Crowe has been Comptroller - General of the De- partment of Overseas Trade since

13 Cases of this kind which often try a doctor most severely for the clinical skill demanded In a physician is often inversely proportionally to the technical re- sources at his disposal, Drawing an analogy, I would compare the master of an old-time sailing ship with the captain, of a modern liner. The former had daily de most disease will be prevented, 1928. He has held many appoint- mands made upon his skill as a and what does occur will provements in Japan since 1907, and seaman and a navigator, but took amenable to prompt diagnosis and from 1924 to 1928 was seconded a long time to get his ship to effective treatment at the hands for service as Director of the For port. The latter achieves this of the technical expert such as eign Division in the Department of end much more rapidly and cer the surgeon, the radiologist, the Overseas Trade. tainly, but alded by mechanical bacteriologist and the bio-chemist, propulsion, directional wireless I fear however, that such and- perfected instruments of utopian efficiency will not be at-COMMUNIST STRONGHOLD navigation, does not experience tained within the span of any of the same calls upon his personal us here. The sphere of greatest skill and resourcefullness,

useful for the majority of

Shanghai, Oct. 8, erefore lle in the Chinese reports from Nanchang

most dimcult of state that Shihcheng, an import

You mustant Comm

stronghold in can give you, southern Klangsi, has been occupi

clinical skill | ed. by Covernment troops

your severe engagement, followi Hering bombar nente

Our aim being the elimination you, of disease, the replacement of the Akilled clinician of to-day by the test-tube-votary of to-morrow will be unregrotted if it brings us nearer our goal. For it may well be that advances in medica science will eventually render the expert · clinical physician | suDAT- auous. Let us hope then, that will prove the day may speedily come when the

selves

CAPTURD..

the The Governiniant forces confiame you to advance, secording to spui

To-morrow, the first match in the Governor's Cup Competition this year, will be played on the Hong Kong Football Club ground,

kick off 4 pm.

..

On the present form of the Chinese they would be well in the running for the Cup this season and- to-morrow's game would ap-. pear to end in their favour.

HE. The Governor and Lady Peel will be present at the match and a good gate is expected.

Hong Kong, lat October, 1934,

The following will represent, the Hong Kong FACord (Kowloon THE F.C.); Mullane, (8.W. Borderers). Morrison, (8.W. Borderers); Stan- ley (R. Navy), Podmore (B.W. Bor- derers), Eims (St Joseph's); Mathias (8.W, Borderers), Ward (St. Joseph's). A. V. Gosano (Club de Recreto), Ridley (Lincoln Regt.), and Blake (University).

Reserves: G. Rodger (Club), §. Strange (Club), “Bainage

(R. Navy G. White (Kowloon), and Haidry Lincoln Regt)."

The team will play in white

shirts.

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