IN THIS ISSUE 
Rural Serenity 
P. A. Raju 
40th Year of Publication 
October 1949 
The Oriental Watchman and Herald of 
A MAGAZINE FOR HEALTH HOME AND HAPPINESS 
WHAT TO DO FOR SINUSITIS 
THE CASE OF THE MENTALLY-ILL 
CHILD 
BUILDING UP VITAL RESISTANCE 
PREPARING YOUR FOOD 
HEALTHY HAIR 
WE MUST BREATHE 
OSTEO-ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULAR 
RHEUMATISM 
RECIPES 
DOCTOR SAYS 
CHILDREN'S STORIES 
KING AND QUEEN AT PAKISTAN 
PARTY. London: Seen at an evening 
party given by the Pakistan High Com-
missioner at Lowndes Square, West 
London. Here are, left to right: The 
Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of 
Gloucester, Begum Rahimtoola, the King, 
the Queen, an unidentified guest, the 
High Commissioner for Pakistan H. E. 
Habib Rahimtoola, and Britain's Prime 
Minister, Clement Attlee. 
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BRITAIN WELCOMES VIKING IN- 
VADERS. Broadstairs, Kent, England: 
Fierce, bearded Vikings, horned helmets 
gleaming above cerise robes, "invaded" 
the coast of Britain once again when 
they leapt ashore here in a 20th cen-
tury representation of the original land-
ing by their forefathers 1,500 years ago. 
The Norsemen had rowed and sailed 
their dragon-prowed craft "Hugin" 
front Denmark. Photo Shows: Holiday-
makers swarm down the Broadstairs 
(Kent) beach to welcome the "Hugin" 
as she drives ashore. 
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INDIA RECEIVES ANOTHER BRIT-
ISH WARSHIP. Portsmouth, England: 
Ti-e Indian High Commissioner in Lon-
don, Mr. Krishna Menon, received the 
warship "Rajput," formerly H. M. S. 
"Rotherham," which has been handed 
over to the Royal Indian Navy. Admiral 
of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis, Com-
mander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, performed 
the handing-over ceremony. Photo 
Shows: A general view of the bantling-
over ceremony as the White Ensign is 
lowered aboard the "Rajput." 
W.N.P.S. 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EDITORIAL 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PROVE ALL THINGS 
WHEN one has been very sure that 
he knows a thing and when 
his actions have been based on that 
assurance, and he is suddenly made 
aware that he has been wrong and 
that consequently much of his actions 
and conduct have been misdirected, 
there is not only the feeling of 
chagrin, but frequently the sense of 
loss sustained for lack of knowledge 
of that which is reality. 
But in certain circumstances the 
consequences may be more serious 
than only the feeling of chagrin. Be-
cause of feeling sure without having 
knowledge, travellers have often 
proceeded along the wrong road, lost 
time and missed important appoint-
ments. For the same reason business 
men have misguided deals or plans 
and lost heavily in a financial way. 
Ships at sea have missed their way 
and have been wrecked causing the 
loss of many lives because the pilot 
depended on information of which 
he was not personally sure, and the 
excuse for wrecking a train and caus-
ing disaster to hundreds has many 
times been, "I thought—" by some 
responsible person. He may hare 
been sincere in what he "thought," 
but his thinking was the cause of dis-
aster. It behooves one to know in 
such circumstances. 
Because of being so sure of what 
they take for granted, many proceed 
along the way to error and injury 
without making any personal investi-
gation, without making e lamination 
and trial, and without demanding 
proof. A great deal of life is there-
fore governed by superstition, and 
fear of that in which there is no 
power whatever other than that in 
the mind of him who fears. A knowl-
edge of the facts would remove the 
basis of the fear. A knowledge of 
facts would often eliminate worry 
and unnecessary concern, and enable 
one to live more happily and to pro-
ceed in work and business more 
efficiently. 
Some are always very sure that 
they know the slightest bit of in-
formation. A rumour or even a sup-
position is for them sufficient basis 
for asserting the certainty of their 
knowledge. One can never depend 
with any feeling of confidence in 
that which they say, for experience 
has proved that it may or may not 
be correct. Unless one is in posses-
sion of facts it is not wise to feel so 
sure. 
Prejudice often stands as a 
barrier against learning facts. Pre-
judice makes some feel that they 
already know all that is to be known. 
That prejudice may have its basis in 
a custom, in a tradition, in a feeling 
of ill will or in a desire to have one's 
own way whatever the consequences 
may be. It may have its basis in 
nationality or membership in a 
group, or as is very frequently true, 
in religious affiliation. Whatever it 
may be, such prejudices prevent mil-
lions from learning facts and acquir-
ing truth. Even though one knows 
that he is under the power of pre-
judice which gives him a feeling of 
security, he should admit the pos-
sibility of being wrong and be will-
ing to investigate other points of 
view. Sometimes he will be surprised 
that that which he - has judged 
wrong, false, and absurd is actually 
the truth. Or that which he has long 
believed true is found to be false. It 
may not be pleasant to be rudely 
Treated in this manner, but it is likely 
to be profitable. 
Dependence on authority is an-
other maker of the feeling of false 
security. Comparatively few exercise 
their minds sufficiently to acquire an 
independent knowledge of facts. 
Someone said a thing, and they ac-
cept it as fact without testing and 
proving it. It is a prevalent cause of 
the weak, flabby minds that abound 
everywhere. They are content to have 
questions answered for them instead 
of seeking the answers independently. 
They prefer to have others solve their 
problems instead of gaining mental 
power by using their brains to 
think. They cannot bear the presence 
of a mystery to which no explana-
tion can be made, and weakly ac-
cept any silly guess or puerile super-
stition as a solution. For such the 
exercise of faith is an unknown ex-
perience, and all mysteries are 
- awesome and fearful. 
Truth and facts must be sought 
by the operation of human reason. 
There is entirely too much blind 
acceptance of authority in the world. 
Philosophers, priests, preachers, 
writers of books, teachers, and 
others have said a thing and millions 
have accepted it as truth through 
passing centuries of years, only to 
discover eventually that it was all 
wrong. The philosopher may say it; 
but prove it. The preacher may 
preach it; but verify it. The priest 
may dogmatize; but get the proof. 
