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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937.

NEWS ABOUT MEDICINE

ARMLESS, BUT

edited by John Langdon-Davies

THEY

CAN STILL USE

THEIR HANDS

A German surgeon has taught his armloss patients to use the fingers of their artificial hands by exercising the musclos in their upper arms.

N armless man fitting on artificial arms and hands, dressing, buttoning his trousers and coat with artificial fingers, while another emptied a box of matches on a table and with a small forceps picked them all up and replaced them neatly in their box-these were some of the wonders shown on the screen at Glasgow University recently by Professor Sauerbach, of Berlin.

The German surgeon has done| miraculous work, making it possible for his patients to move) hands and fingers with the muscles of their upper arm.

Suppose a man has lost his arms above the elbow, Professor! Sauerbach makes tunnel through the triceps behim and the biceps in front and lines it! with skin. When this is healed he inserts an ivory peg fitted with strings leading to various points in the artificial limb.

Mental Sick

Who Help

Themselves

PEOPLE are constantly try-

ing to frighten us by claim- ing that insanity is on the increase and the speech made by the Minister of Health when opening the new Runwell Men- tal Hospital is reassuring on this

The patient is able to learn how to control his muscles in such a way as to impart the desired movement to the artificial limb in exactly the dame way as if he never lost an arm. point.

long This brings us

way from the famous "Captain Hu

Hook," and modern armless man can become so

"the"

lucidentally he pointed out thist 50|public opinion was becoming more deft that he is able to earn his living sane towards mental disease and that as a telephone operator or at many jobs requiring accurate and quite we now had "Mental Hospitals" "Ins

stead of "Lunatic Asylums."

delicate "Anger" nevements, Pro- fessor. Sauerbach's artificial limbs are!

Although there are 150,000 patients

a good deal more handy than many aunder care-not restraint" nowadays Kouty natural hand.

N

AND SO- VICTORIA

By Vaughan Wilkins

(Cape. 82, Gd.)

O one could shut ears and eyes to this galloping stage- coach of n story, which brings the Romantic Novel back with a rush again.

And So-Victoria bounds along, full of beautiful women und wicked men. Come relief, n atab of horror here, u scent of mystery there, kidnappings, forced weddings, desperate duris, soft- Bighing interludes, high polliien-ali the most luscious ingredients for whileli the sensation-loving reader could wish. But they are so artfully mixed, the narrative is no plausible, the buck- ground so vivid and the favour of fact sa dexterously Introdured that the book is sure to be an instant sucress. "The English Anthony Adverse," And

50 01

It is hard to remember that kings and queens have not always been ac ceptable to most people in this coun- try. Yet it is on record that Victorin came to the throne at a time of lur- moll and distress when I was only loo easy to nscribe many of England's troubles to the scandals of the House of Hanover, to demand a clean sweep -and a republic.

This novel deals with that per:od, only a hundred years or so ago.

In n aliort, dramatle prologue the author describes how the sen of George III, who was later Prince Regent und thien George TV, evaded paying his debts to French financiera by deport- ing is creditors to their own land, then in the throes of revolution.

One woman resented what she con- sidered the murder of her husband by this means, and And So-Victoria tells how she took her complicated revenge, coming within an ace of murdering the child heir to the throne, establishing the notorious Duke of Cumberland as king and thereby making certain that the people would rise and overthrow the dynasty.

Among her unconscious Instrumenta was Christopher Harnish, the hero of thus extremely exciting tale, who leaps from adventure to adventure from the moment when, na a tiimid boy, he wa supposed to have shot at the baby Princesa Victoria to the day that 10 Triumphantly defcals

wicked grandmother, the Frenchwoman of the prologue, and knows that Victoria and England are ante.

The opening chapters are parti cularly good: the child Christopher knows poverty and hunger and is sen- Lenced to desih for murder at the ayo of seven, only to be recognised reacted by a page to the unhappy Queen Caroline.

and

Later, when his mysterious Hano- verian parentage gela him a post at a German Court and wo are still further involved in the hatreds and scandala of that family, the story grows more and more melodramatically tangled. Despite which, I fancy it will keep you panting after it to the end.

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any apparent increase was largely seeking due to people voluntarily medical advice in early and curable stages of their trouble.

Skim Milk- Adds Height and Weight

The Indian Research Fund Association at Coonoor have just carried out interesting research on the thousands of undernourished children of Southern India.

They find that by adding one ounce of dried skim milk to their normal diet it is possible to increase their

The cows were a healthy

fot

Child Infects

205 Families

height, weight, mentalTHE Browing movement for the he had had a "sore throat" for a

alertness and immunity from discose.

They point out, however, that the price of skim milk is just too much for the masses of poorer Indians to buy owing to there being a 30 per cent, duty on imported dried skim milk.

In England and elsewhere farmers are always wonder- ing how to get rid of their skim milk profitably. Their

difficulty would disappear, say the Indian scientists, if the tax) disappeared and in course of time the Indian Government. would regain what it lost by better health through wide arcas of Southern India.

of week, compulsory pasteurisation

published of the Dohenster scarlet fever and tonsillitis outbreak last December.

milk will be helped by the report just The M.OH. decided to follow up

this clue

and

the Investigated milker's family. The next clue turned at cnce; for the milker had

Swabs were taken from the ear, milker's throat and from

A farm near Doncaster produced a child suffering from a discharging fifty gallons of milk a day. This car and he had himself been dress- milk was delivered to 360 families. Ing the car. No fewer than 205 families wero affected by a sudden outbreak of sore throats and rashes, and more he than a quarter of their members patients who had drunk the milk. In every case these proved, to con- tain the same bacteria, "strepto- coccus pyogenes Type II."

fell ill.

to the milk Everything pointed supply 415 the source of infection, and fortunately it proved compara~ tively simple to verify this.

