NERAL Ct N1-17..RNCE AKOMA PA WAS i+ WHY GIRLS SHOULD NOT SMOKE

By Daniel H. Kress, M.D.

of the cleverly written, misleading, and untruthful advertisements of the various tobacco concerns. De- ploring this, one editor, in a publi- cation devoted to music and drama, said: "I wonder if some artists are not going too far in yarawalla testimonial writing." Of a tenor, The finer touches in art cannot be given by those who are addicted to tobacco. whose name was attacked to two rival cigarettes, he said: "Each 14 HERE exists a craze among should do a little thinking before testimonial signed by this man was girls and young women to reduce, reaching for either a cigarette or so eloquent and extreme that you and maintain a slim and trim fig- a sweet. If they study into the wonder how he could endure an- ure. Tobacco companies have problem, one thing is certain, they other brand." This artist, like taken advantage of this in ad- will not reach for the cigarette. many of his colleagues of high mad vertising their favourite products. They may or they may not reach low degree, sold his name and The mode of advertising has been for the sweet instead. There is prestige for the sake of advertising. a success, for thousands of no objection to an occasional The editor said further, "I know thoughtless young women and in- sweet, since a sweet is a food. It of some endorsers of cigarettes nocent girls have, as a result, be- is not the most wholesome food who have never smoked in all came slaves to a habit which is and, therefore, should be used their lives." To give some idea ruinous to the complexion, ruin- sparingly. The craving for sweets of how these endorsements are ob- ous to health, and in some in- is, however, a natural and a nor- tained, I would refer to what hap- stances ruinous to morals. The mal one. Nature provides sweets pened just recently. Sonja Henie, purpose of tobacco companies is, liberally in fruits in a form that the world's champion figure skater, as far as possible, to place a cig- is both wholesome and beneficial, was approached by publicity arette between the lips of every sweets which are superior to any agents for her endorsement of a girl. Cleverly written articles by that are served at a soda fountain certain cigarette. Hs said, "You experts have appeared in the lead- or in sweet shops. These may he don't have to put one in your ing journals and newspapers call- partaken of freely. The free use mouth, but we will publish your ing attention to the benefits sup- of fresh fruits is one of the best picture and give you $ 2,500," to posed to he derived from the use and safest means of reducing which she replied, "I don't smoke. of certain brands of cigarettes. weight. It is also one of the best I won't take your $ 2,500. I am ashamed of women who smoke." Roger Babson, the famous stat- means of developing and main- istician, evidently deplores this. taining a clear complexion. My The claim is made that the cig- Recently he said, "When the advice to the girl who has an am- arette soothes the nerves. It is country's keenest minds are using bition to be slim and trim and a true that temporarily the cigarette the newspapers, magazines, mov- desire to keep a clean skin, pure is a soother of the nerves of nerv- ies, and radios to entice youth to blood, and a healthy body is, when ous women, but eventually it ag- drink whisky, smoke more cig- tempted to reach for a cigarette, gravates the very condition it tem- arettes, and make heroes of crim- to reach for an orange instead. porarily palliates. In time it ruins inals, those youth should have the Other acid and sub-acid fruits the nervous system. other side of the argument from will serve the same purpose and, It is a serious thing for boys and someone." if used freely, will lessen the crav- young men to become addicts to ing for cigarettes. No one is better able to give this the cigarette, but it is worse for a information than the physician Smoking has become common girl or young woman to form this who has to deal with the finished among girls and young women habit. Girls of today are our fu- product. When tempted, girls the past few years, chiefly because (Continued on page 26) 2 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN WEAPON for WAR, PROBLEM for PEACE

By R. M. Wilder, M.D.

P. P. A.

War work gives him a keen appetite for the staff of life. DIET DEFICIENCY

THE dictators "secret weapon" deficiences, they became perfectly William's and my direction since may be the taking away of vitamin manageable and effective. This is July 1939, I am personally con- B1, or thiamine, from the diet of a story received from Canadian vinced that insufficiency of vita- the conquered countries. A little medical circles, and I have reason min B1 (thiamine) is a principal thiamine deficiency is associated to believe it is true. cause for the majority of the nerv- with irritability, but much or long- It is my personal opinion that ous and mental abnormalities that continued deficiency is more likely there is a relationship between in- are associated with, or responsible to result in depression, exhaustion, dustrial unrest and deficiency of for, the psychological state com- and feelings of inferiority. We vitamin B1 (thiamine). One of monly spoken of as loss of morale. have good information that the the symptoms of thiamine defi- Some of these experimental obser- dictators are making fullest use of ciency is irritability and lack of vations have already been reported the newest knowledge of nutrition willingness to co-operate. I sus- in the Archives of Internal Medi- in the prosecution of this war, par- pect that many industrial workers cine. ticularly in reference to the ex- are led to make unreasonable de- When women who have been cellence of the nutrition of their mands because of the inadequacy apparently normal emotionally are armed forces. Rumour has it that of this particular vitamin in the subjected to a diet adequate in all they are making deliberate use of diet. I also suspect that many other respects but very low in thiamine starvation to reduce the middle-aged industrialists, getting thiamine, within two or three populations of the occupied coun- paunchy and trying to keep down weeks they develop mental symp- tries to a state of depression and their weight, unconsciously re- toms which become progressively mental weakness and despair, strict their diets in such a way as more serious as the duration of which will make them easier to to fail to get enough of this vita- the restriction continues. These hold in subjection. min, and, consequently, become symptoms consist of inability to An example of the result of diet hyper-irritable. The result is that concentrate, uncertain memory, deficiency is found in the experi- two groups of people, both of awkwardness, self-consciousness, ence of some Canadian soldiers, them in abnormally irritable men- progressive feelings of inferiority, who enlisted from relief rolls. tal states, are trying to deal with irritability, depression, and anxiety. Some were defiant, while others each other. Cheerful, co-operative individuals were depressed to the point where As a result of experiments that become morose and unwilling to they seemed useless to the army. have been going on in the nutri- perform their ordinary tasks or to It is reported that later, after satis- tional laboratories of the Mayo work with others. factory attention to nutritional Clinic, U. S. A., under Dr. Ray When these symptoms have MAY 1942 3 been produced rapidly by severe tities of beans and peas, and do I have been emphasizing thi- restriction of thiamine, where the not know about the value of soy- amine because I know whereof I subject receives not more than one beans as a source of thiamine. speak when I talk of thiamine and sixth to one tenth of a day's re- They depend on plain white flour mental disorders. We have less quirement of this vitamin daily, more than other people do be- certain information about the re- and if these symptoms have not cause it is cheap, and thus they are lation of deficiency of other vita- lasted longer than two or three very apt to get too little thiamine. mins to mental disorders. With months, they can promptly be cor- They could get enough, even using more knowledge we may come to plain white bread, if they would rected by restoring to the diet an appreciate that the lack of other optimal amount of thiamine. On eat large amounts of oatmeal, and vitamins is as important as the the other hand, where the experi- use not less than six ounces a day lack of thiamine for mental dis- ment has been continued six of either beans, peas, soybeans, or months or more and the restriction peanuts. The easier way is to put orders. In the meantime, pru- of thiamine has been less severe, thiamine back into bread, of dence dictates that we should not and the development of symptoms which the poor people eat a great only look to the adequacy of RI has been slower, the effect of treat- deal; and that is the step that has (thiamine), but also to the ade- ment from administering thiamine been taken. quacy of all other vitamins. is less prompt. This leads me to believe that many chronic states of poor morale that the physician frequently sees in his office in the SKIPPED BEATS ! PALPITATION ! guise of neurasthenia represent a slowly reversible thiamine defi- ciency. It accounts for the fact SWELLING ! DO THEY MEAN that physicians often are disap- pointed when they attempt to treat neurasthenia with vitamins. The problem, as I see it, is to pre- HEART TROUBLE? vent these conditions by securing an adequate diet continuously. Once the symptoms are fully de- By Harold E. James, M.D. veloped and firmly established, they may be resistant to treatment. 1111 EART disease, our greatest all these symptoms and signs may Thiamine is found generously occur in the absence of heart dis- in rather few foods, such as whole- killer." How many times have we seen this and similar headings in ease or in unimportant disorders. grain cereals, wheat germ, peas, and beans, especially soybeans. our current periodicals? Is it any One of the most common condi- People who fail to eat of these wonder, then, that Mr. Average tions which is frequently mistaken Man becomes worried when he foods in sufficient amounts are for heart disease is that known as believes there is something wrong likely to be deficient in thiamine. soldier's heart, or effort syndrome. with his heart? These hearts of This is also sometimes called ath- ours are often blamed for many lete's heart. Unfortunately, most people do unpleasant sensations for which not eat whole-grain wheat. They they are in no way responsible. When a healthy person is tak- eat plain white flour. For this Your heart may put on many ing strenuous exercise, he experi- reason, thiamine was one of the a queer and disturbing perform- ences certain symptoms or changes vitamins the committee thought ance if the stage is set just right, in function which are associated was necessary to put back into for it is very intimately connected with that activity. The most con- white flour. "Enriched" flour with the colon, the brain, and the stant of these is breathlessness, contains enough thiamine so that stomach. The delicate nervous which comes during exercise and if a man will consume six and a network which connects these or- continues for a variable time after- half ounces a day, enough thi- gans is far more complex than is ward in gradually lessening degree. amine will be added to what he is usually realized; and colic, cramps, He may become aware of his receiving from other foods to give or emotional disturbances any- heartbeat, may feel giddy, may him what he ought to have. Most where along the network may set actually faint. Rate and depth of foods contain some thiamine; but off a really alarming heart per- breathing are increased. The many foods, like the garden vege- formance. heartbeat is more rapid and force- tables, formerly thought to be ex- Many well-informed people ful and blood pressure is increased cellent protective foods, may be so know that shortness of breath, during exercise. If strenuous ef- from other points of view, but are pain in the region of the heart, fort is continued, the tremulous- poor in thiamine. swollen ankles, and palpitation, ness and weakness of exhaustion Poor people often cannot afford associated perhaps with fainting are noted, and later, perhaps, the foods that are rich in thiamine. spells, are signs of heart disease. lassitude and aches of fatigue. To They do not get sufficient quan- What they may not know is that this group of findings has been THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN 4 given the name "physiological symptoms. To most persons any ble the normal, or more, may be- syndrome of effort." interruption of the wonderfully come very disturbing. In the condition known as ef- regular rhythm of the heart is a Our causes are again usually fort syndrome, these same symp- fateful thing which fills the soul irritative ones. Fatigue and ex- toms of breathlessness, palpitation, with dread and conjures up all haustion, with the resulting in- and possibly an ache in the chest, sorts of visions of serious heart crease in fatigue poisons in the figure prominently. The main disease. The explanation of blood, may be responsible. Gas difference between physiological missed beats is relatively simple. pressure resulting from faulty ac- syndrome of effort and effort Something, probably a slight irri- tion of the colon is a very common syndrome is the ease with which tation, produces a premature con- finding. Tea, coffee, tobacco, and the symptoms are brought on in traction of the heart, one out of alcohol all cause a noticeable in- those who suffer with the latter order. This may be so feeble as crease in pulse rate, and if taken condition. to pass notice, but it empties the in quantity, especially on an heart chambers and uses up the The cause of effort syndrome is empty stomach or when one is immediate store of vital energy of tired, they may induce an attack not well understood. An affliction the heart muscle. Then there is a of city dwellers, and found fre- of palpitation which may last for long, frightening pause while the several hours. quently in soldiers or athletes heart gathers energy for another contraction, and the owner decides that his heart has missed a beat. It is interesting in this connec- Irritations are, as we have sug- tion to note that the heart rate is gested, the most frequent cause always increased after the first of this missed beat. Overeat- smoke of the morning. A suscep- ing, constipation, excessive use tible individual who smokes is of tea or coffee, tobacco, focal likely to suffer from a continued infections, worry and fear—yes, increase in heart rate. This is anything which provides a source sometimes alluded to as "tobacco of irritating impulse—may cause heart." Infected tonsils, sinuses, missed beats. Unimportant? or teeth, and fright may also be Probably so; but it might be well causative factors. Certain it is that to look into the reasons why the whatever the cause, a wildly palpi- old heart is getting touchy and tating heart can give the owner restless. Perhaps it's cigarettes; and the doctor a really bad time. then stop smoking. Tapering off Pain is a bogy probably next to won't help much here. And, after missed beats in order of frequency. all, the way to stop smoking is to To the average person, pain in the stop. It is interesting to note, too, region of the heart is usually as- E. N. P. that many a jumpy heart has set- sociated with thoughts of angina With heart trouble one certainly can- tled down after the owner has had and sudden death. We may be not do anything like this. an infeCted tooth or a pair of reassured, however, by the knowl- smelly tonsils removed. edge that most pain in the region drawn from this group, it is prob- of the heart is of no importance ably due to an instability of the except as it may cause discomfort. nerve control of the heart. Some- Palpitation is another disturber. So-called "heartache" and sharp, times these symptoms are caused We have already mentioned it in needle-like pricking or stabbing by disease in other parts of the our discussion of effort syndrome. pains are frequently experienced body. Chronic infections are Increase in the rate of heartbeat by nervous persons who are tired. common offenders, and the con- occurs normally when one exer- There are a number of other dition is *sometimes noted in those cises. We note an increase also causes for pain in the region of recovering from tonsillitis, pneu- when in high altitudes where the the heart. The pain associated monia, or influenza. It may oxygen content of the atmosphere with arthritis of the left shoulder simulate true heart disease quite is low. This increase is due to the region with involvement of one or closely, and tax the skill of the lowered oxygen content in the more of its several joints may be physician to determine the true body cells, in the one case due to and often is mistaken for true state of affairs. increased consumption with over- heart pain. Sometimes it is not Of all the disquieting symptoms production of carbon dioxide, and easy to differentiate them, though noted in connection with the heart, in the other to the low oxygen in- the pains of arthritis usually are that old bogy known as "missed take. In either case the tissues de- relieved by appropriate local treat- beat" is probably the chief. Since mand more blood, and the rate of ment, such as heat. Injuries to it occurs not infrequently in the heartbeat increases to supply it. the left shoulder or left chest often normal heart, most of us have at There are times, however, when produce an aching pain which the one time or another experienced the heart seems to run away with sufferer feels must originate in his it, and therefore it is one of the itself ; then the increased rate, heart. Sometimes the discomfort most commonly complained-of which may be anything up to dou- does not immediately follow the MAY 1942 5 injury or the strain, but is felt quent complaints heard in our Sometimes in an examination a some time later, after the injury is clinic was that called "shinkou heart murmur is heard. Murmurs forgotten, perhaps in the wee tong"—pain in the mouth of the are usually associated with heart small hours, to torment the sufferer heart. We soon learned that this disease and are caused by the im- with morbid forebodings. Per- was almost always caused by in- proper working of the heart valves. haps that stubborn pain may be digestion. These valves are very delicate folds traced to an old, long-forgotten of tissue. When they become pleurisy, awakened by a cold or thickened by disease or when some exposure. An inflammation growths form upon them, they of the nerves which run between Real heart pain is usually due to may not close properly or they the ribs in the chest wall may overtiring of a weakened heart may not open wide enough, and provide a real problem for both muscle by too much activity and the resulting interference with the patient and physician. exercise. The pain due to heart blood flow produces a murmur. In this connection there is the fatigue generally comes on during However, there are others, the so- case of a young man whose prin- periods of activity or strenuous called "functional" murmurs, cipal concern was trouble of a dif- physical exercise, and usually re- which are caused by eddies in the ferent nature, but there was a sponds to rest. On the other blood flowing through the heart, neuralgic pain in the left chest for hand, the pains caused by neural- by movements of the heart during three or four days. This did not gia or neuritis are usually more its contractions, or by other respond to the ordinary treatment noticeable during resting periods. equally harmless causes. There for intercostal neuralgia. It was a They do not respond to rest and are degrees of actual valvular mur- stubborn pain which caused him are not brought on or made worse murs also. A valve may be to wonder if perhaps the doctor by physical exertion. Whatever slightly incompetent, and this in- was wrong and maybe his heart may be the cause of these pains, competence may produce a noisy did have something wrong with all of them require careful and murmur, but one that is not at all serious. it. It proved to be just an or- thorough investigation. Indeed, the heart ef- dinary case of shingles, but ficiency may be quite adequate for provided him with a few days of Swelling of the feet and ankles, years to come. After all, the con- troubled thought before the erup- though usually indicative of heart dition of the heart muscle is likely tion spreading on the chest wall - disease, is not surely so. If there to be much more important than confirmed the diagnosis. is any condition present that in- that of the valve. Do not allow terferes with the return circulation your "leaking valve," or sup- of the blood from the feet and posedly leaking valve, to spoil your Indigestion is a very common legs, swelling will naturally follow. life. source of "heart" pains. Espe- Varicose veins or local pressure cially is this true when gas forms may cause such swelling. There are conditions which cause a and causes pressure on the heart. So, if you have pains or other blocking of the lymphatic channels Besides producing pain, this pres- symptoms which make you feel sure may stimulate palpitation or which also produce swelling of the that you may have heart trouble, cause missed beats, which makes feet and legs. Sometimes, espe- don't get excited and worried the sufferer almost certain that he cially in hot weather, stout people is in the throes of a heart attack. may notice a puffiness of the feet about the prospect of having to do Most people now know that the and ankles which alarms them. yourself up in cotton and retire to old-fashioned complaint of "heart- This condition disappears with the shelf. You are probably not burn" is just an attack of indiges- rest, and does not mean that the a museum piece yet. Do the sen- tion with an oversupply of acid in heart is involved. Any continued sible thing—go to your family doc- the stomach. swelling, especially if it involves tor. He can tell you whether or not you have trouble with your heart, and can advise and arrange special tests or consultations if HEART -Etkvcn LeADIK CflUSES Of DElIT1-1 DISEASE such are needed. Take his ad- 277,030 vice. If there is nothing wrong, forget your heart and let it do its work without interference. If something requires attention, have it cared for. If you find that you have limitations, learn to live If the truth were known, no doubt "heart disease" would not head the row. within them without adding to your troubles by constant worry A few years ago while working both feet and can be dented by and anxiety. It is surprising how among the hill folk of Western pressure to leave marks, should be much there is in life that can be China and eastern Tibet, we carefully investigated by your extracted without too much physi- found that one of the most fre- physician. cal exertion. 6 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN ACRY in the NIGHT

