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TO-DAY'S HEALTH

TALK.

ABOUT APPENDICITIS.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1925.

WHAT IS LIGHT?

A SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY, The structure of light is one of the most perplexing problems facing the pioneers of selence. (BY DR. HUGH S. CUMMING.), In general light acts as though it were composed of waves. It Many people consider appendi-seems as though this were actual citis as a comparatively newly the case, for it is a simple disease, an allment that up to a laboratory experiment to measure generation ago was not heard of. the lengths of the waves of Appendicitis is as old as the different coloured light.

But in studying X-ray and

phenomena, related

scientists have found that light frequently acts as though it were composed of definite little particles each containing a definite amount of energy. This energy content has also been measured and has been named the quantum

human race. It was simply known by another name, or rather by a variety of other numes, before it discovered that the little organ called the appendix was causing all the troubly.

Was

The first accurate and definite description of this disease was given by Dr. Reginald Fitz of Boston in 1886. Prèvinus to that

COMING ICE AGE.

P

"GLOOMY DEAN.”

AN AMERICAN INTERVIEW.

"RETURN TO LIFE."

REVIVED FIVE MINUTES

AFTER DEATH.

AN AMERICAN'S · PREDICTION,

The world will be in the grip of another great ice age or glacia) The whole world has come to epoch in 20,000 years. That is know him as the "gloomy dean of the prediction of Mr. Ellsworth St. Paul's Cathedral, London."

A report of a case of return to Huntington, famed geographer,

life after death was made at a re- But the Rev. William Ralph cont session of the Eastern Society explorer, and research associate

Enge, most brilliant and liberal of Anesthetists at the Adelphia of Yale University.

Dr. Huntington has recently mind in the Church of England," Hótel, Philadelphia. been conducting Investigations to appears for gloomier in outward

The session, following the hold- find out if daily variations in the aspect than in inward thought. He ing of several clinics at the New sun's output of energy might not is gloomy as a scientist is gloomy, Samaritas. Jefferson, Hahnemann be caused by the positions of the which is to say that he is skeptical and Women's College Hospitals, planets. Then, it occurred to him and inclined to challenge the brought out the importance of that lony period variations in the doctrines of complacency.

mathematica in determining opera un might be caused by the post- The joy of church liberals and tive and anesthesia risks, as an tions of the stars. Dr. Hunting the despair of conservatives, he aid in forecasting impending shock ton believes that the planets in admits that in America he might long before the signs appear. fluence the sun by reflecting part easily meet the fate of a heretic. Toward the close of the session, of the sun's electrical radiation Lack into the sun.

A shy, shabby man is the "gloomy Dr. E. 1. McKesson, of Toledo, The star, of

dean." course, would affect the sun by showed the effects of long wear stating that, prior to leaving His black travelling suit) 0, caused a mild discussion by the influence of their own radi-It had taken on a mirror-like sheen Toledo to attend the meetings here. ntions, for the stars send out lights in some sections and a dulled, gray he had succeeded in bringing back seat of any, dangerous disease.

It is perfectly true that before

heat and electrical radiations justing tone in others. The deep lines to life a patient who had been 1886 abscesses, due to discure of This has been attempted rens our own sun dog. the appendix, had been opened gently, by Sir Joseph Thomson, Scientists agree that one of the of his face and the unruly nature dend for five minutes.

most likely

"As I walked into the operating and drained, but the appendix famous British selentist.

causes of a glacial of his hair suggest an unkemptness,

patient, had not been removed. and the.

age would be a falling off in the His timidity is accentuated by a room I noticed that a operation did not involve any ex

energy radiated by the sun. Such slight deafness, which causes him about to undergo a serious opera tensive opening of the body cavity,

falling off might take place ifto stand with head slightly bowed tion, showed all the signs of im the sun was subjected to the that he may better concentrate. pending death. In 1886, however, an operation

The surgeon was for appendicitis was performed, When an object is heated suffi- | bombardment of electrical rays

His mouth, thin-lipped, droops in about to inject salt solution. In an appendix removed, and the clently it gives off, light. Sir from near stars, Dr. Huntington a smale, half sarcastic, half good-the meantime breathing, had stop- Accordingly he ask-humoured. His eyes are brooding tion of oxygen. Five minutes

ped. patient lived until 1919, in no way Joseph says that this is because believes.

We began the administra- affected by the removal of that the electrong are moved out into ed two well known astronomers, even a bit sad, "

larger orbit.

This, he says, Dr. Schlessinger of Yale and Dr.

after death had set in she began He talked of sex-literature, the to breathe. She had been bleed- throws the tube of force into Shapley of Harvard, to help him figures in the Denistoun ense, birthing profusely, from

a hemmor- loop and it becomes detacher and computed he courses of the nearest control. science, the travels out into space as - a

stage, rhage." "closed ring of force."

