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SOUTH AMERICA

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 16th,·· 1929.

WITH BYRD IN THE ANTARCTIC.

AFRICA

SOUTH POLE

}POLAR PLATEAU TWO MILES HIGH

MOUNTAIN-RANGE

"GRAHAM LAND---

PACIFIC

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BYRD'S ROUTE SV

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AMUNDSEN, 1911

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This map shows the scene of one of the greatest adventures of an adventurous age, Commander Richard E. Byrd's conquest of the South Pole area by airplane. Byrd has established his base at the Bay of Whales, 800 miles from the pole, and plans He will emergency landing stations at 100-mile intervals,

have to By above the great poinr platean, a circular mass of ice nearly two miles high. He also plans to explore much of the surrounding Antarctic continent, desolate wastes of misun-

MEDICAL PROGRESS. IN 1928. U.S. DOCTOR'S INTERESTING REVIEW.

BY MORRIS FISHBEIN, M.D.

Edifor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of

BEARDMORE GLACIER

ROSS ICE

BARRIER

BYRD'S

BASE

ROSS SEA

TO NEW ZEALAND

MAGNETIC POLE

QUEEN VICTORIA LAND

tainous fee that are swept by terrifle blizzards. The routes of Amundson and Scott, who reached the pole on foot, are shown. Capt. Wilkins, rival polar explorer. has established his airplane base on an island in Weddell Sea (upper left) and plans to fly to the pole from that direction. 'Commander Byrd has re- rey reported from his. base at the Bay of Whales that while exploring the surrounding area he discovered new land with a mountain range having fourteen high peaks,

BRIDGE HANDICAPS.

WOULD MAKE FOR MORE LEVEL GAMES.

(By R. W. Hallows.) The handicap system is used in inimoak every game and sport

except bridge. There is no rea-" son why this excellent card game should not be improved and made more sociable by giving starts to weaker players.

Certain fortunate people are gifted with what is known as the eard mind.

They have not the slightest difficulty in remembering how each cards falls in every trick in a game of bridge; they can gauge the value of a hand after an inatant's inspection, and they have the happy knack of divining rapidly just what is held by their partners or their opponents,

It is such people who become the first-rate players, making utmost of a good hand by their skilful calling and their subtle play, and losing only the minimum number of points on a bad one. Bridge players less gifted we may classify in a descending seale as good, average, moderate, pear- and rabbity.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

TANK OPERATED BY 'PLANE.

This experimental ear, resembling war tank, has been operated by wireless by an aviator 2,000 feet overhend. Even the gums were fired by radio.

The controls on the car ard

car

Would

Dayton. Dec. 28.-Successful, was being controlled by the avia

more Lack plays a certain part in experiments have been made at tor in order to make it bridge, as in most other gamos, MeCook field in operating an distinguishable on the field.

Officials miht, out that aerial but in the long run a player's | experimental war tank by radio winnings or losings will be very from an airplane 2,000 feel or torpedoes, armoured tanks and Jairailar contrivances of war could much in proportion to his skill. more above the field.

be operated in like manner during An average or moderate player is often afraid to cut into a rubber, moved by radio impulses sent out battle. The advantage of using partly from a fear that he may by the airplane pilot. The the airplane in guiding the tank

and

He in the possibility of spoil the game for others

starts, steps, turns to the right or artly because he feels that heteft, blows a hom and fire gans keeping the ear within sight at must in the end he a loser himself, mounted on it at the will of the all times. When controlled from a station on the ground the car I ought to be possible for some pilot hovering above.

soon gets out of sight of the system of bridge handicaps, to be

In previous experiments the eni oporator. ultraviolet rays are apparently available. Investigators in the devised which would enable the

was operated from another anlo- Similar control of ships by air- securable through the inking of University of Wisconsin found that weaker to play with the stronger mobile or from a station on the plane in naval engagements would cod liver oil; through the use of the ash derived from the liver concentrated tablets mate from extract contained copper and that with less disadvantage. If some-ground. The recent experiments make it possible for an airplane cod liver oil; through the use of copper is a substance of the great thing of the kind would be done, it were the first in which the car to guide a ship loaded with some irradiated ergosterol, which re-l est importance in relationship to wuld be an enormous advantage was controlled from an airplane. high explosive into an enemy fleet

