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MONDAY, March 8, 1937.
Council
By
A Medical Correspondent
A
!
NY good general's aim in battle is to discover the the plans and resources of the enemy.
Your body, through its soldiers, the corpuscles in your blood, is constantly wng. ing war against germs, though the only time you are aware of this is when the germs score a victory and down you go with a cold, 'flu, tonsilitis, or blood poisoning.
Thanks to the amazing virility of your bodily or. ganism and to the advances of medical science you are nearly always on the winning side.
Nare
on account of his success in
Germs in conference
all of them much maguified on Bacil) and Tetanus-Bacillus. their slides for
an important ing is Anthrax Bacillus, and from occasion. Addressing the meat- left to right we ses representa- tives of Pneumococcus, Strepto. cocci, Tubercle Bacilli, Diphtheria
hold a
of War
"We have worked hard, but.
DOW
guess what's happened.
Rounded Up
Sonie fellow named Felton (Dr. "IN spite of our being too small to be seen under any of their Lloyd Felton, of Harvard] gets hold of us; probes our family microscopes I'm afraid they're tree in his laboratory; cuta us going to round us up. Our worst up into four types, and then enemy is Sir Patrick Laidlaw. invents a serum to kill each of He has a lot of us in a concen-
How can
we live in the tration camp cooped up with face of these doctors?" :
mice and ferrets.
05.
"Of course, the boys laughed
But you want to know sometimes what your op-1 ponents are up to. So here a doctor takes you behind the FRANCE LOOKS enemy lines and gives you
germ's eye view of yourself. TO DEFENCE
THE scene is the Aquaul Win- Financial difficulties notwith- ter Conference of Germs standing, France is obviously dg Group). In the chair is the causes
Affecting Man (Hongkong
arthritis, fermined to take every possible Anthrax Bacillus, a large, thick- fever, and St. Vitus's Dance."
rheumatic
Their Last Fling? step to guarantee her integrity set fellow holding his position by "Fiddlesticks, sir," interjects
at him to start with. One or and segurity.
virtue of his seniority. Conscious that
as the the hoary Bacillus Pestis. "Why, AT this there is a great hubbub, two of them even jumped out Germany is steadily building up tion of the human race.
first germ to attract the atten- in my heyday when I had the
All sorts of germs rise to of the nose of a ferrat that whole of the Far East at my
air their grievances.
was sneezing on to one of Sir her military might, she is to em- In spite of living in semi- mercy during the Great Plague lockjaw, shouts that he is lucky the flu.
The Tetanus bug, who causes Patrick's friends and gave him bark on extension of the famous retirement, and making
you counted for absolutely if he can get a dozen victims a pened?
But then what hap Maginot Line along the Belgian appearances in Ilongkong, and they'll get rid of you. What year
nothing. They got rid of me,
now that anti-tetanus "Why, a whole crowd of doc- and Swiss frontiers. Germany still enjoys a certain prestige about these new drugs Prontosil serum is so easily obtained. tors gathered round and started she would respect Belgian ter-ngo a man who shaved with a Cutting down your ravages to a fawn with lavender spots, calls else.
making you look pretty small. germ, elegantly turned out in us when we attacked anybody ritorial integrity, and she has diseased brush. He opens the
fifth of what they were. You'll for a vigorous attack on doctors "We shall find next year we now followed this up by making
be a back number soon enough," who are stamping out diphtheria are up against a vaccine that a similar declaration in respect
by wholesale inoculations of will make victims pretty hard Wasted Time school-children.
to pick. And even if we bring Many others try to state their up the pneumonia reinforce- chuirman. "We cannot al- case, but the chairman inter- ments they'll counter the attack reports of our experiences in low personal animosities
to venes to announce the arrival with a beastly serum that's attacking the Human Race. For interfere with our proper task of an influenza delegate fresh nearly ready now. little to tell you. my own part 1, regret to have of discussing the progress of from the (epidemic front) in
Man's struggle against us.
Modern Doctors I England, call on the Dilpococcus Lan- Amid prolonged cheers the "AN American cousin told me Most Dreaded ceolatus for further news," virus steps forward. He is so the other day that in one
A pair of Siamese twins stand tiny that
to make himself hospital they now turn an ultra- "FORMALLY lurking in my up. spore I used to meet fair suc- Perfectly
less conspicuous form of a bodies joined at a broad base, microphone.
They have thin conical heard he has to perch on the violet death ray on anyone they
suspect of harbouring us. tess by clinging to the bristles
synchronised they "Fellow-germs," ho begins "Fellow-germs, I warn you. begin:
breathlessly, "we are doing our these modern doctors are well of shaving brushes, so that un-
"Germs, we want a square best. This may be our last on our track, and the people witting shavers rubbed me into their self-inflicted cuts.
deal. We used to be able to fling.
themselves, too, with all they those days are over. All brushes winter. To-day it's different, being knocked out by us daily. sound dieting, fresh air, and "About a million people are know now about the value of count on having a good time in far too well sterilised in We just put in a lot of wasted Unfortunately they all get up exercise, make it harder than manufacture nowadays for my time hanging about in people's again after a day or two. The ever for us to get a foothold."
