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The name

is SELYE

-Will it soon

be as famous as Fleming?

W

OXFORD.

HEN silver-haired Mrs Florence Slow was carried into London's St Thomas's Hospital as a hope- lessly crippled case of arthritis ten weeks ago, she had hardly known a moment without pain for nine years.

Every joint in her body hnd scized up

so completely that she had to be spoon- fed.

She could not even read a book. Now, one of the few lucky patients chosen for Britain's first trials of the HearTe

American drug ACTH, she can walk again. And she is free from pain.

"It is almost as though a dend woman

had been

brought to life," her husband told me. "The doctors do

CHAPMAN PINCHER, :'.

pictured

with Professor Bags Selye, reports startling advances on three moet geming problems of modern medicins.

I. WHY heart complaints, like not know whether all the digestive disorders, and mental arthritis, kidney improvement will be main- troubles are increasing in spite even tained when the injections of better medical care. are stoppal, but there is hope."

Here in Oxford I talked with the Canadian helentist whose ingenious researches have made

treatment

this

advances.

possible

Medi-

effects 2. WHY the rhock are so dangerous

high blood - pressure, troubles, and some types of appen diciun.

These are the diseases which from are steadily increasing as the of civilised living unsion mounts.

that

"I found

they all and the. same internal injuries-stomach ulcers, high blood pressure, and which made other symptoms,

such whether me wonder

were some- with the Fland

human complaints how linked extrnels.

"It was through following up this discovery that I found that ACTH protects the body agains!

an

stress."

The drug ACTIt is extracted from a small gland-the plui- About 50 tary--In the pig. Selye's discoveries therefore, glands go to make one dose, 3. WHY

cannot fight you

whether warry,

Once inside the body, caused by a nagging wife, the injection of ACTH stimulates worry and lines at the sune show

insecurity of a poorly paid job, other glands to set free an extra

acse of defensive chernicais. or an aggressive nation's war of nerven, may kill in the long run as surely as a bullet.

Experiments which are still

l

tline.

In the early stage-for ACTH is extremely

to make- <lilleult suggest that the new drug may

point the way to any more Lazing in his hotel bedroom, French-Cana- with his young Hela 13-year-old Professor dian wife Gabrielle listening us Hans Selye pronounced sentientively as I Selye explain. pay), chief of Montreal's In- & his discoveries this way:- stitute of Experimental

When the body is subjected eine, and now on a four months' world tour leaching other doc to stress of any kind-injury, be used to control these stress

exhaustion, cold, complaints. tors eager to learn his methods. germ-attack,

1- uritallon-it

The in basically way, Glands set free mobilise the

His reputation

NEW people outside siente

circles have heard of this

hervous or was reacts game

chemicals which

body's defence.

friendly, alert-looking ex-Vien- Our defences

nese whose work must interest nditions because of the possi

bifities it suggests.

doctor's

THE Baster

L

wha make up perious. tism experts London's Herbeden Sorlely."

After that he will go to Parls, Rome, Frankfort, Vienna,

to Rio Madrid, and finally

asked to been where he has organise a clinic.

.

chemical con-

defences

How it began

IT

New research

discovery the

was after

Selye that

showed stamp of scientifle greatness, He was not content with noting a

Fleming, curioctly. Lake was driven to carry out hun- to And dreds of experiments

out the reasons behind it.

LIKE most great men Selye is

white pushing obead fikably modest about his Now,

with the researchs himself, and works. Moving his slender directing a big selentifle team, surgeon's hands expressively he is organising an everali at he lectures in French in Mon- tack on the ACTH problem so treat-he said

that scientists everywhere can join in it,

1040

Mrs Slow is grateful to Pro- chemists

-London Express Service)

1274 trolling

doing I was "In Some Idea of the

job. purifying some reputation is given by the list ACTII.

When this mechanism is in routine of cities clumouring to hear his

into animals. The have discovered how to bring teachings. He is lecturing to good order the shock symptoms and-extracts and then infect- fersor Selye. When

animals died with such mono- the power of ACTII within the specialisin at Oxford's tamed, which arise while the defences in them

Suon strengthened being

regularity that I felt reach of patients everywhere, Ratelife Infirmary,

when it is de- fanous wear off. But

were so bad that I had poisoned ful. He will talk to the rheuma- fective a sught stress may prove maybe my efforts at puritying the whole world will be grale-

I did a few post- 'them. So After the body has defended

mortems to find out. one stress, any itself against constant worry. It remains resis-, tant to it for a while.

