1940-01-20 — Page 9

Saturday, JANUARY 20, 1940.

"TELEGRAPH" WEEK-END MAGAZINE

Some weeks ago at young European child was THIS in the story of a modern miracle,

But for research in England raken roja: Government hospital in Hongkong with pneumanis. that is not yet even completed she may have died.

THE

But she was saved. Others in Hongkong. have also been saved by this new miracle, which is known simply as

most murderous creatura at largo on this earth is diplococcus, pneumoniae, the microbo thaf causes pncumonia. This tiny mankiller takes marc lives than scarlet fover and typhoid fever, malaria, Influenza, meningitis

and motor car accidents put to- gother. It destroys people more rapidly than the highly officient German army did in the Great War.

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SPELLS DEATH TO

THE KILLER

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tanitanide to pieces and build it up in new patterns.

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old rules, but none the less dramatic. in the experl- fall the patients ment would get routine treatment. The other half would also receive M. & IJ, 603,

Such an experiment Is hard on the nerves of any doctor.

If the new drug appears to work on one group, it is diflcult to wit hold 1 from another; to all back. watching death which might be avoided creep relentlessly on,

it took the great Ehrlich years to com- through G05 arsenic plough

Yet such things must be done if pounds before he found No. 600, a true stay of the value of the drug which would work

syphilis. is to be made, Modern methods speeded the "work" No ellort was made at Dudley Road!

sort Hospital to

patients. Those at May & Buker

Within a few weeks hundreds. of entering one day went into Group A: UCH of the havoc caused in new compounds began to emerge those of the following day Into Group

were D, ele. There were

100

M human lungs by this deadly from the laboratorica. Some wed. Chef fruit, ranging In que from eight

microbe traces

armour.

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to its tough out 6 held out some hope--hope that to GB and representing all degrees of exploded when they failed to protect everity of illness. The body's protective forces Finally, compound No. 003 was have difficulty

mice.

How's Your Cold?

"By far the most pleasant way ..."

NOTHING, I am told, is so common as the common cold, and nothing seems to defeat us so thoroughly.

It may be because nothing has so many possible cures. When we get trouble with an appendix we have it on!. The same applies. In many cases to teeth, Instruments left in us at the lust opera- tion, and such things as screws inadvertently "swal- lowed while eating salad.

p cracking the completed, an innocent-looking white DOCTORS are wars of any drun which scens to give quick and hickory-nut shell and getting at crystalline stuff.

It bore a jaw-breaking nume: 3-dramaile

results In preumaula. (p-Anrinobenzenesulfonamido) Py- There is always the chance that it in

the microbe itself.

approaches the crisis.

at last ridine. For simplicity, it was called being administered just as the patient But research

men have solved the problem, and one of the M. & 13. 093. most brilliant chapters in moxiern medicine has been written.

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false

Rapid recoveries are the rule if the crisis passed successfully. And such recoveries may be mistakenly attributed to the drug.

To check

this point the con- ductos of the clinical work would

withdraw 693 from pallents.

Almost invariably they had an im- mediate relapse.

When C03 was restored they im- proved. There seemed to be no mistake this time.

IKK C4 hopeful-looking E story of this white pill begins 14 aurs before it, 63 was shipped a number of years back with that to Dr. Llond E. 11. Whitby, pathole

Hospital in brillant German researcher, Puista Dudley Read

Birmingham, for testing on animals, Ehrlich.