By Waldemar Schweisheimer, M.D.

The child with night terrors can leptic seizure, but more often it is best be helped if he is approached nothing serious. As a rule, one calmly. His mother should first should not startle a person who is try to quiet him. She should turn walking in his sleep, or awaken on the light, answer his terror- him suddenly. He should be stricken questions, and not ridicule awakened only when in a safe or reprove him. It is wise to take place, or when someone can hold the child up to urinate, so that his him. later sleep may be deeper. When he gets back into bed, see that his sleeping position is changed, per- A boy who habitually wandered haps letting his head be higher or about a good deal during his sleep lower than before. always awoke before returning to In some cases it may be found bed. To stop these nightly wan- that the attacks are related to a derings, he hit upon the scheme of physical condition that can be cor- tying a light cord around each rected, such as swellings and wrist, with the other ends fastened growths in the nose that impair to the bedpost. When next he breathing, . faulty digestion and tried to get up for his night walk, nutrition, toxic conditions within he felt the pull of the cords, and the body. Again, it may be that awoke. Even though the cords V. K. Vasudevan the daily demands made upon the did not cure the condition that The two middle ones look disturbed, caused him to get up at night, as if they might cry out. child by overstimulating play- mates, burdensome lessons, dif- they at least soon put a stop to his ficulties in school adjustment, or sleep-walking. TERRORS that occur dur- overstrenuous competitions in one There are certain habits that ing sleep are an unpleasant dis- field or another create tensions and children acquire in connection turbance in some children, but anxieties that contribute to the with their sleep. A certain child they are not necessarily a cause for night terrors. may always want to have her doll alarm. They may, it is true, be a Children's nocturnal frights may in her arms or under her pillow. sign of fever, of the beginning of sometimes spring from acute fears. There is no reason why such habits an illness, or of acute emotional An example of this was the case should be broken. Some habits, disorders; but often the child who of a healthy child who was going however, are less desirable. Fin- has night terrors is in good physi- through a period of rapid growth. ger sucking, for example, as a cal health, and suffers merely from For several nights he awoke in ter- habit associated with sleep, may, a nervous disposition that can be ror. He was induced to talk about in its extreme forms, become un- overcome with proper help. his fears, and it was found that wholesome. In the case of one When an attack of nocturnal they dated back to a time when girl, a habit of chewing the bed- fright occurs, the child may start he overheard his parents discuss- ding had persisted from childhood suddenly, shriek and cry, and ing a play dealing with thieves. to the age of eighteen years. The show every sign of terror. He Through a further discussion of girl chewed so violently at night gradually awakens, but is unable the subject, his mother was able to that her mattress was practically to free himself of the terror for put the child's mind somewhat at destroyed. At the age of eighteen some time. Usually, only one at- ease. years, it was necessary to under- tack occurs during a single night; take a special psychic therapy be- but occasionally there may be two fore the habit was overcome. or three. The child will usually Another form of sleep disturb- Often one finds children who fall asleep soon after an attack, ance that sometimes occurs is seem unable to tear themselves and the following day he may re- sleep-walking. The child gets out from their playthings, and who member nothing of his terror, or of bed at night, wanders about the beg to be allowed to stay up a lit- simply recall that he has had bad room or leaves it, undertakes tle longer. They will use all kinds dreams. Richard Wagner, famous some peculiar activity, then re- of strategy to postpone their bed- composer, however, suffered as a turns to bed, sometimes after he time. Children frequently are not child from such attacks, which re- has awakened, sometimes while conscious of their fatigue when mained unforgotten throughout apparently asleep. they are at play or when interest- his life; a few children are like Sleep-walking is sometimes con- ing things are happening in the that. They do not forget. sidered the equivalent of an epi- household at bedtime. Often they MAY 1942 7 will insist that they are not sleepy, and yet will fall asleep at once if they are put to bed. Resistance to After the CRASH of going to bed is likely to become stronger if there is no regular bed- time. A regular bedtime helps to make sleep a thing the body craves, and comes easily and nor- mally. As a rule, a child should not be kept up beyond his usual bedtime when there is company during the evening. Likewise, it is well not to let the child be stirred up before bedtime with exciting games or stories. Of course, wise parents will sometimes make an exception to such rules, for the child's sake as well as their own. If a child happens to get less sleep than usual for a night or two, do not expect him to make up all the loss in a single night. It is more nat- ural to make up the loss by sleep- ing a little longer each night for several nights. V. K. Vasudevan From the very first, children When the bombs fall, get into a trench and sit down. should grow accustomed to falling asleep in the dark. Sometimes S W OOPING out of the sky, to one's street and neighbourhood, fear of the dark is aroused by an enemy bomber unloads his is to get out and help relieve the stories. Sometimes it is instilled lethal cargo on your street. The physical suffering of those around by persons who use this means to bombs rain down and explosions him. intimidate the child in order to bring disaster right and left. Soon Some knowledge of simple make him obey. there is an awful scene over the treatments and the rudiments of area hit. Death and destruction first aid is a valuable asset, and all walk hand in hand. The A. R. P. should obtain this knowledge. A child who had just recovered Wardens are on hand rescuing vic- Each one can learn to apply band- from an illness became afraid of tims, bringing succour and aid ages, and care for cuts and bruises. falling asleep in the dark. The to the wounded and homeless. There should be a simple emer- light was left on, and a small night Trained to act in any emergency, gency kit in every home. bulb burned throughout the night so their calmness and resolution to that the child could orientate him- get on with the job is outstanding. The following is a very simple list of helpful articles to have at self immediately when he awoke. What can John Citizen do to hand in a small box that can be In this way, one of the main help relieve the distress and tra- carried easily to the scene where causes of his fear was removed. gedy massed around him? Bombs help is needed: Within a few days, the light in the cause great havoc, creating craters bedroom was turned off; but a of desolation and chaos in the Boric acid lotion light was left burning in the ad- structures they hit. Living beings Bowl joining room, and the door was caught in the holocaust are not al- per cent Mercurochrome kept open. In another week the ways fortunate to escape without Methylated spirit child of his own accord asked that injury. Absorbent cotton the door be closed. His fear had It is the duty of each person to 3 bandages, /3 inch wide by disappeared. render all the aid possible during 5 yards long Every child should fall asleep an aerial blitz. To be confident Clean towels or clean cloth with pleasant thoughts. Quarrel- and self-reliant, and to be able to Several yards of adhesive tape ling and peevishness should not "take it," during these times, is During the air attack the bombs characterize the last hours before his business. The people of Ran- are descending from above. They a child retires. Rather, there goon, Singapore, Sourabaya, and either .explode on hitting some ob- should be joy and pleasant other bombed cities faced the rain ject or are delayed action bombs, thoughts; and there should be of bombs, and from all reports blowing up after some time has nothing to mar the feeling of af- bore up well under the strain. elapsed. When the lethal ma- fection of the child for his parents The best tonic one can have, if chine goes off, debris is scattered as he bids them good-night. this war with all its horrors comes forcibly in every direction. In- 8 THE ORIENTAL. WATCHNAN By D. W. Semmens, M.D. laid prone, with some elevation un- der the waist. Elevate the feet, OMBS Superintendent Giffard Hospital with the head down, so that the water can run out. Then, with pressure on the thorax, begin rhythmic pressure and relaxation on the chest wall. Keep up for at least half an hour or until patient is able to breathe. Wrap up warm if success attends resuscitation. For asphyxia from gas the same treatment is required.

3. Abrasions and cuts: Clean with boric solution. Paint with mercurochrome. Bandage. Re- member the prime thing with lacerations and deep wounds is to clean them out. Do not try to close up wounds that have been contaminated with dirt. Clean and wrap with gauze and band- age. If arteries are cut and they are seen spurting, apply pad above the area of spurting and bind tight with bandage. For cut veins ap- . K. Vasudevan ply tight bandage toward the ex- How the bomb fighters extinguish an incendiary bomb. tremity, away from the heart. 4. Injuries to bones: Frac- dividuals in the vicinity would be overcrowding, seeing ghastly sights, tures and dislocations result from subjected to injury from objects or to receiving a blow. direct and indirect violence. propelled at them from all direc- Treat by laying down, loosen There will be evidence of unnat- tions. Other objects to consider any clothing constricting the neck, ural mobility of the affected limb. also are high tension electrical dash a little cold water on the Swelling and pain are also usual. wires falling, gas mains breaking, head. Usually these people gain Sometimes the broken bones may and water mains expelling their consciousness in a few minutes. be heard grating on themselves. contents. Fire, floods, missiles, Treat these cases by striving and debris on every side, walls If there is no response, then in- gently to put the broken ends of toppling down, all are factors in jury is more serious. Keep patient bone in apposition. Improvise a the aerial bombardments. in a quiet, airy place till medical splint long enough to completely help arrives. Never get panicky immobilize the entire limb. If in To the uninitiated great con- with these victims, and keep all ex- fusion is the chief danger. the lower extremities, bind both citement away. Crowds, while diving for shelter, legs together. In arm, use a splint trample each other down, others When the pulse is weak, skin along entire length of arm and faint from fear and lack of fresh cold and clammy, and the respira- bend to the body. Keep these pa- air in cramped quarters. When tion shallow, this is evidence of tients lying down, with the af- raided, fortitude is needed, and shock, and you should try to keep fected part at rest, until the doc- brave people stand up and take him warm, and on his regaining tor can attend to them. it with courage and resolution. consciousness give a hot drink. 5. Burns, caused by fires that With so many factors to cause in- 2. Asphyxia, or smothering, have started as the result of an ex- jury, how necessary it is to be able due to electric shock. plosion, or ruptured gas mains. to render service to the unfortu- Lay victim down and institute If burned deep and clothes are nate. In fact, this is the highest artificial respiration. This can be on, do not remove the clothing. type of service one can render done by laying him prone and Cover wound with soda bicar- one's government and community. then keeping up rhythmic pressure bonate till the ambulance arrives. How you can be of help until on the thorax. Push down, then Superficial burns can be treated the doctor arrives on the scene is allow the chest to fill, and press by cleaning them off and coating suggested in the list of common again. About twenty to twenty- with oil or soda bicarbonate. injuries that are liable to occur five movements like this will often Later they may be cared for at the during an air raid. Simple, prac- save a life. emergency dressing station. tical treatments will be mentioned Due to drowning, which causes 6. Fear: Keep your chin up that most should be able to give. the lungs to fill with water. The and resolve to take it. Help look Unconsciousness, due to patient when rescued should be after the other fellow. MAY 1942 9 MR. GANDHI'S WAR- TIME ECONOMY DIET

