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May 27, 1939.

BRAIN WAVES ARE NEW MEDICAL CLUE EMPIRE

Institute To Study Cause Of Disease

THE Burden Neurological Institute, founded and endowed by Mrs. R. E. Burden in the hope of learning the cause of epilepsy and finding a remedy for it, was formally opened in Bristol recently by Sir Thomas Inskip, the Dominions Secretary.

Mrs. Burden has acted for ninet They seem, however, like the other years as Warden of the Stoke Park two, to be associated with some de- Colony, which her husband, the Rev, gree of rest in the brain.

H. N. Burden, founded and endowed These three waves are found nor- on the outskirts of Bristol. The new maily in the brains of perfectly research Institute adjoins the Colony. healthy people. But there is a Mr. Burden's colleague in this fourth class of waves, the Della adventure is Dr. Frederick Golla, waves, which do not denote health. who recently resigned his position as The Delta waves vary in rhythm Professor of Pathology of Mental from about 'to 30 or 40 beats a Disease in London University to give second. They originate from some all his energy to his new work, disensed part of the brain, a tumour

Dr. Golla has a wonderful and or an abscess. They appcar also in comparatively new instrument to his cases of epilepsy.

hond-the "encephalograph" "brain-writer."

or Measuring Them

When I say "brain"waves" I don't mean it in the popular sense of Bright Ideas. I mean waves in the same sense as, say, the long or short waves of broadcasting-waves electrical radiation.

This device mea-1 sures your "brain-waves" and dis- tinguishes between those which are

How are the "brain-waves" men- normal and healthy and those which brain-writer," is simple enough in sured? The encephalograph, "the are symptoms of disense.

iden. It constats of two electrodes metal plates, sensitive to an electric] discharge which are placed againsts the skull to pick up the tiny dis- charges of the brain cells.

These electrodes are connected with an amplifier, which magnifies the dis- You know how an electricni con- charges until they are large enough denser works. It builds up and to perceive, and can be recorded as stores in electrical charge, and dis- wavy lines on a strip of paper, charges it when it cannot hold any mounted on a slowly revolving more. The nerve-cella of our brains cylinder, like a barograph used for act like electricn! condensers, recording the pressure of the atmos- Whenever the brain is at rest they phere.

of

HAVA YOLLARI

Efforts by Bellain to surround Germany with a ring of steel recently became successful as Turkey entered the British bloc. Turkey holds important key point in the Dardanelles. Above is one of the huge planes built in England recently for the Turkish government, shown in Istanbul.

Human Targets Used For Bomb Tests.

are perpetually accumulating and Apart from their potential services discharging a tiny charge of electri- in the problem of epilepsy, the city too small to be detected except Delta Waves which come from by the most delicate Instruments. tumours or abscesses have already HUMAN bomb targets are to 500, high-explosive bombs at

Four Wavelengths

50

Four kinds of "brain-wave" have|

you

The brain

been put to good use.

Brain Surgery

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EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS

Sydney.

Mr. S. B. Malim, former president of the leadquarters' Conference of Great Britain, is at present visiting Australia to inquire into the possibili ty of improving the opportunities for Dominion teachers to gain experience in England and for English teachers to do the same in the Dominions,

He says that the present system of exchange has many shortcomings. Only 35 teachers in England would like short-service work in the Do- minions, while South Africa and Australia both have 150 teachers willing to work in Enginnd. Exchange consequently would limit the number of teachers to 35.

Mr. Molim says that what he is endeavouring to do is to get the head- innsters of England to deelde either to keep a post on thele sta@ for a Do- minion mon as a supernumerary to their staff. Fifteen .headmasters in England have agreed to his suggestion,'

Federal Deficit The Federal Government will probably announce its first deficit for seven years when the financial year closes on June 30. The

principal factor governing Federal finances at the moment is the rate of defence expenditure, and this is still unpredictable. It has already been indicated that the Budget will be revised to charge ກ greater portion

of this year's defence expenditure to revenue and to charge some civil works to lonn.

NEW ZEALAND

PACIFIC DEFENCE TALKS OPEN

Wellington.

The Pacifle Defence Conference was Governor-General of New Zealand. opened recently by Viscount Galway,

Mr. Savage, the New Zealand Prime Minister, was elected chairman, and Mr. Fraser, Minister of Education, was elected vice-chairman.

