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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-08-22, Page 7'THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEI'l DESERT DOCTOR One of Ithe'wortd4s most eutocessftul eurgeons is Dr. Paul W. Harrison. Ile has mace:1984 23 years, and the an'ast the ever asked ler a .major ape - titian iwas $115. For a ,catarect .operat- ion that insight bring a Ib'i'61 of '$11000 from a New York specialist, Dr. Har- rigan usually r ks 0$11115. le he is ,4trcdty, the :gots 37 cents, Dr. Harrison -_.a 'graduat'e of johns Hopkins, fellow in ehc American Col- iege of Siurlgeons, a :top au't'hority on hernia and spinal aniesttresia-k a nodical missionary in Musvat, Aradbia, a seaport 10)10 miles northere.s,t of Bombay, 1nttict. Muscat, frying 011 .and, hedged in thy stone 'hills whidh h'ork :ti' breezes, is the honest ,rite in. the world, •attd-- its main industry being the drying of fish-prcllrthly the moot e8'i1-:nhellhrg. \lost of the 1:5,0110 Arab, and Dr, rind \Ir.. Ti:u•ri,.m move ants in liiid<llnlnit'r. when tem- peratures reach lad in the (l;ly and ,1'15 te. night. 118rrisnn Brew tee in Scribner, Nebraska. (lradiated with honors front the University of Nebraska, be decided to 'beefing. a medical nlissinn- :ary, and he sought the nvorst (thee, medically, in vire .wnr4d, a place 'wcliere ducl.,rs eery reltletant to go. but Miele. ,Plies were needed most. It took Dr. Harrison two months to get to his first ste)100, two yeas•; to learn to speak Arabic well, Singe Shen he 'has w•arkerl .in inn.) of the lien holes in the Persian Cself region and for the last .10 years be has been in Muscat. t\\'(bort dre is home on .sa'b- aticel leave, medical friends urge him 10 .give up missionary 'work, start 'practice i❑ America, make mon- ey, and live !comfortably.. Bort practice. in America srViii. 8n 11r. Harrison a hit on the sissy side, 1 -le likes the tough jobs in ll Brat. A medical missionary •Who had practiced for years in Arabia recently accepted a profitable job 'as doctor for a big oil company. "I wee sick 8180 tired of hciutr ,)mor." he said. Such an attitude was totally beyond Dr. Harrisonls Comprehension. lie •wtm't have fun any more." Though eralia has 'worn hint and he looks 'older than his 55 years, there is a twinkle in his eye and his tall, thin, wiry frame ,has the ''hility •t0 withstand the •terrific heat. Dr. Harrison's etone and concrete hospital cost but $1'4,0110. Nearby are tiny, tatteppe1 me gales mud laW, „eitc, .plastered h use,, and open- iesed stores .)he size of a'bathroom. in .which you can buy daggers and cof- fertnst and syphon. Around the hasp - eel compound era hosts an narrow, direly streets filled with lionkeys, oa•nlels,•cadaverous hounds, aud pov- •ertysetricken MoharIl nedans. Close to the h'ospita'l is a 84.800 t as public as the street infront of your ,post office. This is the •neiglllbonhood .00mfwnt s'ta'tion, in ;front of the hos- pital are '112 .depressions like shallow graves, '790)) covered with a •edh'e to ,keeep the depression a little less hot, '('hat is 'where the town'; 12 lepers cheep, It le etc beet Dur. Harrison can do for filen. 1 -Ie has no fonds for the 'treatment of lepers, but under lhes'e cniulinious there is no datugcr 4)f Iran- suitting tiie 'disease. ten 31 average, Dr. Harrison treats 5 patience a clay curl performs 115 or ) t4 e ati,,ne a week usually in ,his hospital ,hurt .,.,ntetinles on a rug toiler a date palm in the i11iaeriug desert. Mess ei the t111)iol)8 are '4)8.711 free ry:rtnu=nL Some niay pay a few ru- pees. I)r, l-larrisioe's work is ei thee. ragged, hungry pear; 'with s'rreeyed Bedouins whr, never 'bathe With over- burdened laborers who carry heavy hag; of dried feel all clay long for 11) cents; with esrumdcd bandit,; with men whose hands have been cut aff ix-latnse they 11 ere caught stealing; with girls whose throats have been eta by their brothers 'he;ause ,they committed selult 0 with gltarl divers ,with ,hetet eardrums; 'with 'children, ' emired of children, who in Aralbia d0 like flies. Few women come for operations, as an 'orthodox .