By Dr. H. C. Menkel

meat need not use pulses at all. haustion, with such developments The poor people get only vege- as diabetes, nephritis, and auto- table protein. If the well-to-do intoxication. give up pulses and oils, they set Another economy recommenda- free these two essentials for the tion is that half the quantity of poor who get neither animal pro- grain as wheat or rice will meet Mr. Gandhi's comparative good health tein nor animal fat. Then the the food purposes when not taken at his age shows that he is some au- grain eaten should not be sloppy. in sloppy form. Cooked or baked thority on what to eat. Half the quantity suffices when it grains when taken as near dry as is eaten dry and not dipped in any possible must then be masticated gravy. It is well to eat it with THE Harijan of Janu- and moistened with saliva to be IN raw salads such as onion, carrot, ary 25th, Mr. Gandhi offers cer- swallowed. This results in bet- radish, salad leaves, tomatoes. ter digestion, and therefore less tain considered suggestions for An ounce or two of salads serves food economy in view of the food provides the needed en- the purpose of eight ounces of ergy. threatened shortage, and as a cooked vegetables. Chapatis or training for emergencies which bread should not be eaten with Mr. Gandhi suggests that an ounce or two of raw salad vege- may arise out of war develop- milk. To begin with, one meal ments. We quote the relative may be raw vegetables and tables is worth eight ounces of paragraphs, and offer a few com- chapati or bread, and the other cooked vegetables. This applies ments with one criticism: cooked vegetables with milk or particularly to their vitamin and mineral values. There is also "The greatest need of the im- curds. something vital in raw fruit and mediate present is to feed the hun- "Sweet dishes should be elimi- vegetables which is destroyed by gry and clothe the naked. There nated altogether. Instead, gud cooking. For this reason it is de- is already scarcity in the land both or sugar in small quantities may sirable that some uncooked raw of food and clothing. As the war be taken with milk or bread or fruit and vegetables be taken progresses, both the scarcities must by itself. daily. India needs to make more increase. There are no imports "Fresh fruit is good to eat, but extensive use of such raw, un- from outside, either of foodstuff or only a little is necessary to give cooked foods. of cloth. The well-to-do may not tone to the system. It is an ex- The elimination of sweet dishes feel the pinch as yet or at all, but pensive article, and an over-in- the poor are feeling it now. The as advocated would greatly re- dulgence by the well-to-do has lieve the stress upon the pancreas well-to-do live on the poor. deprived the poor and the ailing There is no other way. What is and liver imposed by the average of an article which they need Indian diet, and thus reduce the then their duty? He who saves, much more than the well-to-do. gains as much; that is to say, he incidence of diabetes. produces as much. Hence those "Any medical man who has It is in regard to Mr. Gandhi's who feel for the poor, those who studied the science of dietetics statement about fruit that we do would be one with them, must will certify that what I have sug- not find ourselves quite in agree- curtail their wants. There are gested can do no harm to the ment. He writes: "Fresh fruit is many ways. I shall only mention body; on the contrary, it must good to eat, but only a little is some here. There is much, too conduce to better health." necessary to give tone to the sys- much food eaten and wasted by Several statements in this quota- tem." While we can hobble along the well-to-do. tion deserve emphasis. First is the on low power with little fruit in "Use one grain at a time. statement that food taken in excess the diet, it is the contrary that is Chapati, rice, and pulses, milk, of actual requirement for repair required. Because so little fruit ghee, gud, and oil are used in or- and energy is as much food ac- is available and consumed by the dinary households besides vege- tually wasted. Excess food is not population, is one reason there is tables and fruit I regard this as only wasted food, but this excess so much vitamin and mineral defi- an unhealthy combination. Those also places a tax on the organs of ciency in India. who get animal protein in the digestion, detoxication, and elimi- Writing about fruits and ber- shape of milk, cheese, eggs, or nation, producing premature ex- ries in his book "Food," Sir I 0 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN Robert McCarrison states: "They Cereals would be better intro- line side. This necessitates more are among the best of all food- duced as additional rather than as fruit and vegetables, with propor- stuffs and should form a con- basic to the diet because of tionately less of the acid-tending siderable part of our daily diet. their strongly acid-ash-forming ten- cereals. The normal proportion is They contain much mineral salts dency. On the other hand, as four parts of the alkaline—fruit of the alkaline kind which keep stated by Sir Robert McCarrison, and vegetables—to one of acid, the blood pure and prevent it be- the fruits and vegetables are rich which includes all other foods. coming acid and sour. Fruits are in the alkali minerals. The im- This would be the diet of health most useful in keeping the bowels portance of this difference will be economy, and should be made healthy and active."—Page 88. recognized when it is re-called that economically within the reach of Man's physical structure indi- most of our ailments and all all, in a well-organized world. cates that he is intended to be a our pains, except those due to ac- Under existing emergency Mr. frugivorous creature. His natural cident, are of acid origin. Ob- Gandhi has advocated a very ra- food, the food on which he can be viously there would be less pain, tional and possible food economy. at his best, is fruit, nuts, milk, and and more enjoyment of life, if we His suggestions merit careful study the more succulent vegetables. kept more definitely on the alka- and application.

WHAT TO DO FOR BURNS

By C. H. Talmage, M.D.

CAUSES of burns have been studied in many series of cases. The findings show burns by hot liquids to be the most numerous, especially with children. Other causes are fires, petrol, gas explo- sions, chemicals, stoves, explosives. The distribution of burns ac- cording to age groups is also inter- esting. In a series of 127 cases, it was found that fifty-two were un- I'. P. A. der the age of ten years, sixty be- Those who work around fires should know what to do for severe burns. tween ten and fifty years of age, and only fifteen were over fifty reach a good understanding of the loss of serum are drawn from other years of age. These statistics show severity of the case in question. parts of the body for a time, and that most burns occur in the ear- In severe burns more or less the blood volume is kept con- lier decade of life. shock develops within a few min- stant; but, without outside aid, the supply is soon exhausted, and Burns are ordinarily classified utes, due to pain, fear, nerve re- according to the depth and sever- flexes, and loss of body heat. the blood volume is reduced. It is ity of the injury. First-degree With good care, most cases re- necessary to maintain the blood volume, and the changes from the burns are those in which the in- cover from this in a short time, normal during the first few days jury is limited to reddening and and other processes set in as a re- indicate the success or the failure swelling of the skin, as may often sult of the effort of the body to of the treatment. This gives the be seen in sun burns. Second-de- protect itself against the injury. gree burns are those which cause When an area is burned, serum physician a valuable guide in di- recting the treatment. coagulation of the skin, resulting is poured out into the area. The in destroyed tissue and blister for- amount of serum lost in this way Bacteria are always present on mation. The third-degree burns is in proportion to the size of the the skin, and burned skin has lost are those which result in destruc- area burned, and it has been esti- its resistance against these germs. tion of the skin and the charring mated that 7o per cent of the The non-vital tissues are excellent of tissues below the skin. If in blood volume is poured out in soil for the growth of germs. The addition to the degree of the burn twenty-four hours when one sixth question of absorption of toxic we consider the amount of body of the body surface is burned. material from burned tissue during surface involved, we are able to Fluid and salts to make up for this the ►first three days following a MAY 1942 II burn is a subject of debate among ping him in warm blankets, with eight level teaspoonfuls of the physicians. If absorption from hot water bottles about him out- powder in a glass of water. This the burned area occurs, it is be- side the blankets. Another very may be applied to the burned lieved that it causes some of the good method is to place the pa- area or be kept for the physician toxic symptoms. tient in a tub of warm water. to use when he arrives. Either of these methods conserve The minor burns of hands, Some of the complications that the body heat, promote the com- may make success in the treatment arms, and other areas, which arc fort of the patient, aid in al- not of great extent, may be of burns hard to achieve are listed leviating shock, and do not inter- below. A state of chronic infec- treated by one of the above meth- fere with the treatment the ods at home; or, in some in- tion and poor nutrition may de- physician may later decide upon. velop, which slows or prevents stances, petrolatum (Vaseline) or healing. This prolongs the con- It has been suggested that it even fats intended for cooking may valescence, and may result in ex- would be wise to keep a carton of be used as a first-aid dressing. cessive scar formation. The scars tannic acid in the medicine cup- The subsequent treatment should formed may prove crippling as board. Many physicians believe then he by one of the ointments well as unsightly. Examples of that the tannic-acid treatment of prepared especially for the pur- this arc cases in which the chin is burns reduces the time of convales- pose. Even in minor burns com- drawn down on the chest or the cence, improves the end result, and plications may develop, so the arm adheres to the chest. Failure contributes to the patient's com- services of a physician are desir- to have treatment, or improper fort. Tannic acid in 5 per cent able to insure the best possible re- treatment, may cause poor results solution may he made by placing sult. or prolonged illness. The first step in reducing the hazard of burns is education in ways of preventing them. Cau- Mrs. CONSUMER BUYS tion should always be exercised in handling hot liquids to see that they are not spilled and that chil- dren do not get into them. They LINENS should never be left at the edge of the stove or table where a child may pull them off, or on the floor T HERE are a few sugges- general to have any valuable where someone may fall into them. tions that might help in choosing meaning. The consumer has a If lye is kept in the home, it must our linens. When you buy sheets responsibility in demanding defi- be kept where children cannot get and pillowcases, what are your nite information. The manufac- it. Matches, too, should be out of guides? Do you consider price turer will give what the public reach of children. Special precau- alone? And how do you judge wants if the public demands it. tions are necessary to protect those durability? Sheets and pillowcases A good, muslin sheet satisfac- who may come in contact with hot are standard household cottons; tory for everyday use should have objects in industry. you have a right to expect service a finished thread count of about from them. As an aid to con- 8o in the warp and 7o in the fill- When a burn does occur, it sumers, some manufacturers are should receive immediate atten- ing. By thread count we mean the putting informative labels on their tion. First, extinguish the fire, if number of yarns per inch both goods. To be ideal, such a label there is one, and limit the amount lengthwise (warp) and crosswise should give thread count, breaking of area burned. A physician (filling). strength (sometimes called ten- should be called as early as pos- sion), weight, and amount of If correctly stated the number sible, or the patient be transported sizing. It should also give the of warp yarns is given first. When to a well-equipped hospital for length and width and tell whether the two numbers are the same, the care and treatment. Some time the sheet is a first or a second. fabric is described as "square." will be required for the doctor to Not many sheets arc labelled as If the fabric is "unbalanced," i.e., come or to move the patient, and completely as this, but one can it has a much larger thread count friends may feel called upon to find a few sheets that have at least one way of the cloth than the aid in one way or another. Many part of this information. other, it probably will not wear of the things which are done at well. A good wearing sheet has such a time do positive harm or There was a time when brand about the same number of yarns prevent the carrying out of the names were a guide in buying, but in one direction as the other. Low treatment of choice for the patient. manufacturers have been forced to thread count is often the reason No butter, lard, carron oil, or lower their standards in order to behind low price and short wear. other prepared ointment should compete with cheap product,. These are usually heavily sized to be applied. It is important to Of course such superlatives as "ex- deceive the public. After one or keep the patient warm; and this tra special," "very fine quality," two washings an excessively sized may be done with safety by wrap- and "the best sheet made" are too sheet will turn out to be thin and I2 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN sleazy, quite different from the in colour, and should wear a long foundation. Large jagged holes kind you thought you were buy- time. indicate loosely woven under- ing. The consumer should insist Before buying your towels ex- weave, which is not desirable, as on knowing the thread count, espe- amine the pile or loops. See that the towel will not wear well, nor cially when comparing sheets of they are close together and of even will the loops be held firmly in different prices. length. The more loops, the more place. The loops should be about Know the size of the sheet be- absorbent the towel will be. The one-eighth inch long. Longer ones fore you buy. Remember that the best towels will have twice as many are more absorbent, but they are length labelled on a sheet is the loops as two-ply warp yarns. By easily caught and pulled out. length before hemming. The fin- two-ply yarns we mean two sin- Always look at the selvages to ished sheet is about five inches gle yarns twisted together tightly see that every filling wraps around shorter, depending on the width to make one. This, of course, the last warp. Many times the of hems. It may shrink about six makes the ground work strong and outside warp is caught with only or eight inches in length when durable. They should be closely every second or third filling. This laundered. An under sheet should woven to make a firm foundation leaves loose warp yarns which tuck in well under the mattress all fabric. Hold the towel up to the catch and pull out or break, and the way around. The top one light to look at the underweave or the edges soon fray. should tuck in securely at the foot and sides and turn back far enough over the other bed cover- ings to protect them. ON STAYING YOUNG A good sheet is torn rather than cut from the bolt. This will be specified on the label as "torn" By Maurice Maeterlinck length. A sheet that is cut from the bolt, not torn, will take on its true shape in laundering and may A T THE age of sixty, looked at the boy, and he smiled then have puckered hems. Watch I thought myself approaching broadly: "That's Mother," said this point especially in buying death. My mind seemed to have he. "She's arguing with Grand- sheets with coloured hems. lost its alertness, its interest in new dad." For general household use, ideas, its capacity for work; I felt "Why?" I asked. sheets gg or to8 inches long (torn —or imagined I felt—physical in- "Oh, because he wants to go to length) are the most satisfactory. dications of the body's last weari- town to see the new fire engine, The common widths are 63 inches ness. It was as if a veil had but she says he'll lose his way or (single or twin bed), 72 inches dropped between my eyes and all be run over or something, and she (twin or three-quarter bed), 81 the colour and beauty of the says it's silly anyhow." He gave and go inches (double bed). world. an excited little hop. "But I Cheap sheets are often smaller Today I am seventy-eight. The want to go, too, and Granddad'll than standard. harmony I now feel between body take me, you watch!" No definite regulations for grad- and mind would have seemed a At that moment, scorning fur- ing sheets exist in the industry. miracle to me when I was sixty. ther argument, Granddad stepped When a sheet is labelled a "first" I know it is nothing of the sort. through the cottage doorway. He it is usually practically free from It is simply this: If the mind is was a very old man, but with weaving imperfections, such as un- young, the body is young. lively blue eyes and a frisky man- even yarns, or thick and thin I did not learn that myself; ner. He nodded to me pleasantly, places. "Seconds" may contain someone taught it to me. It is to and I told him I had stopped to some weaving defects and imper- him, perhaps, that I owe my life rest awhile, if he did not mind. fect yarns. Just how many flaws today. a "second" may have depends "As long as you want!" he said. upon the standards set up by the One morning I went for a walk "It is a nice place to sit. A good mill that manufactured it. These along a country path. Across the view, don't you think? I'd like "seconds" are often found on the fields I saw a farmhouse, a pleas- to stay and point out some of the bargain counter. If they have ant-looking place that held out an interesting things around here, but flaws which affect only their ap- irresistible invitation for the the boy and I are off for town, and pearance and not their durability, passer-by. A boy of ten ran out we'll miss the bus if we don't their purchase may be considered as I approached, and presently we hurry." a saving. were talking together on a bench I asked if I might walk to the A good bath towel—you will beneath an old apple tree. corner with them. "Come along!" find plenty in the sales that are Soon, above the boy's sprightly he said; and off we started. not good—should dry the body chatter, I became aware of a I glanced back and saw the quickly and thoroughly, should be voice from the cottage—a wom- boy's mother standing in the cot- easy to launder, right in size, fast an's voice, querulous in tone. I tage door. There was an expres- MAY 1942 13 Interest in life, in making a home, is one of the secrets of staying young. sion of melancholy foreboding on business, or help a housewife in swept the shelves. I realized that her face and she shook her head her labours or make her garden I must unburden myself of the disapprovingly. It occurred to prettier, he gave it for what it was precautions of old habit, the me that I had recently seen that worth. Of friendship he was poisons of resignation and fear. same expression somewhere else, spendthrift. Previously I had cringed before and then the sudden realization And so it was impossible to the prospect of a journey, think- startled me—yes, in the mirror think of him as an old man. He ing myself too old to venture from that very morning, and the face had never permitted the years to my safe warm corner in the sun. was my own. wither his mind, and therefore in I had resisted the friendly ad- vances of younger people. I had "Poor woman!" the old man great part they had spared his body. shuddered at facing unfamiliar said. "She thinks I should tuck things—people, scenes, ideas. my scarf around me, sit in the His one secret was his uncon- sun like an old donkey, and never querable interest in life. His sec- Now, with that old man before stir. If I heeded her, I'd be dead ond was as simple. On excur- me as a model, I welcomed all in a year!" sions to town or merely on walks these, knowing that only by wel- along neighbouring roads, his coming them could I live. I tried When we parted he asked me usual companion was the little to touch life with all my senses, to come soon for another visit. I boy. He never lost touch with as the blind man illuminates his did, many times, for I felt that I childhood. had found not only a friend but mind by the blessed touch of his a counsellor—and physician. He It was to this, I think, that the fingers on the raised letters. Biblical patriarchs owed their had always lived in this small Today as we listen to the roar farming section and the "town" he long, sound years. In that pas- of history, it may seem impossible visited occasionally was not much toral life the fa.aily remained more than a village. But to him closely knit, no matter to what at times to hold to one's belief in this small sphere was as wide as size it grew. There were always life. But joy in living can be re- the world, because he knew it so children around the elders,—chil- affirmed and renewed by things so well. He paused to talk with its dren through whose eyes they close at hand that we scarcely see people and inquire about their might see again the wonder and them at all; the changing fields affairs; he crossed their lives with beauty of the world, through and trees, the colours of first dawn his. If he noticed that a shop- whose questions they might find and last evening light, the child keeper had decked his store with a once more their own far child- that plays next door, friendly con- new fitting, he paused to compli- hood. tacts with those around us. And ment him; if he had an idea he After my meeting with my old belief in life is the essence of thought might benefit that man's young friend, I took stock and youth.—Reader's Digest. 14 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN • .;*,;•,•

