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Zurich Herald, 1927-10-27, Page 3• of Doctors se further ,, adio Doctor's ' Well zP. Please advise ' Master. i Ships At Sea Can Now _Pro,. Master, Steamship "D�elphinule": AStop carbolic disinfe•ootazit, Stop cure Medical Advice fromstop poultice. Smit finger in trot Dco1 GTS on• Shore salt water solution, one teaspoonful Medical treatment of patlente in yes- table salt fo .one glass of water every i Bele aIdea a t, byradio ce from the V.S. other, hour while awake, Between , is being ear- times, put la4'ge dressing soaked in, a ried on with great success, according above solution en band and up to I to the Radio Section of the New York shoulder, keep dressing warm with! Sun. •• More than 300 requests for aid hotwater bottle, Keep hand elevated have been attended to in this way dur- to level of shoulder, ing the last year, T•bis long-istance Dr'Sprague. free medical advice has tiow been Steamship "]Insley City." given for some years, counting among To Marine Hospital, San Francisco, its patients ships at sea having no Due 10 P.M, fourth, Can marine physicians on board. We read: hospital ambulance and doctor's boat This class is limited to tramp steam- meet me immediately we anchor for• ers, since passenger vessels are re- transfer of patient r_efei•red to inpre- quired to maintain a ship's doctor. vious messages, If so, will advise ex - However; phyieiaus on passenger ves- act time arrival from Farralone. sets are frequently in a quandary as Master. to the best course to pursue, and by Master, "Ensley.'City": • soliciting radio medical advice are en- Wire quarantine • station requesting abled to get the benefit of a consults- that doctor board ship after hours be- tion held by the foremost doctors of cause of illness among crew. Marine the Public Health Service. Hospital will send ambulance as soon Every, one, no doubt, has expert- as notified patient is shoreside. eneed tee anxiety of waiting for arc- Marine Hospital. tor to answer a call til the night. The -'�–" -" minutes seem like hours, Consider, ®me �eads though, the captain of a vessel oue thousand miles out at sea, no pliy- and Their Dangers s4ctan onboard and one of the crow desperately i11•. What would have hap- pened to that seaman in the old days, "A "Little Cleaning is a Dang- when hardened sea doge, sympathetic erous Thing" Proved in but helpless because of lack of• train- ing, could do no more than leave their sick companions to their fate? In OIVtE HAVE VALUE those days an ailing sailor was lucky Foolish Feeding Fads If he escaped "Davy Jones's• locker." The science of dietetics, advanced To -day the captain of such a vessel as it is in research, has not made A Victim of ibe ,Steri. "THE COLUMBIA" Once pride'of Gloucester is now given up as lost. Thought to have been wrecked off Cable Island during the severe storm of last' month. would send ,out a wireless message to equal progress in practice, we are considerable harm, although never` the nearest marine hospital or relief told by Dr. John. Harvey Kellogg in likely to become extremely popular, nation, These meissages are given the right of 'way and handled free of charge by government and commercial radio stations, Upon receipt of a call for aid, a telephone message. is im- mediately sent to the point of salva- tion to which the calls are indicated, no radio station being maintained by the Public Health Service at any of its relief stations. Many interesting cases have occur- red since this novel way of treating the sick at sea was introduced by the Public Health Service through its marine hospitals. I. cue instance, a • freighter -tearing the .port of Balti-' more developed engine trouble. While at anchor, off an uninhabited stretch of coast, one of her crew fell through an open hatchway and suffered a frac- ture of the leg. The radio transmitter was brought into action and the ries- sere 1»rkad up by a station at Cape May, New Jersey. The station ad- vised the Marine Hospital at. Balti- more by long-distance telephone, giv- ing the location of the ship. The hos- pital sent back word through the Cape May radio stationthat an ambulance would be sent immediately with a doc- tor to the place where therisabled ship lay, which was ,some fifteen or twenty miles from the hispital. The doctor directed the removal of the sea- man from ship to shore and took him to the hospital. Selected at random, the following cases suggest the beneficent power of radio as a rescue agency at sea, either in prescribing .medical treat- ment or in speedily summoning help M e shin in distress. Where releif is imperative, radio is indispensable on the ocean, where land Ines terminate and vast expenses of water begin. Illustrative of medical advice by radio to vessels at sea, Surgeon -General Hugh S. Cumming cites examples that are _typical rather than extraordinary, and real rather than imaginary: Steamship "Elestero." To Marine Hospital New York. Patient susceptible malaria. Fever not high yesterday. Was given fifteen grains quinin. Felt good this morn- ing. Had breakfast and supper. Walk- ed alked on deck 9 P,M. to=night. Got chills and shivers. Head hot, Temperature. 09, 'Give advice. C. D. Pederson Master. Pederson Master. Steamship "Elestero": Put man to bed. External heat for .