The conference is expected to last a week. The

procedings will be private, special precautions being taken to ensure secrecy.

Great Britain is represented by Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand; Sir Harry Luke, High Com- representatives of the Navy, Army missioner for the Western Pacife, and

and Air Force,

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

MEMORIAL TO KING OF THE MATABELE

Salisbury.

A proposal has been made to erect a menorial to Mailigazi, founder of the Matabele power in Rhodesin. At the annual meeting of the Pioneers and Early Settlers Society it was de- object. elded to subcribe £20 towards this

Msillgezi, first King of the Matabele, He was the father of Lobengula, the brought his nation to Rhodesia In 1830. second and lost king." EAST AFRICA

be used by the Home Office Shoeburyness, Essex. soon to ascertain the precise Goats; rats and scientists were used jeffect of high explosives dropped in the experiments, which have far been distingushed, They

Brain surgery is one of the marvels near nir raid shelters.

proved that bombs and air ralding have been labelled Alpha, Beta, of the twentieth century. It is now

will not be nearly so disastrous as Full details were revealed many people think. Gamina and Delta waves, after the possible for a surgeon first four letters in

remove recently of remarkable experi- the Greek tumours or to drain abscesses whichments carried out recently by a alphabet.

a few decades ago would have led The Alpha waves, sometimes call-inevitably to a painful death.

committee

The COATS were tethered within of experts, using But ed the Berger rhythm, after

the there

20 or 30 yards of the bombs, and was this trouble. To operate name of the scientist who discovered successfully you must know just

were found a few minutes later them, have a regular "beat" of about where to look for the seat of the where to look for the cause of real one blown to pieces by n

been that no one has known Just

grazing peacefully; ten to the second. While your eyes disease. You

The RATS, with the exception of should. are open, looking at something, or avoid the extra risk of an explorn-termined, there is not much hope or splinter, were completely unaffected;

If you can, epilepsy, and until the cause is de-

bomb are straining

natory 10

operation to find it. That is anding a see something in the dark, they

The SCIENTISTS were quite com- But all the time that you are lying

stop, where the Delta waves corne in.

remedy. The encephalograph has made na The

fortable, behind bomb-proof bar- surg.con at rest, in a dark room or with your one pair of electrodes at the same ing both these problems.

than important contribution toward solv ricades. eyes shut, the nerve cells of your time. He places the metal plates at

Experts who had talked knowingly brain continue

Jaboul concussion to discharge

Investigators here and th the different parts of the skull. Home United States have found that waves, the experiments were

and shock difeet. Alpha waves ten times a second. sures the strength of the electrical similar to the Deita waves, are given that similar tests are to be carried the from bombs were confounded, and Locs on, licking over current contained in are parts of the off by the brains of people who suffer out with human beings in Anderson so conclusive gently, like a standing ear, so long as it reaches the several parts of the from epileptic fits. as the visual nerves are out of use cludes that this part is further from! true epliepsy, So If the Delta waves skull. Where It is weaker, he con-

But only if it Istin-hut" shelters. Different creatures have a differ- ent rhythm.

the root of the trouble. Where it is are missing, the doctor, will probably Man's bruin emits

conclude that it is a case of hysterical Alpha waves at the rate of ten a stronger, he concludes

that it is epilepsy, and should be treated by the highest scientific lights of the second. A cat's brain emits from

A committee composed of some of two to

to four, and a rabbit's from three with pretty fair accuracy, to locate

By this means it is now possibic, psycho-therapy. to live.

The American scientists studled fust what is likely to happen under country has been formed to find out Secondly there are the Beta waves, which the waves are proceed which take place during and just

the tumour or whatever It may be, mainly the electrical discharges air ruld conditions. These beat in the human brain at the rate of 25 to the second. They are straight to the place which matters.

ing, so that the surgeon con go before a fit. They found that there Defence Research Committee, and It is to be known as the Civil Interrupted if anything unexpectedly.

are big rhythmic discharges from the touches the skin, just as the Alpha Results to Date

brain-c

-during-a-fit--Moreover, just

consists of: waves are interrupted if you open

as the seismograph can record slight Dr. E

V. Appleton (chairman); ar distant carthquakes which elude secretary ΟΙ the Department of The same principle applies, in a Third come the Gamma waves, way, to epilepsy. There have been pick up slight epilepile

the senses, so the encephalograph can Scientific and Industrial Research;

discharges Prof. which are even more rapid than the two, great difficulties in the way of which are not noticed by the patient sity; Prot. J. D. Bernal, of Birkbeck

J. F. Baker, of Bristol Univer Bela waves. But they arc commonly detected, and no one has is to distinguish real epilepsy from

less the successful study of epilepsy. One himself.