except perhaps a heatwave ! But that sparkling eye, those rosy, chubby cheeks speak of abounding health and vitality, and a resistance to chills and changes not dependent on his clothing.

Yes, he is a Cow & Gate Baby—he looks it, doesn't he ?

PAIN!—Then We Prescribe Infra-Red Therapy

TILE "TROUP TYPE" No. 1 INFRA-RED GENERATOR , \

This apparatus is mobile and is of great benefit in its capacity as a therapeutic medium. One of the principle values of infra- red radiation is the treatment of acute painful conditions, the im - 0. mediate relief often experienced after the first treatment being of great assistance to the patient and physician. 0 Some of the indications for Infra-Red therapy:—Earache, Neuralgia and Allied Pains. Abscesses, Boils and Whitlows. Fibrositis, Neuritis and Sciatica. Acute Lumbago, Rheumatism and other Allied Conditions, etc., etc.

LAWRENCE & MAYO (INDIA) LTD.,

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MAY 1942 15 The Latest in HEALTH and SCIENCE

Feeding the Iteiehswehr military doctors, for instance, claim Recruits receive an excess number that vegetarianism cures neuroses of calories, but even so 70 per cent How the German Army fills the and depression, makes for greater of them lose weight because of un- belly it marches on was described efficiency. accustomed hard labour. in scientific detail recently by a The Germans, says Dr. Gerson, Soldiers in forts and those below Viennese food expert now in Man- believe that "a dollar will buy more the surface get food rich in the sun- hattan. U. S. A. In the New York vitamins in the market than in the light vitamin D—smoked fish, but- Journal of Medicine Dr. Max Bern- drugstore." They do not add ar- ter, eggs, milk, fat cheeses, etc. hard Gerson presented a summary tificial vitamins to food, nor are Parachutists get liver sausages, of military food facts gleaned from Nazi soldiers fed vitamin pills. Ger- Swedish hardtack, vitamin C pills. almost two dozen German medical man doctors learned this lesson from They are the only men in the forces journals. an experiment in the Swiss Army, supplied with artificial vitamins. In 1934, when Hitler was rebuild- where soldiers were fed an artificial Troops in the tropics get frozen ing the German Army, military doc- vitamin preparation (vitamins C and fruit preserves and milk powder; tors found that even in such healthy B, mineral salts, iron, dried yeast those in the Arctic get a mixture of cities as Kiel, the number of per- and a gelatinous sugar). Results: meat and vegetable powders, milk fect human specimens was "fright- "Poor." powders, and dried pressed fruits. fully low"—only 12.6 per cent. Only half the men examined in that district were sturdy enough to join the Army. Even among the most carefully selected men in the Air and Marine Corps. a high propor- tion suffered from tooth and mouth diseases caused by scurvy (lack of vitamin C). "Especially in evi- dence" were two types of nervous disorders: (1) constipation; (2) "soldier-heart." Once the best men available were recruited, said Dr. Gerson, the Army spared no pains and expense to build them up. Each German sol- dier gets about 3,800 calories a day, the same number of calories re- quired by a ditch-digger. The daily menu: Breakfast: strong coffee saturated with sugar, butter sandwiches with sausages and eggs. Soldiers too tired to eat must take cold sponge baths in the morning to stimulate their appetite. E. N. P. Lunch and dinner: potatoes pre- At Westminster Hospital, the precious radium that is used in the cure of pared in many ways, Kommissbrot many diseases is lowered into a deep well when not in use, to save it from (bread made from coarse whole rye, destruction from bombing. rich in vitamin B), all sorts of cheeses, milk, sour milk or milk German nutritionists have found, A special preparation of fruit and powder (it stays fresh for eight says Dr. Gerson, that doses of ar- grape sugar, powdered meat, fat. months), rice, beans, peas. oats and tificial vitamins and minerals may milk protein, vegetable vitamins and barley, dried vegetables, dried and act against each other. Example: fruit essence is given to troops in preserved fruits. "Fresh vegetables large doses of vitamin A may drain the field to overcome dryness of the are given in great quantities," and the body's reserves of C, produce throat and thirst. Most troops all cooking water is used again for scurvy. The German soldiers get carry with them a lemon powder to soups and sauces to save vitamins their vitamins in butter, rye bread, improve the taste of the drinking and minerals. yeast extract, soybeans, vegetables, water.—Time. Soldiers get little meat, but that milk. is often nutritious heart, liver, kid- Sodium pills were tried several "Sunstroke" and neys, lungs. Since no restrictions years ago to overcome fatigue, but "Overheating" are placed on food for the Army, Dr. were soon discarded, for "tem- Gerson thinks that meatless rations porary relief is followed by in- " 'OVERH E ATING' and `sunstroke' are not due to economic necessity, creased weakening." both are the result of heat retention "but Ito] the newer knowledge of Soldiers with special tasks get in the body," The Journal of the the science of nutrition." German special foods. Examples: American Medical Association says 16 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN in answer to a question as to what the specific pathologic difference is between the rwo conditions or koi of dose ierly %aids whether they are simply graduations of the same process. "When the environment tempera- ture reaches or exceeds body tem- perature, body heat cannot he lot by radiation," The Journal con- tinues. "If the environmental air is saturated with moisture, body heat cannot he lost by evaporation and the body temperature begins to rise. This heat retention often results in symptoms of dizziness, ataxia [lack of muscular co-ordination] ....and weakness.....This is known as 'overheating' or heat exhaustion. It is often complicated by loss of chloride [salt] due to excessive sweating. In this condition the cerebral [brain] heat regulating me- chanism is undisturbed, but heat loss is impossible because of en- vironment. " 'Sunstroke' is the term applied to the heat retention due to a loss of heat control. The skin is hot and dry as in high fever. and the body temperature rises to from 106 to 110°F..... `Sunstroke' may come on primarily or it may be a further development of 'overheating.' "Thus, 'overheating' is due to physical obstacles, to heat loss from the body, while 'sunstroke' is due 1,, a disturbance of heat regulation. Both are associated with. heat re- tention.. ...The prognosis [outlook) IF HE FOLLOWS THE in 'overheating' is good, while in `sunstroke' the prognosis is much more grave." LIFEBUOY HABIT HE'S

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marked with white. Usually the morning I heard a strange noise out snake3 will glide away at the ap- of door... so I arose to see what was proach of a human being. Some- causing it. I found Brownie having times they are asleep and resent convulsions. Picking her up, and being disturbed, then they strike sud- suspecting snake bite. I gave her an denly to defend themselves. antidote for snake poison. I worked The first time I met one of these with her all that morning and fi- green snakes was early one morning nally pulled her out of her trouble. when I went downstairs to get break- When she felt better, her first fast. Glass windows are seldom thought was for her pups; she wanted used in the tropics, especially in the to feed them. In her sight I fed older homes. It is so warm that one the pups with a nursing bottle. She wants to get all the breeze available, seemed to understand what I was do- so shutters are used instead of glass ing. She relaxed and feel asleep. windows. The shutters are made so The pups were fed from the bottle air can enter, but rain cannot. My for a day or two until I felt Brownie kitchen window was high above the was free from the snake poison. A floor. As I passed it I saw some- few weeks later Brownie staggered thing green waving to and fro above upstairs to me, her front paws dou- my head. At first I thought it was bling under as she walked. I recog- V. K. Vasudevan a shoot from a creeping vine caught nized the symptoms and quickly Pretty Australian kiddies are ready for in the shutter. The window was gave her an antidote, and she re- their sun baths. closed, and the room was somewhat covered. dark. I started to open the window A short time after this we left to let the light in, and found my- Sandakan to go on a trip to the west Snakes self looking into a pair of wicked coast. Brownie and the pups were eyes. Then I realized I was face to left with our assistants. That night By MRS. E. MERSHON face with one of Borneo's deadliest they heard Brownie snarling and snakes. It had been too dark for harking downstairs. Running down him to strike. It did not take me HE rich vegetation of Malaya the stairs quickly. they found her T long to get outside and pick up a conceals a great variety of snakes, standing between her pups and a broomstick and hit that snake on its pair of king cobras. Such a hissing many of which are more dangerous outstretched neck. Pulling the to man" than any other wild animals. they made! The snakes got back snake out of the shutter, I found it into their holes beneath the wall be- There are many kinds of snakes in to be about five feet long, with large Borneo, but the ones I am going to tween the dining-room and the bath- poisonous fangs. I was indeed room. The kebun (gardener) was tell you about are those I have come thankful that I had not been struck. called, and of course the news got across in my travels in that large Shortly before this we had lost a island. The hamadryad, or king out among the Malays. Before long fine terrier dog. We thought he had a crowd had assembled to watch the cobra, is the largest of all venomous been poisoned. Months later we fun. Our kebun got a stick and be- snakes. These are frequently met found out what had really happened gan to poke the hole where the with in Borneo, sometimes running to him. He had died of snake bite. cobras had disappeared. As quick to eighteen feet in length. The most Our house in Sandakan, Borneo, was as a flash a snake darted at him and common are the black cobras, and built with a space of eight inches as quickly withdrew. Feeling a it seems to me they were every- between the walls and the floor, giv- stinging in his eyes the where. The boa constrictor, or kebun cried, ing free entry to fresh air and small "Mati, Mati!" (I python, is also found in Borneo. am dead. I am creatures. When the doors were dead.) The gardener had been We were most familiar with the locked the dogs were able to go in treating his wife very badly and all green snakes, a very abundant spe- and out as they pleased. The cement the Malays knew it, so they com- cies, which lie coiled up on leaves floor had been put in after the house forted him by telling him that fate and shrubs, and can scarcely be was built, and the cement did not had overtaken him because he had seen until one is close up to them. cover all the space under the in- been mean to his wife. In a sudden Although the snakes are so nu- side partitions. The rats had made frenzy the kebun cried, "I am going merous, seldom does one hear of their holes under the cement beneath to die anyway, so I will kill those anyone's dying of snake bite. the partitions. We knew snakes snakes before I do." He pried off In some countries, snakes are usu- sometimes made their dens in rat some of the wall boards, but could ally found on the ground, but in the holes, but we never suspected they not get those snakes out of the hole. tropics you may find them on flower would make their dens in the rat Someone ran and got some cement stems and shrubs and bushes. When holes under the walls. and sand and water, so the natives picking flowers or trimming hedges, Another terrier, Brownie, had five mixed them together and cemented a person has to be very careful to little pups. Every night we put the snakes in the hole. After doing watch for a dangerous green snake, Brownie and her pups under the all this, the natives realized that the with a large head, and prettily stairs near the bathroom. Early one kebun had not been bitten; the 18 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN snake had spit his venom in his rustling noise in the atap—thatch pathways, and in your flowerpots. eyes. As he was getting blind, the made from nipa palm leaves. It They are a deep brick-red in colour, natives hustled him off to a doctor sounded like a heavy animal crawl- and are quite harmless. for treatment. Before long he re- ing on the thatch above his head. Most of the houses are made with gained his sight and was none the Looking up, the next morning, he worse for his battle with the king saw above his head a huge snake atap roofs, from which large scor- cobras. When the experience was coiled up in a knot. The man was pions or centipedes drop unex- related to us, I recalled vividly how horrified to think he had slept un- pectedly. Every box or every board I had leaned against the wall in the der that reptile all night. He called left undisturbed for a few days bathroom while treating Brownie. the natives to help him get the makes a fine hiding place for these It was marvellous that I had not snake out of the thatch. A strong ugly creatures. On being disturbed, been bitten. noose of rattan was made and their tails quickly turn up ready to attack the disturber or to defend We never felt safe in that house slipped over the snake's head, get- themselves. I have seen black scor- after that, and we were glad when ting it well down over the body. pions seemingly drop from the we moved over to the west coast to With the aid of a strong pole the skies. The crows catch them and a new house which was built sev- snake was pulled down. There was sometimes drop them in mid-air. eral feet above the ground. At this a great scuffle as the snake coiled - Many a time I have opened a book new mission station we soon found itself round the posts and chairs to and found a scorpion hiding be- out snakes were there also. One resist. Finally a native caught its tween the pages. I have found them morning we were startled to hear tail and ran out of the house. He hiding between the sheets or even our monkeys screeching and calling, was so quick that the snake was under the pillow on the bed. I have warning us of danger. I ran out- confused. The man tried to dash its also seen orchids the shape of scor- side to see what was the matter, and head against a tree to crush it. pions. We had some growing in our saw a black king cobra gliding However, the snake got away, and garden in Jesselton, Borneo—light across the lawn and disappearing they found it under a log. From brown with dark brown spots, and over the side of the hill. This this place it was poked out and lavender with purple spots. snake was twelve feet long, and killed with a hatchet. The snake had thick. climbed the posts of the house to make its nest in the thatch. You will think that such com- I remember putting my hand on panions as snakes and scorpions are a snake in the dark one night when Strolling along a hillside late one not very agreeable ones. They seem we were staying at a native house out afternoon, I was attracted by some very alarming and dangerous, but in the jungle. When we went to bed wild flowers a little way up the hill. all combined are not as bad as the I put out the candle. Putting my Suddenly a heard a hissing noise irritation of having mosquitoes hand out to reach a seat beside the and, looking in front of me, saw a buzzing around you all the time. I bed, I felt something cold and snake with its head in the air ready have lived a long time among these smooth, and moving when I touched to strike. Did I run? You could creatures, but in twenty-two years of it. I called out, "Snake," which not see my heels for dust. living in the tropics, I have never brought the natives quickly with a In Borneo there are other pests. been bitten or stung by a snake, scor- light. Sure enough, there was a After rainy weather, large numbers pion, or centipede. I have been snake coiled up on a cushion with of millepedes, as thick as one's fin- stung by mosquitoes and have had its head slightly raised to inquire ger and about ten inches long, crawl malignant malaria as the result, so what had disturbed it. With a about everywhere—in the house, you see the mosquitoes are worse forked stick the head was fastened even on the bed, on trees, on the than the snakes and scorpions. on the seat while one of the men cut it in two with a parang (native knife). It had large poison fangs, The Publishers of this Magazine insure their and it was a wonder that it had not bitten me. Motor Cars and Property with: One of the queerest sights we have seen on our travels was at a snake The National Employers' temple in Penang, Straits Settle- ments. There were several hundred snakes in this place. It was a weird Mutual General sight! Snakes everywhere! Some were hanging over the pictures on the walls. Some were coiled on the Insurance Association table! Some on the altar before the image! Some even on the image! On the posts of the temple! Snakes Limited everywhere! And they had a care- Head Office for the East: 32, Nicol Road, taker in charge of them. We saw so many snakes that day that we Ballard Estate, Bombay. thought everything we looked at was Telephone: 22823. Telegrams: "AUTONEM." a wriggling snake! Chief Office for Northern India: 69, The Mall, In Borneo there is told a story about a certain man and a snake, Lahore. and I believe it is true because so Telephone : 3516. Telegrams : "AUTONEM." many people have similar experi- ences. At night this man heard a MAY 1942 YOURS FOR GOOD EATING I By George E. Cornforth

