Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1929, Page 28

THE FRENGH PHYSICIANS ARE HERE ON TOUR Latest Improvements in Med- | ical and Surgical Methods | Studied. With the purpose of studying the | Iatest improvements in surgical and | medical methods in this country, three | prominent French doctors, J. M. Le Mee of the Necker Hospital and Ameri- can Hospital of Paris; Andre Bloch of | the Bretonneau Hospital and Jean | Dalsace of the Saint Antoine Hospital | of Paris, have arrived in the United States and are at the Hotel May- flower. | The official tour of the medical men, | which is being made under the direc- | tion of the French minister of labor | and health, will start from Washing- | ton, to which city they have come to present, credentials to the French Am- | bassador. Expects to Collect Data. A visit is expected to be made by | Dr. Jean Dalsace, gynecologist, to the | Children’s Bureau, Department of | Labon, where he expects to gather in- formatlon and statistics on the work | being carried on by that department | in improving maternity conditions | among women throughout various sec- tions of the country. Drs. Le Mee and Bloch, nose and throat specialists, are particularly in- | terested in the work being done in the United States in the successful treat- ment of diseased tonsils. Tonsilectomys Left to right: Drs. Andre Bloch, J. M. Le Mee and Jean Dalsace. —Star Staff Photo. are not so common in France as they are in this country, it was stated by Dr. Bloch, although the value of re- moving infected tonsils by surgical methods is rapidly becoming recog- nized. WILBUR SUGGESTS ARMY Will Visit Other Cities. PFrom Washington, the visitors will to Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Rochester and Boston, where they will visit the important medical centers of the country and confer with medical thorities. 4 .uDr. Le Mee states that one of the most important missions of their visit is the arrangement with American medical societies for an exchange of moving picture films, in which the latest surgical methods of both coun- tries are being demonstrated. A series of colored medical moving pictures is now being prepared in France-under the direction of French medical men. This is the first visit of Dr. Bloch and Dr. Dalsace to the United States, but Dr. Le Mee has been on two prior visits, one in 1927 and one in 1925. & it e A Chicago manufacturer has in his office suite two bed rooms, two baths, & kitchen and a living room. of Alaska to Search for. Pilot. Secretary Wilbur yesterday suggested to the War Department that active steps be taken for an Army expedition to rescue Lieut. 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Address Box 125.E, Star-Office Enjoy the World’s Finest Heating Equipment at a Genuine 10-Year Written Guarantee Completely Installed No Cash Down SEND PARTY FOR EIELSON | Secretary Gets Plea From Citizens | the Government give assistance to the search with planes suitable for long cruising. Elelson was lost over three weeks ago while making his sixth trip from Teller, Alaska, to the Siberian Coast, where he had been engaged in bringing the crew from a stranded ship. Couple Shot to Death. ITALY, Tex., December 7 (#).—Ace Riley and his wife were found shot to death and a son wounded, probably fa- tally, in their farm home near the Lone Cedar - Community, 4 miles from here, today. The bodies and the wounded | C. man were found by a relative, who told officers he walked 13 miles to the home of other relatives to inform them of the shooting. The relative was ordered held. NEAR WINNING WAR ON WHITE PLAGUE Purification of Test Sub- stance and Finer Mechan- ism Lead Toward Conquest. Steady, step-by-step pi ess is be- ing made toward the eventual conquest of tuberculosis. With little expectation of a sudden, sensational discovery of a specific for this dreaded malady, the research com- mittee of the National Tuberculosis As- soclation, working quietly and labor- iously on some of the obscure tors of disease, have made two important | advances during the year, according to | Dr. Willlam Charles White. | _Dr. White, former chairman of the | medical division of the National Re- | search Council, is chairman of this | committee composed of medical scient- | Ists connected with various universities and research laboratories throughout the | country. The committee is attacking the | problem at its roots, convinced that the only practical procedure is to un- | cover every possible fact concerning the disease and then to correlate these facts. This has led them to delve deeply into the obscure chemistry of the human body. The first of the two discoveries an- | nounced officially by Dr. White is that tuberculin, the substance used in the test for detecting tuberculosis in human beings as well as cattle, has been re- duced to absolute purity. It now can be supplied wholly free from other sub- stances which effect the accuracy of the tests. ‘This purification process, Dr. White reports, was worked out by Dr. Esmond R. Long and Dr. Florence B. Seibert of the University of Chicago. It will make the possibility of exact diagnosis of tuberculosis much more exact than heretofore, especially in the examination of children. New Testing Mechanism. The second achievement was the dis- covery of a wholly new mechanism for testing for the presence of tuberculosis. This renders the detection possible within three or four days after infec- tion instead of an average of two months afterward, as has been the case in the past. This was accomplished by Drs. Florence R. Sabin, C. A. Doan and 3 Forkner of the Rockefeller Insti- tute for Medical Research. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., DECEMBER Foe of White Plague DR. WILLIAM CHARLES WHITE. moved from this and the remaining serum diluted and placed in a test tube containing one of the fatty fractions of the tubercule germ, known &s phos- phatide. If the patient has tubercu- losis, there will be a precipitate, but if the disease is not present, nothing will happen. ‘This new test will also be used in distinguishing between cases of meningitis which are tuberculous and those which are not, something which science has been unable to do in the early stages of the disease, ‘The selentific, as distinguished from the more practical, importance of both these discoveries is due to the not gen- erally understood fact that germs actu- ally breathe. Like all other living things, these microscoplc organisms must breathe to live, and if the ele- ment in which they are adapted to secure a suitable supply of the breath of life could be so changed, without corresponding injuries in other direc- tions, to make it impossible for them to breathe, science might be close to a reliable cure for one of the most dread- ed of human diseases. This still in- volves much bio-chemical research. “The baclllus of tuberculosis,” says Dr. White, “must enter a certain cell in the body known as the monocyte or it is harmless. It must continue to live there. Not all tuberculosis germs succeed in doing that. Just why some are able to establish this alliance for This new test, says Dr. White, util- izes & small quantity of the blood of the patient. _The red corpuscles are re- the destruction of man while others fail is the pivotal question which has not yet been fully answered. The re- 1929—PART ONE search workers are accumulating a mul- titude of detailed facts in their labora- tories out of which that answer may be expected to come, Same Respiration Rate. “We know that germs of the same strain have the same respiration rate and are uniform in their affinity for, or repugnance to, certaln monocytes. But germs of different strains, having dif- ferent respiration rates, may differ un- der like conditions. So research in- vestigations are trying to upset the un- happy marriage of some germs and some monocytes by altering their res- piration rates and so rendering them in- compatible.” Frequent cures are announced for tuberculosis, but in nearly every case these have fallen down under rigid sci- entific tests, foreing research workers to go deeper and deeper into the ob- scure, fundamental mechanism of the disease. Different - leads are followed to their ultimate conclusions. This ex- tensive laboratory work is financed by the annual sale of Christmas seals throughout the country. 7 | _Dr. White will report on the advances made toward the conquest of tubercu- losis at the annual meeting of the American Assoclation for the Advance- ment of Science at Des Moines next month, The so-called “chemical jury” of the Tesearch committee which established the base line for these studies includes Dr. Allen K. Krause of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Esmond R. Long, Univer- sity of Chicago: Drs. Eugene L. Ople, H. R. M, Landis and Charles J. Hat- field of Henry Phipps Institute, Prof. Treat B. Johnson, Yale University; Prof. Hans Zinseer of Harvard Medical School, Prof. John J. Abel, Johns Hog- kins Medical School; Prof. A. N. Rich- ards, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Linsly R. Willlams of the National Tuberculosis Association and Dr. White. VETERANS TO ELECT. Admiral E. Peary Ship Unit Plans Annual Ball Featured by the election of 1930 offi- cers, the Admiral E. Peary Ship Unit, No. 427, Veterans of Foreign. Wars, will meet at the Soldiers, Sailors and Ma- rines’ Club, Eleventh and L streets, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The first annual ball of the unit will be held at the Elks’ Ball Room, 919 H street December 20. Tickets may be obtained from Communication Officer C. Jackson, 1507 White place southeast. S Mazatlan, Mexico, is to have an ath- letic tournament next Summer, and base ball, basket ball, volley ball, box- ing, tennis and other sports will be featured. EX-WIFE OF PRINCE TO WED ARMY FLYER Ceremony Is to Take Place in Washington. By the Associated Press. Sgl;eckles. former wife of Prince Suad Chakir of Turkey, has become engaged to marry Lieut. Rogers Alan Gardner, young Army aviator, in spite of oppo- sition on the part of the officer’s family. ‘The newspaper asserted that opposi- tion to the match because of the dis- parity in age and because of Mrs. Spreckles' previous marriages had caused the transfer of Gardner from Crissy Field here to Langley Field, Va. Gardner is 27 years old, raving been graduated from West Point in 1925. San Francisco is his home. Mrs. Spreckles was reported to have left here scon after Gardner's transfer, informing friends that she was going to marry the lieutenant in Washing- ton, D. C. The newxan:r sald Mrs. Spreckles checked out of her apartment here 10 days ago and that her mother had said she was out of the city and would not return until after Christmas. Sidi Wirt, a native of Kansas, first married Harry Willams, an advertising man. This marriage ended in a divorce. Later she became the wife of John D. Spreckles, jr., San Prancisco millionaire, who was killed in an automobile acci- dent several years ago. She met Prince Suad during a visit to the Near East and they were married in 1923, MAN WITHOUT INCOME IS SUED FOR ALIMONY By the Assoclated Pres CHICAGO, December 7.—Her hus- band’s money being in her mother-i; law's name promises to make Mrs. Pet- rolinia Deutsch’s alimony claim against Jay B. Deutsch intricate of collection. Deutsch was cited in Circuit Court yesterday for contempt of court, hav- ing failed to pay alimony. He told Judge Lynch he had no income, al- though he is president of the Auto- matic Industries, Inc. All stock in the corporation is held by his mother, he saild, and he lives on what she gives him. The secretary of the corporation testified that, so far Ms the company {ecord.s show, Deutsch works for noth- ng. Judge Lynch continued the case. Mrs. Deutsch asks $2,000, representing back alimony for five and one-half months. 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