\rah wom- an is considered actually •unfaithful to her hueltand ie she exposes ally pant -of her fare or .body to another 11:in. For .eye operations Dr. Harrison often is trot 'allowed to raise thi• veil, but has to watt holes in it to 'get at the eves. The arcrage .kmerican •doctor wOlikl +be Chain) as willing to .practice in a farm :tool shed, cvitdh the instru- ments at hand. as 910 01088)81 with the facilities that are Dr. Harrison's. One day a week, with 'Mrs. Harrison and a native helper, he 'drives out .iat0 the desert to 'treat the native;. Hundreds of thousands -•of talent never have en- ough to eat. Some have starved so long Hee a there ' rratch causes death. Six days e week Dr. Harrison 01arke in the 'hospital. which contains 31e 'Inure. concrete rooms for •patients who can pay small sums, ami a ',gen- eral ward on 'a porch. A few rooms bare beds, but A•talis dont like them. 1Inst .patients firing rug's. a charcoal stove. food, and .friends to etre for the.ot and to do H=eir cooking. it i•. •a one -doctor and no-trained- ntu•.e hospital. ler, li:arrison is helped by etre. 1larrison-one of three white 88011H•n 111 etuecat- 'who, with no •ole• dical training, gritted her teeth and THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Doily Newspaper It records for you the world's clean, constructive doings. 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'slave who tiled in .shackles to the B'ritis'h coase- late in .Muscat, gaining* his ,freedom fro•nn a sheik 50 miles out an the des- ert, The other three are brother's 801)5 of a Willi diver. Dr. Harrison runs the 110841tal an $'18100 a year -of ffwhdch he pays his 'four assistant's a total of $9010 all of it collected a few rupees at a thne from the "rich" patients. The evoman of the D'utc'h Reformed Church in America send •him ,gaatze, (bandages and :glavee• irlis, salary is $1tel a month, and a houcse. There is tie \-ray maclrnr and fear facilities ferr diagntsis. If 11e 11),) time and money he believes he alight fiu,l Villa) cause;; apee ndiritis, Ile ,tract - iced 23 years in Arabia without seeites a case of it. Recently four or five lar:': turner) up among' the .'171)18 eler have adopted the cu.4tnnt, and f,ted e: the West. 1)r. Ilan-is,m'= operating room is without ,elirterin,e di -play of nickel and enamel. The lights over the aper - :rears talde Here in!) together by a carpenter and ear) ere The sterilizer i, a steam pressure conker silt1)) as } found in thus a kitchen, and it nodi. perfectly, ,f)u.c day 1 saw 0 native shay bring a blowtorch to ,the ,rperat in:e room. "What's that for:" 1 asked the doctor, "1\'e have no electric canterizer," he replied. '"\Vie 105e that to heat a sold- ering iron. 11 works just as .yell," After an operation Dr. Harrison us- tnalty takes the patient in his arms -- most Arabs are undernou•rislued and .mall -and carries Quint upstairs to his rues on the floor, The native attend- ants alight he too rough, Once, on a camel trip, Dr. Harrison had to ,preform a rush overation. A mat on the .ground .was the operating talsie, a sterile toowel ,the instrument table, Instrtfmtnte, sponges and tow- els were 'boiled for ten n0nntes in a pressure cooker over a .fire of cartel dung. Fifty dirty Arabs crowded ar- ound to look, lust •filled the air and a trillion flies walked through ehe wound and covered instrlirtletlts and sponge:: the moment they were laid down, Yet the wound healed iperfectlyt' Forced to work under stieli condit- ions, Dr, Harrison :itis learned that .the danger of infection lies mostly itt foreign ihodies-iicatures and suture.. If yon keep these clean yotere fairly safe, .for the tdusues of the !body will usually resist the flies .and dust. Pee might never 11evc discovered that in a modern hospital. Perhaps no other surgeon in the world has advanced so far in spinal .anesthesia. Dr. Harrison had to --,he c•ouldt1lt use ether +because he had neither apparatus nor 'helper -t0 han- dle