Accept nothing on the basis of high 
and ancient authority. Authority has 
often been wrong, and the world has 
long been bound in ignorance -of 
certain truths because of authority. 
Custom controls the feelings of 
many. Intrusion on custom often 
arouses rebellious feelings that are 
not easily quelled. A thing is right 
or wrong because it is the custom. 
Prejudice strikes deep roots in cus-
tom and often thrives prodigiously. 
It is the custom to do this or that 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
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and to believe thus and so. Custom 
in this case is the authority which 
has bound millions in economic 
disadvantage, ignorance, and false-
hood. Sensible men and women 
should search for facts and be 
governed by them. If the custom 
accords with facts let its practice 
continue; if not, discard it even 
though it may be like pulling a 
finger-nail out by the roots. 
Religions throughout the world 
have their basis almost entirely in 
philosophy, tradition, superstition, 
and fraud. But since true religion is 
a very real human need, it is very 
essential that religious belief be very 
carefully and thoroughly examined, 
tested, and proved, and that no 
religious belief be accepted merely 
because it is philosophy, tradition, 
or the hand-me-down of authority. 
l'rove all things, and especially 
religion. 
patients daily in villages near Cut-
tack, for the prevention of the dis-
ease. The government of Orissa and 
the Indian Research Fund Associa-
tion are participating jointly in the 
scheme. 
Visas 
Deep Diving 
THE American marine explorer. 
Mr. Barton, on the 16th August de-
scended 4,500 feet into the Pacific 
Ocean in his bathoscope diving bell, 
the deepest dive ever made by man. 
He observed marine life through 
three-inch windows, and describes 
schools of fish of blinding brilliance. 
X-Ray Eyes 
IN SOUTH AFRICA a university stu-
dent named Pieter Van Jaarsveld is 
known as "the boy with X-ray eyes." 
He claims to be able to see the ema-
nations from minerals below ground. 
Gold appears as a vibrating black 
square, oil as an ebony surface. 
Water gives off to him a light like 
that of the moon. 
Death Rate 
A RECENT decrease in Japan's 
death rate has made it the lowest 
ever recorded, say health officials in 
Tokyo. This is due to the establish-
ment by the Japanese under Ameri-
can guidance of health centres at 
the rate of one for every 100,000 of 
population. 
Opium 
OPIUM addicts in Assam said to 
number about 13,000 are to be 
treated in hospitals as an aid in cur-
ing them of the destructive habit. 
Twins 
AT NAVAN, Ontario, Mrs. Lucian 
Cleroux, gave birth to a baby girl 
on Wednesday night. On Friday 
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night—almost two full days later--
she gave birth to a boy. 
Agudat Israel 
THERE are no fewer than twenty-
five political parties in tiny Israel 
whose population includes but a 
small fraction of the Jewish world. 
Among these factions of political 
thought is the Agudat Israel, an ul-
tra orthodox religious party some of 
whose supporters still believe that a 
Jewish state should not have been set 
up before the coming of the Mes-
siah. The party is said to number 
about 7,000. 
Child Labour 
BOYS and girls less than twelve 
years old are employed in the mica 
mines of Bihar for Rs. 5 or less per 
month. Indian labour relations ad-
visers are trying to curb this inhu-
man violation of the Delhi govern-
ment's child labour laws, but a solu-
tion seems well-nigh hopeless in view 
of the rapid increase in population. 
"Children must work if they are to 
eat," say the industrialists. 
Bo Tree Again 
SUBSCRIBERS in Ceylon have in-
formed us that the Bo Tree at Anura-
dapura is not withering away as 
reported through • the general press 
and repeated, in these columns 
recently. It shows signs of age they 
say, but it is also putting out new 
rocts and branches. 
Filariasis 
AN AMERICAN remedy for filariasis 
is being given orally to about 1,000 
THE 
ITALY'S foreign ministry has an-
nounced that no more passport visas 
will be needed by American citizens 
who wish to visit the country. The 
United States has reciprocated by 
permitting Italians to visit America 
without regular visas. 
Cigarettes 
EXPERIMENTS have proved that if 
it were not for the psychological ef-
fect of brand names the average 
smoker would not know one brand 
of cigarette from another. Ten per-
sons took part in the experiment 
which ended in this report. The only 
brand that was smoked more often 
than others was the least expensive. 
Burning Mountain 
A MOUNTAIN in New South Wales 
has been burning for 2,000 years ac-
cording to scientists. This is Mount 
Wingen, a ridge 1,800 feet above sea 
level and 200 miles north of Sydney. 
It is thought that the fire started 
from heat generated by the oxida-
tion of sulphur. It burns slowly be-
cause of the shortage of oxygen. 
Television 
ACCORDING to a report by the 
Radio Manufacturers' Association, 
there are now 1,160,000 television 
sets in the United States of America. 
Diabetes 
FAT people have diabetes much 
more frequently than those of nor-
mal weight. Those who are definitely 
over-weight at the age of fifty are in 
more danger of diabetes than others. 
ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
Far-Seeing "Eye" 
UNITED STATES astronomers, using 
the "eye" of the giant new telescope 
at Palomar Observatory, California, 
for the first time, have "pierced" 
twice as far into the universe as 
man ever before has probed. Dr. 
Edwin P. Hubble of the Observatory 
succeeded in photographing nebulae, 
or star families, situated 1,000,000,-
000 light years away. A light year is 
the distance that light, travelling at 
a speed of 186,000 miles per second, 
will go in one year. 
Dr. Hubble aimed the 200-inch 
(508-centimeter) telescope at a por-
tion of space which other, less-power-
ful instruments had indicated was 
vacant. The resultant photograph 
showed pinpoints of light. These, 
astronomers say, represent nebulae 
located at least twice as far from the 
earth as man has ever seen before. 
Their estimated distance is 6,000,-
000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. 
The nebula discovered by Hubble 
are situated in regions far beyond 
the constellation Berenices, which is 
located roughly in the northern tip 
of the Milky Way. 
Astronomers say the photographs 
prove that the telescope, which has 
been under construction for twenty 
years, is at least as powerful as had 
been hoped. They indicate that the 
volume of the universe which man 
can explore has been multiplied by 
eight. 
