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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1949.,

Out of doop suffering sometimes a strangó now happiness can como. This is the simply told story of a doctor strickon with sleepy sickness who is a living proof that

You can find sunshine

in the shadows

The writer of this moving article is DR. LLEWELLYN PRIDHAM,

M.R.C.S.. L.R.C.P.

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LEEPY SICKNESS is per- haps one of the cruellest afflictions to be endured by man. Though myself doctor. I know little about the end. I do not disease and its dip into books dealing with the complaint; for it is foolish to

may anticipate what happen.

never

The decline is slow. It is quite impossible to say, "I'm worse than I was a week or a It is necessary month ago."

things look back to little that could once be managed but are now impossible.

to

I am supposed to have con- tracted the disease in 1924, when I was 31. Previously, the Navy claimed years, but

I

It was while sailing that got the first inkling that all

R

handed race-which I had institut- ed-became

alarming for me an

affair.

I consulted my brother, who ranged for me to see a leading neurologist. We met at a country house, and he diagnosed my allment over the fea-cupy,

Afterwards he took me for

If my mouth usual.

A

seemed wetter than

was not well with my make-up. roll, and I remember him asking

had reached Several boats mark-buoy round which it was necessary to gyben tricky moment, for a general smash- up seemed inevitable,

Suddenly my hand started to vibrate on the tiller-a curious sensation, though only momentary. I gained my grip round the buoy and steered safely.

Another warning came at a public Vole luncheon. I was proposing o of thanks when my right hond start- et to vibrate again, but I was able 10 ram it Ormly lato my trouser poc- ket and continue speaking.

LOST HIS NERVE

COME time after this found for eight culty in writing. and my now I went into hand-writing becarne completely general practice at a seaside legible.

mu

town, where I joined the locnt sailing club.

Soon I lost my nerve for sa'ting. which there is always a spice of danger, and competing in the single-

HOW MR MORGAN

SIZED UP

COME

WASHINGTON.

STALIN

Little did I realise then that ex- cessive salivation was to become the He told me tribulation of my life. what I was muffering from In the gentlest way, and it was a relief to know something definite.

Things went from bad to worse until I had diiculty in memorising

my patients' faces.

the

Dr. PRIDHAM,

Once on an open road can get along with some speed, and, curious-

typewriter with

"You and your silly house-

warming party-1"

The eighth Dominion planned

SALISBURY (Southern Rhode-

sla). A

new

British South

Dominion 15 big as Africa may spring from a con- ference of central African poli-

Deciding to give up my practice ly enough, it is easier to walk back-tical leaders at Victorin Falls.

to and felt

guilty Admiralty and return to the Navy, I went enough on signing a statement that I was free from physical disability.

At this stage I could have fooled the whole Itayal College of Physi cians, but life on a submarine depot ship provei impossible, and 1 invalided out of the Service,

wards.

For some time I have been writ They are expected to pass a reso- ing. punching the my left forefinger, the only digit that lution calling for federation of the

two Rhodesian and Nyasaland. will perform this duty.

Free-lancing is, surely, the most disappointing of all occupations, but was my name becoming known and I am now selling two articles a month and have had two plays accepted by the BBC.

This almost fatshed me, but in the backwater of a village, with my wife and child, life becane happy.

In the winter months I enjoyed rough shooting, though slow on the

I was

now 34, nail tremor and salivation were becoming trouble-

some.

I was treated with stramonium which is still remarkably effective, about an hour though, as it takes

Is

This interest keeps me going, but a star has developed. My one goud finger is beginning to fail. This is distressing, but there is a way out.

is being An electric typewriter

which can be made in America

lightest possibic operated by the touch on its keys. fis expense is its only drawback.

the temptation to hurry DEVIL OF FRUSTRATION| to wet, things up by taking too much almost overpowering. The result of

however, is devastat an overdose.

mouth, u feeble ing: a bone-cry heart-beat, a feeling of distress, and hysterin producing: an exaggerated the sense of humour, though in

time is a sober

awareness.