it properly. \post American 'doc- tors don't know yet the) all the )bad points of Spinal anesthesia have been eliminated by,111'18 sturgeon !practicing with inadequate equipment in a 'dirty eaten in A'ralbia. Batt Dr, Harrison is )vorking now on a report for tsurgic- el journals, „upplementin'g articles which have already won hint recognit- ion as an authority. The report will tell o5hy ills patients suffer no head- aches after spinal anesthesia: haw'w the anesthesia can the used for operations Shove the waist without affecting the lunge; how- he has solved every prob- lem that has ahunped American sur- 4e0n0. Dr. Harrison has performed more ';hen 3000 'hernia operations. American surgeons as a rttie are not interested in 'hernia, It is considered a sim'p'le op- eration -and 'usually the patients are workmen ens, cannot pay big fees. Yet hernia recurs in 5. to 10 o:ut of ev- ery 1100 operations. Dr. Harrison has a new sort of op- eration which, he is sure, .will stop nearly all recurrences. He puts in a "ibloveont (patch," •a (piece of tough 'ox -tissue about two inches square, rein- forcing the weak spot in the abdomen. In his lasthernia operations he :has nat had a single recurrence, although in each case the patient event right ;back to hie 'heavy work from the hos- pital. The Arabs themselves have no'doc- tors. A sick Arab (gets advice ,from all his ,friends and tries all their remedies, ranging from a •potion' of senna leaves, or 'a verse frons the Koran tied to the ,body, to it1te ruse of a 'brandinfi iron, When an A•ralb ,breaks .an •arnt or .leg his friends' lay hint on the sand and +bin•d the fractured member to stakes so it cannot move ---making no effort to set the 'bones. Then they erect a 'tent over -him 'and care for him there for weeks. This treatment nearly al- ways leaves a terribly bent arm or leg. •No,wonder the Arabs have came to look n'pott Dr. Harrison as a miracle man -without knowing holy truly richt they are. At a party the husband of one of the guests arrived very late. "I have only come to take my wife home," he explained. "Olz, my dear Mr. Blank," said the hostess, "why didn't you come sooner!" Maritime rrovinces Have Holiday Appeal ''erzers :ere • entarlo residents, although they v % have in riser home province an unsurpmeed holiday Pities eremite are this year "discover- ing' other parts of Canada. Forced by war to ata,)' within the broad bounds of the Dominion, they have found that Canada has, among other attractions, a "Rivie- ra" at St. Andrews-hy-the-Sea,. N.B,; 01d Prance in Quebec Pro- vince; a real Swiss village near Take Louise in the Canadian Rockies and the fiords of Norway on the Pacific ('oast. It has been 110 hardship for these travel loving residents of Ontario to stay in Canada. In addition to the atmosphere and attractions of ceder lands. they 1 have 018 freshness of Canadian towns and Bibles. The charming :Maritime Provin- ces have been particularly popular this year. New Brunswick, reach- ed from Eastern Ontario in slight- ly more than half a day by the Canadian Pacific Railway, has all Die attributes of a perfect holiday land. 'file oUtslanrlirg resort in New Brunswick is St, Andrews - by -the -Sea on blue Passamaquod- dy Bay. Two splendid golf cour- ses, tennis enurts, fishing and hunting in season, boating, hiking and riding are among the more Popular sports but all of them take amine place to a sheltered sandy beach--Teat:es Cove, maln- spring of summer activities at this w-orid-famone resort Nova Scotia Is most enjoyably reached from New Brunswick by steamer, the Princess I•Ielene, Na- turally air-conditioned by cool ocean breezes, the province pos- sesses all the charm of the sea- side. It has scores of coastal re- sorts, two of the better known being The Pines at Digby and Lakeside Inn at Yarmouth. In- land, the Annapolis Valley has many claluls to fame. It is the largest "apple orchard" in the British Empire and is historically interesting as the homeland of "Evangeline." The Cornwallis Inn at hentvllle serves this