COMING NEXT MONTH 
Heart's Appeal 
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Skin Deep 
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What You Should Know 
About Minerals 
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You and Your Dentist 
There's No Bad Baby 
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Care of Your Body's Covering 
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* 
A Killer of Children 
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The Doctor Says 
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Etc., Etc. 
The photographs show there is no 
outer edge to the universe of stars, 
even 1,000,000,000, light years away. 
If—as scientists have theorized—the 
universe is finite, bounded by some 
curvature of space, its outer limit 
still is beyond man's viewing. The 
photographs also show that there is 
more than one star for every human 
being who ever lived. Nearly every 
star family, or nebulae, contains more 
than 100,000,000 individual stars.— 
U.S./.S. 
UNESCO Broadcasts 
"WE PRESENT the UNESCO World 
Review, dealing with the co-opera-
tion of nations, with special stress 
on education, science, and culture. 
... Such items, not always sensa-
tional, mark the flow of history." 
This announcement introduces a new 
series of radio programmes, scripts 
for which are made available to 
radio networks and stations through. 
out the world by the United Nations 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 
Organization. 
Prepared by experts at UNESCO 
headquarters in Paris, the scripts are 
distributed through co-operating 
groups in UNESCO member coun-
tries. Circulation of the first scripts 
to 470 stations in the United States 
brought expressions of appreciation 
and additional requests, UNESCO re-
ports. 
The scripts, designed for fifteen-
minute broadcasts, are divided into 
two parts. The first part is made up 
of a round-up of world news items. 
For example, the initial script in-
cluded news of a conference in 
France to study creation of an in-
ternational university of the air, of 
aid offered by American and British 
organizations in replacing the Uni-
versity of Chile's fire-destroyed medi-
cal school, of an international meet-
ing of experts to study the use of a 
new drug, antrycide, against the 
tsetse fly in Africa, and of a Polish 
invention of a liquid to make paper 
sensitive to sound. 
Longer discussions dealing with 
major developments in the scientific, 
educational, and cultural fields make 
up the rest of each script. The first 
of a series of monthly features en-
titled "Food and People" was in-
cluded in the first script. 
The World Review project is the 
result of long research and testing, 
UNESCO officials say. Its aim is "to 
place before as wide a public as 
possible those ideals for which 
UNESCO stands."—U.S./.S. 
Red Rain 
ON JUNE 22, at Alleppey in South 
India occurred a rain red as blood. 
White-washed walls are said to have 
turned red by the rain. Microscopic 
examination revealed a large number 
of bodies like corpuscles in the 
blood. However, after a few hours 
the water lost its colour. 
Flies 
HOUSE FLIES may transmit more 
than twenty diseases that afflict hu-
man beings. 
Enterprise 
JAPAN is arranging to send two 
ships of 11,000 tons each to the 
United States and South America to 
exhibit Japanese products in order to 
stimulate business. Similar trade mis-
sions are to visit India, Pakistan, 
Burma, and other countries. The 
chief products exhibited will be tex-
tiles and machinery. 
Goat 
FROM Italy comes the account of 
a goat which is claimed to be the 
world's champion milk producer. She 
is owned by a farmer near Foggia 
who says that she gives four gal-
lons of milk per day, which is about 
four times the normal yield for 
goats. 
FROM THE EDITOR'S MAIL 
BAG 
"I have _ been a regular sub-
scriber to your 'Health' maga-
zine for the past twelve years. I 
must say that I have indeed en-
joyed its beneficial and helpful ar-
ticles every time, and there is 
hardly any need to mention its 
continuation."—Dr. A. M. A., 
Calcutta. 
"I have found 'Health' very 
useful in daily life. I wish the pub-
lication may have a long life and 
should have divine power with it." 
—S. S. A., Fyzabad. 
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If the common cold is not treated promptly it may leave 
chronic sinusitis as a legacy. 
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IMMEDIATELY above and behind 
the air passages of the nose and 
opening off them are some small 
chambers known as sinuses. They 
are air pockets in the bones of the 
face and skull, and their function 
together with the nasal passages 
seems to be that of warming the air 
we breathe and filtering out fine 
dust and injurious substances before 
the air is passed on to the lungs. 
Unlike the nose, these chambers are 
not equipped with the coarse hairs 
or vibrissx, but they are lined with 
a similar sensitive mucous mem-
brane which is clothed with fine hairs 
or cilia. When the sinus membrane 
becomes irritated and inflamed. we 
have sinusitis. 
Sinus inflammation may arise in a 
number of ways. It may be caused 
by germ infection, by the irritation 
of some substance to which the sys- 
tem is allergic or sensitive, or it 
may be the concomitant of a cold or 
nasal catarrh. For various reasons, 
however, sinusitis is apt to be a 
secondary condition which develops 
when the mucous membranes are 
temporarily unable to safeguard 
their healthful integrity. 
The channels connecting the sinus 
chambers to the nasal passages are 
very small and narrow. The air enter-
ing them has already run the gaunt-
let of the nose and is in a semi-
filtered condition. If the sinuses are 
in good health, they can cope with 
any invading substance which re-
mains in the air. But if the nasal 
passages are themselves aggravated 
by a cold or catarrh, there is a 
danger of more infected material 
invading or blocking the sinuses 
and setting up trouble. 
Sinusitis can be extremely painful, 
setting up headaches and disturbing 
normal respiration. The immediate 
pain can be relieved in a variety of 
ways by skilled medical hands. In 
some cases, surgery is called for to 
improve the sinus connections to the 
respiratory passages. In others, 
irrigation may bring relief. In sinus 
allergy, medical detection is needed 
to identify the offending substance so 
that it can be avoided. But the long 
term cure and prevention of sinus 
trouble greatly depends upon restor-
ing the integrity and healthful func-
tioning of the delicate lining mem-
brane of these chambers. This can 
be done by building up physical 
condition and new health on the 
following lines: 
I. Improve the condition of the 
mucous membranes by taking care of 
the skin. For practical purposes, the 
internal lining membranes and the 
WHAT TO DO FOR 
outer skin are one, and the condition 
of one reflects upon the condition of 
the other. It is not possible to 
massage and care, for the internal 
"skin" as we do for the external, but 
the healthier the tone and the more 
active the outer skin, the better for 
the mucous membrane. An active 
skin means a properly heat-regulated 
body, and therefore the mucous mem-
brane is less stressed. Again, an 
active skin breathes and excretes 
toxins—so much less work for the 
membranes. 
