1933-06-19 — Page 17

"NATURE THAT CURES"

LORD 'HORDER ON

TREATMENT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933.

BENDIEN TEST FOR THE CANALS OF

TUBERCULOSIS

MARS

DEFINITE SCIENTIFIC | “EXISTENCE CLEARLY

VALUE

Criticism of certain of the mo- Dr. Joseph Fine and Dr. D. M. dorn tendencies in the treatment Dunlop, of Edinburgh, have been of disease is the substance of a using the Bendion test In cases of recent lecture by Lord order, tuberculosis, and their results have published in the current issue been published in the current.issuo of "The British Medient Journal," of the "Quarterly Journal of Medi. Dealing with the question of cine." The test has the advantage whether remedies are often really over a somewhat similar reaction as specific for definite diseases as known as the "sedimentation test," many doctora belleve, Lord Har-in that it can be performed on the der said: "Most of our trent blood serum in the laboratory and mente, and some that are quite does not need, like the latter, to be successful, are: matters of ex carried out more or less immediate pediency: they are not nintters of ly at the bedside. right or wrong. This arisen from

the fact that it is always Nature

that cures, and 'not we.

"The disharmony we call disease can only be adjusted by the opera- tion of processes which are already inherent in the body: we cannot substitute new processes, we can only help and control these by which life and health are being already maintained."

They found the Bondion test of great value in gauging the outlook In cases of pulmonary tuberculoals, and the results ran closely parallel with those obtained by the sedi mentation test. It is inferred from the fact of changes occurring in the degree of reaction shown by the two tests that a change in the Bon- dien result is more significant than a change in the sedimentation rate

This is probably because tho Lord Horder is emphatically Bendien test shows a lesser degreo against what he calls "direct ne- of sensitivity and does not alter tion" in treatment, While ad-with slight changes in the condition of the mitting, that certain emergencies of the patient. In view call for specified direct measures, differences occurred in the two he points out that in most other tests when carried out in series on instances direct, massive attack the same patient it is possible to as to the upon disease by many of the latest draw some deductiona chemical preparations may and exact significance of the Bendien doea often do much more harm reaction. than good.

THE TIME ELEMENT

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Vaccine From Eggs

SMALL-POX RESEARCH

DISCOVERY

NEW GIANT TELESCOPE

WORK IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Bloemfontein. Objects in tho aky tiever before observed can be seen through tho

hemisphere which has been orected A now-laid ogg provides, it is at Mazelspoort, near Bloemfontein, The latest views on the pro-

theclaimed, the most rapid and pure by the Boydon Station of Harvard bability of life existing on planet Mars were discussed before source of vaccine against small- University. the Royal Institution by Dr. V. M. pox.

The telescope cost £30,000 This discovery has been made by Slipher, the distinguished Amer lean astronomer, who recently ra- Professor E. Paschon, of the and weighs twenty tons. It is fitted with A 60-inch reflecting ceived the gold medal of the Royal Hamburg Institute of Tropical mirror, and under favourable con- Diseases, Eminent authorities Inditions will bring an object 2,000 England belleve that it may entire times nearer the eye.. It can photo- ly eliminate the rare complication graph a light of one candle-pawor of post-vaccinal encephalitis,

at any distance up to 4,600 milles. which in recent years has been regarded in some quartors as an argument against vaccination.

Free from Bacteria' largest telescope in the southern

Astronomical Society,

After the lecture Dr. Silpher, who is the director of the Loweli Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, which is primarily devoted to planet studies, sald that

for life as we know it were most Of all the planets the conditions promising on Mars.

The "Cunnla" were real and the latest observations had given no reason to suppose that they were not artificial.

system.

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TEMPERATURE of marS.

"In the face of such a wonder-

Professor Paschon prepares his vaccine by injecting a small amount of cowpox virus into the centre of a fertile now-laid ogg. He then scale up the hole and places the egg in an incubator at the usual temperature.

a

Dr. J. Paraskavopoulos, Director of the Observatory, says: ""Tho distance we expect to reach is In- comprehensible in terms of miles. Scientifically expressed. we expect to reach distars which light, with its speed of 186,000 miles a second, would take more than 200 million years to span.