The interrupted operation then

time the medical profession did not regard the appendix as the

organ.

Now scientists are faced withi| the difficulty of picturing a struc- ture for fight which will explain both the wave phenomena and, the quantum phenomena.

Sir Joseph believes that the ons are held to the nucleus of atoms by what be calls "tubes of forec."

In order that you may under stand something of the nature of appendicitis, it is first necessary that you know something about The appendix. You should know The quantum theory matches that man is one of the few animals up with this theory because such having a vermiform'appendix.. aring for force would contain a

We do not know that it hits any definite amount of energy,

useful function. It has been cal-

led a rudimentary organ. Some people believe It is simply an organ that has deteriorated from lack of use, until it is now but a vestige of a once active and im. portant part of the body.

Sir Joseph says it also matches up with the wave theory because these rings would be of different diameter and that the so-called wave length is only the diameter of the ring of force.

38 stars for the last 70,000 years "miracle henling" and eugenics ini and the coming 70.000 years. The

a manner that would probably seem

IL

calculations show that five of gloomy to a confirmed optimist proceeded, he stated, and a large these stars reached their closest but which could quite as easily be quantity of salt solution was inject- to our sun 25,000 years ago. That

led and a return to consciousness iseen intelligently was the time when the last ice age skeptical.

logical, if

following the operation ensued. took place. The calculations

She died five hours later while show further that seven of the

"Social ostracization" is his solu-search for a suitable donor for a stars will rench their closest position for persons who figure in such blood transfusion was in progress. tions to our sun sometime between scandals as the recent Denistoun

The use of mathematigo in fore- 17,000 and 34.000 years in the case.

casting shock during operations "They deserve nothing less than long before the signs of pending That is why Dr. Huntington (complete ostracization," he says. trouble are seen was brought out predicts another ice age in 20,000 "I would not have them admitted in the paper of Dr. D. H. "Ale

to the company of decent men nad Mechan, secretary-general of the t | Associated Anesthetists of the

future.

rears.

women,

The vermiform appendix is a finger-like appendage about three:

Mr. Kenys Chief Presidency. inches in length and a quarter of Magistrate of Calcutta, recently an inch diameter, having a canal convicted a woman, named Batusi

"It would be useless to deny that United, State an: Canada, which running throughout its entire Dasi, who was charged with the Photography is just exactly 100 such people and such forces are at was read by Dr. J. H. Evans, of bragth. It is situated at the end sale of three ounces of cocaine years old. It was in 1825 that work in grades of English society Buffalo, owing to the absence of of the cecum, or large intestine, and with possessing a large the first method of taking the smart eet,' I think they are Dr. McMechan, prevented by ilongas Just below the point where the quantity of the drug without a pictures was discovered. Joseph called. They are net English from attending the meetings. The small intestine opens into the licence, and sentenced her to one Nieper was the father of society, however, but by-products ofigures are obtained be aycuring the large intestine. It is found in year's rigorous imprisonmont on photography. Ho exporimented an age vitiated by immoral novels.pulse rate and pressure and other the lower right" side of the ab- each charge, the sentences t with a sheet of tin envered with domen. Somtimes it is shorter run consecutively. The Magi- chemicals which were sensitive to

"And what is your opinion of the factors and finding a ratio, thereby than three inches, and specimen strale observed that her reputa-the

so-called sex novels?" he was asked.tients in three groups from faveur- permitting the classification of pa- action of light. Quo of have been found that were betian for years had been that one tween six and 11 inches in length. of the most notorious cocaine About 1886, the year in which dealers and an exemplary pun- the appendix was first recognized ishment was necessary.

as the seat of various diseases of the abdomen, the irrent French bacteriologist, Louis Pasteur, was conducting his studies of the causes of the disease. He found that living germs were responsible for many infections of the human body and proved that germs were the agents which caused disease,

The discoveries of Pasteur were taken advantage of by Lister,, the|- father of modern surgery, who applied his principles of clean- liness and striet aaoptics to all operations, and revolutionized

Burgery.,

Previous to this time surgicali operations were attended with great risks because of the infer- tion which set in after the opera- | tion. Now, however, these infec-1 itions have ceased, to appear and surgery has been brought to #1 stage that is comparatively safe.

The germs which cause appen dicitis may enter the appendix. through the blood or through, the intestines, with which the appendix is connected. Ap- parently these Vers may originate in distant parts of the body, in the tonsils, in bad teeth, } or in the stomach.

The structure of the appendix is such that it favors infection. There is a great deal of tissue which may easily become swollen. thus shutting off the canal and allowing the material retained to decompose and produce inflamma- tion.

