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GERMANY

AND SHIP

BUILDING

Further Decisive Step Taken

MECHANIZATION

IN MEDICINE

Lord Horder On.

י

Doctor And Patient

Lord Horder gave the inaugural address to students of the West- minster Hospital Medical School at Caxton Hall recently. Mr. Ber- nard D. F. Docker presided.

doctor and patient, Lord Horder Discussing the relations between

said that the body of the patient always be assumed to be more sen- was sensitive enough-and it must

ative than it appeared-but filmay and more in need of gentle gossamer was not more delicate;

sp.

roach, than some of the minds with which doctora had to deat The whole of the doctor's exper- lence of humanity must be focused on his patient.

Shortly after the disbandmeut of the trade unions and workers' societies and the uniting of all Ger- man working people in the organ! sation known as the German La- bour Front, it was decided to found a branch union, to be called "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength through Joy) in order to give working peo- ple possibilities of good and cheap holidays and recreations. The in- antes for this society were found by the Labour Front, and were taken from the subscriptions of employees. The achievements of "Kraft durch Freude." as was re- vealed at the International Leisure

"The patient was to be protected Time Congress recently held at not only against death, if that was Hamburg, have been really remark-pussible, and certainly against One of the most valuable pain, but he was to be protected has been the organisation of cheap against the quack who would bat.. ten on his infirmiltles, against his friends, so-called, and too often Once his "bona against himself.

des" were..established and he had entered the consulting-room of the doctor's personality, not merely of the doctor's" house, the patient like the person of the King, was sacred. The patient's only creden- tlals were the avowal. "Doctor, I

able.

ocean cruises.

Things have developed so rapidly In Germany in the last years, that its easy for people to under- estinate difficulties, which loomed so large when the work was in its beginnings. When in the year 1934, the Arst crulses were organised, there was no experience to fall back upon, Certainly the ship- owners knew all about passenger services, and luxury cruises for well-to-do people had been sent out for a number of years past, but it was a complete novelty to provide trips for those

ordinary

am a sick man; please help me.” That formula once honestly spo- ren, there must be no thought in the doctor's mind of who the paul- ent was or what he was.

I was once consulted by a well-

who were not monied. However, known bone-setter his trouble in the spring of 1934, the first peo- | Was

an-intractable rheumatism,

ple's cruise was undertaken. since Lord Herder continued. After the when every effort has been made

examination the patient sald, “I to increase the number each year. wish I had come to see you be- In the summer of 1934, the 11,000 fore." "Why didn't you?" I asked. ton steamer "Sierra Cordoba," be- "Well, I thought you would have longing to the North German Lloyd a blas, against me," said the ana- Company, was bought and recon- tomy-adjuster. "My dear man," I structed for popular crusing. Other explained, "If Beelzebub himself ships have since been chartered,

came here and said, 'Doctor, I am and now a small fleet of ve large a sick man: 'cure me,' I would do ocean going liners make regular my utmost for him, and so would trips to Norway and also to south-any one of us."

ern waters. Large shipping yards provided ships, staff and experience at the disposal of this excellent scheme.

FURTHER STEP

"PATHETIC

FAITH"

the commercializing of pharmaco logy, and the rapid sequence of new machinery in physiotherapy. There was good in all these things, but if they were not careful they would overlay and replace the most essential factor in the diagnosis and

Lord Horder instanced, as recent efforts to mechanize medicine, the exploitation of instruments of pre- cision, the elaboration of bacterio- In the meantime a' further de-logical and blo-chemical methods, cisive step has been taken. All the ships that all to-day in the service of "Kraft durch Freude".were built for quite different purposes. The provision of berths for the num- bers of people wishing to take ad- vantage of the cruises has been a difficulty which even the most ex- pensive reconstruction of the ships could not overcome. Shipping com- pantes and yards were therefore in- structed to draw up plans for the building of new ships, in which the experience of popular cruises ao far gained was to be considered.

The faith of the patient in a The result was excellent, and two

piece of apparatus was pathetic. new ships are now being construct-He knew what his blood-pressure ed, while the keel of a third will shortly be laid Each of these ships will be capable of carrying two- thousand people in either two or four berth cabins. It has been fur- ther laid down as a principle, that all cabins are to be outside ones.

Each of the new ships will have

displacement of 22,000 tons. They will be 185 metres long, and will be driven by means of 15.000 h.p. Diesel engines. Some little time must, of course, still elapse be- fore these ships are ready to put to sea, but when they do so, they will give the "little man" of Germany opportunities of enjoying a kind of holiday hitherto reserved for those with long purses. If the popularity of past cruises may be taken as a criterion, it is quite certain that there will be plenty more pas- sengers in the future. (Transocean)

KING EDWARD'S FIRST PARLIAMENT

treatment of disease, which was the personal contact of doc- tor and patient. The patient would. not save himself from this danger. He had seen most of the rest of his life. mechanized, so why not medicine?

ought to be "One in front of iny age, isn't it, doctor?" He (Lord Horder) had never discovered who told the public this falry story, They now had the instrument- makers dictating standards. 23 though the doctor's patients might not express individuality even in their blood-pressure. The doc- irinaire attitude towards diet adopted, by certain pundits seem- ed to make great appeal to many patients. They seemed to think that any day, now medicine might discover a standard diet, 1 it had not already done so.

It was the doctor's business to counter all this, and to reveal the patient to himself. Hla whole duty was to examine carefully, explain clearly, instruct hopefully, and watch diligently. *: If the doctor

·was of necessity a humanist in for- mer generations it behoved him to be all the more a humanist to-day.

first Parliament some time before his Coronation, the King will wear

King Edward will open the first Parliament of his reign at West-full-dress naval uniform for his minster on November 3, He will drive from the Palace, and will drive in full state from Bucking- don heavy robes of crimson velvet ham Palace to the House of Lords, edged with gold for the ceremony. and will read his Speech from the

in the Lords, putting on the cock- Throne to a House crowded with ed ha or an admiral when he peers and peeresses and with the comes to read the Speech from, the "faithful Commons" in attendance, Throne says the "Manchester Guardian.”" While he is at the House of

The King will not wear a crown. The Crown and the Sword or State will be taken from St. James's Palace in the morning to the House of Lords in a state landau, escort of Life guarded by an Guards, and the Cap of Mainten- ance, the other emblem of royal power, will be carried in front of the King. Not until he has been crowned at Westminster Abbey in May will King Edward wear bis crown!

Lords the King will carry out an- other ceremony of great constitu- tional importancs. This is the signing of the royal declaration of Protestant faith, which the So- veretan must make either at the opening of his first Parliament or at his Coronation. whichever comes first.

The King's drive from the Pa- lace will be his first full state drive. For his drives to St. James's Palace to hold Levees earlier this If he follows the example of year the King used semi-state lan- his father, who, also opened his ❘ daus.

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