But because the body's de- fence forces are strictly limited,

automatically becomes vulner Medical historians predict able to attack from other direc that Selye's name will become tions--by germs, for instance,

This explains

anxiely that of wel! known penicillin, ploneer Sir Alexan- and overwork expose a person

to the risk of tuberculosis. der Fleming.

The body's reaction to small, His work-on which he has seemingly unimportant stresses time-- a long just written a 1,200-page book continued for

much further than nagging worries, a chronic in- suggesting the value of ACTH fection, or the tension of work- gainst the clock-is sur- Ins injections for rheumatism,

as

-Hoes

AA

It has established a new field prising. of Investigation which throws light

why

The glands then overdo their extra chemicals set on three of the most job. The serious and puzzling problems free attack the body instead of defending it, causing injurles of modern medicine:-

Emphasis on sex will kill novels

By Paul Kutsche

Can't you understand...

Cammmys

•POLICE

...Fascism and Communism

YourH Cup

PEOPLE'S

POLICE

are completely different?

London Express Service

They'll toughen you—

for £50 a week

NEW YORK.

OR the past week or two I have been tanta- Ilsed by a series of advertisements. They aimed at the tired busi-

ness man.

are

by C. V. R. THOMPSON, who was told: If you don't like it, you can get out

Another was a bookle

decided that

said Mr Smiths, not here on the farm."

bad Mr Smith proceeded to show Brown's would me to my room. The room and with some bath, board and all my treat- well as a hide-out. nents would, I was told, cost heat was on

a week. I must stay anti-gambling hual.

Two of the

Come to us, they assert, and your interest you will renew In success and that girl in the me £50 second row of the chorus.

Well, I am no business man, be better if I made it three were

at least a week, and it would

bath, 10.30 to sage, and sun 12.45.

LUNCH, 1: AFTERNOON: another hike or a stiff game of tennis or squash, 2.30 to 4.30: yet another steam bath and a salt ruti

0; after EVENING: Dinner, that a nice qulet evening of any tennis, if I have tablo

and, if not, a chair energy left, in front of the TV set

who

LIGHTS OUT, 10.

through his Chris took me

a room It looked like дут provide him good exercise, as designed for medieval torture. while the Then he showed me why there in New York's was no bath in the bathroom; he would squirt me with a pin- younger quesis point cold hose after my steant

had not bath. other for ten

the They brothers.

cath

That settled it. I would not

but I am on the wrong side of weeks. Then reculis would be spoken to of a quarrel. By pay £50 a week for this even

Stain.

un the next guaranteed, 40, and as fired

Today I could resist no

Introduction

off to

A after

the left

of

yeurs because accident both came

to Bilt if I became Peter Pan.

I found my "out" in a post- Brown's during the same week.

card Chris hatl

week

treatment, given me. It said: "Guests not off I went as instructed, E went upstairs and along Such is the state of relaxation script on the

WE

was Chris said, a wide corridor. I

that the brothers wishing to follow this schedule doctor or the

will not to a quack

made it up. salesman for a new breakfast just turning

Now it was time for me to where "equested to go else- After ny escape from Chris public has food, but something called Bill when Mr Smith stopped me.

"That's the alcoholics' wing." will be intensity-and the

keep learn the rules. "No alcohol, THE modern novel

like to

al Brown's Health Farm (for Men

he said. "We dead

within 50 years, in even got over being shocked."

Amall Only).

Mr drink. with a Silver-haired,

Brown's- ing either unless you can't stand even found the forbidden Into the long, them sepurate. They sometimes said Chris. "None. No smok- Michelsen I enjoyed myself. I the opinion of one of Britain's

As I turned Van and

Dyke moustache

I might have have trouble sleeping."

you may only Bl that it. And then lo explain

meals. And ol Smith.got it for me after un- foremost authors,

I hastened beard. Mackenzie looks the treelined drive

Me smoke after trouble.

locking the safe. noi my aris been entering any of the rich of typical English country

seemed glad. Other ways out-doors, please."

