JANUARY 1971 FIEAL.TH 'FRE ART OF HEALING by A DOCTOR E are living in an age of machines, be they First of all let us consider the relevent "built-in motor cars, washing machines, or even sewing self-care and self-repair devices" with which we w machines. The list could be continued on and propose you should co-operate. We can here deal with on, but whatever may be the direction or the extent only the more obvious of these; for one has only to of the mechanization of our particular home, we very recall the massive tomes dealing with anatomy and soon learn that we must take care of our machines or physiology which every doctor must study, to realize else they won't work. It may be no more than a little the limitations imposed by the necessary brevity of cleaning, or oiling, or the adjustment of a nut, screw this article. or bolt that is necessary, but if we want the machine Machine Maintenance to work for us properly, sooner or later we have to give it the needed attention. Looking at the back of my hand I see the veins By far the most wonderful, the complicated which stand out and remind me of the blood stream machine we have to deal with is the human body— which courses ceaselessly throughout my body. Blood, our own bodies. We wish to stress those last three as we commonly know it, seems to be a red fluid but words, our own bodies, because each one of us should is in fact of itself colourless. The redness is provided in the first instance be the one to take steps to keep by the countless millions of red corpuscles which the his own particular body-machine in proper working blood carries along. These red corpuscles may be re- order. garded as small envelopes carrying supplies of oxygen One of the very wonderful details of the body- to every part of the body, through the arterial system machine is the fact that it is equipped with what on the "outward" journey, and through the venous might be described as built-in self-care and self-repair system on the "return" journey, the "used" oxygen devices; and our own personal contribution to this (carbon dioxide) going back to the lungs for replace- care and repair department is sensible co-operation n_ent. They are of profound importance. with those built-in devices. As well as the red corpuscles which give the Let us digress briefly to draw attention to those blood its characteristic colour there are also white words sensible co-operation because they should re- corpuscles, much less numerous, but also very im- mind us of the immeasurable difference between our portant. They are of different kinds, and of one human bodies and those of any other living creatures. group we read: " . the amceboid cells inhabiting We refer here to our possession of minds capable of my blood and lymph crawl about over and through thinking, investigating, reasoning, remembering, and the membranes limiting the fluid channels in the our purpose in this article is to assist you in applying body. They catch and digest particles. Should I get your minds in the matter of the care and repair of a wound they contribute to its healing. They give your body-machine. To page 33 HERALD OF HEALTH, JANUARY 1971 CLIPP.ItiGSan - COMMENTS deQta' HEALTH Of Bulgaria's eight million peo- Vol. 48, No. 1 January 1971 ple, 426 are above the age of 100. This puts Bulgaria in the first rank in Europe in the relative num- ber of its centenarians. They come Editor: JOHN M. FOWLER, M.A., M.S. mainly from large families of be- tween four and nine children. Of the centenarians, fifty-eight per MEDICAL CONSULTANTS cent are women. These figures I. R. Bazliel, Ex-Maj., I.M.S. Yawalkar, M.B.B.S., D.V.D., M.D. have emerged from studies under- C. A. Ninan, M.B., F.R.C.S., Ed. Elizabeth J. Hiscox, M.D. taken by the Centre of Geron- K. A. Paulsen, M.R.C.P., D.C.H. R. M. Meher-Homji, B.D.S. tology, in Sofia. Oral poliomyelitis vaccines are among the safest of live vaccines ARTICLES in use, concluded a WHO Scien- tific Group after examining the re- The Art of Healing A Doctor 2 sults of administering 370 million Low Back Pain Mary Catherine Noble, R.N., R.P.T. 5 doses, which led to less than ninety Rheumatic Fever Clifford R. Anderson, M. D. 7 polio cases. The Weather Affects Us All David Bowen 10 The sharp decline in polio as a Heart Transplants—I Walter Froehlich 11 result of the vaccination cam- Physical Fitness Selected 12 paigns, begun in 1955 with Salk How to Relax—I Clarence W. Dail, M. D. 14 vaccine and continued after 1959 Capsule Rules for Happiness Selected 17 with live attenuated polio vaccines, represent an achievement un- Pain in the Joints—I William T. Gibb, M.D. 18 paralleled in the control of any Tonsils Are in Fashion Edith Lahr 21 other disease by vaccination, the Is Breakfast Important? 7. A. Saxon and Dorothea Jones 22 group noted. Hair Care Vee Picton 24 Why People Still Smoke? Harold Shryock, M. D. 26 Newly developed by a New The Fox and the Grapes Edward W. H. Vick 36 Zealand University of Canterbury professor, a pair of spectacles FEATURES enables a blind person to pick up sound waves from objects and thus avoid bumping into them. The Clippings and Comments .. 3 Guest Editorial 4 glasses have three tiny receivers Your Radio Doctor 7 The Doctor Advises 29 fitted onto them which transmit Household Hints 31 Little People 32 signals through the arms to small Medicine Today 35 tubes fitted into the wearer's ears. 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What I have done I have done with a group of young, dedicated scientists from more than Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the architect of 25 countries. Many of them played an active the Green Revolution which is transforming role. If anything, I have only supplied a little India and many other developing countries in spark." Asia, Africa and Latin America from food im- As he said this, Dr. Borlaug pointed to porters to self-sufficiency, has been awarded some of the scientists with him including Dr. the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. S. Rajaram and Dr. George Varughese of The Green Revolution is the development India. and application largely in the developing Dr. Borlaug's search for high yielding countries, of the new high-yield cereals— cereal strains began twenty-five years ago. wheat, rice and maize, and also sorghums, The breakthrough came .. in 1953 when he millets, potatoes and grain legumes—leading selected some obscure but extremely short to bumper harvests and adequate food for the north Japanese wheat varieties for his experi- majority of mankind. ments. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize The "dwarfs" were interbred with Mexi- to Dr.