district. Gond roads fhrnugh the interest- ing enrintryslde make driving an unusually attractive pleasure. STOLE $30,000 000K If you chauce to see a First Folio of Shakespeare's plays for sale you had best report it to the police, A copy of this immensely valuable book has lately been stolen from the Chapin Library at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Early in February of this year a visitor ob- tained permission to examine some of the library's rarest books by present - lug a forged letter of introduetion from the president of another New England college. The visitor, who called himself Sinclair Gillingham, posed as one interested in Shake- speare and apparently knew sonte- tlting of his subject. After he had browsed over the Chapin library's four Shakespeare folios, he produced a list of outer books that he wished to inspect. Then, while the librarian's back was turned he slipped the First Folio into a brief case he had been carrying and inserted in its place in the slip case cover a volume of Goethe which fit- ted )featly. One cannot imagine such trick being tried in, for instance, the li- brary of the British Museum, where some priceless books are stored, for even in that sanctuary, which one must get a pass to enter, guards eon- stantly hover about. The theft will be a warning to all important libraries which lack watchers to protect their treasures and will doubtless make ac- mess more difficult to bona fide re- search people. But the probability of its repetition seems very slight. Of the two hund- dred-odd First Folio Shakespeares this would seem to be the first in- stance of one having been stolen, though a Third Folio was lost on its way from England to the United States during the last Great War, notes Philip Brooks, writing in the New York Times, The owner, Gabriel Wells, does not know to this day whether it was thrown overboard or taken ashore by a ship's porter. Any- way, it has never been recovered. In- cidentally Shakespeare's First Folio was published in 1623, the Second in 1632, the Third in 1663 and the Fourth Folio In 1685. If the theft of the First Folio front Williams College 1s unique the trick by which it was purloined is not a new one. It is conceivable, says the writer, that the crime was suggested by the book "The Ownley Inn," a mystery story written by Joseph C. and Freeman Lincoln, and published last summer, That yarn describes how a thief, adopting the ruse of a false letter of introduction, managed to substitute another book for a Primer in tate rare book n'ootn of a New Eng- land institution, and escaped with the prize. But the tale goes on to tell how, after the impostor had vainly tried to dispose of the volume and had some hairbreadth escapes from capture, the Primer was ultimately recovered. It is the old story of a stolen art treasure becoming a white elephant in the hands of the thief, who can find no buyer for something which would be instantly detected as stolen propertyand whose possession ie a. constant source of danger. It recalls the theft of the famous Duchess of Devonshire portrait, from Gainsbor ough's brush, which was cut from the frame itt the Agnew Gallery in Lon- don in 1876 aud recovered in Chi- cago in 1901 -by a reward of 85.006. lt also reealle the theft of Leonardo ria Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris in 1911, and its dis- covery in Florence and restoration to France in 1913. fainted about 15113 -ii, and said to have been purchased fe the first place by Frances I of France for 4,0011 golden guilders, the great picture was a menace to the thief. Should the Chapin Folio be steered for sale anywhere there well be little difficulty in recognizing it-. Listed as No. 34 in Lee's Census in 1902 as the James Toovey, C, C. Harrison. George L. Harrison copy. it since passed through the hands of the Rosenbach Co., Gabriel Wells, Kennel S. Chaffers and Mary McMillan Norton. At the Norton sale in the Anderson Galleries. four days after the Armistice, it was again purchased by Gabriel Wella, to- gether with the three later Folios, for 828,000. Five years previously. the late James I Drake had started Alfred C. Chapin on his book collecting ca- reer with a Second Folio of Shake- speare. 