Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 7

SEGRAVE REACHES 1., FORSPEED TRY British Racer Will Drive Car Built Like Airplane in Quest of Record. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 7.—Deter- mined to regain for England the world speed record for automobiles, Ma). H. O. D. Segrave has arrived in country with a car patterned after cing airplane. He was the first man cver to drive an automobile faster than 200 miles an hour, but_his record was. broken last | April by Ray Keech, an American, who drove a machine at 207.55 miles an hour. Although Maj. Segrave has never tried out his new machine, named the | Golden Arrow, he is confident he will be able to make at least 230 miles an hour. The race against time will t place in March on the sand at Day tona, Fla., where the other races were held! The Golden Arrow was designed by Capt. J. S. Irving, who also designe the Sunbeam, the car in which Ma Segrave made an official speed of 203.59 | miles an hour. The Golden Arrow is | built on the lines of the British planc | S-5, which won for Great Britain the | last Schneider Cup races with a speed\ of 286.4 miles an hour. A driving sight enables the car to be| aimed as a large gun is sighted. A | black line is drawn along the hood to where the radiator cap ordinarily | would be. Here is a sight through which Maj. Segrave will watch a at light at the end of the run. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 7.—Treat- ments for typhoid fever, pneumonia and rheumatism, widely used by coun- try folk, native races and unlicensed medicine men, but regarded as value- | less by most of the medical profession, | have been established on a scientific basis, according to the report of an ex- | tensive investigation made public by | | Flower Hospital. The old wives’ remedies have qual- | ities of merit, it is revealed, along with | native African and Chinese physicians and the sages of remote rural districts in this country and Europe. The most striking hit scored by un- | scientific medicine was in the case of n extract of wild indigo. This is used natives in many parts of the world dy for typhoid fever and other It was used to scme extent by the medical profession, but generally fell into disfavor, except with some homeopathists. Dr. Linn J. Boyd, professor of medi- ine at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, who has for three years been carrying on this research in the field of unscientific medicine at Flower Hospital, used rabbits in a test of the miles an_hour, respectively. It will consume 70 galions of special fuel per hour. The driver will be strapped in his seat, which is inclosed with a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929 HOME REMEDY TYPHOID CURE WINS SCIENTISTS' APPROVAL Some Treatments Used by Country Folks and Primitive Races Are Found to Have Merit. \llue of baptisia in typhoid fever. k a solution containing nine parL- water and one part blood serum from rabbits and used this on a culture of the typhoid fever organisms. This, he found, had no effect whatever on the disease parasites. Then he fed bap- tisia to the rabbits. The serum from the rabbits, which had eu'en the drug, | immediately caused the “clumping” of the typhoid bacilli. Under the microscope it was seen that they came together and formed bunches, an indication that an anti- typhold agent was present in the serum. In dilutions of one part of the serum of the drugged rabbit to 160 parts of water the solution was effective in caus- | in the “clumping” of the bacilli, which is followed by their death. Works Similarly to Vaccine. No other agent except anti-typhoid vaccine is known to have a similar ef- fect on the typhoid bacilll. The chem- istry of this mction has not been worked out, but the experiment has raised the baptisia treatment from backwoods lore to scientific medicine. ‘The results of the experiment have been placed before musical societies and the juice of the wild indigo root is being giveh in Flower Hospital and elsewhere to typhoid patients. ‘Thousands of rabbits and other animals were used in researches on other old home remedies and drugs quarter-inch steel plate to protect him used by aboriginal peoples. Nineteen from wind. The car is 27.8 feet long|out of 20 were found to be useless or of the world for pneumonia, was tested with surprisingly good results. This was bryonia, an extract from a wild hop plant. The medical profession had tried it, but found it wanting, and it had been dropped from the pharmacopoeia. The germs causing pneumonia cannot be “clumped” like the typhoid bacilli, and some other technique had to be used. Pneumonia was induced in scores of rabbits by injecting the germs into their lungs. The dose given killed four out of five of the rabbits which did not receive the bryonia treatment. But, of the rabbits which were treated with bryonia, only two out of five died. “That cannot be interpreted as mean- ing that bryonia will have a similar percentage of successes in saving hu- man beings suffering from pneumonia,” said Dr. Boyd, “but it seems to indicate that the lay people and the compara- tively few physicians who used this remedy had some justification. Found Many Valuable Drugs. “The basis for our investigation is | the fact that among primitive peoples everybody is more or less of a physi- lclan, It is an instinct to fight dis- | ease. They tried this, that and the other thing. When you shoot with a scattergun a few bullets will hit the target. ‘The primitive people hit on many valuable drugs, most of which have been taken over by standard medi- cine. They also patronize magic and all kinds of useless remedies. But where we find native tribes in different parts various different nations all using the same herb or treatment for the same disease it is a pretty fair chance that they have hit on something valuable.” The bee-sting remedy for rheumatism, or arthritis, has also been vindicated in the course of these researches. The poison sacs were removed from some bees and their contents analyzed. It was strongly indicated that formic acid was the substance which makes the bee's stinger sting. Instead, there- fore, of keeping bees on hand and in- ducing them to attack arthritic pa- Another home remedy, now under study, is the “pleurisy root,” otherwise known as the butterfly weed and as the of the world or the country people of | a marked effect on the respiratory ap- paratus. Fool's parsley was a failure. This has a reputation in country districts in New York State and in other parts of the country for its supposed power to kecv the baby quiet. It is considered a s = ereign remedy in stomach complainis | and other troubles of infants. Dr. Bo: made endless experiments with fool arsley, but could not discover that it gad any effect whatever. Other scientists, following on the trail of illiterate natives, have found several other valuable remedies within | recent. years. The medical profession now thanks the Chinese coolie for a valuable treatment for asthma. This is a drug obtained from a plant called ephedra vulgaris, which has been in use among the Chinese for several thousand years. It received no scien- tific recognition, however, until Dr. Chen and Dr. Schmidt investigated it at Pekin College from 1923 to 1926. They found it a powerful agent in rais. ing the blood pressure and useful in asthma and in certain conditions of the circulation. The drug myrtillin, introduced re- cently into the United States by Dr. Frederick M. Allen of the Morristown Institute, for use in ceriain cases of diabetes, came from peasants in the Alp regions, who used blueberry leaves for diabetes. An Austrian professor | became interested, and his studies con- | vinced him that Alplne peasants had a | valuable drug. Though less sensational | than insulin in its effects, this remedy | is now widely used for diabetes. treatment of paresis by inoculating t sufferer with malaria, which has be: introduced into many hospitals favorable reports, is also due to an Austrian professor, who made a scien- a legend of the lnlty Vergil cny Discovered. Buthrotum, the mysterious city men- tioned by Vergil, has finally been founa in Northern Albania by Italian schol- ars. Relics that date back to the bronze age have been unearthed on the site, | ) together with baths, statues and other | evidences of Greek and Roman times, | Bag Gold COFFEE Good With Every Meal Congqueror Stringless Beans . . Vise Lima Beans .......... Safety First Peas. Hunters Sweet Corn. . . . .. HOSTES Libby's or Boston Cream deniermaatons IS RORIRIEEN . . .k eanlsc e ane .. 10¢ .™39c|go4 BUTTER ............™57c 3 vk~ 25¢ Cooked Hominy ...... * 10c large bottle Zac Brewer Snyder’s Snyder’s Ketchup. . ... . Gare Cookies . . . . 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