With an ugly vye on Garrison, on the banks of New Smith

to meet wise, he said, he would have waistcoat, Chris went on: "You took me tocrat, in baggy tweeds, faded men's estates which abound in was sweater and slouch lat.

York's Hudson River.

had to lock up in car keys ought to lose weight. No but-Kendrick After my nar-

from "escaping"

ter or potatoes for you. Plenty row escape from the perils of

"L

"Psychology

amusements, to

provide either novel-reading good novels or a

the 07-year-old au- public,"

Mackenzie's chief dislike

with

my

salads, but no dressing. a quick one.

but of was simply

"You

have meat twice a exercise, can furnished. This is

day. You'll need Smith, said Mir

I'm through with a opening a door which led to a

bath."

The Regimen

Good-bye

Mr

the ether smell in

descriptions Uninhibited sex and over-use of four-letter words will help kill it. he said.

Compton Mackenzie, who has

He is

П not only novelist,

Arrival written 70 books. including

that dramalist and magazine editor. maintains 35 novels, also

10 τροm political historian, also a

THE long, low, white building, prevent me Freud was tremendous blow but

old-fashioned traveller, TE world

its broadcaster,

that when the hospital was positively, in-

vigorating. to fiction,

But no you. and supporter of Scottish, Irish, portico, looks something like a pleasantly

his liness Mr in And ecunt

spile of a and Welsh nationalism. has become

mansion. The young man who the

ine showed για

Englishmen, and likes mere subsitute for experience,"

is received

know how many

you have He

threatens to fight anyone who he sald.

enough to belong to such a set- "Why no bath? I asked. Mr P your calories. I'll want to Kendrick was most hospitable.

Smith promised to tell me later taken every day." become

the record, Mr 100 com- the aspiring writer who thinks courtesy that was old-fashioned room which did not have one, gravies, no sauces, "Life has

does not. For the ting. ting.

was taken to meet fortable, with too many passive people owe him a living,

Kendrick was the first Ameri- 1 asked for Bill Brown. "I'm

con to enlist in the Canadian to prove himself "He ought

Gaid

the young man, physical director, Chris Michel- support." sorry," he demands before

himself as sen. He is a wiry little Nor-

MUST

have shown my dis- introduced

working who

has wegian who has been

"Why did you, a self-respect- gust, "Oh, it's good food," Army in World War One. on middle-aged Francis Smith, "but he in on interview Mackenzie said.

for ten years

me. "Our chef

ing mystery novelist, take on "I went through it all yny-

who want to be young Chris assured

in New this farm?" I asked. my first been dead some years."

the new

bo famous why

used to I asked who

"Well," he said, "it seemed. Mr Smith told me he again.

Chris Introduced me to some York in one of the best hotels." Wonderland," he said, "you won- novel and swore I wouldn't

Kendrick. That

The Arst, Chirts then showed mo a card such a wonderful pince to write spare the write another word until it was manager. whether

That took

three was Baynard

I knew: Mr of my fellow-guests. name part of Alice's published.

stay at B time. There's just one trouble, I got married

lead during my and was hits years, 50

I don't have any spare time." Kendrick writes mystery stories, a man about 00, was a multi- which ordained the life I would novels in during part of or Alice

raised daffodils while I waited."

I asked to see him. "Sorry," millionaire.

three months Brown's. About every

drill, 0.30 has a Ane

MORNING: Gym

And, lighting another elgar- "but he is in Today Mackenzie

fight with his daughter daffodils, an enviable said Mr Smith,

been drinking (without tea or coffee); sleans etle, he asked me what, in my and record collection, hospital." Then, as he saw my he has

goes up to bath, 7; breakfast, 8: bike up opinion, was the best brand of * comfortable estate doubts, he added hurriedly that because he has

London Express Service) fresh tangible evidence that he knew it was something to do with too much, and he

10.30; another steam bath, mas- raspberries. B1 Brown's to get back on the and down a mountain, 0.30 to Scotch. 100 many was waiting for.- future for writing what he

"He had them in New York," wagon for a week or two. You lose United Press. restraint.

By Ernie Bushmiller

thor observed

at his country home,

"Int the terms of Allee

der

sometimes White King is

dream,

dream.

in self. At 24 I wrote

"The free, uninhibited des- cription of sex and impuise, crop of with four-letter words, comes library from the same laziness. It will and help to kill the novel.

"I see no

without

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