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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1989.

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HEN you consult a doctor, perhaps you think that he's in-

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You don't realise, possibly, that he's been trained to use his eyes and to observe anything about a patient coming into his room which may help him in his diagnosis. The more a doctor

A doctor can tell a lot about you by just looking at you: here are the signs he goes by

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not getting rid of 'your waste products.

The colour of the face is a850- cinted with disturbances of the ductless glands.

com-

Excessive thyroid secretion in adults is associated with A beautiful "school-girl" plexion. But deficiency leads to a dry, sallow, deeply lined face. You can often tell such people by the slow rate at which their expressions chango-they give the impression that their faces have been carved out of granite.

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ND then there's your manner. If you give

quickly he'll arrive at what's the pituitary.

shaped fingers are often asso- the doctor the impression that matter.

As you walk into his consult ciated with too little thyroid you resent his questions, he'll

can tell secretion.

wonder what lies behind. For instance, he will watch the ing room, the doctor

When the skin of the hands He may guess that you're 'de- way you walk into a room and quite a lot from your nose and sce whether there's anything in cheeks-so much, indeed, that he and forearms is dry and rough, termined to tell him only just your gait which suggests disease. knows what to look for when it's the thyroid which is at fault: what you think he ought to making his examination.. when smooth and "waxy," it's know, and that you're afraid He'll study your face; possibly Dilated veins on the nose aug- the pituitary.

he'll wander from the strictly there'll be a clue there which gest disorder of the digestion or Then there's the question of medical point about which you're On Monday, January will help to explain some symp fiver; on the cheoka, trouble in your figure. If you're over consulting him, and begin to

weight he'll soon see whether it's dive into your murky past. 24th, 1038, at Manilla, Joe F. tom about which you'll presently the heart or lungs. Henrickson Castro, dearly be- be telling him. Then he'll be in- He'll take in this much at a your trunk or your whole body

But you shouldn't mind if he loved husband of Angelina Castro (nee Azevidio). Aged 18 terested in your manner-how glance, and register what he's which is carrying the super- does, for you can't possibly years. (By cable). (Macuo and you talk, and even how you ait seen, to be confirmed-or other- fluous fat.

judge whether his questions are Shanghai Papers p please copy). in a chair.

wise a little later on with his And-whatever you may have vitally necessary or merely due read to the contrary obesity to curiosity: and by withhold- stethoscope,

isn't always a matter of over ing information, or, worse still, THERE are many things, eating.

wilfully misleading him, you he can tell from the Suppose, the doctor's already may be the cause of his failure

way the teeth noticed signs of thyroid failure, to cure you. erupt is often a guide to the then his eye will run over your Doctors can generally tell way the child is developing. figure, expecting to find the fat when a patient is trying to hide Did you know that the "lateral arranged in certain areas, such something. They'll notice that incisors" (two front teeth on as the root of the neck and the his answer to a direct question is either side of the large centrals) abdominal wall.

GARDNER.---At the French Hospital

at 9.10 p.m. on January 24, 1938, John Gardner, beloved husband of Sybil Gardner (nee Dalziel) at the age of 33. The funeral will pass the Monument at 5,30 p.m. to-day. Shanghai papers please copy.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1938.

WHO KNOWS?

The Parisian authorities seem

It's surprising what little things will help the observant doctor. He will look at the chair upon which a patient has been sitting.

nervous

mouth, The

de-

If it happens to have a loose cover you can be sure that, after the interview, it will be rucked up and need tucking in. For

short, and that he then leads nervous patients always wriggle are apt to be underdeveloped In that case one of his first the conversation into a different in the excitement of describing where the pituitary gland is act- questions will be "D'you feel the channel. their symptoms.

ing deficiently? And that, in cold?" And you'll probably won- So remember, when next you these cases, you'll very seldom der how on earth he knew. HERE are a few things find any white crescents at the But it's not black magic! For see your doctor, that he pro-

about you which will roots of the nails?

bably knows far more about you ho's well aware that all people than you think. But whatever interest your doctor.