It follows that a daily schedule of 
air bathing, rough friction massage 
with towels and hands, sufficient out-
door exercise, and light baths will 
raise skin health, and by reflex, 
membraneous well-being also. Catar-
rhal conditions are aggravated, if 
not caused, by a sluggish skin fail-
ing to respond to changes of tem-
perature. To have a healthy skin is 
to possess greater immunity to all 
respiratory infections. 
2. Avoid mucus-forming foods. 
These are chiefly dairy foods, eaten 
to excess, especially cheese; rich 
greasy foods, and mixtures of fats, 
starches, and sugars, such as cakes, 
and confectionery and chocolate. In 
moderation these foods may not be 
harmful, and may be balanced with 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, (krona 1949 
Turhinates (bones of nose) 
Sphenoidal sinus 
Entrance to 
Eustachian tube 
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Side view of head, showing the sinus cavities. 
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Showing the location of the sinuses. 
fresh fruits, salads, and vegetables 
to ensure good digestion. In many 
cases, however, they lead to an in-
crease of mucus-secretion which 
slowly affects the efficiency of the 
membranes as a whole, predispos-
ing the system to catarrh and conges-
tion. 
5. Avoid constipation. Sluggish 
intestinal action and poor bowel 
movements impose a strain on the 
mucous membranes which is reflected 
throughout the system, apart from 
the self-toxaemia which follows. The 
safeguards against constipation are 
a diet well balanced in whole natural 
foods, regularity in going to stool, 
and a natural squatting posture at 
stool. 
6. Avoid smoky, dusty atmo-
spheres as much as possible. Many 
sinusitis sufferers are so constituted 
that dust and smoke and atmosrfheric 
impurities are irritant to them. 
Others are sensitive to the pollens of 
grasses and flowers. When such 
idiosyncrasies are known, it is only 
wise to avoid the conditions which 
provoke unpleasant reactions. 
7. Avoid extremes of tempera-
ture. Passing from hot to cold at-
mosphere or vice versa places a 
severe stress upon the skin and mem- 
branes, which are called upon to 
regulate body heat and keep it at an 
even 98.4 F. In winter, this stress is 
greatest, and can best be eased by 
wearing normal weight clothing as 
a general rule, and adding top 
weight when going out to face cold 
or inclement weather. 
8. Do not let the head cavities fill 
with water when swimming. Bathing 
and swimming are good exercise for 
the body, but care should be taken not 
to let the head cavities fill with water, 
even if this means no diving and no 
underwater exploits. In many people,
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the water runs out freely and does 
no harm, but the people with sensi-
tive sinuses may incur inflammation. 
9. Spend one or two hours out of 
doors daily. By far the best irrigant 
for the nasal passages and the sinuses 
is clean, fresh air, and an hour or 
two spent daily out of doors breath-
ing fully in and out through the 
nose will help to maintain sinus 
health.—New Health. 
SINUSITI 
3. See that vitamin A foods are 
adequate. Vitamin A is vitally con-
cerned with the health and sound 
structure of the membraneous 
tissues. To get sufficient, such foods 
as leafy greens, carrots, turnips, 
apricots, and dried fruits, should be 
eaten often, also butter or margarine. 
4. Cure common colds promptly. 
A cold which means inflammation of 
the nasal membranes carries a 
secondary threat in that it may leave 
chronic sinusitis as a legacy. Yet the 
average cold can be cured in forty-
eight to seventy-two hours if treated 
promptly. The best self-treatment is 
a quick hot bath, a night-cap of hot 
lemon squash, and retirement to a 
warmed bed to stay there until the 
cold symptoms have abated. The 
sooner this is done, the quicker the 
cure. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
the digestive system of an adequate 
nerve force. Any indulgences or ex-
cesses, therefore, which expend too 
much nervous energy, are bound to 
affect the digestive system. Over-
work, worry, the pleasures of mod-
ern night-life, the addict's use of to-
bacco, and narcotic beverages like 
tea and Coffee, besides alcoholic 
liquors, are among the enemies of 
the human nervous system and hence 
of the digestion. 
Assuming that the sufferer from 
any of the various forms of indiges-
tion recognizes the need to eliminate 
all those things which adversely af-
fect his nervous system, we can say 
with confidence that careful atten-
tion to a wise programme of eating 
will wholly, or in a large measure, 
cure his trouble. This is a thing 
which drug treatment can never ac-
complish. The use of drugs may pal-
liate for a time, may seem to ease 
the suffering. But the real cure lies 
in recognizing and eliminating the 
true causes of the malady. 
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INDIGESTION 
that CURSE of CIVILIZATION 
A. C. VINE 
VERY many of us have suffered 
from the depression, the irri-
tability, the lack-lustre life accom-
panying the various forms of indi-
gestion. Some endure, without real-
izing what is really wrong with them; 
and perhaps resort to the use of as-
pirin—under one or other of its mul-
tifarious names, or some stomach-
powder, or the medicine bottle, in an 
attempt to throw off the incubus of 
the nagging, gripping, worrying, 
burning pain and discomfort in the 
stomach. 
Indigestion is a very real curse. 
Many and complicated are the causes 
of it. It is induced chiefly, perhaps, 
by faulty dietary habits. We may eat 
too hurriedly, or too much. Our 
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choice of things to eat may be un-
wise, or we may take perfectly good 
food in ill-assorted combinations, 
thus giving ourselves an unbalanced 
diet. The body needs just so much 
of each of the various types of food, 
viz., proteins, carbohydrates, and 
fats. If these foods are taken in 
wrong proportions, the chances are 
that the processes of digestion will 
suffer. 