It may be said in general that any condition which tends to in- terfere with the drainage of the appendix into the large intestine:

*

Niopee's associates was Daguerre. "They are doing no end of able to poor. Daguerre perfected the process damage. Those books make and the pictures were subsequent-immoral uses of the word love and ly called Daguerrotypes.

AN EVOLUTION THEORY.

WHITE

NEGRO

ORANG

GORILLA

CHIMPANZEE

INTERMEDIATE ANCESTORS

ORIGINAL

ANCESTOR

is of importance in causing ap-1 Man had three-fold origla, 1 Dr. Crookshank, however, be- pendicitis. Free drainage of the according to the theory recently an- lieves the original parent stock appendix is essential to the nounced by Dr. Francis G, Croak-split into three branches and that healthy condition of the Indi- shank, London physician and selen- each of these in its turn split into vidual and the retention of any tist. material in the organ may produce inflammation.

The treatment of an attack or appendicitis te surgical.

propagate the idea that the mar- riage laws can instantly be set at naught when the fancy of a man or woman turns to someone else."

CURE FOR RICKETS.

"The young woman of the time-MAKING BONES GROW HARD. what we call the flapper. Is she a

bit. worse thun her grandmother?" was asked.

Rickets, one of the most serious diseases of early childhood has "I didn't know her grandmother,' been conquered, says a Home con- was the witty response. "But the temporary. Two methods for the girls are steadying down. There prevention and cure of rickets was a time after war when I could have been discovered. Rickets is not have said exactly that." a failure of the bones of the body

With the modern biologists Dean to grow hard. Inge fears that the more intelligent In normal children, the soft people are having too few children bones become hardened through and many ill-fitted persons are the deposit of mineral matter, having too many,

hiefly calcium phosphate in the "We are breeding from the cells of the bones. This has been It was bottom and dying off at the top, known for a long time. is one of his pithy epigrams.

obvious at once, therefore, that children with rickets must be But he hesitates on the question given a diet rich in calcium and of birth control. That there should phosphorus.

be some form of regulation, he But it was found that some- earnestly belleves, but the spread-thing was wrong with the internal ing of birth control knowledge 19 reactions of the child with rickets "dangerous for those who would so that his bones failed to absorb use it outside of wedlock," he adds. the mineral matter. Now it has He expressed surprise that legla- been discovered that either the latures of various states in America| feeding of cod-liver oll or the ex- should have ruled against the teach- posing of the child to ultraviolet ing of evolution.

radiation will cure and prevent

"The more serious effects will be rickets.

on the legislators," he observed with This discovery has opened up a his wry smile. "I should say that new line of research which may between Darwin and the legislead to even more amazing discov. lators, the latter are the more ecies. dangerous." He deplores the ten- Scientiste want to know why a dency to challenge scențific dis-dose of cod-liver oil should have coveries.

the same effect as ultra-violet The attitude of many clergymen rays. Accordingly experimenta and churches in going in for have been undertaken to study {"divine healing" is seen by Dean colliver oil. It is now believed Inge as a "dangerous return to old that reaction goes on when cod- superstitions."

liver oil is absorbed by the human

ordinary revival of superstitions self giving off ultra-violet rays. "There seems to be an extra-system which results in the oil it twa, one giving rise to a sort that had been thought discarded These rays cause the bones to While there is no disagreement pe of ape and the other to a cer- (Occultism, magic, spiritualism and absorb the mineral mutter they

tain type of man, among scientists as to the general

previously refused. fact of evolution, there are still white race and the chimpanzee are thought impossible. There have According to this theory, the forth, enjoy a popularity which

50 years ago, would have been a. many detalls concerning the way in the result of the splitting of one of which evolution works and the the three branches,

been those in the church who have

patha It takes upon which arfentiste The Mongolian race and the given encouragement to the craze the psychologist and men skilled in

do not agree.

1.

The Rumyantsey Musoum in

We must substitute Moscow is to have a new dopart-

otang represent the second branch for miracle mongering In the trent diagnoala. mont' in the form of a book

agnse and knowledge for ignoranco museum, in which the history of the origin of man is that an or represent the third.

The general belief concerning and the negro race and the gorf:la ment of the sick. books will be illustrated, covering ginal parent stock split into two

"Much mischief can be done and emotionalism." Dr. Crookshank believes that the through the exploiting of partially And what of civilization in a period of nine centuries, from branches. The descendants of one relationship, therefore, between the submerged habits and superstitions the manuscripts of the 11th branch are present-day men. The white race and the chimpanzes is which civilization haen't had time century to the latest book novel-descendants of the other branch are much closer than that of the white to eradicate. This is not a proper tios of the present day,

the spes

race and the other races of man. study for the clergy, but belongs to

Civilization is not yet here.”

general?" was the next queation.

With this "gloomy" response the interview edded,