- chills. Hot drinks ten grains• quinin four times a day. Reduce dose to one- half if ringing in ears. Report to -mor- row. Medical Service. On board Steamer "Elegem." Referring to sick tnau here the treat- ment advised by you has. improved him, Chills left him about 3 A.M. to- day, Feeling fairly good. Not, much fever, Still .continue to give quinin four grains every three hours, Cray - 'Ing for•food. Any other advice be ap- preciated, C. D. Pederson. Master Steamer "Elestero": Continue treatment advised "•yelter- day. Give for food, soup, eggs, toast, crackers, fruit; custards., soft vege- tables; . and occasionally boiled meat, drinking water and lemonade gener- ously; tea and coffee occasionally; Give Epsom salts for. Iaxative„if neces- sary. Keep in best until fever disap- pears. Marine HesPital No. 70. New York, 'On board Steamship "Delphinula." To Medical Officer, Marine Hospital No. 70, New York: "Delphitluia" has patient very bad poisoned• finger or Whitlow finger, Has been lanced twice. Soaked in hot water and carbolic disinfectant, also bread poulticed every two hours. Given a laxative, After seven days' treatment shows no improvement. Finger badly swollen;.•slight lump un- der arm, Patient otherwise seems his magazine, Good Health (Battle Creek, Mich.) Ill-informed of the re- sults of scientific investigation into foods and feeding, the average citi- zen either follows his own capricious appetite or is at the mercy of what- ever dietetic fad may cross his path. Dr. Kellogg pays his respects especi- ally to two fads that have in them ole- ments of value, and that happen both to begin with the letter F—namely, Fasting and Fletcherism. He writes: While there has been developed within the last fifty years a real science of dietetics, based upon solid foundations in physiology and physio- logic chemistry, practical dietics with the laity, and to a great extent with the profession, is still chiefly empirical. We are still following fancy, whim and precedent in making oiir own bills of fare, and too often, also, in feeding our patients. In die- tetics we are still, to a large extent, following fashion rather than physiol- ogy.. Biologic eating is at least as essen- tial' to health and efficiency as is physiologic breathing. The human body is a mechanism. Its functioning, its durability, are as much dependent Upon care and conditions adapted to its needs as are performance and durability of an 'automobile. The' average man shows his incapacity as a chauffeur of his • eorpomobile by bringing his machine to the junk heap when it ought to be at the very acme of its useful activity.. • Something Wrong. That something is wrong with our current eating habits is shown Try the fact that when we ask a man to do anything requiring maximum ef- ficiency, we have to put him in train- ing for some days, weeks, or even months, to condition him. The typi- cal primitive man is always in train- ing, because he lives physiologically. According to Roth, practically every man of the Zuni Indian tribe could make Nurmi quicken his pace in a run- ning contest. We have not yet solved the problem of regulating our lives under civilization so as to supply the compensations needed to make us at least as healthy and as hardy as sav- ages, in spite of the facts that scien- tific research has unfolded to us with- in the last fifty years respecting the cause of disease and the conditions that make for health and longevity. If scientific findings were applied to human living with the same scrupu- lous care as they are applied to indus- try, such research" would undoubtedly do as much' for human beings as it has done for domestic animals and plants, and not only raise the average life span to one hundred years—as Lauder Brunton predicted but triple and quadruple the useful output of human like We compel our horses, cows and other domestic animals to live biologically, to meet physiologi- cal requirements'; why should we not give ourselves an equally good chance for health, long life and efficiency? The nutrition laboratory has in re- cent years studied every problem re- lating to human feeding with such de- finite and comprehensive results that it is now easily possible; to feed human. beings, both the sick and the well, in a manner to meet physio- logic and therapeutic indications. The great light that has been thrown upon the digestive functions within the last twenty -flee years has led the way to progress in the treatment of digestive disorders far exceeding all that was. known before. A practical application of all tiers knowledge to the bill of fare of the average citizen would undoubtedly add to his comfort and efficiency and lessen his chronic' miseries. Unfor- tunately, the average citizen who in- terests himself in dietetics does not know where to go for sound inforitia- tion, and is likely to be entrapped by any fad that happens to be at the mo- ment on the rising tide of popularity. Fasting. One such fad that is just now doing is fasting. Some years ago fasting wad heralded and widely exploited as a cure-all for chronic maladies of every sort. Persons 'who are overfat as the result of overeating may very properly lessen their food intake, but a reduction of weight below the nor- mal standard by a horizontal cut in the bill of fare is positively danger- ous. Vital resistance is lowered, and the way is opened for a recrudescence of the latent tuberculosis which is lurking in the system of the average citizen awaiting a favorable moment for development. A fast is a highly destructive process, in which the vital machinery may be seriously dam- aged. Women Take Care! Women, especially those below forty years, should be warned against ye- ducing