1/2 cup baked beans 1/2 cup cooked Lima beans 1/4 cup cooked soya beans 14 almonds 2 tablespoons cottage cheese (level measure) 3 medium-sized potatoes 2 shredded wheat biscuits 2 dishes of hot cereal, each measuring cup 2 slices bread, 2 x 31/2 x % inches 11/2 P. P. A. level tablespoons peanut butter The cooks of the R. F. A. school of cookery have their products sampled by 1/2 cup tinned peas the air boys who know good food. 1/2 cup cooked lentils 3 one-half pint bottles milk equal 4 eggs in protein I USED to believe that most peo- The protein requirement is deter- If you choose high-protein foods ple live on a diet that is too high in mined by feeding such a diet that the to meet the minimum requirement protein, because most people eat nitrogen eliminated equals, but does of forty grams, the other foods you meat, and a meat diet is too high in not exceed, the nitrogen consumed in protein. And I believed that the the food. In this way it has been eat to complete your menus will supply the remaining protein that is doctors were wrong who insisted that found that, if the protein is exactly people eat too little protein. But I of the right character, twenty grams recommended for the best nutrition. of protein a day will barely suffice am beginning to believe that those SUGGESTIVE SELECTIONS for the average person. But our doctors are right, because I have No. 1 been called upon to estimate the food is not analyzed and weighed value of so many diets that are too out to us by a chemist, to see that 3 bottles milk 4 eggs low in protein. Recently people the protein we eat is of exactly the 11/2 level tablespoons right nature. We eat in a more or peanut butter = 1 egg have been sent to me with a list of 2 tablespoons cottage the foods they have been accustomed less hit-and-miss way, and it is neces- sary to eat at least forty grams of cheese z 1 egg to eat, and I have found that they 2 slices the mixed protein foods, as we bread 1 egg eat meat only once a day or two = 7 eggs or three times a week; and, in most choose them, to be sure that the body can find in them the material cases, they had no high-protein food 2 bottles milk 2 eggs from which to build the minimum at more than one meal a day, the 1/2 cup baked beans = 1 egg other meals consisting largely of amount of protein that is required. 4 slices bread 2 eggs toast, cake, biscuits, ice cream, For safety, it is well to add 50 per 3 medium potatoes = 1 egg 14 cup cooked soya pickles, doughnuts, and coffee, with cent more, making sixty grams of sweets between meals. That kind of mixed-quality protein a day the ac- beans 1 egg a diet cannot sustain good health. cepted minimum standard. = 7 eggs Sometime ago, a nurse, whom a One egg contains about six grams The reader will notice how easy patient brought to our institution to of protein. That is why I said that it is to get the necessary amount of take care of her, but who was not seven eggs would be necessary. protein if milk and eggs are in- accustomed to our way of living, They would supply the forty grams cluded in the diet; but, if milk is not said to me: "I hate milk; I never of a good quality of protein, which used, it is not nearly so easy to find drink it. I don't like beans. I don't is considered the minimum quantity foods that supply sufficient protein. like any of your nut foods; I don't that is safe. But, of course, no one To take the place of milk there are like nuts. How many eggs must I wishes to eat the seven eggs a day; hardly any other foods that are eat a day to get enough protein?" and that is not necessary. All we equal to soya beans and soya bean I said: "If you get protein in no need to know is what quantities of milk. other form, you ought to eat seven other foods supply six grams of WHITE SAUCE eggs a day." She thought that was good protein, that is, the amount of 1 pint milk quite impossible and did not hesti- protein contained in one egg. 1/4 cup flour tate to say so; but my statement was 2 tablespoons butter or butter based on scientific considerations. The following list of foods gives substitute I knew whereof I spoke. this information: 3/4 level teaspoon salt 20 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN Heat the milk in a double boiler. LEGUME AND VEGETABLE 1 tablespoon butter or butter Stir the flour smooth with a little LOAF substitute 1/2 teaspoon salt cold water. Stir into the hot milk, 1 egg, well beaten and cook till thickened. Add the 1/2 cup cooked Lima beans To the well-beaten eggs add the butter and salt. 3/4 cup cooked peas 1/4 cup diced celery ingredients in the order given. Put TOMATO SAUCE 1/2 tablespoon chopped onion into oiled timbale moulds, and bake 2 tablespoons butter substitute 3/4 cup tomato juice in hot water till set. This may be 2 tablespoons olive oil or cooking A- cup cream cracker crumbs baked as a loaf, but it does not cut oil 1 tablespoon chopped sweet nicely into slices. Serve with To- 2 sticks celery, cut fine pepper mato Sauce. 1 small onion, chopped 1/2 teaspoon Greek thyme 1 pint tomatoes 2 mushrooms, cut fine 1 teaspoon salt Put into a small saucepan the but- ter substitute, onion, celery, mush- rooms, and thyme, and simmer very slowly twenty minutes. Then add the tomatoes, and cook very slowly, covered, for one hour. The cooking should proceed so slowly that the sauce will scarcely boil away at all. The long cooking and the Greek thyme give this sauce an especially good flavour. Greek thyme is a dried herb that comes in bunches. ASPARAGUS LOAF OR TIMBALES 1 cup cream cracker crumbs 1 cup hot milk 1 egg, beaten 2 tablespoons butter or butter substitute 1 pint cooked or tinned asparagus cut into small pieces 1 level teaspoon salt A little grated onion, or celery Salt, if desired ti Mix ingredients, and put into a bread tin that has a piece of oiled paper fitted into the bottom. Place ke in a pan of water, and hake until the makes flifir ca mixture is set. ccess ,W4, This does not easily cut into a su .•• smooth slices; it is much nicer to •As,„:• `.--,AJ serve if put into oiled cups, and • •'4. baked in a pan of water. The tim- bales are turned out of the cups to There is never any uncertainty about be served. In either case serve with results when the cook uses Marvo. Every- White Sauce. thing is always extra-delicious — cakes CAULIFLOWER LOAF light, pastry tender and flaky, fried foods 1 head cauliflower crisp and digestible. This pure vegetable 1 cup milk cooking medium never varies — unlike the 1/4 cup flour nameless cooking fats most cooks buy. 4 eggs 1/2 level teaspoon salt You can rely on it. Cook the cauliflower until tender, And " doubts " never rise in the house- and divide into small pieces. Make wife's mind when she knows her cook a white sauce of the milk, flour, and only uses Marvo — for Marvo is guaranteed salt. Mix this with the cauliflower. pure, and you buy it in a sealed tin. It Separate the whites from the yolks keeps fresh too, is tasteless and odourless of the eggs. Beat the yolks, and — food is never spoiled with " off stir them into the mixture; then flavours." beat the whites stiff, and, fold them See that your cook cooks with Marvo. in. Put into a bread tin with oiled paper fitted into the bottom, and bake in a pan of water till set. POI/81 4800 PI/R/IY,/ This also is nicer tif) serve if baked NOR ANY in cups. Serve with White Sauce. MO. 6- 172 VAN DEN BERGHS (INDIA) LIMITED, BOMBAY MAY 1942 to use both hands, the better, but do The DOCTOR not discourage using his left hand. It is not using both, but the attempt to discourage use of the natural SAYS hand, which is not advisable. RUNDOWN CONDITION: Ques.—"I This question and answer service, am eighteen, skinny, weak constitu- free only to subscribers, is intended tion, have swollen glands. eczema, for general information. No attempt and I stammer. Suggest treatment." will be made to treat disease or to take the place of a regular physician. Ans.—Your constitutional condi- In special cases, where a personal tion would appear to he of heredi- reply is desired or necessary, it will tary origin, and therefore difficult, he given if a stamped, addressed en- but not impossible, of improving, velope accompanies the question. We reserve the right to publish the particularly since you are still answers to any questions sent in, if young enough to greatly influence we deem them beneficial to our your physical and functional state. readers, though no names will be This will necessitate rebuilding bet- published. Address the editor, and make questions short and to the ter tissues and structures in place of point. the present body. Such a process re- quires time, in terms of several years. Also it calls for rigid ad- Dr. H. C. Menkel, Associate Editor herence to health-promoting prac- of the Oriental Watchman and Herald tices, including eating, working, of Health, who has charge of this de- sleeping, recreation, and constructive partment, "The Doctor Says." thinking. Adopt a fixed purpose of learning and carrying out as near as EPILEPSY: Ques.—"My son, two, Ans.—The average weight for possible a 100 per cent health pro- has epilepsy. The doctor prescribed your age and height would be from gram. as suited to your condition Dilantin, but I can get only Sodium 120 to 125 pounds. You are there- and needs. The book "Eating for Dilantin. Are they the same?" fore near the average. Your tired Health" will explain certain rules Ans.—Dilantin is the basic sub- and toxic condition is most prob- as to the kind of food, combinations, stance from which Sodium Dilantin ably due to your mode of eating. and manner of eating which will is made. It is the Sodium Dilantin In the first place, your breakfast at prove vital. Other helpful instruc- which is used for the treatment of nine o'clock and lunch at twelve tion about exercise, breathing. and epilepsy, but this remedy is best for o'clock leave only three hours be. outdoor living, will be gathered the type of patients who have fre- tween these meals. There should be from this magazine. Eczema, un- quent attacks. For the less frequent an interval of five hours between all derweight. and even the glands may attacks, it is usually sufficient to use meals. Your last meal at nine and he due to disordered metabolism. other sedatives. Your description going to bed at nine-thirty does not You should be examined for T. B. suggests that the attacks are prob- provide for good digestion. Try and other infections which may be ably due to indigestion resulting taking only fruit or fruit and milk influencing your general condition. from eating when tired. When the for the last meal. Two meals may Have a thorough physical and lab- body is tired, the digestive functions suit your slow digestion even better oratory examination to determine also share in this tiredness, and all than three. On this plan the last what kind of corrective assistance is require rest. To eat a meal when meal should be so timed as to leave required, then follow instructions. tired is to invite trouble. Food then several hours before retiring. You Not medicine, hut faithful and acts as poison rather than nourish. need more lightly cooked and salad healthful living over a sufficient ment. If one must eat, the best vegetables, fruit, and milk, if you period of years will produce the are to improve your health. Vita- results. thing is fruit or fruit juice. Your 9 son would probably escape such at- mins and alkali minerals from these tacks by adopting an exclusive milk foods are absolutely essential. COFFEE; TEA; •COCOA: Ows.-- and fruit meal at night, having other 9 "Do coffee, tea, and cocoa contain foods for breakfast and lunch, noth- LEFT-HANDEDNESS: Ques.—"My oxalic acid? Can these substances ing at tea time, and only fruit and son, four, is getting left-handed. If be obtained without injurious acids milk for the third meal. This plan I try to make him use his right hand. and poisons?" has proved effective in cases of this will he not use both hands poorly?" Ans.—As regards oxalic acid in type. Ans.—Some persons are right- the beverages mentioned, the follow- 9 handed and others left. Nature sets ing is taken from a table by Esbach Toxic CONDITION: Ques.—"I am the standard. There can be no as quoted by Kellogg in "The New twenty, five feet four inches tall, harm, but only benefit, by encourag- Dietetics": weigh 112 pounds. I feel weak, ing the boy to use both hands ef- OXALIC ACID IN VARIOUS FOoD- dull, have constipation, falling hair. fectively. The ambidextrous person STUFFS PER 1,000 PARTS I have purls and tea at nine; rice, has very real advantage both in work Cocoa-powder dal, and vegetables at twelve; sweets and play. I have always envied the 3.520 to 4.500 and tea at six; and chapaties, dal, person who had this ability. I Black Tea 2.060 and vegetables at 9 P.M., and retire knew a surgeon who could skilfully Coffee 0.127 at 9:30. How can I improve my use either hand and with wonderful Coffee, like tea, depends for its condition?" success. The more your son learns drug action upon caffeine content. 22 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN There are several decaffeinated brands of coffee on the market. They retain the coffee aroma, but are free from caffeine effects to the extent of 95 per cent. In America there is also obtainable a theobro- min-free cocoa and chocolate. I do not know of any tea so treated, but there are coffee and tea substitutes made from cereals and herbs.