GREAT IRRITATION

They took the report to Marshall, background all the

And it was then Secretary of State. ago a young Marshall who years

ordered that it ❤-men-named George Mor should beut down and then- Foreign Affairs course at published in the gan took a Russian

Influential smdl- New Quarterly, an Columbin University, York. He did well, but he circulation magazine which has great D'

was a perfectionist and want- ed to become a first-class Rug- sian scholar.

influence and prestige.

rever

IFFICULTY in swallowing has increased. It fa Kradually

down set

ay Impossible to

draughis copious without It appeared signed by "Historicus" food

take and water, and created tremendous interest. It of authorship and State. Department meal with any but my own family,

for eating demands my whole ai sponsorship were open secrets.

་་་་ So he decided to get hold of But about the same time the tention.

Though right-handed, I use a fork being ever article was overy scrap of material

I set up for publica-

(the less affected) written or spoken by Joseph tinn, Truman himself did something in the left hand

I And that much easier to man!- rather "eniginatle,"

A satisfying ulate than a spoon. He brought grey hairs to White- tall and Quai M'Orsay officials when meal entails an hour's hard work.

it leaked" that One of the greatest irritations is he was on the the inability, through being unable point of sending to swallow quickly, to join in the Supreme

Court conversation, however, trite my un-

spoken cominent. Vinson

(an old

Stalin through the years translate it.

Morgan

went

on to become a

Professor of

Philosophy,

tinued his Stalin

studler, And by

by

and

NYASALAND

NORTHERN RHODESIA

SALISBURY

VICTORIA TALLI

SOUTH

RHODESIA

ww!

This will be but Stage One of a political Journey which may take

HAVE to fight the devil of frustra-three years.

Everything is dimcult, tion.

Stage Two will see the framing of everyday lie are Little details of

Putting on clothes, detailed proposals at a bigger con- puzzles to me. doing up shoelaces, fastening shirt ference.

tea-all

Stare Three will end with the buttons, holding a cup of these are obstacles.

British Government's approval of 55. the plan. am at the age of So here i

yel awkward and Life for me is strangely happy.

Stage Four,

iTS self-governing Southern Rhodesia, will be a referen- How has this disease affected my

dum. Public opinion in Whitehall- character? All for the better. I can hear the keenest disappointment and governed Northern Rhodesla and almost Nyasaland will. be tested In some cach new disability with

other way. complete equanimity.

I um more sympathetic and can folbles ant! better understand the anxieties of other people.

Stage Five will be the reiting up of a Constituent Assembly to draft a federal constitution.

My belief that man possesses n

Southern Rhodesia (pop. 1,764,000) separate entity apart from his husk

been

greatly is a self-governing colony whose hus of

body

external affairs are controlled by strengthened by my experiences.

I sit, as it were, insile my shell, Britain

Northern Rhodesin (pop. Both

(pop/ Nyasaland and being, in 1,658,010) my fashion, while watching my person behaving in its

nd- are Proiectorales thing apart, held prisoner for a time. 2,230,060) vlie

Colonial of beingminstered through the This queer sensation

Total area of the three is

My speech has become indistinct, old

ind how maddening it is to receive outside oneself has been sharpened Offee.

grotesquely irrelevant answer to by my complaint. It is most com- 475,509 square miles. some simple remarks My-latest-forting, and deepens my faith that rouble is in walking, which is much ahead of us all there is not complete-The-soven Dominions are: Canada,"

a Australia, South Africa, New Zea way is extinction, but a better deal in

land, India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. harder indoors, where my

new life. Seset with many corners.

he doggedly.con- R. M. MacCOLL Chief Justice

...who reveals the background, friend the time-how-to-America's turn-down-to-Russia- crony) in Moscow really fluent in

to talk to Stalin. Russlan lie had niso managed From Paris Marshall ran up and to become the world's

instant foremost threatened

resignation.... authority DR Stalin's writings and Newspaper cominent was harshly philosophy.

crilicn....Truman called it off.