011 November 19th, 1918, Mr. Drake took back the Second Folio es well as Fourth Folin and sold Mr. Chapin the four Norton Feline, which were uniformly bound in red marnc- eo, gilt tooled in an elaborate design with gilt edges, by Bedford of Lou- don. The First Folio, whose outside measurements were 13es by 81)8 inches, had the leaf "To the Reader" inlaid, the title mounted with the portrait of Shakespeare inlaid, pre- liminary leaves and the two leaves of "The Tempest" inlaid and guarded. Otherwise it was perfect and is re- puted to be worth $30,000 to -day. It is suggested that the thief, who may well be embarrassed with such a treasure, for which all the world will be looking, and who may possibly have been actuated by the mere de- sire to have had such a thing in his private possession for a time, can salve his conscience and make amends by returning it anonymously in a package to the police, a well-estab- lished precedent for the return of stolen boosts. In Shakespeare's lifetime 11564- 1616) his poems Venus and Adonis and Luerece were printed separately in 159.4; his sonnets in 1609, anti fif- teen plays, to which Othello was added posthumously in 1622, In 1623 thirty-six plays were issued collec- tively iu the volume known as the First Folio, This volume was under- taken by Shakespeare's friends and felloev actors, Heminges and Condell, who dedicated it to the brothers, liam Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain, and Philip, Earl of Montgomery. Moat striking feature of the preliminary pages is a long eulogy by Ben Jonson, "To the Mem- ory of my beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare. and what he hath left us:' Jonson apostrophises Shakespeare as "Sweet Swan of Avon," whose dramatic genius ex- celled than of any dramatist of the ancient or modern world. It is a tri- bute which history has confirmed. FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS. 1940 Toronto r('am. Nate Aug. 23 -Sept. 7 September 27 Tavistock eept. 6. 7 September 914 New Hamburg Sept. 13. 14 September 1621 Blyth Sept. 17, 18 Exeter Sept. 18. 19 Listowel Sept. 14. 19 Mildmay Sept. 17, 18 Seafurth Sept. le, ee Stratford Sept. 16-18 September 23-28 Brussels Sept, 27, 28 Embro Sept. 21 Lucknow Sept. 26, 27 Mitchell Sept. 24, 25 Owen Sound Sept, 28.011, 1 Pott Elgin Sept. 26, 27 Ripley Sept. 24. 15 Strathroy Sept. 26•18 Wiugham Sept. 25, 26 Zurich Sept. 23. 14 Sept. 30 - October 5 Dungannon Oct. 3, 4 Fordwich Oct. 4, 5 St. Marys Oct. 8, 4 Teeswater Oct 1. 2 Thedfm•d Oet.' N.B.-Dates of fairy listed are .,:;t: jeer t0 change. etc, lutermtti'0ital Plowing yiateh of Sr. Thoma=..Oct. 13, 18, 17. :e The inspector was pa3i i; monthly visit to the village :401,1. He examined the children is r"ad1 r_ and general knowledge, and was very pleased with the answers he revels ed. After the last question had beet asked and answered satisfactorily he rose to his feet and looking at lite upturned faxes. remarked genially: "1 wish I were a little boy at school again!" He allowed a few minutes for this to sink and then added: "Do you know why I wish that?" For a moment or two there was silence. Then came a childish voice from the back of the room: "Cos you've forgot all you ever knnwed." BUS TIME TABLE Summer Time Table Leaves Scaforth for Stratford: Daily 1.25 a.m. and 5.18 pan. Leaves Seaford, for Coderieh: Daily except Sunday and holo 1.01 p.m. and 7,40 p.m. Sun. and hnl., 1.05 p.m. and 9.21 p.m, n.'non,,,,, at Stratford for Toronto, Hamilton, Buffalo, London, Detroit, Tavistock, Woodstock, Brantford cots: Queen's, Commercial, Dick Hnuse D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office - Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist - Massage Hours -Mon, and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION ey manipulation -Sun -ray treatment. Phone 227.