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The effects of the new sleep-
inducing barbiturates on the mind are so profound and vary so much with different patients that prescribing these drugs entails a grave responsi
Hongkong Telegraph.bility,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1938.
THE STATE AND INDUSTRY
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A young widow came to see me. Her husband had been killed in an accident. She was distraught with
She
grief.
went into states in
"Berves." She was a stranger, but lived not far away. I pres- cribed 21 safe dose of a bar- biturate. A couple of nights ago I was sum- moned urgently to her home.
WIN in state of collapse.
Dangerous Drugs
Are Harder
to Get, but..
THE prescription and sate of “casy
death" drugs-particularly the sleep-inducing barbiturates-prezent to-day one of the most serious problems to the doctor and the chemist.
The new Paison Sale Regulations, which came into forec in Hongkong on January 1, will have its good effect. It is much more difient to buy these drugs across the counter at the chemist's shop than it used to be. But still there are loophates,
The difficulties facing the doctor are many, and they ore explained in this article--
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which, the declared, she talked She A Local Physician
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for hours with her dend hus- band.
At night she could not sleep. Great Britain built up her It was clear to me that she industries and established her might commit suicide. I coukl commercial, supremacy during have suggested rest, a change, the nineteenth century under and a tonic. But I feared she policy of individualism and needed more than that to help private enterprise." It was then her to regain her mental ba- generally accepted that the lance. A barbiturate would be State should concern itself
as the very thing; but would I little as possible with industry, be setting her on the dangerous trade and commerce. Actually, path to addiction? I politics were not so completely choose.... divorced from industry as was Six weeks of barbiturate generally supposed. Parliament treatment made her sleep sound- passed laws governing hours of ly; the trances grew shorter and labour, the employment of wo-less frequent, She regained a men and children, and general tranquil state of mind.. conditions in factories and
had
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mines; but on the whole the A Case of "Nerves" imiustrialist suffered compara tively little official interference NOW for the other side. A patient came into my con- in the conduct of his business, and he asked little in return suiting room last week, com plaining of sleeplessness and from Parliament.
Many other nations followed the same lines when they de- veloped their own industries. They adopted British machines,
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. British methods, and British
YORK BUILDING
(SOLE AGENTS)
CHATER ROAD.
BAFFLER
The pentiulum swings Just ONCE before stopping! It must STOP at the end of EACH swing to change directions!
during the past 16 years have amounted to £130,000,000.
On her table were five boxes with different chemists' labels marked them. All "The Tablets. To be taken as directed.".
un
were
were
It was the frequency with which the barbiturates used for suicide which led to a free public outery against the and easy way in which they were to be obtained.
BAFFLER
"See that old bird going out thus door, Harry?" asked Fro derick Wilton, head of the watch and clock repairing department of Now York's largest fewellers. "What's his particular form of madiness?"
"He told me that is old grandfather clock, which hod been in the family for genera- tions, had finally stopped, and he wanted to be sure that the person entrusted with its re- pairing really understood grand- Inther clocks. I assured him we did that we have repaired many of the famous clocks in the country.
Have you?" he stapped. 'Well, let's see what you know about them. This clock of mine will run one complete day for every turn of the key, up to eight turns, and the pendulum swings from one side to the other in one and a half seconds.
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now run down, but if I turn the key seven times and swing the pendulum from its centre position to thic right, how many swings will it make before it stops again?"
"I got out my pencil and be-- gan figuring When I Anished I loulted up, but the old boy had gene, I finally spotted him talk- ing to the inunnger and went 'So you finally got it, ch?' he barked. Well...let me see that paper,"
"I showed it to him. He took one look, went up in the air, priit out he stalked."
"Well, how many times does the thing swing?" Harry de- manded.
Look at foot of Celumu Four.
Most People Believe
In Luck
She had gone to four other doctors in the neighbourhood, Watch for Forgeries told them the same story and
1. the law on January got in each case a prescription THEN
SCIENTISTS and phil- done. osophers have stepped in and stringent re- for barbiturate tablets to last
think her three days.
gulations were brought into their best to make us
barbiturates force. The
can clearly; but they don't seem to The chemists disposed them now be sold only on a prescrip- have done very well. in accordance with the law and tion, but a doctor may direct a retained the prescriptions. But repetition at stated intervals for the law, though strictly adhered patients who require treatment to, had failed to prevent her over long periods. from obtaining what might have been a fatal dose.
Fortunately, she recovered. Sleeping Potions THAT is the problem which
faces doctors,
The chemist has to retain his prescriptions for two years and to submit them to a Government inspector whenever required..
Modern people have beliefs that wouldn't be out of place in a tribe where the witch doctor hovers over everybody and puts voodoos on the things he doesn't want touched.
The belief that so many of us Attempts will almost certainly have, that ill-luck will follow be made to forge prescriptions, walking under ladders, spilling chemists but chemists are as keen-eyed salt, marrying in May, getting as bank cashiers to detect. such the number thirteen, shows people to be prevented effce-attempts,-and-the-penalties..are. we're as superstitious to-day as when our ancestors looked out of tively from buying dangerous correspondingly heavy. drugs in excessive quantities?
and
the
law.
How are
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The effectiveness of the new their caves and read symbols in The trick I have just men- restrictions in preventing the the lightning and portents in the tioned has been often played indiscriminate purchase of dan- thunder.