NERVES AND DIGESTION 
Another contributory cause of in-
digestion is the abuse of the nervous 
system. The proximity of the 'solar 
plexus—that mass of nerves—to the 
stomach, indicates the importance to 
THE CAUSE OF HEARTBURN AND 
ACID STOMACH 
So, if it is heartburn or acid stom-
ach that tortures you, remember that 
this is caused by the eating of ex-
cessive proportions of starchy or 
sugary foods. What actually happens 
is that when much white bread—or 
other starchy food—and sweet cakes 
or puddings, or even confectionery, 
are taken at the same meal with pro-
tein foods, like meat, eggs, cheese, 
etc., the starchy foods have to wait in 
the stomach while the protein parts 
of the meal are digested. Starches are 
not digested in the stomach, they just 
wait there acidifying and fermenting 
until the stomach is prepared to re- 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
lease them to the bowel along with 
the partly-digested protein foods. 
This fermenting gives rise to hyper-
acidity and heartburn. 
To guard against this, avoid the 
use of excessive amounts of starchy 
or sugary foods at the same meal 
with the proteins. Take proteins with 
a good helping of green vegetables 
well prepared and very little potato. 
This will give the stomach a chance 
to deal adequately with that meal 
and clear itself comfortably for the 
next. 
How- TO AVOID GASTRITIS 
Or is your trouble gastritis? That's 
really painful! It is caused by per-
sistence in wrong dietary habits to 
the point where the stomach cannot 
take it any longer. It is characterized 
by fullness in the stomach, and 
vomiting of partly digested food, to-
gether with headache, and some-
times diarrhoea. 
To avoid it, do not eat too much, 
see that your menu is well balanced, 
and that your food is taken in the 
right combinations of the basic food 
values. Leave pepper, vinegar, and 
highly seasoned sauces alone; re-
gard tea, coffee, and alcohol as 
enemies. Ensure that your cooked 
food is well prepared. 
Maybe the trouble is that so-com-
mon ailment (in popularity second 
only to constipation), chronic indi-
gestion. This is brought on by habit-
ual ill-advised eating and drinking. 
Combined with the overloading of 
the stomach are the rush and excite-
ment of modern life with all its 
"pleasures" and cares. The poor old 
faithful stomach just can't cope with 
it, and is gradually overcome. There 
come flatulence, constipation, gastric 
discomfort, and headaches which rob 
life of all its zest, and cause us to 
view things through dark glasses. 
To avoid this "popular" malady, 
pay careful attention to the dietary 
programme. There is no need to 
worry too much about what the 
books call "The Chemistry of 
Foods," but it is good to understand 
one or two easy facts. 
BASIC FACTS TO BEAR IN MIND 
For instance, eating between meals, 
or eating too frequently, will cer-
tainly cause trouble sooner or later, 
simply because it takes five hours for 
the stomach to empty itself. Unless 
it does empty itself before being 
called upon to deal with a new con- 
signment of food, its handling of 
those foods is defective. The cumula-
tive results of this defective handling 
are seen in the various digestive dis-
orders, some of which are mentioned 
above. 
Another factor responsible for 
such troubles is the habitual taking 
of highly seasoned foods, condi-
ments, pickles, etc. Pepper, vinegar, 
and even the too-free use of salt are, 
to say the least, a hindrance to the 
right functioning of the stomach and 
hence predisposing causes of indi-
gestion. 
Remember, too, that it is easier for 
the stomach to deal separately with 
starchy foods such as bread, pota-
toes, puddings, porridge, etc.; and 
the protein foods such as meat, nut-
foods, eggs, cheese, etc. When these 
two classes of foods are taken to-
gether, the process of digestion is 
complicated, and if we are also tired, 
worried, excited or in too great a 
hurry, this may bring on indigestion. 
Avow DRUGS 
The cure for digestive disorders 
is not in the use of drugs. These 
may afford temporary comfort, and 
probably will. But, rightly regarded, 
the very discomfort we suffer is a 
blessing. It is Nature's message to 
us that all is not well inside us, and 
MOST women realize that brush- 
ing is good for the hair, but how 
many know just why it is so impor-
tant? Brushing coaxes the natural 
oils out to the very tips of the hair, 
it massages the tiny blood-vessels 
near the hair-roots, and stimulates 
circulation, thus causing the blood 
to rush swiftly through the scalp. 
Begin brushing at the nape of the 
neck, and work right round from ear 
to ear. Do not be afraid to brush 
hard, and it is a good idea to keep 
the rest of the hair out of the way 
with the other hand. When you come 
to the crown area brush this a few 
strands at a time, and turn the brush 
after each stroke so that it gives a 
light tug at the scalp. Lastly brush 
up the sides and front. 
If you shampoo your own hair, 
wet it first with warm water, then 
pour on some shampoo and go over 
the scalp in a circular movement. If 
to take heed to the simple basic laws 
of healthful living. To black out this 
message by the taking of drugs in 
the form of powders, tablets, etc., 
only serves to increase the underlying 
causes of the trouble. 
Nature is a wonderful doctor, 
given a chance to go to work. The 
sufferer from indigestion should 
abstain from all food for a day, per-
haps even two days. During the time 
of fasting take plenty of warm water 
and thus give the digestive tract a 
chance to cleanse itself. 
It would do no harm and might 
do much good, to aid this cleansing 
process with a warm-water enema 
(3 pints at 100 degrees Fahrenheit). 
After the fast, take fruit break-
fasts, dinners of protein foods with 
generous helpings of well-prepared 
green vegetables or salads, and eve-
ning meals of wholemeal bread with 
either fruit or salads (not both to-
gether). Ensure that the fruit is ripe 
because unripe fruits may cause 
acidity. Ripe fruit will not. 
Always be sure that the bowels 
are emptied each day by natural 
methods, not by the use of purgative 
drugs. 
Avoid hurry, worry, and scurry, 
and watch Nature at work healing 
and restoring, and planting in your 
life again that joie-de-vivre which it 
is our right to enjoy. 
you prefer a spirit wash to shampoo-
ing, work this briskly into the scalp 
with the fingers, using a good deal 
of pressure at first, but ending up 
with a very delicate touch. 
Always rinse the ends of your hair 
first. Do this by dipping them in a 
bowl of water, then pour a jugful 
of fresh water over your head. 
The reason for this is simple. If 
the rinsing is done all at once, it is 
quite likely that the remains of the 
shampoo will cling to the ends of 
your hair, as it comes from the top 
of the head. Dry your hair well and 
then give it a good brushing—seeing, 
of course, that the brush is scrupu-
lously clean. 
