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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Use Of "Brain Waves" To Detect Epilepsy, Tumours

What we of the street cali "hrain wave" recording and what the specialists more grandly cali electroencephalography has taken its place in medicine. There must be forty hospitals and universities in the United States where brain-wave recorders are now used la deteci masked epilepsy, brate tumors and the like, with the result that doctors and surgeons are better abic 1:0 handle brain d.sturbances than ever before, observes the New York Times.

FINANCE & GENERAL

OIL SITUATION Bill For Control Of Prices

IN AMERICA

Explained In The Commons

SERIOUS

Ration Card System Under Consideration

WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuter)

A call to the United Statea $19,000,000,000

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LONDON, June 20 (Heuter)—The British Government's com- prehensive polley which is panned tu extend ofer the whole of the financial, industrial, commercia) and social ac- tivities of the country was explained in the House of Commo s by the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Lyttleton, in presenting the Bill for control af prices for goods and services. The general object of the policy

is to assist diversion 01 produc. tion and productive capacity to

war purposes while keeping down

EIRE SHORTAGE OF TEA

Industrially this is aecured by any breakdown la the flow of Government control of prices and essential petroleum product was distribution of raw materials and NEGOTIATION WITH made by Mr Harold Ickes, Secre, by ration.ng of food and clothing. tary of Interior. when addressing an emergency meeting of petro leum executives representing two thirds of the world's output.

Mr. Ickes afterwards

What this new branch of medi-quency. Children, sleeping рег cine needs is a book in which the suns. deteriorated epileptics and unite with Government in whole art brain wave recording is patients in flaccid stupor have re- that "our efforts to uerend Demo- the costs of the necessities of like, set forth, with pictures of the cords Chal are slow compared cracy may not be hampered waves that are typical of specific with the standard Fright epliep. conditions. Such a book, a menu-tie seizures, intoxication, drugs are mental work, has been prepared associated with abnormally fast! by Drs. Frederic A and Frna L. brain etivity actually vetivity of Gibbs of Harvard in the hope the cortex. or "bark." of the that it will help the reader to see brain) at a glance what it has

DIAGNOSTIC SUCCESS olbers many hours to find, tha J Electroencephalography has pro will help to train his eye so that bably made its most conspiccous he can arrive at diagnoses from; diagnostJE success In epilepsy. Press that the ration card system subjective criteria."

The records that the Gibbses for use in Eastern United States STARTLING DISCOVERY publish reveal not only the kind w "one of

under the thinks Theories of the brain's mode at 'of

from Waves that come

Anconsideration" If rigid restrictions Dellor which were long accepted epileptie in convulsion but waves on petroleum were made necessary as certacnties hove turned out to that Indieate rpilepsy of the by the expected oil shortage.

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Standard Lexibooks on psychology, physiology and i eure logy must be discarded.

masked type--that 18 epilepsy that is not apparent at all. more over, there is strong evidence that

told the

Mr Ickes declared he did The way epliepsy runs in families think a single drop of oil shuuld The starting discovery that the can be traced a matter of the be shipped to anywhere from the bruth beats electrically, beats tre Thighest Importance b: eugenists Atlantic sexboard lessly, brute so long as we live and 11. is possible to detect even some Asked whether be included Bri. that its electrica: beats are utterly carrier of epilepsy, that 15. pertain, Mr. Ickes replied he meant different when it is healthy and sons who 954 22011 themselves cargoes would be examined by when it is injured or diseased en.jma: ifest y epileptle but who migh,

Government before. shipment but genders the hope that many an have epileptic children 11 they affiction that sends 16 victim to married persons who had seizures. the Frisane asylum

he emphasised Britain's supply

or e: ds 121 If brain wave recording had only was coming direct from producing this accomplishments to its credit areas and not from

death may be detected and sue cessfully treated long before it be comes outwardly manifest

seaboard area.

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Mr. Lyttleton declared the pre- vention of any further increase of wages can only be effected by the

the maintaining of purchasing power of money or ensuring that the cost of a reasonable quantity of essential commodities is kept reasonably steady.

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to this ena Contribution made by the Chancellor's policy of mobilising extra purchasing power by voluntary and involuntary sa ng and high taxation and also by rationing.

Some rise in prices may occur owing to the actual Increase in usts due to the war such as ex- tra cost of ocean freight, insur

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is would be a great advance.

Though the Gibbses have neces- This

branch of new

medical sarily devoted much space science owes much to Prof Hans epilepsy they also show the dia Berger of Jena. was he who gnostic power of brain wave re-

single, exhaustive au-

discovered in the

of TIBLE

the cording 1 ather states Low thoritative work brain's electrical rhythms one sugar, overventilation, concussion.' what seemed fundamenta "Alpha" birth injuries. he called 11 in most people it side produced by a blood elot. manilcats itself

paper as a cerebral

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series of waves that come out at arteriosclerosis. meningitis. the rate of about ten each second, tiple sclerosis. slow and involun- We may liken this rhythm to that bary twitching of the face, finger of the heart. When we run. the or

(athetosis), 8t Vitus's heart beats more rapidly than dance, narcoleptic sleep, migraine when we sit at our desks And so headaches, manic-depressive psy with the brain, Lie on your back, choses, close your eyes, keep your mind states. Imbecility. blarsk and the brain then "d'es" | brain.

schizophrenta,

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water on the thyrold disease. bralu

In neutral like a standing automo. tumors-alt produce characteristic bile's engine that is running with waves, though it is probably too the least expenditure est energy.much to claim that the records Open your eyes and give the brain alone can be relied upon for cer- work to do and the alphas are tain diagnosis.

What Berger

cal's lost waves then appear, which have a Gibbs have presented their medical rate of about 25 a second. There colleagues with an Important are also deltas. On the whole the ploncer work. Instead of studying

the vast literature on electroence alphas are the telltale waves

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CHICAGO.—The Chicago chapter of the American Red Cross, largest chapter in the Un.ted States, states the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, is expected to fill at least a tenth of the rapid'y expanding national Red Cross quotas. Offelally, the big quotas have been set to meet "any emergency". Unofficially, the Red Cross is getting ready for war,

Since January 1st, the Red Cross He believes the Chicago chapter is has been buliding up a national well prepared to to care for both. reserve, Roger Holden, manager of When asked what the Red Cross the Chicago chanter, said recently. 1s doing for American soldiers, This reserve includes 20 million Holden replied: "We have expa: d bandages and surgical dressings ed our service nationally 100 per 50,000 nurses for the army and cent."

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navy, trained first ald instructors This expansion, he said, includes for every squad in the arined for ver, and a corps of girl ambulance drivers.

Holden believes the first ald at the back and call of every training programme may turn out soldier and sailor, their families. to be the most important work of and the milltary commanders to the Red Cross. Eventually, he sa d. help solve social problems. enough soldiers will be trained 80 The most recent direct service of there will be one man versed in the Red Cross is a $1.000.000 mp first ald for every eight men in the propriation for all kinds of re-

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Red Cross courses now enrol 15 000 Knitting for the American soi- persons here, whereas last year's diers is not necessary. Holden suld, total way 8000. In addition, the because the Red Cross contends Red Cross is teaching Arst aid to that the army issued clothing is every man in the Chicago police adequate. "Our soldiers are better and fire departments and in the clo hed and equipped than any on park district police force, and has earth." he said. Increased its home nursing classes Since September 1930, when the 30 per cent,

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