Whitby, following his patient att There must be chemicals, said Ehrlich, which will El microbes in-line used with all the others, shot full of side the body of

without ach mouse in one batch 4 Data king the man himself. Its d-Cough microbes to kill 10,000 mice. Then he poured crushed and molk- covery in 1910 of salvarsan, the anti-tened pills of 683 into its stomach. Each four hours, Aral, patients syphila drug, set the research world

A second batch of miec got only the would get the half-grain tablets with ablaze. Everywhere

began men

the faintly bitter taste. Toxic looking for similar substances which microbes.

unmistakably The mire it' did not get 603 symptoms and fever would work on other bacteria, but

Immediately began to topple over. The other subsided; and it was bicfore more than 20 years passed

mice should have died luo. But, apparent that there were not neurly another researcher met any outstand-

contrarily, they went right ou so many deaths in the 603 group as ing success.

living! The unbelievable had hap- in the other. Yet there were a few pened; but the job was not finish death. Why not try larger, doses of td.

the drug, bud give it to patients as How many of the 32 types of sour as they arrived at the hospital? derived. This is the new drug that pneumoniu would 803 work on? IL Once this new procedure was in murders the murderous streptococul,

augurated medical miracles began chusers of strep meningitis, childbed appeared to give almost complete Туре

to happen. fever, and crysipelas, Researchers Protection for type 1, 7 nnd B. quickly tried sulfanilamide an alter is the most prevalent of all, ne-

third of pneu things and thus opened

up a new counting for about

monia cases. With other types 603 approach to pneumenia.

lesrened severity markedly, Thousands of white mice-which

Was 633 poisonous? Whitby pour-

Then in Elberfeld, Germany. Gerhardi Domagk found the magle stuff from which sulfanilamide is

The Anal tally of mortality statis- les showed that 27 of the patients who go! routine treatment died. In the 691 group only eight died; and before rix of the deaths occurred

die very quickly from pneumoniaed the stuff into mice and found that larger doses of the drug were used. got thousands of doses of microbes one part of the drug for 50 parts of A series of children's cases came and thousands of doses of sul body weight represented the lethal next. In a group of 40 youngsters fanilamide,

tlose, That was safely inside toxic there were only tivo denths, and bath The mice lingered in for several limits.

of the

from casualties suffered days, but eventually died. Domagk's Translated Into human weight, peritonitis as well os neumonia. Edrug obviously wasn't the answer. three pounds of the medicine would All over England doctors began using

Yel there was that odd fact about be necessary to bring on death in an 693 with spectacular results,

why did it delay death? Maybe 100-pound man. And one fiftieth of somewhere within utfanilamkie toy the lethal dose was enough to pro- still more magie-magic which would feet mice from the microbes,

kill the worst of the microbe killers.

THIS was only due that May

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TN every test he devised, 693 stood

ils ground.

& Baker, a large British drug- Now it was ready for a test on

making house, needed.

Human beings. Rules for the game

Is chemists were told to tear sul-, of life and death were drawn up-

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But you can't have a cold out, and no one ever seems to take a cold in hand 1 It is too late.

1 commonly begins with, say, Mr. Buggins, the cashier, turning on Monday with what known as a streaming cold.

What he should do is to go to bed and slay there, but, being me of those who only earns $450 I month as against the manager's four thousand, it is clear that he cannot be spared, or the whole place would be in a state of Complete #nancial chaos. UC- siles, be rather fears he might be replaced.

And then it is, when he ins sneezed all over the typewriters, the telephonen, and the entire gamut of Bling systems and loase- loaf ledgers, that the advice begins to come In as the best way of curing a cold.

There are some who believe that the best way is to sit with the feet immersed in a tub of boiling water for most of the evening and tirik hol nilk,

THERE are others who con- sider that by far the best--and, Incidentally, the most pleasant- way of getting rid of the things Is to take frequent and generous draughts of hot whisky and lemon and sit in front the fire In a bundle of rugs and read n book and be walted on hand anct foot by the rest of the householt. Many cleave in the notion that there is some special virtue in the humble onion, probably because the aroma anaesthetises the germ or kills him stone dead.

A large atunker of people insist un discomfort as the only way of (satisfactorily dealing within cold, ant insist that a boiling hot poultice of glutinous Unseed and a mustard plaster are the really rensible mellad of coping with the situation.