It was necessary to throw a or harbour without running any Not the smallest of the improve. | white, shoet over the car when it risk of losing human life. ironments that such a system might.

presents concentrated vitamin D, the formation of blood in the hu-from many points of view. and finally through the use of man body. Heretofore, it has been food substances whch have, been the general belief that irradiated and in this way supply was the chief mineral, salt of im-bring about would be that the in-

portance in this connection, clusion in a rubler of one or even The remainder would then be vitamin D to the hunun being.

less brilliant players would credited above the line to the two

for weaker pair before play began. no longer spoil the game experts.

is

of

A scheme of bridge handicaps, either in the form outlined or in some modification of it might he worth a trial in clubs or in home circles where several players of different degrees of skill fre-

Whatever is done, the difficult

For many years a certain joke still! All of these things are

as been current in medicine. The being used in an experimental

professor asked the student. "What way and time will be required to are the functions of the spleen?". One of the great charms of show which of the methods are to The student answers, I know them, golf is that owing to the system be adopted as routine in order to professor, hút I have forgotten." of handicaps in vogue any player supply he human body with the Whereupon the professor exclaims but an absolute rabbit (no method proper amount of ultraviolet rays in dismay, "Good heavens, you were of handicapping can eater ade or vitamin D,

the only man who knew and you quately, for rabbits!) can take onurally met... have forgotten." Within the Substitutes for Insulin,

present year research on the spleen any other with the feeling that During the year altemple have has culminated in evidence that this whether his opponent is better, or position of the poor player will been made to secure substitutes organ intimately associated worse than himself a reasonably always remain, though it may be good game will result. So it is alleviated to a great extent. T for insulin, the preparation that with maintaining a balance is life-saving for the diabetic, substances in the virulation of the with billiards and in the handicap might, though, be possible to meet tennis tournaments, and with polo,hiin rather more than halfway by with the Idea that these substi-blood.

taking which Is the best example,

a leaf from the bk of tutes could be taken by mouth. This concerns uot only whereas insulin must be used by with

Something on the same neseroquet or golf. Could wo the fluid content but injection. Two substitules have niso. the blond cell content might possibly be done with reallow him a bisque trick? He has thus far been proposed called of the circulating bload, gard to bridge. The difficulty is declared, we will Imagine, three no on an absolute "atter", synthalin and myrtillín, but Apparently the nervous system in decide what form the handicaps trumps neither of the preparations has sends evidence to the spleen, of the are to take. Scuring values could By sheer lack of skill he makes been prepared in sufficiently pure demand that is being made on the hardly be assessed by tricks, since but, two. The scorer's pencil is make a game, just about to descend upon the form or suficiently relive to war-system and the spleen responds three trieks may

and this small number allows pad recording points against him rant recommendation as insulin with the increased material..

ubstitutes.. -

insuffleient scope. Probably if a when he claims his bisque of one Heredity and Blood Tests.

handicap system could be evolved and gets home. Something might it would have to be based upon be done even for the rabbit if we

allowed him one revake per rubber| scoring above the line.

without penalty.

Numerous meetings were held)

have

Not

by societies and investigators es- Work on the blood indicates the pecially interested in the controlssibility of determining eventu of cancer. Those, meelings served ally the parentage and heredity of

Obviously the rubber would

Bridge is wit..out a doubt the' to direct attention to the fact tiffany child by blood examination. progress in the control of cancer This test is dependent on the fact form the most satisfactory basis. is exceedingly slow and that sci-that there occur in the blood va-for handicapping. We might, for greatest card game that the fertile re-example, value the first-rate rain of man has ever yet devised.. untrinis substances which are

superlative gume could entific investigations done much as yet in establish defi-sponsible for reactions in the mat-player at 150, the good at 100, the Only

whist of our forefathers, IL nitely the coke of the disease orter of agglutination or dissolution average at 75, the moderate at 40, have ousted so thoroughly the Inf red blood cells. Of course, and the poor at 0. These of

might be brought a step nearer. any certain method of control.

of the blood of one course are wide figures and in- The advice therefore must still reaction

on the blood of others dividual handicaps would be much perfection by working out

method whereby players of be given that the one method for Person elimination is early diagnosis and fixes him definitely in a certain closer. When four players had prompt removal with the possible group. This grouping Is appear-cut in for a rubber the handicaps different calibre can meet upan

of each pair of partners would terms of greater equality. assistance of ralium or of the X-ently hereditary, Pay to control recurrences of The peculiar fanatics who in- be added together and the lesser growth. More and more leaders sist that cancer is the result of total subtracted from the greater.