noses and throats on the off- awful thing is there are men on
recently gave an assurance that having infected a year or two and Sulphonamide? They're The aristocratic Klebs-Loeffler to collect serum off him to kill
conference thus:
"Germs," he says, "we are in the middle of winter. As you
of Switzerland. None the less, know, it is our custom at this "ORDER, please!" cries the LTD. France is evidently in no mind delegate conference to exchange
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to take risks. Her relations with Italy have deteriorated re cently, and there are indications that she may be forced to take special defensive measures along this frontier also. A further cause for anxiety is the Spanish civil war, for the possibility the the insurgents may triumph in the long run is known to be causing anxiety at the Quai D'Orsay. Thus, placed in an are admittedly difficult position on
liking. the Continent. France is pre- pared to utilise her man-power
I fear
*
In tense silence the chairman
"So I propose to call on chance of being able to muscle our track. Three, in particular
a much more active and success- in about now on the heels of at a place called the National rises: "Delegates," he says, ROOM, and industrial resources in ac-ful member of our fraternity, the cold and catarrh boys so Institute for Medical Research "you see how the fight goes. LIBRARY AND on HALL FURNITURE. policy of crisuring security at all
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A very different
ing pneumonia. germ-3 costs. As one of the few demo- long, sinuous figure-rises to
speak:
erátic countries in Europe,
"You France feels strongly that she
are well aware," he must at all times be ready to de-I am the most dreaded by man.j begins, "that of all the germs fend her people, her possessions Given a free hand I could an- nibilate the whole, race, I have only to infect all the mothers
and the liberal principles for
our blood.
ever before."
SISYPHUS IN RED TIE
the cynicism of the well-known
tragedy to those who feel but
passions
this
live
1
a
Frenchmen and Russians before their respective revolutions, sufficient to Justify all the violence and wholesale murdering that accompanied those historic upheavals?
Some people may think so, but I And it hard to persuade myself the gamo was worth, the candle. Tó- morrow, as old Omar reminds us, we may be ourselves with yesterday's ten thousand years.
which the Republic stands. In and there you are. No mothers, NEVER in my time did contempor- this respect, she is following ano babies, no more men.
ory events more amply vindicate Revolutions policy in line with that lopted a "If you want more, look at French nphorism about life being a Waste of Blood by Britain. The process may be my skill in causing scarlet fever comedy to those who think. costly, but the necessity, is ap- and tonsilitis. They can The world at large, which so easily
sterilise their food and drink might be such a pleasant place, is By "AN OLD STAGER” parent. It is, admittedly, true what they like, but I can still disturbed by deep unrest, distracted that wholesale re-armament can-nip across the air in a sneeze upheaval.
by wild rumour, and torn by violent
AS YOU WERE. not of itself guarantee peace, or a cough and be inhaled by We see Spaniards engaged in kill- another prospective victim. Ing each other with intensive ferocity There are those, indeed, who ar-Once inside I snuggle into his over such a nice point as which of urge that old Omar sings about soj
We have all sometimes felt the MASS HYSTERIA gue that it may produce entirely tonsils, and don't forget my twee conteng systems of political sweetly. We have longed to grasp count for when weighed in the scales What does any human cataclysm force majeure they
want
this sorry scheme of things entire of even one million years? Yet some opposite consequences. Yet there non-haemolytic cousin who under. So Alerce are the partisan
shatter it to bits, then remould I blind fate, some weird mass hysterlo, is the other viewpoint-that if
aroused by
bitter nearer to the heart's desire. If we seems to drive mankind at intervals Internecine strife that even outsiders did, probably we should make a sad into a paroxysm of futile political peaceful nations permit their de-at which security from invasion Statesmen in other countries with
are being drawn into its vortex. mess of things.
insanity, out of the bloodstained calls fences to drop to a low level they is ensured; it is only on the dimeulty restrain their compatriats possible locul perhaps aven Im- of which the people concerned pre- may be merely inviting aggres-question of the degree of re-melee."
from Joining actively in the deadly the slow processes of natural evolut-condition from Ils former state."
possible for mortals to improve oh sently emerges very little changed In ion by any sudden, drastic unheavals. sion. It is this belief which lies armament that the Socialists Yet the spirits of the wise, looking Indeed, it is an outstanding char enforcing a new order of trile and Perhaps a new set of rulers, down on this Insignificantly tiny acteristic of all revolutions that they evanescent shibboleths, replaces the from the Government. atom-heap called the world, it leave things, in all essential matters, old one, but the world goes on just abitude on this question; and,, ns The laying out of huge sums on flits momentarily through the pretty much where they were.
as before. Unlike the slow-grinding mills of sunbeums of universal eternity, muy we have already had occasion to non-productive expenditure may well be asking, Why all this fevered the gods, the mills of revolution Even the successful revolutionary remark, even the Government's be regretted, but it is difficult to turmoil and impassioned upheaval?
grind nothing save human bones. leaders, who oust the old gang and critics have voiced their approval ace what other policy is possible was the mort, vital factor in evolution and not revolution.
The world tas advanced consider-collar the loaves and fishes, almost might be
supposed, by anyone sludying our affairs to-day, that ably in the last few centuries by invariably enjoy no more than of the principle of bringing the with world conditions as they are the lives of men, the very brents of apart from this, is the difference violent deaths at the hands of their but, brief donkey's gallop before dying nation's defences up to a point to-day..
ilfe, Instead of being in cold-drawn between Franco and Russla now, and own confederates and associates. reality the merest side-show.
'the condition of the majority of
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