At this stage it looked as if n cleat case had been made out for direct infection from the miller to the customers; but it was necessary to exclude the possibility that a cow might be infected, too.

The Medical Officer of Health visited the suspected farm and found everything in good order, The The veterinary surgeon inspected utensils were clean and cattle all the cows. They were a remark- healthy. The only possibly aus- ably healthy lot, and the only picious thing was a milker who said doubtful case was a cow with a bruised teat. The dairyman sald that this had been caused by an accident. Milk was examined from this cow, and sure enough, exactly the same bacteria Inrge quantities,

WHAT THE EMPIRE IS

yo

TALKING ABOUT

You may be British, but if you Malaya (22 days from London half "This is to notify the public," reads are in Malaya you will be the size of Britain; population 4 her announcement, "that my husband astonished to read that women have million). Malay women and men, it having left me from the year 1020, stayed away from home for a night reports, met on an equal footing at and I do not know whether he Ls and been meeting strange men in the fourth annual meeting of the dend or alive, it is my intention to publie; yet if you ore in a famous Persaudaraan Sahabat Pena, Malaya marry wihtin three months city in Australia you will learn that (Malay Pen Felends Society, If you And she gives hier address,

ess, the de in future no women may attend civic want to know what it all means). lectable region of Mandeville, where functions.

the air is cool and pure, society calm Most of the 23 women present had and English, and the manners of the In London you will see men and come from Johore Bahru, Batu Pahat, charming Jamalcon natives an women drinking outside public and Muar, on Friday, stayed that example to Europe and the buckra houses, but in a West Indian colony night in Singapore and remained on (whites). this is an offence, leading to the for the three-day conference. police court.

In Britain you may be paying £108 income-tax (if you are married, have no family and declare faithfully that your income is £800) but, in Canada

Canada

In the same issue the husband of Beatrice Laharre reveals thai sho left his care and protection without Now, for a moment, concentrate on his consent one year and three months bargains. According to the Citizen, ago "therefore I do not hold myself in the capital city of Ottawa (Canada responsible for her or any debt that

you will be asked for a mere £20, Is six days from London; area 35 she may contract." Nice and com- Western Australia

times that of Britain and N. Ireland; prehensive.

population, nine million-ours is 45),

the first customer arriving at the Bermuda

Take a hurried glance at the sub local Early Bird Sale, which opens at

this

paper: "Believe it or not, New Zealand

City Council women are taboo from receptions." And quoting the au-

were present in

Thus the bacteria from the child's, car-Infection had been passed on to the milker and from him to the bruised tent of the cow, and thence to more than a thousand citizens of Doncaster. Nobody was to blame. Every usual precaution to secure cleanliness had been taken-except the one infallible step of pasteuriza tion.

THAT

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jects that are amusing or annoying 8.30 a.m. will get a relluble motor-car Stay in the Caribbean neighbour- our brothers and slaters across the with good tyres for £2; the second hood and meet James Powell whose eat and not get fat in this case-- sen. Begin with Perth (Western

according to the Royal have pinned their falth to the "Hay Australia; 20 days from London, wil pay 15 dollars, the third 29, and crime,"

the fourth 25 (£5). There is 1 Gazette published at Hamilton

Dlet." eight times the size of Great might add, no catch in the advertise (capital of British West Indian colony Britain; city population, 200,000) ment, except the mere matter of dis- of Bermuda, 11 days from London;

One of the mala points in this according to the Sunday inner from Great Protland Street. 20 squaro milles; population, 24,000), I where, Timez, "Women are Taboo." Snys

was that he took a drink of plain beer creed is that carbohydrates and pro- of the teins should not be eaten in Parliament Street.

same meal, because the protein in- Population problems may be boring As a result Powell appeared in thority of the administrators of the us

but in Europe,

they have court. The charge against him was creases the amount of gastric secre- and so hinders the elly, it досл on. "This the been gravely disconcerting far-seeing taking intoxicating liquor in a pub-tion of acid

is

the saliva twentieth century and they have statesmen in New Zealand (Ave lic place. Powell was lucky. He was digestion of starch by Inid down a rule almost monastic." weeks from London; a ttle larger bound over.

producing poisoning by fermentation. than Britain and Northern Ireland;

Dr. Eugene Foldes, of New York, population 1 million). To the the Premier, the Hon. J. M. Savage,

has just published exhaustive ac- sald recently: "We have no

no strong

typical of the counts of experiments to see if this claim to the territory we hold unless glorious West Indian territories which

the we secure population necessary are

ED the pleasure-ground of rich is true. He finds: develop it to the fullest extent." Americans, La

the for example, That, he added, would be the best Buhunas (300 years ours; area, 4,400 method of defence, and I would no square miles; population 00,000). longer provide the same temptation to the covetousness of other peoples, Queensland

Malaya

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But are the people ready for child gers and the driver. If the cab has reduce the oeld. bearing7 Listening to near nighbour fare and is mounting a sleep in-

(2) Anyway Dr. Graham Drew, Metropolitan Cline, the driver is obliged to get out. Medical Officer of Health for Bris- Owners of vehicles are asked to co-acid does not interfere bane (capital of Queensland, seven operate with the Government in not digestion of the starch.. times the size of Britain, population working their cabs day and night

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