College: Dr. C. G. Darwin, yet established with which of the purely hysterical epilepsy, or from ceeded in getting in this way a con- One American investigator suc- brain's activities they are linked. sheer malingering. The

Prof. A. J. S. Pippard, of the Imperial other has tinuous record of the brain rhythms College, London University; Prof. of eplieptic patients for periods up R. V. Southwell, of Oxford University: to 30 hours at a time. He discovered Prof. G. I. Taylor, Yarrow Research that the onset of a major fit could Professor of the Royal Society at be predicted by an inereuse in the Cambridge; and Prof. W. N. Thomas, electrient current discharged by the University College, Cardiff. patient's brain some hours before the

All are in their early fifties, or attack cause of.

younger, two being under 40. English scientists, among them Dr. Appleton Orchestra Mascotte. Professor Gella, have pold particular "Appleton Lundiscoverer of the languages.

the upper attention to the waves between fits, atmosphere, is one of ...Joe Venalt & Ed. Laur. They have found that about half greatest radlo experts,

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...George Boulanger & Ills Orch. of the brain. With patients

discharge comes from a definite part years I £250,000 were spent in co- who operation with other countries on suffer from major fis, it seems scientific research into defence, ..Philip Green & Ills Orch. to come from a point in front of the centre of the brain; in minor cases, Victor Silvester's Harmony Musle.from a point behind the centre.

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Professor Southwell, 50, was member of the recent conference on air raid shelters, which resulted in a

10,000 PROTEST AT LAND ORDER

MOMBASA.

Ten thousand Indians, Arabs and antives, at a mass meeting here re- cently, passed a resolution protesting- against the British Government's Order-In-Council reserving the High- lands for settlement by Europeans.

The meeting, which was orderly throughout, was addressed in six

Banned Play Made Fortune

EDGAR MIDDLETON, author

of "Potiphar's Wife," one of the most controversial plays of recent years, died in a London nursing home recently. He was aged forty-four.

Middleton was airman, soldier and Journalist before he turned drama- tist. "Potiphar's Wife," produced in 1927, won him his first big success.

The play was a modern paraphrase

It is that; it you can locate

What is the importange of that? the source of the trouble, you may be able to remove it.

Taylor, 53, was on very few cases, this has been Government White Paper. Professor of the old Biblical story. Crities

done,

In

a patient la recorded to have greatly work during the war, improved, following the amputation,

mental aeronautic and meteorological

vuglar. One.

One or two provincial towns of the front part of his brain, where that they will call upon the univer

So great is the scope of their work Bonned performances by touring the abnormal waves. had come from alties to supply them with additiona!

companies. without any apparent loss in general laboratory space to carry on their mental capablilty.

But cutting bits off the brain is experiments."

Government research stations and

a desperate remedy to which, in the bombing ranges, carefully shielded words of the British Medical Journal, "few patients would submit, except from foreign agents, will be used for to avert a catastrophie." And, in the full-scale tests with bombs. fact, the results of such operations in Some idea of the scope of the work America are not very promising. can be obtained from the fact that More important is the fact that the camouflage, street decontamination, location of the sources of epilepsy damage to drains, factory lighting in has given scientista a much better wartime and investigations into carti chance of advancing towards a shock waves form only the bare knowledge of its cause und nature. skeleton of their programme. It has opened up a new field of re- search, with well-defined limita Instead of looking for a needle in a haystack the scientists can look for it in a mere handful of hay. Thay-con-concentrate-their-attention- on the vital 'spots.

now, Ja

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Wo do not yet know what causes Fireman Roy E. Benton, caught on epliepsy. But now that we know the ice-covered roof of a burning where to look for it we have a for building several years ago, did some better chance of finding it.

fast thinking. Result: A fireman's That is the main task to which Dr.jaxe which-combines eight tools axu Golla and his colleagues at the plek, tipper blado, aprender, spanneër Burden Institute will direct their wrench, two other wrenches and a energies.

claw.

brought Middleton a lot of money. In London it ran for months and He lost it all in his next play, "Tin Gods," which was a failure.

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