BACK PAINS: Ques.—"I suffer back pains, due no doubt to mas- turbation, and sex indulgence since marriage. Also have sexual weak- ness. Pray help me." ... made in a momen Ans.—The necessary help for with boiled water only A your trouble must come from your- git self. You know the cause; now be = a man with the morale to do the IAIOTIN A Wig rA •7,ft 74 rA g 61a I Pre& right thing, both by yourself and your wife. Only by ceasing such weak surrender to self-indulgence PRE-WAR PRICES MAINTAINED " can you hope to regain your normal physical condition. Even then it will take considerable time for na- tgg."44741`4,WirigeaVAMOIVAga5 WAVAIN.774,Z*V'esnrelg-Weirs‘t. ture to rebuild what you have risova.4).N7414rAtirinWswavAwitte:ektviwea1067 1.- - 0*--1A::4 wasted. As a matter of relief, take hot sitting bath at night before go- ing to bed. You will find this fully described in the book, "Three Ways to Health," page 49. ME FINEST SERVANT SEX ABUSE: Ques.—"I am a self-abused man and suffer emis- A moustsmoo EVER HAD sions and other bad symptoms. Prescribe treatment." Ans.—Take hot sitting bath at night before retiring, and in morn- ing get up immediately upon awakening; do not lie in bed a moment after becoming awake. Take cold sponge bath, and engage in morning devotions, followed by outdoor exercise. No medicine is required, only some clean thoughts and life.

ULCER: Ques.—"I have stomach pains, vomiting greenish yellow stuff. Medicines help some, but I do not want to get that habit. I smoke some, and eat a little meat." ONKEY BRAND Ans.—The description of symp- toms indicate that you have either duodenal or gastric ulcer. As you are not situated to undergo a more or less prolonged course of rigid dietary restrictions, the best plan would be to undergo a course of "Larostidin" (Roche) injections daily for about one month. The first such course will probably clear your pain, but you will need to have about two more shorter course injections. Unless this condition is cleared up, it will tend to increase. Therefore, I strongly advise early treatment. CLEANS MAY 1942 NEVER SCRATCHES

BENJAMIN RROOILE f CO. LTD.. PORT SUNLIGHT, ILMOLJJID, MIL 1..11.1 SYPHILIS: Q u e s.—"Will six make certain of such vegetables, colitis? 2. What is the cause and months' bismuth injections cure yellow fruit, and milk forming the cure of 'whites'?" syphilis?" major part of your meal. Cod- Ans.-1. Chronic colitis is a Ans.—According to best author- liver oil preparations also help to long-standing inflammation produc- ities it is quite impossible to eradi- reinforce a deficient diet. In some ing degenerative tissue changes, ex- cate syphilis from the system short persons the thyroid gland also is tending deeply into the wall of the of about two years of treatment. underfunctioning and needs rein- bowel. There may be low rise of forcing. Only a physician's exami- This condition is so serious that no temperature, feeling of weakness, nation can ascertain this. negative blood test taken soon after uneasiness or pain in the abdomen, a course of treatment can be ac- 9 frequent stools, and purging. As a cepted as an indication of cure. CHEST PAINS: Ques.—"For two rule the stools are very offensive This only means the infection is years I have had pains in the right and contain much mucous. Quanti- recessional, but will again become side of •my chest. No help from ties of gas or wind are expelled. active unless treatment is main- doctors. I have bad tonsils also. Frequently there are long thread- tained for necessary period. What is to be done?" like shreds which may be mistaken 9 Ans.—The bad tonsils are most for worms. At times also there are PETIT MAL: • Ques.—"I have probably the cause for your other tube-like casts. These come from `petit mal' fits at times, night emis- complaints. I would strongly urge the inner lining membrane of the sions, and low weight. What is that you have this source of sys- bowel. Pain and straining usually your advice?" temic poisoning cleared up at an accompany the passing of these early date. Without removing the casts and shreds. Blood in the Ans.—Your attacks seem as- focal infection from the tonsils, all stools suggests ulceration in the wall sociated with some digestive prob- treatments to relieve the heart and of the colon. Much weight is lost lem. The petit-mal individual has a chest symptoms is apt to be useless. and varying degrees of anaemia ex- somewhat precariously poised nerv- If you are unwilling to have surgi- ist. In addition to the bowel symp- ous system, susceptible to being dis- cal removal of tonsils, or if this is toms these patients are easily fa- turbed in balanced function through not advised, then you can still have tigued, nervous, and worry greatly certain irritation, which in your the infected tonsils sterilized by over their ailment. Their equilib- case is digestive. I would be in- means of diathermy electric current rium is easily disturbed by anything clined to consider both petit mal and local ultra-violet-ray treat- unusual, either mental or physical. and the nocturnal emissions as ments. The chronic form of colitis may be nervous reactions to the same food the result of long-continued irrita- or digestive irritating cause. My tion, either in the form of infection suggestion would be for you to fol- EXCESSIVE SALIVA: Q u e s.— coming down from nose, tonsils, low my favourite diet restriction of "What will relieve excessive flow of teeth, or throat; or the more fre- only milk and fruit for about one saliva, especially at night?" quent cause is faulty and harmful month, together with a daily enema. Ans.—Such excessive flow of ways of preparing and eating food. Before retiring at night take a hot saliva is due to some irritation of Each colitis patient must be indi- sitting bath for ten to fifteen min- the salivary glands. Tobacco will vidualized and corrected where he utes. You will find this described produce this excessive flow with per- has gone wrong. To cure colitis in the book "Three Ways to sons who are sensitive to the toxic means following a carefully pre- Health," page 49. effects of tobacco. Certain drugs pared, reconstructive regime for at 9 have the effect of promoting hyper- least a year or longer. Properly activity of these glands. Mercury HAY FEVER: Ques.—"I suffer controlled, corrective diet regime is with constant colds and hay fever. will do this, if its use is continued of the utmost importance as part of for some time. This may be done Can I get relief ?" the curative treatment. without knowing it is being taken, in Ans.—There is an entirely new the form of so-called vegetable pills, In my experience I have had best approach to the hay fever problem or other forms of laxative prepara- results when able to first restrict by means of a catalyst injection, tions. It is dangerous taking drugs patients to an exclusive juice diet. which is producing good results. or drug preparations without know- Both fruit and vegetable juices, However, at present this is not ob- ing the effects of their contents. either raw or cooked, are used, but tainable as it must come by air mail Calomel is a form of mercury quite fruit and vegetable juices are not from U. S. A. You could probably extensively used and prescribed by usually combined at the same meal. obtain considerable relief from a some physicians for "torpid livers." These juices are rich in the neces- course of zinc ionization. I have Mercury is also used in certain sary vitamins and minerals with used this in quite a few cases with stages of syphilis. You can relieve their healing and detoxicating sub- worthwhile results. the flow of saliva by rinsing the stances. The stronger fruit juices 9 mouth frequently with lemon juice as orange, grape, pomegranate, and or with vinegar. Also the use of tomato should at first be diluted SKIN PEELING: Ques.—"What with equal quantity of pure distilled makes skin peel off the hands two slippery elm tablets kept in the mouth gives very real relief, but or boiled water. Several pints of or three times a year?" make certain to find and eliminate such diluted juices may finally be Ans.—A condition of skin such the irritating cause, or the condi- taken daily. It is desirable that the as you describe is very often as- tion may develop. intestinal canal be bathed and sociated with deficiency of vitamin flushed with such detoxicating and A in the diet. The source of this healing juices. In addition, it is vitamin is all yellow and green COLITIS; LEUCORRHCEA: Ques.— often useful to add the juice of one fruits and vegetables, particularly "1. What is the best course of treat- fresh lemon to the daily warm en- green leafy vegetables. You should ment and vegetarian diet for chronic ema water. After the juice period THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN 24 has accomplished the desired re- BALANCED DIET; GONORAHCEA : invite trouble. Four ounces daily sults, the next step is vegetables, Ques.—"1. I am forty, and eat of either meat, solid curds, or pulses, and fruit substances passed milk, curds, bread, chapaties, fruits, cheese or eggs is abundance for all _ through a rather fine mesh strainer, eggs, vegetables, honey, sweets, and repair needs. Bread should be of so as to remove the coarser fibre; some meat. Is this a balanced diet? whole-wheat flour, and six ounces then milk, milk curds, and the yel- 2. I contracted gonorrhoea fifteen of this during the day is sufficient. Vegetables and fruit should form low portion of hard-boiled eggs. years ago, and have repeated at- the bulk of food. These, together The next step in advancing the diet tacks. Am I fated to always have with milk and some nuts, well mas- will be well-cooked cereals as por- these, when I am leading a chaste ridge, daliya, rice, or toast soaked ticated, or mashed, provide the best life?" in hot milk. After all symptoms of diet for advancing age. bowel irritation have cleared, the Ans.—L You have reached the 2. Gonorrhoea, if successfully patient may cautiously introduce en- age period when functional and nu- treated so as to eliminate all infec- tire vegetables and fruits, and, tritional operations are slowing tion, will not reappear. The newer lastly, if he desires, meat may be down progressively. This means form of sulfanilamides, together added. that the capacity to utilize and the with suitable artificial fever treat- 2. Leucorrhcea or "whites" is a need for fuel and repair foods has ment, has been found effective local discharge usually associated lessened. As a result of long estab- ninety-nine out of every one hun- with a lowered state of health and lished habits you will still have the dred cases under observation treat- vitality. It results from such con- appetite of younger days, but with- ment. With these newer measures stitutional debility. When the gen- out capacity to metabolize. Under available, it is most unfortunate if eral health improves, this local these physiological changes, to con- anyone harbouring gonorrhoeal in- disturbance also clears. Emotional tinue consuming tissue-building fection fails to free themselves of excitement sometimes aggravates. foods like meat, eggs, curds in the the existing threat to health and Constipation is another cause. Leu- daily quantity you are taking, is to protection against invalidism. corrhcea is a catarrhal condition, and in your case would be related to the colitis, which is also catarrh of colon. To relieve the discharge, use daily sitz bath with a cherry-red Do you Remember? solution of permanganate of potash (Condy's), and a vaginal douche of hot water in which is dissolved a tablespoonful each of salt and bi- carbonate of soda. See that your diet is well balanced, having ample foods for vitamins and alkali salts. Read the book "Eating for Health." Leucorrhcea may be due to a local infection. In that event, it would need local treatment by a physician.

DEFECTIVE NERVES: Ques.—"My left side gets cold and uncomfort- able, and I am dizzy and unsteady on my feet, especially the left foot. I am a bachelor of good habits. How can I be cured?" Ans.—The symptoms you de- NTHUSIASTIC users miss their supplies of Vita-Weat scribe indicate a defective nerve and e blood supply to the affected side. Crispbread. We are sorry we cannot ship Vita-Weat to India This is as much as one can say as but circumstances, which, we know, you will fully appreciate, to the reason for the symptoms. make this impossible at the present time. But immediately Back of this disturbance of function, there is a cause affecting the nerve after the war Vita-Weat will come back to India and make centres. This may be a specific dis- many new friends. T ill then—remember us. ease as syphilis; it may also be due to metabolic failure such as would result if the adrenal and thy- roid organs were hypofunctioning. Other causes could be found in focal infection, allergic sensitization, and auto-intoxication. Acidosis, defi- ciency of vitamins and essential CRISPBREAD IIIGS food minerals must be considered in seeking the background cause. The correct remedy and necessary re- Someatinf& lovk famine/ */ adjusting of life will be dependent upon the nature of basic cause. MAY 1942 25 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN

D HERALD OF Such incompatibles are acid fruits mother who are users of the cig- and starch-containing foods like po- arette are handicapped in life's tatoes, rice, bread, or oats. Fruits battles. The United States Sur- and vegetables also are much better geon-General Hugh S. Cummings, FOR HEALTH HOME AHD HAPPINESS taken at separate meals. Highly referring to the increase of smok- concentrated proteins like meat, fowl, fish, eggs, and cheese or curds ing among young women, said : Vol. 18, No. 5 POONA May 1942 should not be taken with starchy "If American women contract the foods, the reason being that these habit, as reports now indicate concentrated proteins require and they are doing, the entire Amer- Published Monthly by call forth a highly acid stomach di- ican nation will suffer. The THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN PUBLISHING HOUSE gestive fluid, which would inhibit physical tone of the nation will be Post Box 35, Poona, India starch digestion, as the latter does lowered. 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The little nervous speaking to you girls as a woman, promote best digestive results. children born to a father and a mother." 26 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN Mi. GAN and MR. CAN'T ...