But what is not understood

is

Then came army service during the war. After demobilisation Mor- that Truman was sending Vinson to дап wanted ío try diplomacy Muscow NOT to usurp Marshall's instead of philosophy. The State proper powers.

nor to talk about Berlin Department snapped him up ond specile things (such as the scht him to Moscow .as First blockade), but on a sort of "atmos- Secretary to the Embassy.

phere visit."

Soon after he got there. 43-year- Truman still thinks this would be ald Morgan began bringing himself a good idea. He has not abandoned up to date on Stalin. And when the idea by any means. But he de that was done, he sat down and finitely will not go himself. Stub wrote a monumental report for

bornness is one of Truman's out- superiors in Washington.

standing traits. He has said peatedly: "Stalin inust come to

re-

document,

Hypnotism

can cure

This method of treating drunkards brings quick and lasting results. Why are doctors and the public-shy of using it asks a Harley Street specialist

the 'lost week-enders'

1

con

It ran to thousands of words and Washington if he wants to talk." provided an extraordinary, detailed

How is it that suggestion contrast between what Stalin hay

But the apparent wild contradic-

A typical case, Dr X. had taken LCOHOLISM is associated be- been telling foreigners since he

tion of Truman planning to send his

excessive alcohol for 20 years. He overcome such a powerful craving came Russia's leader, and what ho

missary to see "Good Old A with half the crime, a personal

would even drink methylated spirits, as the desire for drink? Everyone Krem-

of treat is open to suggestion, some more so has been telling his own people.

Joe," the "prisoner in the

third of all-suicides, and He had tried all sorts

agreed than others. A word or phrase can of mental ment without success, and

make a person happy, sad, angry, or Point by point through the years in." just when his own State De-

afraid, and evoke the bodily sensa Morgan had studied the double re-partment is arranging the planning large proportion

diseases in all countries where to iry hypnotism as a last resort.

Five hypnotic sessions of half-an- tions which accompany these, feel- cord. He produced factual evidence of Istoricus's daming

is easily explained.

it is prevalent. to show that conciliatory

hour at weekly intervals removed ings. Yawning is notoriously infec state ments made by Stalin to important

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Standard methods of treatment, the craving completely. In fact, hotinus, and if one person faints in a visitors were contradicted by an

did not touch alcohol after the first crowd, many others will do so. overwhelming mass of doctrinal Truman wanted to let Stalin which involve admission to a nurs-

institution. session. There have been no signs

considerable Certain circumstancen increase slatements published Inside Russin.

know that he "wasn't kidding ony-ing home, hospital ar

leave much to be desired. During of a relapse over

Iis wife reports suggestibility. Everyone can body." The Inescapable conclusion

this time the patient is cut off from period of time.

various that he is mentally, morally and pictures in the fire when relaxing comfortably," Creaking floorboards all access to alcohol, and sedative drugs are administered. Dul physically a different man. relapses on return to normal life.

Why is hypnotizm not more wide- in a lonely house at night' can 1y by the medical profession? construed as ghostly footsteps.

ured are common.

First. few doctors have any real

Imagination is much stronger than which practical knowledge of hypnotism:

the subject is not taught in medical will-power.

wax

that the conciliatory statements must America just now defnitely is in be written off as the Soviet Union's na hurry to see the Berlin blockade short-term tactics designed to de- lifted. Jude and full.