Should you be worried with dan-
druff, the only real remedy is fre-
quent washing. Avoid too much 
grease on the head and after brush-
ing go over the scalp with a fine 
comb. This will loosen the dandruff. 
HEALTHY HAIR 
JOY WELLESLEY 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 �
9 
The Case of the 
MENTALLY-ILL 
C �
ILD 
MENTAL illness among children, 
though not so common as 
(among adults, does nevertheless 
-xist. The child who is mentally sick 
exhibits certain characteristics with 
which every parent should be ac-
quainted. Medical science now knows 
that when the illness is discovered 
in its earliest stages, a great deal can 
be done to bring about a cure. 
There are six points to be kept 
in mind which characterize the 
mentally ill child. These are: 
1. A generalized withdrawal of 
interests. The child is not interested 
in his surroundings. He lives within 
himself, completely separated from 
people and places. He has lost con-
tact with his environment. 
2. His ways of thinking, feeling, 
and acting are not the same as other 
children's. They are bizarre, queer, 
unusual. 
3. He has disturbances in 
thought, manifested by his not being 
able to talk without suddenly stop-
ping in the middle of a sentence, 
leaving out important words, being 
incoherent, and sometimes remain-
ing mute. 
4. He does not have the usual 
emotional responses. His emotions 
may be stunted, or he may not have 
any emotional responses whatever. 
5. His way of feeling is rigid. 
His facial expression becomes fixed, 
and he lacks emotional depth. 
6. His behaviour undergoes a 
change, either becoming over-active 
or under-active, or it may be fixed 
and odd. 
What should the parent be on the 
lookout for as the earliest signs of 
mental illness? First is what psy-
chiatrists call early dissociative 
phenomenon as seen in the disturbed 
integration of language sign and 
and language function. In simple 
language this means the tendency of 
a child of two to five years of age to 
use words, not as a means of expres-
sing thoughts and feelings, but as 
mere phonetic signs devoid of any 
meaning. The very young pre-school 
child enjoys using words for the 
sake of words. This represents play 
with sounds which is an entirely 
normal manifestation. In this play 
it is very obvious that the child gets 
considerable gratification out of such 
activity. The parents sometimes be-
come a little weary of this play and 
refer to it as silly or nonsense talk. 
However, when this is found in an 
older child in whom playfulness is 
absent, and who has a serious mask-
like expression when, uttering these 
silly or nonsensical words, there may 
be an underlying mental illness. In 
some children the unwillingness to 
learn to speak may be an indication 
of complete lack of interest in the 
world about them, a sign of mental 
illness. 
The second important factor in 
detecting mental illness in a child 
is his lack of interest in people, in 
his environment, and in the activi-
ties of other children. Such a child 
is prone to have imaginary compa-
nions or to talk about himself in the 
third person. He does not mingle 
with other children and finds no 
interest in their play. He has no 
playmates. 
The third factor is that of corn- 
Generalized withdrawal of interest 
and unusual or queer behaviour on the 
part of your child are some of the in-
dications of mental-illness. 
10 
EDWARD PODOLSKY, M.D. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
Parents, teachers, and those who are in close contact with the growing child should 
carefully watch for any signs of abnormal behaviour. 
pulsions. A young child may well 
repeat an activity which he has found 
pleasurable without this activity 
becoming compulsive. The playful-
ness with which he performs and the 
enjoyment he gets out of this acti-
vity stamps it as normal. This is in 
contrast to the compulsive type of 
behaviour, as seen in a child whose 
interest in play is very scant. He 
speaks little with others. He does a 
thing over and over again, such as 
counting a series of cards; but there 
is no emotional colouring to the act; 
he derives no pleasure from doing 
it. He counts because of some inner 
compelling force. 
Another evidence is compulsive 
possessiveness. It is true that young 
children usually go through a period 
of collecting many strange objects. 
In contrast to this early childhood 
habit of collecting, compulsive pos-
sessiveness is characterized by an 
intense drive for storing objects of 
no concrete value or significance. 
Such a child is likely to look com-
pulsively at car licences, retain their 
numbers, or make a list of these, 
obviously useless acquisitions, if one 
considers the range of a young 
child's interests. He may collect a 
variety of bits of string or rag at 
an age where a normal child has 
long passed this collecting phase. 
Temper tantrums may be a sign 
of mental illness. When these are 
observed with some degree of sever-
ity and persist in the five-to-seven-
year period and beyond, they are not 
normal. They reveal the inability of 
the child to take frustrations, which 
a normal child is able to take. 
Another symptom of mental ill-
ness in children is marked aggressive-
ness when the child is first in contact 
with other children. It is usually 
noted at the time when he begins to 
talk, approximately at two years of 
age; not knowing what to do with 
other children, he strikes them. When 
such a child is prevented from ex-
pressing his aggression toward other 
children, he may turn his aggression 
toward himself, tearing his clothes, 
biting himself, or striking himself. 
On the other hand, the child who 
after the usual period of social 
adaptation persists in not playing 
with other children, is fearful, and 
clings to adults, deserves careful 
attention. 
Each of the above factors in itself 
may have no significance, but when 
they all occur together they are a 
good sign tilt the child is mentally 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
sick, and that something should be 
done about it. 
What can be done? Quite a great 
deal. First one must be prompt to 
recognize the abnormal signs, and 
then one must get expert psychiatric 
advice. There are many child mental-
hygiene clinics devoted to the care 
and treatment of such cases. 
The people who come in close con-
tact with young children—parents, 
teachers, judges, and others—should 
become aware of the signs of ab-
normal behaviour, and should be 
able to recognize them early. 
What are the solutions? From a 
practical point of view the available 
solutions are psychotherapy, mani-
pulation of the environment or re-
moval from the environment. Psy- 
chotherapy is of immense value in 
many cases of mentally ill children. 
An expert is required for this phase 
of the work. The manipulation of the 
environment is frequently unattain-
able because of the non-co-operation 
of parents who are often quite 
neurotic themselves. The earlier the 
problem is treated, the better are the 
chances for success. 
Broadly speaking, human beings may 
be divided into three classes: those who 
are toiled to death, those who are wor-
ried to death, and those who are bored 
to death.—Winston Churchill. 