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Ric's-rums No. B-1886 ORIENTAL WATCHMAN SUPPLEMENT What the W A R Does to RELIGION

By the Editor

1 HERE are many religions, ligion considers war with material but all of them stand for man's weapons a virtue under certain devotion to some spiritual ideal. circumstances, and that war in Somewhat apart from his bodily which it engages is victorious, then feelings and his mental processes, faith in that religion is greatly en- every man has to do with the hanced by war. On the other things of his spirit. Whatever the hand, if military defeat comes, Higher Power be that attracts his stock in that religion goes down. spirit, that attraction is his relig- In some nations, government ion. and religion are inseparably con- Most religions have an uplifting nected. They believe that their influence; that is, they stand for deity is on the side of their peace, fellowship, morality—as armies. If they are victorious their followers understand the ap- over other armies, that proves that plication of these virtues to daily their religion is better than that of living. Some believe in peace the other side, and that their god with their fellow-religionists only; is the more powerful god. Many and the standard of morality of non-Christian religionists boast of some others may be in question. this. But we give credit to the great There are Christians also who majority of the human race for believe that might is always on the sincerity in religion; they honestly side of right, that ultimately the E. N. P. believe they have the right—and The damage a bomb did to St. Paul's military prowess of so-called Cathedral. ' possibly the only right—religion, Christian nations is sure to pre- else they would leave the religion vail. They forget or ignore the they have- and turn to some other. fact that God has not always fortunes and misfortunes of men and nations. It stands forever, So the Hindus, the Buddhists, spared His people from defeat in since it is founded on the eternal war and subjugation by the en- the Moslems, the Shintoists, the God. Defeat should not make us emy. He gave them victory when Christians, the Animists, and the lose faith in it; for its prophetic Atheists—with numerous sects in- they were true to Him; but often, utterances have foretold the very side all these—believe they have without rejecting them as His peo- defeats and disappointments it is the best religion, or at least the ple, He subjected them to utter now suffering. Thus, since this defeat and humiliation, that they best religion for them. It is also war is in fulfilment of divine a fact that millions every year are might learn from hard discipline prophecy, it strengthens our faith changing from one belief to an- the lessons they refused to learn in the religion of Jesus Christ. in an easier way! God rules in other as for various reasons they Christ has not failed. War and the kingdoms of men, but some- lose faith in former beliefs and persecution now for Christians are times He grants power, for a pur- seek new and better ones. but stronger proofs than ever that What is this war doing to relig- pose, to a nation that bids Him Christ's prophetic sermon on ion? defiance. Olivet (as recorded in Matthew That depends on the ideals for True Christianity does not de- 24) is particular truth for these which a religion stands. If a re- pend on the political and military times. MAY 1942 The MEANIN(

