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Blood tests- and what they tell a doctor

An explanation of how one person's

blood is different from another's

A

called oxy-haemoglobin. In blood returning to the heart in the veins it is darker, because the haemoglobin has then given up most of its oxygen to the tissues.

The liquid part of the blood- the plasma-is yellowish in colour. It acts as a solution in which the corpuscles can circu-

late.

serve as a

MAN came into my which travels round our bodies, In 1188, however, the sentence

consulting room the night and day. of excommunication was recalled

other morning. I If it's normal in quantity it and a new Pope, Clement III,

But this plasma has got more settled the controversy between could see from the pale tint may still be abnormal in quality, to do than just to the English and Scottish of his skin that he had got i.c., it doesn't contain a sufficient liquid. Most of the food you

amount of certain substances.

cat finds its way into your blood, bull He issued a

some form of anaemia.

If you're anaemic you're short and then travels round until it io William the

It was a simple matter in one or more of the three im- reaches the particular organ it's declaring that "the Church of Scotland was a to take a syringe-full of portant constituents-red cor- destined for. daughter of Rome by special blood from the vein which puscles, white corpuscles, and You've got proteins in your

and immediately

sub stood out so clearly at the haemoglobin. ject to her and that no appeal bend of his elbow.

Churches. addressed Lion

grace

concerning benefices should lie out of Scotland unless to the court of Rome."

Also blood, fats, and sugars. salts of which the most abun- dant ja Bodium chloride-or After this was over the

see what you ordinary table salt. All these LET us patient said, "I read in the

should have, if you're the plasma has to carry. Union might have been effect papers this morning that a healthy.

It is also busy carrying waste ed at the time of the Reforma man was able to prove

Red Corpuscles: 5,000,000 of products, like uric acid, to your tion, but that movement took that he was not the father them to the cubic millimetre of kidneys. So it has got plenty different courses in the two of some one's child, simply blood. They're only 1-3,000th to do.

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Then also the blood contains I of an inch in size, but you can't

live without them because they gases, principally oxygen your

a substance which clots Lains carry the oxygen you need from carbonic acid. And finally it con- your lungs to the rest of your body.

when it comes into contact with White Corpuscles: 8,000 in the air.

Without thin we should all number, and they are about 1-2,500th of an inch, and of bleed to death the first time we SOME one once said that several different kinda. In their pricked ourselves. People whose the blood is "the brains own way they're just as impor- blood doesn't clot properly go on

to make blood cor-

that is to

mix

"The Red Flag" in School

The Reformation in Scotland was effected, according by examining his blood.

idea that to Scotland Church historians, had by the Church itself. There was blood could tell you so much

The old about yourself." CHURCH AND STATE no break of continuity.

priesthood of yesterday became This is what I told him. The Kettle of the Kirk and the ministry of the new dispen

sation. Part of the framework | State, as Burns used to enl it, comes to a boil with unfailing of the old system was retained and incorporated within the new, regularity every time the Kług In Knox's day the system was announces the appointment of not wholly Episcopal or wholly in solution." As a description it tant as the red ones, but their bleeding, sometimes from quite his personal representative who Presbyterian,

some wasn't bad-but it wasn't really main job is to protect you against small injuries. They are suffer- le saw that good.

infection. There are four or five ing from haemophilia. necessary in Without blood, of course, you'd different kinds-their relative law and constitution, the duties compromise was

order to maintain a united front have no brain that was any good: proportions depend upon the of High Commissioner

the against the forces of reaction. and without a brain to control kind of food you're cuting.

THERE is another way General Assembly of the When Knox's work was done your circulation you'd have no

Haemoglobin is the chemical National Church of Scotland. In and the two factions were use for blood. But it was only a which gives the colour to the puscles pile into clumps-or ABLJINANCES MEANDARD this act of state the Sovereignussured that the Church was no wise-crack, and hardly worth red corpuscles. It contains iron. agglutinate, as it is technically

exercises a function the signi- longer threatened from outside, saying, because the blood is so In arterial blood (ie., bright red known and

blood which has already been bloods which are not compatible.. licance of which is but vaguely they were at liberty to fight out much more than this.

their differences. In the mean- Your life--and mine-depends purified in the lungs) it is com- It is this technique which is who understood by those are time, English puritan doctrine, upon some five pints of red fluid bined with oxygen-then it's (Continued on Page 11.) unacquainted with the history of blown across the border, had the ancient Kingdom of Scotland, begun to infect the successors of Клох. In the result the which censed to have il

Episcopal feature was removed separate existence as a politi-

from the Church polity. More cal entity in 1707, at which

the important, however, Was date the separate existence of displacement of Knox's Book of the sister Kingdom of England Discipline, a work "instinct with Rkewise came to an end. It was the breath of piety," by a Second

ITy newly-acquired obstreperous and entertain the bored, from the day she arrived at] chargey.

my aim was slightly nekew, I think then that the two kingdoms Book of Discipline, the work of a Muntaner with Polly dates back to view

lawyer. Ominously enough, it school, suspiciously clutching her "Ma Gode," fervently remarked a might reasonably have been par- no charitable agreed to become one realm and

began with a consideration of mother and her birthlines, to claim departing parent, "ye'd be better doned. I was to have sovereignty and the

concessions from Polly!" name the relation of Church and State, admittance to our new Baby Class, maierit

on telt you I For several weeks afterwards, in

three times I'm "I've laughed with the indulgent scorn "Great Britain," hitherto merely and declared with an emphasis a geographical expression, took that Hildebrand himself could my more sudistic moments, I was of one who is sublimely sure she Polly!" she remarked, in tones go hardly improve upon, that the wont to recall the benevolent smile knows better, and I expect the Futes, cold expressive of her estimate of with which I went forward to greet cocking speculative eyes at Polly, my intelligence that I quailed before on a true political significance.

and the graciously approving laughed with me--but for a different them, and nervously tried to raise One essential condition of that Church should command and the her,

her reason, which I informed State obey. This made it in- tones in

It mother that she looked bright, auspicious event was that while evitable that sooner or later the

was only as my introduction to Polly

Five neglected years In on in- the two countries became one Church and the State in Scotland was painfully burgeoning that I be- different world, with precious little

t my stern little Communist was.

be

such over by won and indivisible, the two Churches would collide.

Ean to appreciate all the implications

to give thanks for, had not

bureaucratie baubles, and a Col During the three-quarters of of the strange lack of answering naturally set intelligent little Polly r were to remain separate and distinct, provision whose a century which followed until maternat enthusiasm which seemed "agin" whatever happened to be the temptuous, "Och, have ye nuthin'

distressingly unnatural at the

else fr us lae play wi'? We've had government, and, in this case, also! them afore!" put me still more firmly the Revolution Settlement of 50

time. sanctity was solemnly recognis-1690, there were two attempts at

it happened to be me, However, on that first day, still The Red Fing was hoisted in the in my place.

I revived a little with the sweet, ed and enshrined in the famous Church Union in Britain, both blissfully unaware of what was in class-room the very first day. 1 was

conflding affection af the other Act of Security. The Establish- failures. James VI of Scotland, store for me, I gally deposited Polly's struggling manfully to attach forly children became positively con-

ascended ed Church of Scotland thus who

the England lively, gamin-like face and woefully five bewildering new names to forty- ceiled, indeed, under the boldly- declared admiration and Fallant stands in a peculiarly strong throne as James I in 1603, and meagre little body in the seat right five strange, smell persons, and if, under my cyc, ominously recom- with the additional airungle to

wallers, subduc the attentions of the sturdy owner position. Its age-old connection his son Charles I after him, both mended by her mother, then stepped comfort the

bright red hair and a choice crop of freckles, who sat next to Polly. with the Kingdom of Scotland tried by various methods to induce the Scots to accept

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** is further fortilled by an Act of episcopacy. Another attempt at GRIN AND BEAR IT

However, it is a tie dimcult to Security which is an organic part union was made in 1843. In

sustain simultaneously the roles of of the fundamental constitu- that year the General Assembly

teacher and inamorata, and the day arrived when I had regretfully to tional law of Great Britain. of the Church of Scotland, the

Westminster

try to induce Tommy to cling to Assembly of An age which has seen the

another hand than mine. advent of such wonders as the Divines, and both Houses of Parliament in England approved aeroplane, the submarine and

and subscribed a Solemn League Chater Road. the radio might perhaps consi- and Covenant for the establish- der the union of the two Nationalment of uniformity of religion

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Churches into one as an achieve- in the three Kingdoms, England,

Scotland and Ireland, on ment easily within the realm of possibility. The statesmen who, Presbyterian basis. This Coven-

were

framed the Act of Union in 1707ant was observed in England for had other views. They

a dozen years or so, but in 1660 well aware that history had, King Charles the Second was record of several attempts to had never taken kindly to the restored and the English, who unite the Churches in the past. Presbyterian system, gladly re- They knew that in 1176 a great turned to Episcopacy. Such was conference was held at North- the fate of these attempts at ampton at which Henry II of Church union, The Act of England, William the Lion of Union, 1707, provided for the Scotland, and the Papal Legate -

continued existence of the were present. The Scottish

The Scottish establishment. clergy were strongly urged to King has a right to be present yield obedience to the Arch-at the General Assembly. It is bishop of York. This, however, an interesting fact that this the Scots, possibly because they "right" was in the words of the feared political consequences, historian Green, "all that James stubbornly refused to do. More could save" in his struggle with lover, in a controversy with the the Church when it adopted the Church of Rome, the King and Calvinistic theory of the relation Kirk of Scotland maintained; of Church and State. Since the their national rights with equal days of James this right has stubbornness in deflance of a been preserved and King George sentence of excommunication. exercises it to-day.

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By Lichty

"It's just like Emma to pull something Hice this, the day before it's her turn to entertalh the bridge club,”

my stock with on offer of some gally- coloured beads and a string on which to thread them.

But

not

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of

"Will you not take Topay for a partner to-day, Tommy?" I coaxingly inquired.

Well, what about little Curlytop -or Peggy hero?

"Naw," came the shattering reply. "I've looked at them a', an you're the nicest!'

My heart started out on n fatuous ttle dutter, but was rudely inter- rupted by a purposeful damsel, who seized my cavaller with unmaidenly force and scornfully informed him: "Ye cannne take the teacher-she's owre ould!"

all,

Dimly I felt that perhaps after there was something to be said. for the ways of the Fascisti.

There exists in many infant schools an Institution known as "Newstime," which serves a useful double pur-- pose. It first of all allows all the exclling stories about the new baby next door, or the dend lodger in the house below, to be compressed into the one ten minutes, Instead of bubbling over and assolling the teacher at odd (and usually in opportunci) moments throughout the day, besides acting us a kind of jam, unsely concealing the educational pill known to time-tables und Schemen-of-Worit as "Correction of

Speech,"

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Unlike the other children, Polly as n rule was neither ingenuously con--

(Continued: on Page 11.)