11 
The use of tobacco greatly lowers the vitality of the body. 
MANY a robust individual with 
the physical strength and stature 
of a giant has fallen a victim to a 
minute organism popularly known as 
a germ—an organism so small that 
only by the aid of a powerful micro-
scope was it visible to the human 
eye. It may have seemed like an un-
equal contest. In fact, it is usually 
the robust individual who defies the 
laws of health and affirms, "nothing 
hurts me," who falls a victim to 
pneumonia or some other germ dis-
ease. 
A robust young beer-drinker who 
had met with a minor accident 
looked up into the face of the sur-
geon as he was being wheeled into 
the operating room, and asked, "Doc-
tor, will this operation kill me?" 
"No," replied the physician, "the 
operation won't kill you, but the 
beer may." The operation was skil-
fully performed, but blood poison- 
ing set in and the patient died the 
victim of a germ. The soil had been 
previously prepared for the seed 
which flourished in it and caused his 
death. Germs do not flourish in 
healthy tissue. Surgeons do not care 
to operate on beer-drinkers, or on 
those who have defied the laws of 
health. 
It is highly important in this age 
to prevent in every way possible the 
spread of disease, germs, for never 
has the tissue soil of the masses been 
more favourable for their growth 
than now. We cannot always be sure 
of protection. A few years ago a new 
germ made its appearance. It was 
unknown to scientists at the time. We 
were fighting an enemy in ambush. 
I refer to the influenza epidemic of 
1918. This minute organism was re-
sponsible for three times as many 
deaths in the few months of its con-
tinuance as fell on the field of bat-
tle during the entire four years of 
World War I. The degenerate hearts 
of those who succumbed could not 
stand the extra strain placed upon 
them by the high temperature which 
the disease produced. In addition to 
this, the tissue soil was such that it 
formed a favourable culture for the 
growth of germs. 
While it is essential to prevent the 
spread of germs, it is more essential 
to build up the barriers of defence 
by keeping the tissue soil unfavour-
able for their growth. This can be 
done only by the correction of physi-
cal habits which render the blood 
stream impure and which tend to 
saturate the tissue with impurities. 
The farmer does not cast seed into 
the soil that has not been previously 
prepared for it. After the soil is pre-
pared he sows the seed. Body tissues 
that are laden with impurities fur-
nish the soil for disease germs. It is 
important to build up the vital re-
sistance of the tissues, thus making 
them unfavourable for the growth 
of germs. 
Lieutenant-Colonel H. Halliday of 
the Indian Medical Service, referring 
to the splendid condition of some of 
the Indians for whom he laboured, 
made the statement: "I claim to 
speak with some authority because I 
have been practising surgery in India 
for the past twenty-four years and 
have had an admirable opportunity 
of comparing the relative resistance 
of meat-eaters with vegetarians dur-
ing the great war. I was the surgical 
specialist in charge of Indian troops 
during the greater part of the war. 
There was a remarkable consensus 
of opinion of all who observed both 
races and classes that the Indians' 
wounds healed more rapidly, were 
less amenable to infection, and they 
recovered from infected wounds more 
readily than did the French, British, 
and Australian troops. In civil life 
they show a remarkable freedom 
from certain diseases, such as gastric 
and duodenal ulcers, gall bladder 
disease, and appendicitis. 
"In regard to the latter, I have 
some figures relating to the relative 
incidence of appendicitis in Indian 
and British troops in India. I find 
that this disease is about ten times as 
frequent in the British as compared 
with the Indian army. The rarity of 
cancer is so striking that a surgeon 
might practice for many years 
amongst this people and never see 
a case. I am speaking for the Pun-
jabi, not for the Indian as a whole. 
BUILDING UP 
Vital 
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MILLSTONES ow ThE UPWAR 
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In addition to ruining man's youth, character, and achievements, the drink 
habit reduces his power of resistance against disease germs. 
The Punjabi diet is wheat bread. 
whole meal, pulse, vegetables, milk, 
and some fruit. I may add that their 
physique would compare favourably 
with that of any people in the world. 
When it was decided in the Boxer 
Uprising to recruit a regiment from 
the Punjab, especially for the serv-
ice of Hong Kong, there was no dif-
ficulty in raising a thousand men, of 
an average chest measurement of 
over forty inches, and an average 
height of five feet, eleven inches." 
Dr. Robert McCarrison, in his 
work, Studies in Deficiency Diseases, 
writes about his seven-years' experi-
ence in the northern part of India 
where the food eaten was almost al-
together such as provided by nature: 
"My own experience provides an ex-
ample of a race unsurpassed in per-
fection of physique and in freedom 
from disease in general, whose sole 
food consists to this day of grains, 
vegetables, and fruits, with a certain 
amount of milk and butter, and 
goat's meat only on feast days. I re-
fer to the people in the State of 
Hunpa, situated in the extreme 
northern point of India. So limited 
is the land available for cultivation 
that they can keep little livestock 
other than goats which browse on 
the hills, while the food supply is so 
restricted that the people as a rule 
do not keep dogs. They have in ad-
dition to grains, wheat, barley, and 
maize, an abundant crop of apri-
cots. These they dry in the sun and 
use very largely in their food. 
Amongst these people the span of 
life is extraordinarily long. 
"Such service as I was able to 
render them during some seven years 
spent in their midst was confined 
chiefly to the treatment of accidental 
lesions, the removal of senile cata-
racts, plastic operations for granular 
eyelids, or the treatment of maladies 
wholly unconnected with the food 
supply. Appendicitis, so common in 
Europe, was unknown. The severe 
nature of the winters in that part of 
the Himalayas is considered and the 
fact that the housing accomfriodation 
and conservatory arrangements are 
of the most primitive, it becomes 
obvious that enforced restrictions to 
the unsophisticated foodstuffs of 
nature is compatible with long life, 
continued vigour, and perfect 
physique." 
It will be observed that the ani-
mals that are used as food by man 
are vegetarians. They obtain their 
sustenance from the only source of 
all nutrition, that is, the vegetable 
kingdom. The various elements upon 
which they subsist, when digested and 
absorbed are conveyed to the tissues 
and built up into bone, muscle, and 
the various other structures of the 
body, including the glands. These 
creatures obtain a perfectly balanced 
dietary from the vegetable kingdom 
and with it they build up perfectly 
healthy animal bodies. 
