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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1038.
THE STATE AND INDUSTRY
THE effects of the new sleep- inducing barbiturates on the mind are so profound and much with different vary so patients that prescribing these drugs entails a grave responsi bility.
A young widow came to see me. Her husband had been killed in an accident. She was She distraught with grief. went into trance-like' states in which, she declared, she talked for hours with her dead hus- band.
"nerves."
She
was a stranger, but lived not far away. I pres- cribed 11 safe dose of a bar- biturate, A couple of nights ago I was sum- moned urgently to her home. She was in state of collapse.
a
Dangerous Drugs
Are Harder
to Get, but..
THE prescription and sate of “easy
death" drugs-particularly the sleep-inducing. barbiturates present to-day one of the most serious problems to the doctor and the chemist.
The new Poison Sale Regulations, which came into force in Hongkong on January 1, will have its good effect. It is much more difficult to buy these drups across the counter at the chemist's shop than it used to be. But still there are loopholes.
The difficulties facing the doctor are maup, and they are explained in this article-
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BAFFLER
"See that old bird going out the door, Harry?" asked Fro derick Wilton, head of the watch und clock repairing deportment of New York's largest Jewellers. "What's his particular form of madness?"
"He told me at his old grandfather clock, which had been in the family for genera- tions, had finally stopped, aut he wanted to be sure that the person entrusted with its re- pairing really understood grand- father clocks, I assured hilm we did that we have repaired of the famous clocks in the country.
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"Have you?' he snapped. "Well, ict's see what you know about them. This clock of mine will run one complete day for of the key, up to every turn eight turns, and the pendulum to the swings from one side other in one and a half seconds. It's now run lown, but if I turn the key seven times and swing the pendulum from its centre position to the right, how many swings will it make before it slaps again?
"I got out my pencil and be- Kan figuring. When I finished I looked up, but the old boy had Antily spotted him talk- Kone. ing to the manager and went over. 'So you Bnally got it. 'Well...Ict me
ch?' he paper
see that
"I showed it to him. He took loult, went up in the air, and out he stalked."
one
"Well, how many times does the thing swing?" Herry de- manded.
Look at foot of Column Four.
Most
A Local Physician People
On her table were five boxes
were
It was the frequency with
She had gone to four other doctors in the neighbourhood, Watch for Forgeries told them the same story and got in each case a prescription for barbiturate tablets to last her three days.
were
THEN on January 1 the law
At night she could not sleep. with different chemists" labels which the barbiturates
marked used for suicide which led to a Great Britain built up her It was
them. All on that she clear to me
free industries and established her might commit suicide. I could "The Tablets. To be taken as public outcry against the
and easy way in which they were commercial supremacy during have suggested rest, a change, directed."
to be obtained. 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
I as the very thing; but would little as possible with industry, be setting her on the dangerous
had trade and commerce. Actually, path to addiction? I
to politics were not so completely choose, divorced from industry us was Six weeks of barbiturate generally supposed. Parliament treatment made her sicep sound. passed laws governing hours of iy; 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
mines; but on the whole the A Case of "Nerves" industrialist suffered compara.
tively little official interference NOW for the other side. A patient came into my con- in the conduct of his business, į and he asked little in return sulting room last week, com- from Parliament.
plaining of sleeplessness and
Many other nations followed! the same lines when they de veloped their
own industries. They adopted British machines,
LTD. British methods, and British
CHATER ROAD..
policy. Now all that has been changed. In the "totalitarian” states-namely, Soviet Russia,
BAFFLER
The pendulum swings just ONCE before stopping! 11 musi STOP at the end of- EACH swing to change directions!
Believe
In Luck
SCIENTISTS and phil. done osophers have stepped in and stringent re-
think gulations were brought into their best to make us
can clearly; but they don't seem to force. The barbiturates 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
1
to
have
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 chemist has to retain his prescriptions for two years and to submit them to a Government
The belief that so many of us inspector whenever required.
Attempts will almost certainly have, that ill-luck will follow THAT is the problem which be made to forge prescriptions, walking under ladders, spilling faces doctors, chemists but chemists are as keen-eyed salt, marrying in May, getting and thelaw. How are as bank cashiers to detect such the number thirteen, shows people to be prevented effec- attempts, and the penalties-are-we're as superstitious to-day no when our ancestors looked out of tively from buying dangerous correspondingly heavy,
The effectiveness of the new their caves and rend symbols in drugs in excessive quantities? 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 can easily be before it became necessary gerous drugs
for instance, all over the country sent in a realised. Take, on January prescription for all barbiturates. the case of the person who, letters some time ago telling us of some unforeseen the things they carried in their JETTERİZM İNSANTRALLARIZE MINISSKJUTANUMANENTIALS DOUSOMMIERCI Germany and Italy-industry is
I mention barbiturates parti- because neither individualistic nor does during the past 15 years have cularly because they have been worry or misfortune, is plunged pockets or their handbags, more.
amounted to £130,000,000. its enterprise depend upon pri-
the means of many suicides dur- into a fit of intense depression than half of them mentioned ****vate initiative; the State is During the financial year 1936-7 ing the past few years, and be and desperation. He sees death some lucky charm or thascot.
Factories with hundreds of direct subsidies to industry
way out-especially the cause, under the guise of a score as a supreme. Unrestricted compe-
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 casy agriculture
Nearly every man and woman and buy the necessary drug un- who goes in for sport has faith at any rate competition has 1937-8 those to 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. ated, and under the other and more, if prices fall.
So subtle are they in their hindered, he would do it. Another direction in which
But when he has to face then a particular lucky charm or mascot. G. O. Allen, England dictatorships it is regulated by the State has moved has been effects that many practitioners
a doctor on parties formality of visiting
Test captain, depended on a 4s. in the control of public utilities, making daily calls In Great Britain there have such as water, gas, and alec-prefr to leave just the requir and making up a credible story piece, 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-each day, so that there can be tity prescribed is insufficient,
and that to get more he would man played the game under a of laissez faire.. Parliament ably tightened. Examples of no danger of an overdose.
The memory especially is have to visit other doctors, as now occupies itself very much the British method of 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,
to forget that a dose has been dons his desperate idea. The plete State control and regula under Government charter. tion has not been adopted. As whereby the public authorities taken and to take another one. mood of depression passes.
a safe The law, if it does not ab- JIM MOLLISON has u in most other matters
lucky rabbit's paw- the have the decisive word in mat. The margin between
the therapeutic dose and a fatal one solutely prevent a person from taken Government has
theters of general policy, arc middle course. Private enter- London Passenger Transport is small. Five times the proper obtaining a fatal dose, at least favourite mascot of many sports- the miler, puts his faith in an old prise and initiative are still Board and the Central Elec-amount may endanger life. Even interposes a delay, which, in men; Jack Lovelock, the Empire
doses have been most cases, breaks down Board. The London moderate encouraged; a restricted indivi-tricity
straw hat; Campbell, the golfer, dualism is allowed; but the Passenger Transport Act, 1933, known to induce desperate ten- temptation to impulsive action.
dencies.
Nearly every doctor knows of in his match against James Mc- stepped State has
to authorised the amalgamation of Yet these drugs are highly people who would now be dead Lean, shot three successive: influence, to encourage or to the Underground Rällways, the support industry and commerce tramways and the bus services valuable in modern practice. if they had been able-as they birdies after he had touched his
One, which is the drug used be- wore before January 1 to rush lucky penny. In re in the London area into one
There are men and as occasion demanded. gard to the workers the State corporation. The Central Elec-fore operations, is so effective to the nearest chemist and got hns advanced enormously dur-tricity Board was established by that patients often refuse to be "fifty dial tablets, quickly please walking about to-day with pieces. the operation has That is how the law is saving of potato in their pockets-30 ing the present century: Act of Parliament in 1926, to lieve that
that they won't get the Parliament interests itself not link up all electricity services in taken place at all.
rheumatism. only in their pay, and in their the country and construct main hours and conditions of labour transmission lines for the supply
MAINTAIN CONSISTENT ADVERTISING
DURING
1938
It is the consistently advertised product which makes the steady gain in sales. This way the consumer is constantly reminded of a particular, product. Newspaper advertising is pro- ferred to any other form because It enables the advertiser to place his message before the consumer in the most effective manner.
It can be changed every day, it does not become monotonous, The South China Morning Post" and "The Hongkong Telegraph" provide the finest media, guar- anteeing the largest morning and afternoon circulations.
Make 1938 a moro prosperous year' by using the two leading newspapers.
the State.
in
com-
life.
bones.
Sportsmen's Mascot
women
Nutmegs to ward off boils; shark's teeth to stop cramp;
but in their health, their educa-of electricity in bulk for distri-Government and facilitate "a to function irrespective of na-blue glass beads to keep bron-
tion,
rcor- tional requirements and Govern- the welfare of their bution. Both Boards are sub-considerable amount of
to Government control in ganisation, involving lower costs ment control. Parliament takes chitis away; pieces of cel skin children, their homes, and their Ject maintenance during periods of various ways, but financed by and general stabilising of con- a rapidly increasing interest in as a proventive against deafness ditions." Control, in order to the nation's industries, but it all have their supporters to unemployment and when they private capital and have yet
wide freedom of initiative and maintain prices, has been com- exercises its powers in the swear that they are infallible rench old age.
pulsorily introduced in some traditional British manner. Pri-remedios. 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
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the ring fishing, and agriculture, still encouraged; the individual nil King's Speech has been con-
Prime Minister, in a recent Another form of intervention, still retains his independent out- cerned with Government men- sures to aid, among others, the public speech, referred to an closely allied with control, con look and spirit; but the Govern Swastika; Beliefs Ashing, important development--the of sints of measures to Increasement co-ordinates individual
PEOPLE foresaw cotton, electricity,
bfforts and private organisation,
when Hitler came into industries. Government sub enforcement, of central control It is therefore a mistake to to the end that they may minis- I power. Not because of Kürtliingi agrlouitúral, film and transport ficial encouragement, or even industrial efficiency.
assume that in Great Britain tor in the best possible way to he said or did, but because he sidics and loans to Industry within certain industries, which
could collaborate with the industry and commerce continue national needs.
(Continuet"on" PUNE CF"
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