When Daily Express readers policy. Now all that has been
before it became necessary gerous drugs can easily be
over the country sent in for 1 to have on January
a realised.. Take,
instance, all changed. In the "totalitarian"
who, letters some time ago telling us slates-namely, Soviet Russia,
prescription for all barbiturates. the case of the person
some unforeseen the things they carried in their, Germany and Italy-industry is
I mention barbiturates parti- because of neither individualistic nor does
cularly because they have been worry or misfortune, is plunged pockets or their handbags, more its enterprise depend upon pri-:
the means of many suicides dur- into a fit of intense depression than half of them mentioned Factories with hundreds of some lucky charm or mascot. direct subsidies to industry
way out-especially the supreme. Unrestricted compe-
cause, under the guise of a score as a
workers are kept busy supplying totalled £17,000,000. During
death by barbiturate tition is dead. In one country
of names, they have been sold easy agriculture
Nearly every man and woman at any rate competition has 1937-8 those
and buy the necessary drug un- been almost completely elmin-alone will amount to £12,000,000 freely as sleeping potions and poisoning. If he could dash out a demand for lucky trinkets.
nerve remedies.
who goes in for sport has faith ated, and under the other and more, if prices fall.
So subtle are they in their hindered, he would do it.
in a particular lucky charm or Another direction in which
But when he has to face the dictatorships it is regulated by
mascot. G. O. Allen, England the State has moved has been effects that many practitioners the State.
a doctor on parties formality of visiting making daily calls
Test captain, depended on a 4s.. in the control of public utilitics, In Great Britain there have such as water, gas, and elec- prefer to leave just the requir- and making up a credible story plece, minted in Queen Victoria's been considerable modifications tricity monopolies, and its griped dose one or two tiny tablets...when he finds that the quan Jubilee Year, to win the toss.
On the other side, Don Brad- of the nineteenth century policy on transport has been consider-cach day, so that there can be tity prescribed is insufficient,
no danger of an overdose.
and that to get more he would of laissez faire. Parliament ably tightened.
man played the game under a Examples of
The memory
especially is have to visit other doctors, as how occupies itself very much the British method of com-
bones, with industrial and commercial promise, of continuing private affected by these drugs, and it my patient did--when he meets spell cast by three chicken wish-
is easily possible for a patient these difficulties he usually aban- affairs; but the principle of com-ownership, or part ownership, plete State control and regula-under
to forget that a dose has been dons his desperate idea. The Sportsmen's Mascot Government charter, tion has not been adopted. As whereby the public authorities taken and to take another one. mood of depression passes.
& safe The law, if it does not ab- most other matters the have the decisive word in mat- The margin between Government has taken theters of general policy, are the therapeutic dose and a fatal one solutely prevent a person from middle course. Private enter London
Passenger Transport is amall. Five times the proper obtaining a fatal dose, at least prise and initiative are still Board and the Central Elec-amount may endanger life. Even interposes a delay, which, in moderate doses have been most cases, breaks down the encouraged; a restricted indivi-tricity Board. The London dualism is allowed; but the Passenger Transport Act, 1933, known to induce desperate ten temptation to impulsive action.
Nearly every doctor knows of has stepped in to authorised the amalgamation of dencies.
Yet these drugs are highly people who would now be dead influence, to encourage or to the Underground Railways, the support industry and commerce tramways and the bus services valuable in modern practice. if they had been able-as they rush One, which is the drug used be- were before January 1 to one gard to the workers the State corporation. The Central Elec-fore operations, is so effective to the nearest chemist and get has advanced enormously dur- tricity Board was established by that patients often refuse to be- "fifty dial tablets, quickly plcase "walking about to-day with pieces:.
That is how the law a saving of potato in their pockets-so the operation has ing the
century Act of Parliament in 1926 present
that they won't get. the rheumatism. Parliament interests itself not link up all electricity services in taken place at all.
Nutmegs to only in their pay, and in their the country and construct main
ward off boils; hours and conditions of labour, transmission lines for the supply
"ato function irrespective of na-shark's teeth to stop cramp but in their health, their educa-of electricity in bulk for distri-Government and facilitate
the welfare of their bution. Both Boards are sub-considerable amount of reor- tional requirements and Govern-blue glass beads to keep bron- to Government control in ganisation, involving lower costs ment control. Parliament takes chitia away; pieces of cel skin children, their homes, and their icct maintenance during periods of various ways, but financed by and general stabilising of con- rapidly increasing interest in as a preventive against deafness Control, in order to the nation's industries, but it all have their supporters to unemployment and when they private capital and have yet ditions."
wide freedom of initiative and maintain prices, has been com- exercises its powers in the swear that they are infalliblo rench old age.
pulsorily introduced in some traditional British manner. Pri- remedies. In fact, the health At the opening of recent action.
industries, Including coal, her-vate initiative and effort are mascots are the most popular of“ Parliament the Sessions of King's Speech has
in
State
as occasion demanded.
tion,
In re-in
the London area into
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lieve that
life.
JIM MOLLISON has u.
lucky rabbit's paw- favourite mascot of many sports- men; Jack Lovelock, the Empire miler, puts his faith in an old straw hat; Campbell, the golfer, in his match against James Mc-. Lean, shot three successive birdies after he had touched his. lucky penny.
There
are men and
women:
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the ring flahing and agriculture still encouraged; the individual all. been con- corned with Government mea-/Prime Minister, in a recent | Another form of Intervention, still retains his independent out-{ sures to nid, among others, the public speech, referred to an closely allied with control, con- look and spirit; but the Govern- Swastika Beliefs fishing, important development the of-sists of measures, to increase ment co-ordinatos individual
PEOPLE foresaw even Industrial efficiency. electricity,
efforts and private organisation, I
when Hitlor came. Into. It is therefore a mistake to to the and that they may minis-power. Not because of anything agricultural, Bim and transport ficial encouragement, or industries. Government sub-enforcement, of central control
could collaborate with the Industry and commerce continue national needs.
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