their weight except under the care and advice of a competent physi- cian. In the arrangement of a reduc- ing diet, care must be taken to pro- vide an ample amount of protein, the: caloric reduction being made by • les- sening the intake of fats and 'carbohy drates. Tho intake of salts, vitamins ,and rowu Nage must be apeplee' Ne- glect of these precautions inevitably results iii, a definite and:. often serious injury: Prolonged fasts are never neces- sary, and do real harm. They do not purify the tissues. They cause a,re- absorbing of bile and other • excre- mentitious elements. Food is a na- tural laxative. Fasting causes stag- nation throughout the whole intestin- al tract. The blood and tissue fluids, instead of being purified, are polluted by the„ reabsorption of bile and of putrefaction products. All the possible benefits of a com- plete fast may be secured by the great restriction of the intake of pro- tein and fat for a few days. By mak- ing aking the diet almost wholly carbo- hydrate for a few days, the intestinal flora is changed, the liver is well stored with glycogen, while the body 911 well supplied with the energy need- ed to maintain heat and bodily ac- tivity without drawing upon -the tis- sues. Another fad that did much harm in its time, as well as much good, is Fletcherism. About twenty-five years ago Horace Fletcher discovered the importance of thorough mastication as an aid to digestion and nutrition, and started out on a world-wide mis- sion in behalf of a chewing reform. Mr. Fletcher's fascinating personality, and his great skill in broadcasting his theories. soon secured him. quite a following. As his disciples increased, his enthusiasm grew. In due time "Fletcherize" and "Fletcherism" were discovered by the lexicographers, and Mr. Fletcher felt that he was immor- talized. Carried Too rear. I was willing to assist Mr, Fletcher because I had for years exhorted my patients to chew thoroughly as an es- sential factor in biologic living. But I soon found myself in trouble be- cause of a new discovery made by Mr. Fletcher, and one that he regard- ed as of puck vital importance that he made it a leading feature of his phil- osophy. Having observed that when he masticated thoroughly he ate much less than formerly, he cultivated con- stipation by discarding all roughage from his diet, laying down as a rule that everything that could not bo liquefied in the mouth should be re- jected. Mr. Fletcher himself suffered great- ly from chronic toxemia.. His tongue was heavily coated and his Meath was highly maladorous. His dentist informed me that his teeth were de- caying more rapidly than in any case he had ever seen. rrof. William James, who was at nne time one of Mr. Fletcher's meet enthusiastic sup- porters, said to a friend, "I tried Fletcherism for three months. I had to give it up. It nearly killed me." Mr. Fletcher himself died as a result -of chronic bronchitis, doubtless ag- gravated, if not chiefly caused, by chronic toxemia. . Mr. Fletcher rendered some service to the science of nutrition by his chewing experiments, and especially by persuading Professor Chittenden to undertake his famous research on. the protein ration in 1902, but he spoiled his campaign by cultivating and recommending constipation. FIis cult has become nearly obsolete, and his name will doubtless disappear from the dictionary; but, unfortunate- ly, the idea that he exploited, that in- digestible food elements are unneces- sary and undesirable, is widely pre- valent, and not alone as the result of Mr. Fletcher's teaching. "The light-headed girl seldom. las a heavy heart—if any." Air Liner Wrecked ALL THAT WAS The mysterious Crush of the Gerntalt Leipzig, which caused the death of 13aron Von United States, and five other passengers, LETT passenger Maltzan, ambassador to the inspiring principle of mankind. I.3to ly "Paging Mr, Elmer Gantr it lhir. French Tiger's er's Opinions Secret Until e ' Is Dead Clemenceau Spends Time Thinking and Writing St, Vincent - Sur - Jard, Prange, — Whether he is in his Paris home in the Rite Franklin or in his summer abode on the windswept Vendean shore, Georges Clemenceau who has just passed his eighteesieth birthday, spends most of his time . writing and thinking. He . invariably refuses to talk politics, although they occupied the biggest part of his active life. What does he write? Ile is engaged now, and has been 1 for several years, on a volume or series of volumes which are under- stood to resume his outlook on life and its problems. But they are not to be published until after his death and the "Tiger" has not revealed any- thing of their content. Therefore it is only by a reference to his publish- ed books that one can obtain any ade- quate idea of the principles on which he Lite guided his career and the les- sons he has drawn from his study of humanity. Simplicity of Writings. It is not a difficult task because whatever Clemenceau wrote is mark- ed by simplicity of thought and pre- sentation, however complex the prob- lems involved. In philosophy he is a disciple of the Stoics. He has taken for himself the phrase of Spinoza: "Nothing may be called perfect or im- perfect; everything happens to con- formity with an eternal natural or- der." It was after his political eclipse in 1894 that Clemenceau had an oppor- tunity to develop his extraordinary talent as a writer. In his newspaper "La Justice" ne touched ou every phase of liftman 'activity and a year later published in a, volume entitled "La Melee Sociale" (The Social Con- flict), prsctically all his daily articles arranged la logical order. The leit- motif of all is the "struggle for -exist- ence." He paints realistic pictures of human suffering, long hours in fac- tories, poverty, vice, brutality and pity side by side, prostitution, ex- ploitation, injustice of a hundred kinds. Urges World Be Made Better. He sloes not apportion praise or blame. He merely tells what he has seen and asks only that men of under- standing work With all their power to make the world better. "What," he asks, "will come after this universe How, if ever, will the primal nebula be reformed? In how many billion years? With what new power of life? All phyotheses. I of- fer you nothing, not feeling that I am responsible for anything in the uni- versal niversal scheme of things." Sometimes Clemenceau seems to be a socialist, as in fact he proclaimed himself at the opening of his parlia- mentary career. This. in another ar- ticle of "La Melee Societe," he de- clares that "the end toward which na- ture seems to bo striving is socialism, which will fix by law respect for all, the rule of justice by associatiou." But in the next moment he proclaims that everything depends on the indi- vidual, that the individual must be brought to such a point that law will be unnecessary, which may certainly be taken as an expression of philo- sophic anarchy. Does His Own Marketing. After all, scepticism is his dominalit "A Fly Swatter is a Knock -out." Empire Trade Cape Town Argus: (The South Af- rican public is urged to adopt the same principle as the Brtiish public have adopted in forming the Empire Japan's Leading Nurse Miss Sakurai, has special charge of the new descendant of the oldest reigning family in the world, the Em- peror and Empress of Japan. Japan- ese would have preferred a boy, but love the new princess. "Pan commands us," he said. "We must act. Action is the principle, ac- tion is the moans, action is the goal. Clemenceau has followed that prin- ciple all his life. In spite of his yoare he has his half hour of physical train ing every day. In Paris he has are instructor. Here he does it alone. Ig„.A1iNNAf,5 trait, in his daily life as in his writ- ings. He has lived all big life in close contact with the Breton peasant. -tile knows their ways and has had many proofs that ho is•.revered by them. Yet, when he goes to market in the nearby town of Les Sables d'Olonne, Marketing Board). The British pub- is ho does two or three times a week,' tic is now supplementing preference he , 'onducts his own bargaining, he by the application of the principle of counts the change, he weighs in his I voluntary preference, and thisn i like- ly to lead to still more important re - or the chicken he intends for dinner sults itt the near future.... At It=a and he replies to the good-natured sent the South African consumer e- protests of the market women: "o, sethey, though, perhaps, consumer is tres hien, fres hien, but yon can't lessly, giving preference to foreignetu catch .me with your old tricks." He is pugnacious and tenacious. At in comp: titfvo lines in which the Uri - his property here, which is very close tish article is either just as cheap or to the water's edge, he had construct- ed an earthen wall to keep off the sea at high tide. Every year when he unwilling, to assist South Africa's ex- port comes here in July for his annual tinge, three months' visit he finds that the wild winter winds and the encroach- ing sea have broken holes in his wall. And every year he has the wall re- built. "The ocean will get tired of trying to beat Inc,' he said when asked why he was so persistent. Isn't Against Religion. It has been often said that Clemen- ceau is anti -religious. He is merely nonreligious. Even in the worst days of the fight between the radical ex- tremists and the radical freethinkers and the church authorities, when the separation of church and state was but there is no desire or intention to the big problem in France, Clemen- run Henry out of the game, He may semi repeated time and again that go on in his own sweet way. Thanks there must be no attempt to suppress far the buggy ride. religion or to persecute anybody for religious beliefs, Another thing we have noticed in "Governments," he declared in the,our journey through this old vale of chamber, "can do nothing against be - Itooto be protected against being laughed, of far better value.... It cannot be good business to give away our cus- tom to countries which aro unable, or Room For All Los Angeles Times: The world is causally informed that there will be no industrial warfare between Henry Ford and General Motors The two re- present the greatest wheeled activities on earth and it is said that they wilI divide the business without fighting for it. Ford can market his new model ear and fix hieprice without General Motors competing in exactly the same field. The corporationwill have better cars and higher figures, Hofs. I have been asked if we want 'tear s, etc, is that anything that has to destroy religion. Well, messieurs at deserves to be. les deputes, here is my reply: We do not want to, we could not if we would, destroy a single belief in a single con- science." In one of his books, "Le Grand local Hotel a bell -boy caused great airplane, 13 utiles from Pan," he takes up the problem of the consternation by booming out, loud - During a recent conference of sev- eral hundred clergymen held in a 4 Sties it in action. 1 hillier Gantry!"