In medicine are inclined to credit cooking in aluminum utensils were

heredity factor in cancer.

the work of Dr. Maud Slye, which answered by a series of investiga- been found which raises the amount indicates the importance of the tions made in New York, which of ketone substances in the blood proved that there is no scientific and thereby lowers in a consider evidence of any chronic poisoning able extent the number of conval- taking place from fond cooked insions.

Amazing Operations,

Control of Tuberculosis,

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er case on such structures as the

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Methods are developing studying

vast numbers children or Adults ht any given time In order

de- termine the porcentage of va- rious diseases and the cause. Spe- cial attention has been paid to the problems of health associated with dress. The eminent physiologist, Leonard Hill, advocates Inser

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Much attention was given by aluminum utensils; that copper, Research in medicine is cou-of the vitamins that it contains is obysicians during the year to the zine, manganese, iron, aluminum,

of the BCG or Calmette-nickel and cobalt are commonly The technique of surgery has been tinuous. The great discoveries of assneinted with the appearance of Use any year represent the calmination the disease called pellagra. Yeast Guerin acele made from living found in plant and sea foods and of many investigations made injis particularly rich in vitamin B organisms for the control of tu are generally present in the human

It is generally known body, various plecs over long periods and it is for this reason that Dr. berculosis, of time. It is, therefore, practical-Joseph Goldberger of the United that practically every child has tu

Many foreign countries contin- ly impossible to assign to any States Publie Health Service erculosis before it is eight years us to announce birth rates lower one year the credit for any single suggested the use of yeast extract and that a certain amount than ever before. At the same immunity to disease develops as it time infant mortality rates and great. discovery iri modern or powered yeast to control. the grows older. It was the idea of death rates in general have been medicine. The volume of The disease.

Prof. Calmette that infants might lowered so that problems of pop- Journal of the American Medical More and more attention is be he inoculated with vaccine of ivulation continue to disturb seri- Association for 1928 opens with thejing paid to ultraviolet rays and ing germs and in this manner re- report of an investigation made in their effects on the human body.ceive a controlled case of the dis.ous economists and sociologists. John Hopkins University several Ultraviolet transmitting glasses onse which would serve to protect Use of X-ray Extended. months previously into an unusual lost popularity through the it against a serious infection. The

Injection methods have been de- skin condition called scleroderma, establishment of the fact that in majority of the evidence thus far veloped whereby it is possible to In which the skin becomes thicken-most large cities. an insuficient accumulated is opposed to tie

put oil containing iodin into vari- ed and hard. Usually the disease amount of ultraviolet rays pene method as a permanent routineous tissues and then by the use of begins on the hands and spreads trate through from the sun. Ap-|control of tuberculosis,

the X-ray to make these tissues to the trunk and finally to the parently the effectiveness of Run- A significant event of the year visible. Almost every portion of legs. The report made curly in skine depends not only on the was the death of the investigator, the human body is thus mude ne 1928 Indleated some relationship duration of the exposure but also Hideyo Noguchi from yellow fever cessible to the physician's gaze. between this disease, of which the on variations. produced by the while he was studying the cause Moreover investigators in St. Louis caude is not definitely known, and absorption of the netive rays and prevention of the disease on have developed a dye substance a disease involving the suprarenal from the sun by the earth's atmos- the Gold Coast of Africa. Through which may be Injected into the clothing and lighter clothing for glands. The majority of investi.phere under various conditions. these investigations it was found blood and localized in the gall men. A famous German plysfol- gators are inclined to think that The ahort ultraviolet rays

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frequent some generalized toxic condition readily cut off by smoke, moisture to a certain form of African mon- that organ by use of the X-ray. changes of garmenta for women, key, thus making it unnecessary hereafter to carry

Numerous serums and vaccina-since the decrease in the number experiments for the study and con- tions have been developed for pnes of garments makes the one-piece monia, but thus far not one of dreas constantly safled by contuet tral of this disease. symptoms to appear secondarily. Jemne ultraviolet may be valuable,

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