SPIRAL NEBULÆ

hemi-

After four days, Professor Pas- chen states, the egg contains suficient vaccine to inoculate 100

"The great importance of this people. He has also described a new giant telescope," Dr. A. C. D. large number of successful vac- Crommelin, formerly President of cinations of human beings using the Royal Astronomical Society, the new method, and claims, that stated, "is that it will open up to his vaccine is completely free observation the remaining three- from bacteria of all kinds,

tenths of the sky which is for over "It may well be," research 'round the corner from the great worker of the Lister Institute com- telescopes of the northern monted, "that the new method will sphere. entirely replace the preparation "It is by far the largest telescope of vaccine from calves lymph.'"

"That the vaccine is free from in the southern hemisphere, al- though its light-collecting power is bacteria is important, that from calves lymph is 'nd-only about a third of that of the mittedly not!"

biggest of all, the 100-inch reflector at Mount Wilson, California.

"""Perhaps the most important work awaiting southern observers equipped with powerful instruments is the measurement of the speeds at which the distant spiral nebula in BRITAIN TAKING TO. their section of the sky are moving away from us. Only from 75 to 100 of all the nebule have been

BASEBALL

because

Is baseball, the national game of studied in this way, and their im- America and Japan, making head-portance lies in the fact that they way in this country? Do English form the basis of the whole discus crowds react-favourably-to-thesion as to whether the universe..is. "rosting," or barracking, that is really expanding, as Einstein tells such an essential feature of the B., "ball game?" Who is Bud Munro, the world's greatest "Attaboy?"

Yesterday (writes a Morning

Clouds had been measured up to a hoight of fifteen miles in the Martinn atmosphere, roughly throo times as high as they are found above the earth, and that

The theory that the Martian polar caps were composed of car- bon dioxide "now" which has a much lower melting point than that of ice, was untenable! ABNORMAL FINDINGS

"In thinking of life on the Probably both tests depend upon planets," Dr. Slipher concluded his chemical substances gotting into the lecture, "we are apt to judge by He does not believe that the of the body. Certain of the pro- and

blood stream from the diseased part our own narrow earthly standards time element in the healing pre-tein substances in the blood are come to the earth may very well requirements, What has cess can ever be eliminated oven held to account for abnormal find if it can be shortened and many ings in the sedimentation rate, and come to other planets in our measures claiming to cut short it is probable that Bendion's test disoase processes have no selenti- depends upon the amount of globu- fle justification. Nature cannot in present in the blood. bo hurried.

The orginal Bendien test has "Coax her," said Lord Horder. been considerably modified by the ful example of a purposeful guid- THE BAWL GAME "Yes; lead hor, yes; educato her, Edinburgh workers, whose resoaring force, how can we be satisfied yos) but bully, ahove, or hector ches are here summariaed. The to think that life is an accident her, no."

difficulties with regard to the and not an intended part of the His lecture was an emphatic solutions and glass tubes used have whole plan?"

The temperature of Mars had plea for a return to fundamental (been met on lines already suggested physiological principles in the by Bendion during his last visit to been estimated by Lowell' at 48 science and art of treatment. this country and discussed in these degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Slipher Through the patient study of such columns.

said, and the general result of principles have been evolved the It would seem that the successful the last fifteen years of Martian striking triumphs of insulin for use of the Bendion test for tuber- study had been to confirm marked- diabetes and liver for pernicious culous patients confirms the viewly his conclusions as to the con- annomin. Lord Horder holds that held consistently in various articles ditions on Mars. If anything, they more favourable

to which his instrument should "Only in talking of the distance only through similar patient in this journal that the test had a appeared to be thought and study will further definite scientific value. It fathan he thought.

After alluding to the presence

penetrate does it seem to me that advances come.

known that the sedimentation rate

Dr. Paraskavopoulos is optimistic. is altered in other diseasca besides of oxygen and water vapour in the. Post representative) I sought the I should say that he would be lucky tuberculosis, and the chemical sub- Martian atmosphere, Dr. Slipher answera to these questions from

100 million stances occurring in abnormal con- described.

of Mr. Charlie Muirhead, secretary of if he penetrated to appearance MORE AEROPLANES: centration in the blood in tuber- clouds as "a bright streak of light the Anglo-American Baseball Asso-light-years, one half the figure he

culosis may also be those responsible catching the morning or holding ciation, and the man who has spon- mentions." for the results obtained by Ben the evening light while it la darksored the sport in England during dien and others in cancer.

underneath it on the Martian sur-the past 11 years. He gave me the

following information: face."