is making a train-load of tanks a day. and that the Americans are manufacturing five thousand planes a month, and are increasing their rate of production all the time. The world is shortly due such stupendous and element-rocking conflict as it has not yet dreamed of. Fateful Forty-two IT is now conceded by all par- ticipants in the present world cat- aclysm that this year will mark the climax of the fortunes of war. By far the most gigantic armed forces which the annals of war have ever E. N. P. recorded are this summer ready to The "Ark Royal," famous in British naval history, was sunk at last, but spring. Nations are staking their with glory. whole futures on one desperate cam- paign. German instructors have taught them Progress of the War Japan must gain a firm foothold all the Nazis have learned of the in Asia and the islands of the Pa- THE fan-wise sweep of the Japa- technique of sudden and smashing cific, or dislodgement and misfor- nese land, sea, and air forces con- offensives; that the devotion of the tunes will come fast to her this year. tinues unchecked. The Philippines, Japanese to their Emperor and their To rest on her laurels now would the Caroline Islands, New Guinea, destiny to rule Asia and the world be disastrous. Time is on the side Java, Sumatra, the Andamans, is extremely fanatical and self-sac- of her enemies. Burma, Ceylon, constitute, at the rificing. present writing, the front lines. It There is a growing sentiment in Germany must put Russia out of appears that only delaying actions Asiatic countries that the "stars in the fighting, and must gain more are being fought on all fronts to their courses" are fighting on the natural resources to supply her war stem the tide, except possibly in the side of the Japanese, that supernat- efforts, this year, or she will begin Australian sector; and we are not ural powers are giving victory to to weaken and will lose the pres- sure but what all is comparatively their arms, that fate is against the tige and power necessary to hold her quiet there because the enemy has democracies, and that we had better vast conquests. Crushing defeat chosen rather to concentrate on the bow to might in whomever we meet awaits Germany if she should he Indian Ocean and India. it, regardless of the principles for content to hold her own. How are the Japanese able to do which the conquerors make war. The victorious dictatorships must it? That is the question that is on Thus anti-Japanese morale has unite their forces somewhere, if they the lips of the world. Six months broken down. would conquer the world. Divided, ago the prospect of their accom- However, there is no reason to be they fall. Hence the probable ef- plishing their present finished feats superstitious or mystical about the fort this summer to meet and join was considered negligible. They present trend. The Japanese do not somewhere in southern or western have astonished and confounded the possess some magic, nor work some Asia. More and more it seems evi- military experts and prognosticators, charm, that is impossible to counter- dent that there is an axis grand plan and have flouted the propaganda- act. They are simply following to weld a Eurasian axis in India. wise. some well-defined and well-recog- Italy is out of the picture; and this Answers to the above question are nized tactics which, coupled with super-axis takes shape. Steel shafts many, and though all are not very willingness and even eagerness to of it are being pushed toward each convincing, all no doubt have been die for a cause, makes them in- other from the Far East and Russia. factors in the war achievements of vincible. When those who oppose It is the great task of the United the Nipponese. It is said that they them follow equally clever methods, Nations to see to it that this meet- have been years in preparing for have equal equipment and numbers, ing shall never be. Unprecedented this attack, with tremendous piling and can muster equal zeal and pa- efforts are being put forth to that up of armaments secretly at home triotism, their tide will begin to ebb. end. And the magnetism of the and with the clever work of their Democratic nations are loathe to grand strategy draws India into the "fifth columnists" in every country; make an all-out business of war. It crucible of the globe-encircling that they have more deadly and is entirely contrary to their concep- strife. more effective high explosives; that tion of human rights and privileges. they have disregarded all interna- But when pushed to it to defend India at the Crossroads tional limitations as to the conduct those rights and privileges, they are of war; that they are extremely capable of making a tremendous THE failure of the Cripps mission prodigal of the lives of their sol- showing of armaments. We are told to bring India together and to find diers, sailors, and aviators; that that one factory in the United States common ground on which the Brit- 2 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN ments into oneness in every respect, the leaders of the majority parties of EVENTS sincerely believe that they can be welded into a political unit. Other leaders are just as sincere and sure that they cannot he so united. Per- ish Government and Indian leaders haps a trial and the lapse of time could co-operate in the war effort can alone decide which is right and and establish a workable plan look- to what degree. ing toward self-government, is to be The British Government has with- deplored by all concerned. For drawn its offer. India is still di- both sides, it is a sad commentary vided, and at odds with the para- on the practicality of democratic mount power. And the enemy is at principles in time of emergency. its gates, may be within them be- But "the door is still open." At fore this appears in print. India least it is not locked. stands reluctant and hesitant at the With all our hearts we wish to forks of the road. It may go either see a united India with self-govern. way at its peril. But India is not ing power. The United States of alone in this state of dangerous un- America has demonstrated how a certainty. people with widely differing politi- cal, religious, and economic beliefs The whole world is bewildered can become a political unit, and and perplexed. Every nation and can prosper thereby. The British individual is being pushed to make Empire has shown that dominions decisions, fateful decisions that de- nearly poles apart can agree on com- termine their whole future. And mon sovereignty and still maintain they are ill equipped to make them. an independent democratic existence. For the banners of our former ideals are trailing in the dust. We We must admit, however, that are told that those principles for E. N. P. India is different. Though geo- which we were willing to live and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, noted graphically a unit, almost painfully die are not even worth fighting for. leader of free China, was a welcomed so because constricted in area for so Despotism is raining death from the visitor to India. large a population, there are racial, clouds, and we have been caught un- language, religious, cultural, and prepared in mind and body, and economic cleavages in India that are causes and pay less attention to the shelterless. We scramble wildly for symptoms. Let us humble our- deep and rutted. Without attempt- cover, the while wondering what all ing to merge all these diverse ele- selves before God, dear people. Let this means. Is everything going to us get back to simple living and to pieces, including our mental equi- faith in the God who rules over the Miss Mary Churchill, the Prime Min- librium? ister's daughter, practises a salute as nations. Obedience to the' ten com- she joins the military forces. We may as well face it squarely, mandments through the regenerat- E. N. P. and not be optimistic when there is ing power of the Son of God is our no basis for optimism, in so far as only escape from the destruction • the immediate future is concerned that threatens and engulfs us. and as to the possibility that any- Trust not in armies, air supremacy, thing more than an armistice will possession of natural resources, evolve from this war. The wind to majorities, treaties, luck, or to es- which the world is sowing now can- cape through deadening pleasure, not produce anything else but a sedative drugs, or complacency. Do whirlwind. Unfailing divine proph- the right, follow God's plan for man ecy has spoken unmistakably of as outlined in His Word, and ex- these times in the following lan- pect that these troubles are our lot guage: "In the last days perilous till the Son of God comes in the times shall come. For men shall be clouds of heaven to save those who lovers of their own selves, covetous, are His. • boasters, proud, blasphemers, dis- God's promises are just as sure obedient to parents, unthankful, un- as His prophecies. And the assur- holy, without natural affection, ances of His promises cover the ca- trucebreakers, false accusers, incon- tastrophes of His prophecies. To tinent, fierce, despisers of those that His humble follower He says, are good, traitors, heady, high- "Thou shalt not be afraid for the minded, lovers of pleasure more terror by night.....There shall no than lovers of God, having a form evil befall thee, neither shall any of godliness but denying the power plague come nigh thy dwelling." thereof." II Timothy 3:1-5. Psalm 91. His comforting and fear- We have found no better or more disarming promises may be mul- true description than this of the tiplied to hundreds. causes of the present chaos. And When our hearts fail us for fear, we will not remedy the disease till we turn to the grand old Book for we concentrate on and remove the sustaining strength and protection. A BOOK has recently been AMAZING R published in Bombay, India, en- titled "The Great Mystery of Life Beyond Death." The author of this book, Diwan Bahadur Hiralal L. Kaji, claims that its contents SPIRIT of ti were dictated to him from the other world by the late Sir Arthur By Gel Conan Doyle, who has been dead for a number of years. that will remove the doubts of Among other interesting things men on this point. Sir Arthur is reported to have said to Mr. Kaji, is that death, "Yama A few years ago, at a public Raj" (king of death), sends a meeting in Calcutta, a scientist of messenger to extract the soul from international fame spoke on the the body, helping on the work subject of the human survival, and with his "death ray." The lib- said that there was not any ade- erated soul stays on earth for ten quate evidence for the hope. He days, and is then handed over to said there was no reason to sup- a spirit of the "transport depart- A "spirit photograph" of Sir Arthur pose that any part of man's nature ment," who roughly drags him Conan Doyle, noted spiritist, and the survived the dissolution of his body away to the spirit world at the supposed picture of his dead son. at death. And he was, no doubt, rate of "one hundred miles per correct, for all man's learning has hour." It takes about ten days to be shortened a bit. On the other been ineffectual in removing the make this journey, and Sir Arthur hand, he does not seem to be great question mark that hangs complains that this is not enough pleased with conditions as he finds over the gates of death. time. Upon reaching a place them in the plane which he has So far as man is concerned it is called Patla, the departed soul re- reached; in fact, he says he is not impossible for him to answer these ceives a permit and enters at all pleased with things up questions. There is, however, one "Yama's" court for his trial. above. source to which we can go to find After considerable delay, due to adequate answers to the questions, the great accumulation of spirits Well, what is one to think of all What is man? Where did he awaiting attention, the soul is this? Is there any such thing as questioned by the court officials a separate, intelligent, thinking, come from? What is his nature, and pleaders. reasoning entity endowed with the and what becomes of him at death? This source is the Holy In the end, "Yama Rai" sums powers of sight and speech known as the "soul" which, according to Bible. In this wonderful book we up, and if the soul has done more have the story of the origin of man evil than good "gets wild with this story, leaves a man at death and proceeds to other worlds to as well as the beginning of every- rage," and pronounces sentence as thing pertaining to this world. follows: "Mr. X. has wasted all face judgment and reward? Is the time allotted to him. .. . the this thing, called the "soul," which In order for us to understand court orders him to remain on the is supposed to enter the human just what happens to a man at old plane. ...should present him- body at birth and leave it at death, death we must know how he was self after forty-one days for a new something that can be seen, made in the beginning. So let us, birth permit." handled, weighed, dissected, and in our imagination, go back to analysed like the liver or the lungs creation week and witness the Sir Arthur is further supposed of a person? to have said that the next world making of man. consists of seven planes, each Philosophers of all nations and God speaks, and "of the dust of plane having a presiding deity. of all times have taught that there the ground" a form is made and He himself had ascended to the was such a thing as a "soul" in lies before Him. It is the form of fifth at the time he was dictating man that is liberated at death, a man. It is perfect and com- this book, and before he finished and, further, that this soul is im- plete. All its parts and internal he was promoted to the sixth. Ac- mortal. Though this doctrine has organs are there. But it is lifeless. cording to Sir Arthur, the scheme been taught through the ages, The hands, the feet, the brain are of rebirths as held and taught by there is really no proof whatever there, but they are not acting. so many in this world is not at all that it is true. The philosopher The heart is ready to beat, but it satisfactory. He feels that eight may prove the existence and im- is not beating. The blood is there, or nine million rebirths are too mortality of the human soul to but is not flowing. There is no many, and recommends that all his own satisfaction and that of action, no thought, no memory, the spirits should "resort to col- numerous followers, but there is no no intelligence, no knowledge, or lective action and demand an al- actual proof whatever that it is any sight. This is so because there teration," so that the process could true, neither is there actual proof is no life. 4 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN In certain places the Bible ELATION BY speaks of death as a "sleep." "Consider and know me, 0 Lord my God; enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death." DEPARTED Speaking of the death of Lazarus at the time Jesus resur- rected him, He said, "Our friend I. Lowry Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Now a miracle takes place. Then said His disciples, Lord, if he Into the nostrils of this lifeless sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit form, God breathes the vital Jesus spake of his death: but they "breath of life." Immediately the thought that He had spoken of man is a "living soul." (See taking of rest in sleep. Then said Genesis 2.) Note that it was not Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus a "living soul" that was breathed is dead." into the form of man, but it was At death, then, one lies down the "breath of life" that was to sleep; at the resurrection he is breathed into him, and he became And Doyle's own photo, after he had awakened. Between death and a "living soul." It is the combina- died, appeared on the photo of a the resurrection there is an uncon- tion of the "body" and the woman who had never known him. But such photos can be faked. scious sleep. When one sleeps "breath of life" that makes the soundly he knows nothing about soul. things happening about him. He the body, the consciousness is de- As soon as the man became a also has no conception of the pass- stroyed. Therefore, there is no ing of time. When he awakens in "living soul," his heart began to consciousness, .neither can there be beat, his blood began to flow, his the morning after a good night's any consciousness, reasoning, nor sleep and rest, it seems to him but brain began to work; he began to' remembrance in death. think, to reason, and to speak. a moment since he said good-night These things all come about be- The thing that takes place at and went to sleep. So it is with cause the body now has life. death is simply this: Man ceases those who sleep the sleep of death. He was unconscious before the to exist. The body, whether burnt They are mercifully shut away "breath of life" came into the or buried, returns to the elements from the sorrows, perplexities, and body. Consciousness can exist from which it was taken. All troubles through which their only when the brain is working, physical functions of the body friends and loved ones are passing. and the brain can work only when cease, and the man is as if he had They sleep, peacefully sleep, and there is life in the body. never been. And thus he remains when they awake from their until his Creator calls him forth slumbers in the resurrection morn- Now let this process be reversed. at the time of the resurrection and ing, it will seem to them but a The man approaches the time once again unites the "breath of moment since they bade farewell when he is to die. The "breath life" with the elements once con- to their friends and lay down in of life" which was given to him stituting his body. their last long sleep. in the beginning is withdrawn. It goes back to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12 : 7), and the ele- ments of the body go back to the earth from which they were taken. THE FINALITY OF SIN The instant breath leaves the body, his heart ceases to beat; his blood ceases to flow; his brain By Robert Hare ceases to act; his power of thought is gone. There is no knowledge, reason, remembrance, or con- ASTRONOMERS sometimes in a sevenfold splendour, while the sciousness any more. What be- whisper that in 15,000,000 years moon is to be arrayed in sun gar- came of these qualities? Where our sun will have burned out all ments—floo,o oo times brighter have they gone? They have not its splendour, and will then roll as than she now wears. Isaiah 3o: gone anywhere. They simply a dark ball through infinite space. 26. cease to be. But the sun has done no wrong But these divine transformations As the consciousness depends that it should be thus smitten with take place that they may stand as upon the breath of life, and being decay. The divine prophet has an eternal memorial to the great united with the body, it follows painted quite a different picture fact that sin and its work are for- that when this union is broken up and told quite a different story. ever obliterated from the creation and the breath is separated from Some time the sun is to be robed of God. The "stroke of the MAY 1942 5 wound" of sin has been effectually This ruin and death do not fall of the inheritance given to man. healed, and forever. upon nature because it has sinned. "Behold, I make all things new," It is interesting to note that the Nature was subjected to frailty for is the divine decision, and nature first picture of our earth was a man's sake, for we read, "Cursed is to smile again. Revelation 2I : very beautiful one. All nature is the ground for thy sake." But 5. All things deranged and en- smiled and the Great Artist pro- nature is to be redeemed from her feebled by human sin will be re- nounced the "very good" benedic- bondage to corruption, and some stored. The capital city of that tion over His fair creation, while time brought into the glorious lib- new creation will be lighted by the glory of God. Then nature will "the morning stars sang together, erty of the children of God. clap her hands in a truer gladness and all the sons of God shouted for Romans 8 : 20-23. joy." Job 38 : 7. than even in the Eden days of Hence we have a fourth picture long ago. Soon after, that hateful thing known as sin came in and marred the vision of loveliness, breathed a pestilence of pain over all its beauty, and cast arrows of death NAILING to destroy. Then the prophetic pen had to write the word "de- filed" across the ledger of time, and the glory that had been, dis- DOWN a appeared. Isaiah 24 : 5. Today we walk in a land of pain and death. At least 70,000,000 of our fellowmen are LIE! said to be on beds of sickness, 2,000 diseases haunt the footsteps of humanity, and the earth has be- By H. G. Woodward come a great sepulchre where more than 4,020 are laid in the darkness every hour. The story IN A small cobbler's shop in Nail down that lie! of earth's defilement is a sad one, England, I noticed some years ago but true, for the glory has de- a number of base coins nailed to constantly having base coin foisted parted. the counter. I remember how im- upon us, so likewise, concerning Again the prophetic hand turns pressed I was with the honesty of religious matters, we are often the page, and the word "desola- the good man who plied his craft asked to accept as truth ideas tion" must be employed to meet there. In reply to my inquiry he which are utterly false and are the outlinings of the picture. It answered: "Oh yes, these base nothing but lies. is a world brought back to chaos coins have come into my hands A lie that should have been —a dead world from which all from time to time. How could I nailed down long ago is the one living forms, all light and sound, pass them on? The only thing to told in Eden. The Creator had have disappeared. Jeremiah 4: do with that which is false, is to made a perfectly plain statement 23-27. It is a world of broken nail it down!" to our first parents. They had cities, of withered vineyards, of My mind went back to a poem been placed in the beautiful gar- unsightly ruins, and of lifeless which I had learned in school, den of Eden, and the most delight- forms; a world where the dead lie years before, and the words came ful task had been given them of ungathered and unburied in dem- racing through my brain: tending it. Full liberty was theirs onstration of the great truth, "John Littlejohn was staunch to eat of the fruit of all the trees, "The wages of sin is death." and strong, with one exception. "And the Romans 6:23. Upright and downright, scorning Lord God commanded the man, Men have not been convinced wrong, saying, Of every tree of the garden concerning the reality of God's He gave good weight and paid thou mayest freely eat: but of the death sentence. To many death his way, tree of the knowledge of good and He thought for himself, and said appears as the beginning of life. his say. evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for Theology has thus taught, and Whenever a rascal strove to pass, in the day that thou eatest thereof millions believe the fabled teach- Instead of silver, money of thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2: ing rather than the Word of God. brass, 16, 17. But a dead world—dead for one He took his hammer, and said The record further tells us that thousand years—will surely be suf- with a frown, our first parents did eat of the for- ficient to convince the universe " 'The coin is spurious, nail it bidden fruit, and thereby became that the divine sentence concern- down.' " subject to death. In other words, ing death is a reality. Jeremiah Just as in our financial dealings they forfeited immortality and be- 25:32, 33. with people in this land, we are gan to die. 6 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN It was evidently soon afterward Luke 23:52-56; 24:1. That the fore we are buried with Him by that the author of all evil tried to early apostles and, later, the apos- baptism into death : that like as pass on to the mother of us all tle Paul continued this practice, is Christ was raised up from the the first lie of which we read in proved from the Bible time and dead by the glory of the Father, the Bible. For in the form of a time again. How does it so hap- even so we also should walk in beautiful serpent Satan appeared pen, then, that so many millions of newness of life." Romans 6:4. to Eve with a flat denial of the the followers of Jesus Christ in all plain statement of God. Said good conscience believe that Sun- As we watch the innocent babe Satan: "Ye shall not surely die." day is the Christian Sabbath? sprinkled with a few drops of water, we are sadly reminded of Genesis 3:4. If ever there was a It can only be accounted for by lie that should have been nailed the inappropriateness of the oc- the fact that all unknowingly they casion. Such a mode was un- down, it was that one. But the have accepted a lie; a lie that pity of it is that it has been handed known in the Apostolic church. should have, long ago, been nailed Dr. Philip Schaff, the great Bib- on from age to age and still down by the Christian church as flourishes in the Christian church. lical scholar, declared: "There can a base coin. be no doubt that immersion and If upon man has been passed That such a change was con- not sprinkling was the original nor- the sentence of death, how can it trary to the wish of Christ, He mal form of baptism."—"Church be said that he has immortality? makes abundantly clear to us. History," page 488. "The wages of sin is death." Says He: "Think not that I am Romans 6:23. If, then, man is come to destroy the law,. .. . I am Dean Stanley, the brilliant now subject to death, he cannot not come to destroy, but to fulfil. scholar and clergyman of the be in any way immortal. God For verily I say unto you, Till Church of England, tells us that alone hath immortality. I Timo- heaven and earth pass, one jot or for thirteen centuries the almost thy 6:15, 16. one tittle shall in no wise pass universal mode by which baptism Immortality is the gift which from the law, till all be fulfilled." was administered was by im- Christ will confer upon His re- Matthew 5:17, 18. mersion. He says that with cer- deemed ones at His second ad- The famous Dr. R. W. Dale tain few exceptions "the whole of vent. Matthew 16:27. Millions was honest enough to admit this, the Western churches have now of good Christian people have for he says: "The Sabbath was substituted for the ancient bath been taught that their dear de- founded on a specific, divine com- the ceremony of letting fall a few parted ones are now more alive mand. We can plead no such drops of water on the face."— than they have ever been. But the command for the observance of "Christian Institutions," page 22. Bible amply proves this to be ut- Sunday." So, in conforming to With evidence so conclusive we terly false, for it says, "The dead the custom of Sunday-keeping, we cannot remain in doubt. Baptism know not anything." Ecclesiastes are passing a base coin. Let us by sprinkling or the sign of the 9:5. rather determine to have no more cross is spurious; it is a base coin In the light of these and many to do with such a lie, but rather and should be nailed down. other scriptures, it can be well un- "nail it down." It is a matter of no surprise that derstood why it was that Christ Still another lie has Lucifer such lies have been insidiously referred to death as a sleep. John foisted upon the all-too-unsuspect- pressed upon us. They have come II :II, 13. When therefore we ing church, and that is the matter from Satan. It was of him that are told that our dear departed of baptism. This beautiful ordi- Jesus said: "When he speaketh a dead are more alive than we are, nance has so many lessons to teach lie, he speaketh of his own: for that they are enjoying immortality, us which are quite obscured if it he is a liar, and the father of it." we know that it cannot be so. It is administered in a way contrary John 8:44. Why then be willing is a lie that should be nailed down. to the plain teaching of the Scrip- to follow the path of falsehood? Another lie which needs nail- tures. "It is a gospel ordinance How much better to spurn all un- ing down is that which says that commemorating the death, burial, truth and refuse to pass on base the God-appointed day of rest has and resurrection of Christ. In coin? been abrogated and the first day baptism public testimony is given of the week substituted. But that to the effect that the one baptized "Whenever the world our eyes can be easily disproved. No well- has been crucified with Christ, would blind informed Christian would think of buried with Him, and is raised With false pretenses of any kind, denying the fact that at the end with Him to walk in newness of Withbigoyhumblingtr, or cant or of creation week the seventh day life. Only one mode of baptism was set apart as the Sabbath. can rightly represent these facts of Or a specious sham philosophy; With wrong dressed up in the And that Christ kept this day holy experience, and that is immersion guise of right, none can dispute. —the mode followed by Christ And darkness passing itself for An unbiased reading of the and the primitive church."— light gospel record makes it perfectly "Bible Readings for the Home Let us imitate John, and exclaim clear that the holy women con- Circle," page 65. with a frown, tinued to observe the Sabbath This truth is stated by the apos- `These coins are spurious, nail after the death of their Lord. tle Paul when he says: "There- them down." MAY 1942 7 11 Ninety-nine per cent of the IT The Church Times of London de- world's people use cotton. clares that "more than a thousand English churches" have been "de- 11 In Stockholm, Sweden, a bakery is stroyed or seriously damaged" since using the alcoholic vapours from the aerial blitz over England began. fermenting bread dough to operate ¶ Nylon bristles, introduced in its fifty delivery trucks. 1938, will go into 45 per cent of all toothbrushes produced this year. IT The Palestine government has im- Already more than 95 per cent of posed an income tax on the Holy toothbrush handles are made of Land for the first time since the plastics. days when Biblical tithe was the law of the land. ¶ Pickles are so insistently de- IT Whisky drinking has fallen off manded by the British army, navy, among Britons. Distillers have cur- air force. and civilian public that tailed their supplies for home con- several thousand acres of land are sumption, reducing them to 65 per being planted this year with onions, cent of pre-war stocks. Whisky ex- garlic, mustard, gherkins, red cab- ports to the United States, which are bage. and cauliflower. yielding millions of pounds for the British war chest, are not affected. In Palestine scientists are work- however. ing on a method of manufacturing explosives from orange peel, reports 11 Members of the International Red Dr. Walter J. Fischel, of the He- Cross, in accordance with an agree- brew University there. He also ment made among the nations in states that a new chemical wrapper 1929, regularly visit the camps of has greatly reduced spoilage in ship- interned civilians and captured sol- V. K. Vasudevan ping fruit from Palestine to Britain. diers in warring countries to see that In South Indian villages the Hindu conch blower blows his conch at day- 11 A chocolate bar which the soldier the prisoners are receiving the break on auspicious days. proper quantity and quality of food, can carry in his pocket is being is- medical care, and payment for sued by the American Army as an labour. emergency ration. The bar con- tains oat flour, which keeps it from 11 The discovery of a new kind of EVERY melting. The new candy bar, which glass which is giving American mili- required a year and a half of re- tary aviation improved aerial photo- search to perfect, is "fortified with graphs has been announced by vitamin B complex and milk solids Eastman Kodak Company. The LAND to balance the new field-ration C, glass is made without silica, a fact which consists of three tins of meat as strange as steel made without and vegetable mixture and three tins iron. The result is glass which If The oldest record of physicians containing biscuits, soluble coffee, bends the light more than has hither- blaming bodily ailments on bad sugar, and candy." to been possible. Applied to a teeth is in an Assyrian manuscript cameria lens, this new "eye," with- of the seventh century B.C. 11 London has now swept up all the out reducing speed, will photograph bricks, glass, wood, and stone a wider area and give a sharper II Australian universities are short- strewn on the streets during the win- picture. ening their medical courses,- in re- ter air raids. One can "number on 11 The largest order for foreign-lan- sponse to urgent request for ad- one's fingers the thoroughfares still guage Bibles ever received recently ditional doctors for the United King- blocked by bomb craters," says the came to the American Bible Society dom and India. New York Times. Patches of new in New York. It came from the pavement almost everywhere mark British and Foreign Bible Society ¶ The continent of Africa,. covers the spots where not long ago were of London, which, hampered in approximately 12,000,6a0 square yawning holes, mounds of sticky yel- their publication program by the miles, and includes nearly one low clay, and tangled wires and war, has ordered 1,000,000 Por- fourth of the land surface of the pipes. The bombed buildings have tuguese Gospels for Brazil. The earth. Its population is estimated been cleaned out, and beams shore United States is the principal source at about 160,000,000 up the walls of the houses on each of supply of Bibles or portions of side and sometimes in front. Many the Book for war prisoners in Eu- ¶ One of the fastest-growing or- empty, staring windows are being rope. The American Bible Society. ganisms in the vegetable kingdom is patched with wood, tin, and beaver- through its War Emergency Fund, is the "veil" of the wild South Ameri- board, but more of them are being trying to save not only the work of can mushroom, Dictyophora in. bricked up for protection against the British Society. but also that of dusiata. After attaining its full future raids. There has been no at- the Netherlands Society and the visible growth of four inches within tempt to reconstruct bombed struc- French Society. These agencies are two hours, this mushroom develops tures, though plans are being laid unable to serve their far-flung and a lacy, flowing "veil," or cloak, to do so. All present activity aims large constituencies at the present which virtually covers it within to tidy up the city and strengthen time. thirty minutes. its resistance. 8 THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN