1939-08-25 — Page 2

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August 25, 1939.

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DOCTORS DISCUSS YOUR HEADACHE

Cure Is-

Give Up

Worrying

THE headache you had

last night, the one you

74, SHE RESCUED FRIEND

From Burning Room

may (we hope not) get to SEVENTY-four-years-old Mrs. day, were discussed by doc-Amelia Smith, of North- tors at the B.M.A. con-umberland-rond,

ference at Aberdeen recent ly, with FREE advice on

cures.

Physical disorders are, it

raised a

Southampton, bandaged hand and

wiped away her tears, after she had told how she tried in vain

to save a woman of 63 from a

blazing room.

When the coroner at the South-

seems, not to blame; worry,ampton inquest said "I think you are insomnia and depression

are,

a very brave woman," Mrs. Smith broke down, and replied "I only wish I had saved her."

She tried to rescue Mrs. Lucy

Professor H. Colten (Liver- pool) explained that there are Filleul, who lived in the same house. types of headaches, one accom; when the fire broke out.

open the door, and heard her mou- She said, "I asked her if she could

panying lesions of the brain and the other associated with irrita-ing. tion of the brain's membrane.

Just Relax

Professor G. W. Pickering (London) has found that he can banish a headache after a tiring day by consciously relaxing the muscle of facial expression. In a few minutes the pain disap. pears, he stated.

Dr. W. C. Maclay (London) also considers that relaxation gives good results,

Dr. D. R. MacCalman (Aber deen) said that some patients would say that aspirin or any other drug had no effect on their headache but that sleep would often cure it The Causes

What causes

The door was locked on the inside, so tan out of the house to her window, and threw it up.

"Mrs. Filleul was standing, alight from head to fool. Jenlied her to the window and managed to drag her though it, then I wrapped rugs round her to smother the flames,

KEY WAS BROKEN

"Practically alt her clothes were. burnt off. Later it was found that the key of her dour hud broken in the luck as she tried to escape."

Mrs. Smith then threw buckets of water over the burning bed and cur- tains.

Mrs. Fill died in hospital. Verdict: Aeeldental Death.

A "diordered personality" often brings a headache,

Dr. T. A. Ross (London) declared that neurotic patients with "head- Inches" were really suffering from! some form of emotional feeling of headaches?discomfort.

Here are some of the explana-Drake No Gymnast tions given by the doctors:

was dis-

Continuous headaches are almost) When physical training certainly due to anxiety, depression, cussed, Professor H. A. Harris (Cam- mental disorder or insomnia.

[Many unnecessary operations are performed on the nose because patients have not been asked whether they sleep well or have any worry, soli Dr. C. Symonds.]

D.

| bridge) said It should involve some-

thing distinct from regimentation.

The feats of daring, of physical and mental endurance, of lonely watches, and the forced marches, have been a product of the spirli of the British race, not of the

Medals For Four Heroes

A SERGEANT, a corporal

and two privates who took what arc described officially as appalling risks in an effort to deal with a blaz- ing petrol tank in Palestine, are to receive the M.B.E. for bravery, it is announced by the War Office.

They are Corporal Thomas Atkinson, Privates Thomas McAvoy and Thomas Fowler and Sergeant John William Brindle (acting Sergeant Major), all of the Ist Battalion The Green Howards.

*

Corporal Atkinson was in charge of mechanical trans- port at Jinsafat Camp, Palestine, when A truck caught fire.

A petrol tank became in- volved and Private McAvoy, to relieve pressure on the tank and try to avert an ex- plosion, took a pick-axe and, without any thought for his own safety pierced the tank. The jet of burning petrol which gushed out caused him to be badly burned.

In spite of this, the tank exploded, spreading burning petrol over a wide area.

*4

Company Sergeant-Major Brindle and Private Fowler, despite interse heat and danger, rescued several men whose clothing was alight.

Corporal Atkinson severely burnt in endeavour. ing to save the life of a comrade.

was

gymnasium or the barrick square." he continued.

Trek To

Formosa

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centre.

Irish Flag Causes Scene

AN Irishman addressing

Grasshoppers Are Marked

SAFFORD, Ariz.

grasshoppers Southern

There are 100,000 ahopping merrily around

meeting in Hyde Park on re- Arizona that are decidedly "hot" if They were cently unfurled the Irish flag, they only knew it. The crowd of 500 became very taken and branded with red pigment hostile and the police arrested) by 4-H club workers and ther, turned loose in an effort to ascertain from him.

whence they come and whither they go.

The man was William Curtin (25), of Paddington, a member of Clann Na Gnel, the Irish society mentioned

A constable stated that before un-

In the "S" plan, produced by the furling the flag Curtin said: "Soon Home Secretary in Parliament.

He was charged at Marlborough

"Drake, Cook, Scott, Lawrence And Somerville are not the products of any system of physical education Street with using words calculated to or sport."

cause a breach of the peace.

we shall a be, deported, and when

we get there we will blow the Eng-

ish out of it."

Curtin was fined 10s.

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