Baseball was invented by 32 warships, President Roosevelt "One exceptionally big cloud,”

Englishman, General Abner Double- has agreed to allot $9,362,000 for he said, "representing the construction of aeroplanes.storm on Mars, covered 300,000 day, of Chipping Norton, who in-

square miles of the planet's sur troduced it to the United States.

ARBITRATION URGED Reuter Special.

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It is attracting more and more It appeared in a night and Public School boys changed visibly in size and shape graduates every year,

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Arbitration to settle all matters from one night to another. From

It is the noislest such clouds we see quite clearly world, and it cannot be played by a

game in the in dispute is again suggested by committee representative of that the atmosphere of Mars must women, who, however, indulge in theatro managerial organisations be quite considerable, even 43 a sport, known as "softball."

In reply to a letter from Mr. high as 15 miles."

The Anglo-American Baseball Alfred Wall, secretary of the An atmosphere, he said. was ABRociation has formed in 1922, British Actors Equity Associa also required to account for the said Mr. Muirhead, "since when we tion. seasonal appearance and disappear-have entertained thousands of The Committee state that they ance of the polar caps. There was American. anilors, Rhodes scholars, welcome "your council's conver good proof that they were ice, and actors and other devotees of the sion to a policy of peace and con- in regard to the old suggestion pastime. Our seasons last for four ciliation, and are convinced that that they were frozen carbonic months. from May to August, and It is more likely to result in last- oxide gas he stated that we were we have averaged a game a week ing benefit to the profession than now sure that the necessary con- in London every senRon.

the action taken and statements ditions of pressure and tem-

made by some members of your perature could not prevail.

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**We entirely disagree with you," the latter continues, "that an award embodying a model formi of contract would be valueless without some dictatorial power being conferred upon your associa tion.

KILLING THE UMPIRE "Our teams are mostly recruited from young Americans resident in SHRINKAGE OF POLAR CAPS

England, but anyone who wishes to Although there was same play the game has only to come to depth of seasonal change on Mars us. We hope that one of America's as on the earth, Dr. Silpher pro-finest league teams will shortly be eeeded, their polar caps shrank in coming to tour the country." summer to only a few degrees, Mr. Muirhead assured me that considerably smaller than our baseball spectators were responsible "We are unaware that the re- for the birth of the "wisecrack." lationship between managers and A Martian," he said, "might"The "ball game' is a case of the artists had, as you state, 'fallen well conclude that the earth was survival of the fittest," he said into a sorry and precarious plight. not any warmer than Mars be-grimly, "and whereas in formar and we think that statements like cause he would see that our polar days it was fought out with a club, this can serve on useful purpose. now it la settled by the team with caps never shrunk as small дя

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the best vocabulary, urged on by largely used, and even where new Turning to the vexed question the 'rooters,

conditons necessitated a variation "Killing the umpire merely in that form, many hundreds of of the Martian canals Dr. Slipher stated that while thoro was na-means disagreeing with one of his artists have worked prosperously turally room for differences of decisions. "Boneheads" are stupid and happily under the modified opinion as to their Interpretation, and a unanimous shriek of "solid

batters, "aluggers" are long hitters, conditions. their existence WOR clearly Ivory" conveys to the unfortunate "They have been photographed," pitchor what the onlookers think his he said, "and many experienced head la, made of. observers with excellent Instru-

established.

ments have repeatedly observed digging of artificial canals would them." In support of his views, be a possibility. There would be Dr. Slipher quoted the reports of no bossibility of seeing the canals the Lick Observatory in Call themselves but the cultivated aren fornia, which he selected do- of the Nile valley would present a parallel appearance, as seen liberately as that observatory was from Mars.

conclusions."!

"If anything unfriendly to Lowell's The darkening of the large blue- "While it is true," he proceeded, green arosa and the canals as the "that the observations of different season cama round for the growth obsarvers have not always been in of vegetation, he said, had led to complete agreement in what was the boller that vegetable life was seen by them, it has long been my animated life of some degrea of present, and henco probably conviction that critics have done Intelligence. harm by judging them wrongly.

"This comes from the too cont between the planets, Dr. Slipher Discussing the general relations mon error of assuming that no sald that the terrestrial group, change is taking place on the consisting of Mars, Venus, and planet whereas much change takes Mercury were, more like the earth place, sometimes within a few in size, density and the amount of

hours."

energy derived from the sun. CANALS POSSIBLY DUG The giant group Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptuno-had... very After the lecture Dr. Blipher different atmospheres so far as expressed his conviction that the could be judged from their abborp conditions were such that tho tion of light

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