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HONGKONG ELECTRIC'S

NEW ISSUE.

TRAIN RUNS INTO LANDSLIDE.

MIDNIGHT PLIGHT OF PASSENGERS.

At the general meeting to be held on March 16 nort, the [By Hubert Kahle, M.D.]

Directors of the Hongkong Elec-A London-bound train with trie Company, Ltd., will (subject sixty passengers on board ran lu- To the many detrimental results to audit) propose a dividend of to a landslide in a blinding snow- of the war must be counted the $2.50 per share for 1927 and the storm at Starbridge, Surrey, three- hocking increase in oplumism, Issue as a bonus of 150,000 fully quarters of a mile north of Mcre the number of those now suffering paid shares on July 1, 1928, in tham Tuanel, on Christmas Night from this terrible malady being the proportion of one computed at 10 millions.. every two held In the Company,

It makes no

great difference The new issue of shares will rank whether a person amokes opium for dividend as from the date of shows it or drinks it, or whether issue.

すい

he injects subcutaneously its main component morphium, or

more

share to

is

neces-

Hundred of tons of earth and

snow fell on the track, complete-

blocking both the up and down lines. The engine became cm- bedded in the debris, and the train was derailed, and thrown off the line at an angle of 45degs. some women became hysterical, Passengers were terrified, and

but fortunately, no one was in Jurcil.

1928.

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"GLADOUS" "AENEAS"

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whether he takes one of the derivous system when the drug vative preparations manufactured withheld fainst the same. from any one of its 20 other com- The recognition of these facts ponents, such as heroin or the determined the nature of the well-known rough sedative, treatment. First, It was

It was a night of intense dark- codeine. The many euphemis-sary to find a remedy which, on the town, was two and

ness and Coulsdon, the nearest tically named preparations de patient'a being deprived of the miles away. Some

a quarter passengers LONDON SERVICE hurm than the original drug, should restore artificially ung open the carriage doors and apfum itself, inasmuch as people for several days the equilibrium jumped out on the track. They "PERSEUS" are not aware that all these sub of the 'two' nervous systems. found an enormous bank of earth stances resemble each other in Secondly, it was necessary, to their effects, above all, that they place the patient in a somnoles piled many feet high in front of easily give rise to habits from cent condition so that he might re-them. Everybody seemed to think which those who once give way to main unconscious of the alight The guard and the fireman went that a collision had occurred. them can never free themselves abstinential symptoms not fully

habits which slowly but surely eliminated. Both these objects along the train reassurring them. lead to physical and mental ruin. were successfully accomplished.

Opiumism creates a craving far more potent than hunger or thirst. A strong-willed man may kill him- self by a hunger strike; but a morphinist never succeeds, of his jowa effort, în freeing himself

from the tails of opium.

Essential Points.

Beaten by the Snow.

A few people started to walk along the snow-covered track to Coulsdon, but they were beaten back by the blinding snowstorm.

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Only the essential points of the method can be discussed here. Ia the first place, the patient is given

As soon as the Coulsdon station- sleeping draft which induces master was informed, he jumped Opium is the only substance in sleep for about 18 hours. The on his motor-cycle and raced NEW YORK SERVICE nature which removes intense choice of the draft is anything through Coulsdon, knocking up pain. Hence, no absolute prohibi-must be remembered that, even in the motor-cars and taxicabs he butin matter of indifference; it garages and commandeering all tion of opium is feasible. How ever, the abuse of the opiates in the earliest hours of the sleep, could. Even the local ambu- PASSENGER now being vigorously combated the absence of morphium causes lance was brought out and rush by the League of Nations and turbulence In the body,-a condi-ed to the scene of the mishap. tion which finds chemical expres-The stranded passengers were put In a former publication, I call-sion in the antithesis between into the motor-cars and the ambu- be-lance and driven, along the snow- ed attention to the fact that pati acids and bases, as well as

covered roads to Coulsdon North ents habituated to only the hun-tween potash and calcium. dredth part of the doses taken by inject under the skin a compound

During the pallent's sleep. Station.

various civilized · Governments.

others showed

the same

symp-

Here the waiting-room was like toma when the drug was withhel, of the chemical group of suba scene from the play, "The Ghost Porters banked up the (abstinential symptoms). Since stances known to excite the nerve Train,"

while arrangements then I have met with two patients, proceeding from the brain. This fires, and one of whom took only a 400 th counteracts the excitement pro-were being made for a special of the daily dose of the other, and duced in the nervus sympathicus train to take the passengers to yet it was no easier to wean him by the absence of morphium. A London, men and women stood of the drug.

compound of substances had to round the fires, commiserating be found which, though harm-with one another and congratula less, produced s maximum- of ing themselves on their fortunate effect. The injection must be escape. repeated several times during The sleep.

Tea and coffee were sent to them, and after spending about they were taken to Victoria. They reached London shortly after mid- night, three hours late.

Breakdown Gangs..

1

Structure of Nervous System. The explanation lies in the structure of the nervous system. Like everything else in nature, the The process 18,80 exact that, in an hour on Coulsdon platform human body is subject to the printhe most various cases, it is pos- ciple of antipolarism. Each or sible to determine, watch in hand, yan, such as the heart, the in- the position of the cure. At the testines, the bladder and every gland, is regulated in its action by close of the 110th, hour the libera- tion of the patient from hig two nerves, one lying in or near malady is complete. He must Two breakdown gangs worked it and the other proceeding from then fine; and all the rest is in the snowstorm all through the the brain. If one is excited, question only of hours and days. night trying to extricate the en- the function of the organ is re- tarded; if the other is, excited, its The patient now declincs morgine and the foremost coaches. After many hours of hard work function is accelerated. In nor phium even if offered to him..

On the tenth day, intense hun-they aucceeded in detaching the mal health, the two systems ex- actly counterbalance each other Ker is felt. From now onwards, rear coaches. and preserve the proper equill-recovery proceeds, with increasing Starbridge, where the mishap brium; with morphinists they do rapidity. Even after 28 days, the occurred, is just outside the tiny patlent may travel home alone village of Hooley, There is a not. All unknown to himself, the without any danger of a relapse. steep cutting in the track, flank patient restores the equilibrium He has already become accustomed by eighty feet high earth by artificial means; what amounted to natural sleep, ie, sleep banks. Owing to the heavy rhin of the narcotic drug is requisite for the purpose depends upon the which is not induced by any the land became dislodged, and constitution of the patient. Con-medicament; and at the end of the suddenly fell on the track. Had tlie éngine-driver not seen the sequently, whether 0.02 gr. of 6th week the cure is complete.

Altogether I have treated 247 mound of debris in front of him marphium have been taken daily er, as I once saw, 8 grams, the patients in this way; and, in and been able to apply the brakes, disturbance occurring in the ner every case, an absolute cure has the accident would have been

been, effected.

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