You mustn't blame your doc- suffering from thyroid

ho knows about you he'll keep to First, he'll probably look at tor (or think him unduly inquisi- ficiency have a subnormal tem- himself, and it's you who'll to be concerned for the safety your head. He'll want to see tive) if he scrutinises your nails. perature, and consequently are benefit by his knowledge.

how low on the forehead your He'll certainly be interested in always chilly mortals. of the French holding in Shang-hair grows; for, in certain types your palate for he can tell a hai as a result of the statement of individuals, a low hair-line few things about you when he's attributed to General Matsui, suggests characteristics which had a look at the roof of your

are sometimes linked up with mouth. If it's a high-arched parts except the "middle"-the Japanese commander-in-chief in tendencies to certain diseases. palate you're a nervous type.. A so-called "girdle", type of fat. China, that he might not be

People who go bald premature. broad roof to the mouth is gen- Very often he's middle-aged and able to respect the neutrality ly, or who have a high-hair-line, erally seen in people with calm is suffering from too little pitui- of foreign concessions during belong to the opposite type, and dispositions. his campaign. It is not sur-they, too, have their special ten- IF there's a fulness in wait for a detailed examination

prising. Nor is it odd that a Japanese Ambassador should reassure the French Govern- ment by remarking that too much attention should not be paid to the words of soldiers in the field, and that, after all, matters of high policy are de- elded in Tokyo. Here, it seems,

dencies.

tary:

THEN there's the indivi- dual who is thin in all

But the doctor won't have to

the neck, he'll wonder before he arrives at this conclu- Don't we all know that bald- why your thyroid gland is en- sion. For he'll find the two cen- ness tends to run in families to larged. It will also explain the trl teeth in the upper jaw are. such an extent that we're almost way in which you walked into widely spaced: the complexion is justified in regarding it as an the room-the quick, short steps like a Dutch doll's-two red dabs hereditary affliction? Is it too you took, and the almost sus- standing out on a pale surround; far fetched, then, to believe that picious way in which you looked and the fingers are shapeless. certain physical temperaments at him. are also inherited?

All of which signs will tell him that here is a patient whose pituitary is not doing its job.

You may be a bad colour.. This may

is beginning to fail?

and unreasonable. But once it's mican simply that you have been Bushy eyebrows-which al- fractiousness.

quiet again, serenity replaces spending too much time indoors, breathing overheated air. Or it most meet over the root of the The hands can tell him a good may be that your digestion isn't nose (particularly if the bony deal. Square finger-tips point working properly and that you're ridges over the orbits are well marked)-point to an opposito

For people with an enlarged Then there are the eyebrows. thyroid are nearly always highly the How many people know that strung. And, as long as

over-active, its when the outer third of the eye- gland remains is just another indication of the brow gets thin the thyroid gland possessor is apt to be irritable lack of restraint influenced by the civilian authorities upon the Army chiefs. Or it may be taken us a "proof" by those who argue that the military leaders accept no guidance from the capital, except, of coures, from the mouth of the Emperor himself.

clamour of the Opposition par- ties in the Diet, but it is noteworthy that Mr. Toshio

an

BURNS AMONG FOLK

us who can only thinks of Robert

Anthony Weymouth

These glands means this

to you-

Your thyroid gland-that alight swelling on either side of the Adam's apple-keeps you young and slim, if it's working well.

A shortage of 3% grains in the difference betweert Intelligence and idiocy, The thyroid deficient is a martyr 10.

old age, mida case, premature

spread.

Your pituitary gland, situated at the base of your brain, con- trols your growth. If it's large you're aggressive, calculating, Diten get brilliant ideas. If it's. under-sized you are small, lack- Ing in stamina, self-control.

HIS

AIN

"I'm no' sac faur ahint this time, Robin, I'm thinkin', his fellow-work- er chuckled.

"John," the other returned gally. "you're behind in something yet. I made a song while I was stooking."

"Tae Bury the Deil"

In any event, General Matsui's Shimada, leader of the powerful] statement will certainly have Seiyukai group, is tired of what Burns as the national poet of the effect of further shaking he terms the "stock phrase" of Scotland it may be difficult to con the confidence of the rest of the the Government that "Japan among his ain folk in Ayrshire. For ceive the impression which he created world in the reliability of Tokyo has no territorial designs on in the farmhouses of eighteenth- All Ears promises. It becomes more un- Chinn." He does not say he century Scotland it was not so much derstandable that the United does not believe that assertion, honoured as the brilliant raconteur the poet and the thinker who was

Another time when there was a

In whimsical vein in the story of ¡States should treat with a cer- In so many words. But he does) who could keep a party going for doubt about the 'welcome of Búrna |

was in the smithy of Mossgiel, tain reserve, amounting to show that the people are in-hours on end.

The poet was accustomed to take how young Tammy Brown, neigh scepticism, Mr. Koki Hirota's terested in the Government's Illustrating this aide of the poet is his plough irons to this shed to be re-bour's son at Mossgiel, came along one day when Burns was working in pledge that the "open door" on future intentions with respect the story of the old farmer whose paired, and there is a story of was China is to be loft permanently to the occupied Chinese terri- because the whole household were 50 listening spellbound while his assisting was very deep, Tammy could douce wife was somewhat scandallaed occasion when the blacksmith was the moss digging plis. As the cut- ajar to the dimly his friend at dent remarks: "If the keenness tract of land.. Reuters Washington correspon-Government's plans for the vast of the pock An he's nucthing but job. But the man who wielded the the bottom. And this was the din of America's watch on

covering more "wi neither sense nor seriousness to his master with the eloquence of the

idle, gossiping Jad," she stormed, sledge hammer was as enthralled on Isgue which ensued: the than half China ?

keep him richt."

he stood stock still with Yangtse is not relaxed it is be-

poet, and so This verdict was reported to Burns, his hammer above his head until the cause of fear, based on past It is just possible that the experience, that Japan's real Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, and the next time he called at that iron had cooled.

farmhouse he made a point of enter "Rob Rab" the smith protested. much policies are too often improvised may have been

cm- Ing into a most edifying discussion "This'il never dae. You an' me

"Tao bury the dell in." "But hoo wull ye get him in?" by her forces in China." That barrassed by this interrogation, with the gudawlto herself. Then, maun gang for a drap of pill, or deil is the situation in a nutshell. It He answered to the best of his contrived to change the tenor of the this nicht

adroliness, be no. steek o' gralthen 11 bo mended

"Ay, man," said Burns soberly, is not the sincerity of the ability. But there is a chance conversation, with the result that the Burns was a man of great physical "that's it, that's it." statesmen in Tokyo that is that he does not really know mistress soon found herself laughing strength. He could lift a twenty The very qualities which contribu- doubted; It is the wayward ways himself what in Japan's future as heartily as any, and even clapping stone sack of meal without any a ted to the greatness of Burns were parent effort, and a neighbour said cometimes productive of an aspect of military chiefs who are in policy in the occupied area. her hands in rapturous approval. -

When Burns had gone her husband that he would "load a cart with boge which caused certain of his neigh- clined to shape their tactics ac- Perhaps Mr. Shimada's ques silly rebuked her for joining in the of corn in the time that other meri bours to view him with suspicion. cording to the demands of the tions, had better have been night's fun.

were talking about it,” kata moment, without remembering directed to the generals in the the awfu'est body, that Burus, that when he worked all day in the hare he paid le old Nance Kelly (or Cul-

man," she protested,

But there is record of one occasion There is a story of a visit which to conmilt the Foreign Ministry, field who probably know better ever heard. I'm sure I set mysel wi' vest fleid with a rival, and found that and the dame, who was some

This state of affairs may not than the Government what their a my micht to gainstan him, but they appeared to be equal, at the what suspicious of the orthodoxy of

It's perfect impossible."

close.

(Continued on Page 6) ba to blame for the sudden ambitions are.

with characteristic

,

"Is that you, Robbie?" "Ay, Tammy, it's me."

"Whit are yo dheing doon thero?" "I'm howking a hole." "Whit the dao?"