And while the non-Russian world wants to rush America's hand. The ฟอร shaking its head over the ending of the Berlin blockade now "Alcoholles "enigma of Stalin" and complaining, could only be accomplished by con- consists about the apparent "reversals of cessions from the West. Later on

The United States thinks Stalin

Lately, an association known as

Anonymous,"

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be

of people who have been schools. Second, the publle asso- Suggestion and imagination, which

half

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policy" by Ruzilo and the "party line contensions may have to come from cured of alcoholism, has attacked tho clate hypnotism with witchcraft and, are powerful enough in waking life, | Answered

problem in a different way. They magle, 'ns the result of stories of the become infinitely more powerful in the

the hypnotic state. Here, in type. Once it is Svengali-Trilby claim success in approximately flip-flops." It was all, said Morgan, Russia.

the eases treated, had will help only realised that there is nothing oc *too simple.

being asleep and being tween 2 And · America is afraid that THE MAIN LINE general agreement on Berlin would the patient who is willing to make cut" about hypnotism, and that it pleasant, drowsy state, halfway be Call

drinking is simply a highly scientific mathed awake, the patient's whole mind is a sincere effort to stop mean a quick Bussian suggestion of

"Never take the first drink," and "1

gestions, instead of being occupied with a hundred different thoughts, convert feels ha prejudice against its use will die. Tho hard core of Soviet doctrine the withdrawal of all armios from won't have a drink today," are their of applying suggestion, the present concentrated on the hypnotist's never changes. Tactics and strategy Germany--leaving behind a Russian slogans. If the

as in waking life, If the sugges- may change, but not the main line, trained Communist police In Eastern resolution wavering he gets in touch

Germany to take over,

Deep with other members, who persuade

hypnosis, ns used in come tions are correctly phrased, and do the stage performances, is not necessary not run directly opposite to

moral Ideas, Who else has played a part in this him to keep to it.

These methods, both medical and for alcoholic cases. Hypnotism by patient's wishes, and curious scene?

The shadowy Agure of Averellay, fail to remove the craving or itself is of little importance. It is then they will be carried out to the

desire for drink. Patients are either only, a method of manipulating the letter.

The patient is not an automaton, patient's imagination until the mind "The existence of the Soviet Union Harriman is not to be overlooked.

"If the Russians give anything dependent on drugs or the company Fide by bido with the Imperinilst States for a long time is unthink publicity," said Harriman, "then you at others to keep them away from

alcohol. the can rely upon it that it is just a able. In the end alther one or

manoeuvre 'other will conquer.

Stalin

And Morgan said that clearly foresaw war between Russia the West. To use his own and favourite Lenin quotation:

"And until that time comes sories of most terrible colllalona be tween the Soviet Union and bour- gcola States is Inevitable."

will

and

Alcoholics are usually good hypno tic subjects, and they usually have

retain, and act upon curative sug- Jeel any suggestion which is against is in such a state that It will accept, even in deep hypnosis, and will re-

It has nothing to do with his moral principles. gestions.

power. So world peace depends to a large When the patient is treated by

Simply to hypnotise the patient- a extent on a proud and slubborn medical hypnotism, institutional or unnecessary

"You must not drink" 10spital treatment Ja

n real desire to get well. As a re- Drink will make you sick" man who will not do any more.

as far as Russia is con- and the patient can continue hia

craving as many non-medical or stage sult, it is easy to manipulate their normal work. There is no

suficient. It Imaginations, and implant And for away in the Moscow em-r desire for drink, so no hardship is hypnotists do, is not

live is necessary to remove all desire for tions, so that they have no The patient can That report went to Washington,

No other methods can give such It was studied by the State Depart bassy in the self-taught Russian ex-nvolved. ment's two-man team of Russian port whose researches are playing normal life, and mix with friends drink by carefully phrased scientifle for 'drink.

sults as medical hypnotism. exports, 43-year-old. Charles "Chips so startling n part. One wonders who drink. This gives him the in- suggestions to suit each particular

cure, Bohler and 44-year-old Harold Kon what he thinks as a philosopher treased confidence dud: self respect case, in order to obtain a permanent qulek, satiafactory, and lasting •ro-

which alcohòlier hood'so-badly." wymiot it all? --·

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