The Iden here is to make things 50 unpleasant for the. patient that he will willingly say he is cured in order to avoid further suffering at the minister- Ing hands of fils family and sock the comparative peace of the office once more,

EVEN now all might be well, or at least beller, but for the fact that the head clerk is one of those who fridst on having all the windows open on the coldest, windlest day in the theory that you never get ili so long as you have plenty of fresh air.

So everyone enntinues to sit in draughts until the head clerk himself is stung by the bug, all the windows closed and the said bug imprisoned with nothing to to but to get all the other mem→ bers of the stad.

Meanwhile the germ dies in the ace from sheer boredom, the bottles are placed on the bath room shelves for the next time, and everyone is happy once more.

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CALENDAR OF MANKIND "care" take

PROFESSOR ARTHUR 11. Compton, Nobel prize winner in physics.

A

ncted cosmie ray investigator, compresses the time seale mitiunfold and presents the following Calendar of Mankind:

One to two years ago: The first men learned to use sticks and siones as tools and weapons.

Last week: Someone developed the art of shaping stones to meet his needs.

Yesterday:

The alphabet was introduced.

Last midnight: Rome fell.

8.15 this mornlar: Galileo observed his falleg bodies. 10 am. The first steam engine was being bulli. 11,30 am.

thesc.

The telegraph, electric power; ek, followed out of Fifteen minutes ago: The motor-car came luts general use, Five minutes ago; Air-mal service began.

by ROOSEVELT

-BUT ARE YOU SURE? Why U.S.

16. Commander of the British forces in Iraq during the other war -It was Mesopolamla then-was-

Hamilton;

Allenby: Marude;

French; Wilson; Smith-Dorrian.

17-How's your botany? Two of these names of flowers are, I hope, misspell. Correct me

where I'm

wrong

Anemone; antirrhinum; porte- sia; fuchsia; monbretta: escha- choltzia.

18.------Whea * Japanese goes fish- ing he takes a bird along with him to do the hard work. That bird? Is The

Cormorant,

crane; pelican: penguin; albatross; heron.

19.-Sir John Falstaff, In

uut

pf

his disreputable adventures, was told to hide behind the arraS. You don't have to be a Shakespearean scholar

to know that an arras is a

Bed; bar counter; oaken client; tapestry screen; wicker whatnot. 20.--Cochineal is culinary color Ing substanoc, derived from the:-

Leaves of plants; coal-tar: bark of trees: juice of berries; bodies of insects.

21. The bloke who in the course of businers talks about enucleation and imagines that you understand him la a

Printer;

surveyor; surgeon; musiclan; painter; astrologer, 22-Here are five varieties of wild life. Three of them walk on six legs and two au eight. The eight-legged creatures are:--

Becs; beetle; scorpion; ant; splder.

23-These chaps turned an honest penny by painting-pictures, not houses. They were Britons with one exception Thai exception-1957, American-is:—

Maclike;

Constable; Hogarth; West; Poynter; Landseer: Law-

rence.

24-llow quick are you out the uptake? From these clues You should

Identify a certain ablo to little Indy:

A female character in one of Dickens's novels; a kind of print dress:

a wide-brimmed woman's hat with one side bent down. 25After this, you'll know that the word panoply hetually means:-

A military procession; a comm plete suit of armour; the covering for a four-poster bed; an officer's jag,

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Customer: How much is th lace a yard, young man?

Salesman: So and 50, madame. Customer: Oh! Much 180.

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Salesman: Well, madame, could reduce the price by ha'penny a yard.

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THE world to-day hails

on

America's decision President Roosevelt's fight to repeal the Neutrality Act which provented the United States selling arms to Britain,

Hero, in his own words, the President shows what Britain stands to gain by the ropoal.

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FOR many years the primary purpose of the foreign policy of the United States has been to strive to the utmost to aid in avoiding war take

among nations.

Customer (absent-mindedly): Good, that will give me au extra yard for len shillings. I'll fen shillings werth.

Yes, madame:

how

Salesman Un 4. quandary):

er,

many yards do you require?

Can you tell him? HOW MANY EACH ?

and

Alfred, Beriram, Charles Dick had a number of marbles fo divide between them. Alfred took half of them 12 one. Beriram took one more than half of those feft. Charles took less than a fifth of the original num- ber, and Dick had the remaining 1WD,

How many marbles were there at the start?

OUTSIDERS -

In each group of names below Litero is one nutsider...one that has no application to the list as a whole.

Can you spot it and explain why?

(a) London, Edinburgh, Ox- ford, Torquay.

(b) Chaff. Scold. Badinage,

Banier,

(a) Tennyson, Byron, Mase- Betd, Bridges. [RISES FOR ONES

Jones has had twenty· rises since he ti.been with his firm, and now earns 210 a week, Each rise waa'el --"the samo

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We did our utmost within our. traditional policy of non-involve ment to aid in averting the pre- sent appalling war.

In the light of problems of to-dny, responsibility for nets of aggression is not concealed, and the writing of the record can safely be left to fu...... ture historians,

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Lat us be factual. Let us recognise that a belligerent nation often needs wheat and lard and cotton. for the survival of its population just as much as it needs anti-aircraft guns and anti-submarine depth charges,

Let those who seek to retain the present embargo position be fully consistent. Let them seek new legis- Intion to cut off cotton and copper and ment and wheat and a thousand other articles from all the nations af war.

I seek a greater consistency:

A greater consistency through the repeal of the embargo pro- visions and the return to normal

law.

It is my deep and unalterable con- viction that by the repeal of the ei- bargo the United States will more probably remain at peace than I the law remains as it stands to-day.

SAY this because with the repeal of the embargo our sale of any type of uncompleted løplements of war as well as all

Government will insist thint kinds of general material-and American cftkens and American supplies.

ships. keep away from the im- They furthermore allow such pro medinte perila of the actual and good faith among nations ducts of industry, and agriculture to to io background can find no

be taken in American flag ships to zones of conflict. place within it for the Ideals of

belligerent nations. the Prince of Peace.

An crder of society which relegates religion, democracy.

The enactment of the embargo Thero in itself under the present provisions more than merely We know what might happen to low es defalte danger to our neu- versed our traditional policy.

It had the effect of putting land the United States it the philosophies trality and our pence.

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A land power which threa- tencil war could thus feel as- TAST January 1 said, "We paradox of the existing

legislation in its simplest terms. sured Ja tuvarico titat any have learned that when we. If prior to 1935 general war had prospective sea, power antaro- deliberately try to legislate neut broken out in Europe, the United

would nist

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have sold our neutrality

this ancient through dental of

bay anything mny- operate unevenly and unfairly, bought from belligerent nations such right to

where. goods and products of, all kinds o may actually give aid to an the belligerent nations with their Tho' stop I recommend is to put aggressor and deny it to the existing, facilities and geographical America back on a solid footing of victim."

altuations were able to buy from us real and traditional neutrality."

able to It was because of what I foresaw or sell to us. last January from watching the trend of foreign, affairs, and their probable effect upon us that I re commanded to Congres our nou that changes be onacied in our trality laws.

The embargo provisions of the Neutrality Act of 1935 as they exist to-day prevent the sale to abelligerent by: an Amerkan factory of any completed Imple

ments of war, but they allow the

3. war had broken out in Europe in 1935 there would have been no difference, for example, of aluminium and our exports between our exports of sheets

of aeroplane wings To-day there is an artificial legal dif- ferance.

Our policy must be to appreciate in the deepest tense the true Ameri can interest, lightly considered; this interest is not selfish. Destiny has made us with our sister nations in the same temisphere joint heire of European esltúre,

Fate now: rents to compel un lo Before 1035 there would have been assume, the tark of helping to main no difference between the export of lain in the Western worki a citadel cotton and the export of gun-cotton, wherein that civilisation may he

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