In our laboratories we do not 
grow germs of pneumonia, typhoid 
fever, or cholera, in grape juibe, or- 
ange juice, or other fruit juices. 
Meat bouillon is made use of be-
cause it forms the most favourable 
soil for their growth. This is why 
heavy meat eaters are more apt to 
succumb to pneumonia and other 
germ diseases than are those who 
subsist largely on fruits, vegetables, 
cereals, and other health-giving 
foods. 
That robust-appearing individual 
you see walking along the street 
smoking cigarettes, who claims he 
can eat anything—and usually does 
—will tell you that he is in perfect 
health. Is he? Let him be stricken 
down with pneumonia, typhoid fever, 
cholera, or some other germ disease, 
and his chances are no better than 
were those of the young drinker of 
beer already referred to. These men 
appear to be what they are not. 
Resistance �
D. H. KRESS, M.D. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 �
13 
Small 
Intestine 
Descending 
colon 
Ascending 
colon 
Vermifonyj �
 
appendix . 
Gullet 
Pyloric end '—
Duodenum 
The digestive system of the body consists of the mouth, the cesophagus, the 
stomach, the intestines, and several glands connected with these organs. 
PREP. 
FOOD as bought in the market, as 
cooked or otherwise prepared 
and served on the table, or even 
chewed and swallowed, is in large 
part not yet ready for use by the 
cells of your body. Much work needs 
to be done on it by your digestive 
organs, a class or group of organs 
which includes your liver and several 
other glands, in addition to your 
mouth, your stomach, and your in-
testines. 
Your digestive organs can handle 
your food without your thinking 
about how they do it while they are 
at it—in fact they handle it better if 
you don't think about it-•—but it is 
worth while to know what happens to 
your food during digestion. This is 
a complex chemical process, depend-
ing chiefly on the action of a group 
of special chemical compounds 
called enzymes, the most important 
of which will be named and dis-
cussed as we go along. 
Digestion begins in your mouth. 
You have three pairs of salivary 
glands, producing saliva and pour-
ing it out through ducts into your 
mouth. One pair of glands, the paro-
tid, are located just behind the 
angles of your lower jaw. Another 
pair, the submaxillary, lie between 
your lower jawbone and your tongue, 
one on each side, about a third of 
the way from the angle of your jaw 
to the point of your chin. The third 
pair the sublingual, are buried in 
the floor of your mouth beneath your 
tongue. The enzyme ptyalin, found 
in your saliva, turns some of the 
starch of your food into sugar. This 
action is aided by thorough chewing, 
for the food is thus kept in your 
mouth longer and is broken up so 
that the enzyme can more easily 
work on it. Being mixed with saliva, 
your food is more easily swallowed. 
Washing it down with water or some 
other beverage would make it easy to 
swallow, too; but the proper digest-
ive action of ptyalin, would thus be 
decreased or entirely prevented. 
These facts emphasize the import-
ance of not eating too fast and not 
taking too much liquid along with 
meals. 
But part of the benefit from eating 
results from the pleasure connected 
with it. Here is one important place 
where good cooking and attractive 
serving of food come in, but these 
are subjects that must be left with 
this mere mention. You may worry 
so much about the possible harm-
fulness of too little chewing, and 
think so much about the process 
while it is going on, that much of 
the pleasure of eating is destroyed. 
Timing the chewing of each mouth-
ful—an idea in vogue a generation 
ago—probably did as much harm as 
good. It does not require much 
attention or a long period of time 
to train the nerves of your mouth 
and throat to hold your food back 
until it is thoroughly chewed and 
virtually in a liquid state before it 
is swallowed. After that training 
proper chewing will largely take 
care of itself unless you allow your-
self to eat when you are in a hurry. 
It is better to take nothing more than 
a glass of fruit juice, milk, or butter-
milk than to try to eat a full meal 
when there is barely time to bolt the 
food. 
Your stomach receives the food 
from your mouth through a tube 
called the cesophagus, which passes 
down through the central part of 
your chest and diaphragm and enters 
your stomach a little to the left of 
the centre of its upper side. This 
organ is a thin-walled, muscular bag, 
holding about three pints if it is of 
average size. It is located in the ex-
treme upper part of your abdominal 
cavity, close up against your dia-
phragm, the muscular partition be-
tween your chest and your abdomen. 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
SING YOUR FOOD 
Its broad left end lies not far beneath 
your heart, so if you fill your sto-
mach too full you may have discom-
fort around your heart on account 
of the pressure. Special glands in the 
wall of your stomach produce 
gastric juice, containing hydrochloric 
acid, pepsin, and rennin. 
In your stomach the digestion of 
protein is begun. Both pepsin and 
rennin act on it; but they are not 
able to complete the task. Neither of 
them, but especially pepsin, can 
work normally in the absence of 
hydrochloric acid. There is little 
digestion of any carbohydrate or fat 
in your stomach. In fact, this organ 
acts more as a storage chamber to 
hold your food and pass it onward at 
intervals and in smaller amounts 
than it does as a true organ of diges-
tion. In many a case of serious dis-
ease of the stomach, such as wide-
spread cancer, the whole organ has 
been removed; and the person has 
usually been able to get on fairly 
well without it. Thus while your 
stomach is quite useful, it is not a 
truly vital organ. It does churn 
your food and mix it with gastric 
juice, however, during the two to 
four hours that the food normally 
remains in it, giving it a consistency 
that can more easily be handled by 
the fluids and enzymes of your small 
intestine. 
The outlet of your stomach, the 
pylorus, is guarded by a strong ring 
of muscle and lined by a sensitive 
membrane. If your food is too 
coarse, strongly acid, or highly sea-
soned, the resulting irritation tends 
to make the passageway remain 
closed too long; and the increasingly 
acid nature of the stomach contents 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
may cause considerable distress. 
Other influences may make it open 
too soon, thus allowing the food to 
pass into your intestine before sto-
mach digestion is complete. The 
emptying time of your stomach can 
he found out by X-ray study; and, if 
it is too short or too long, further 
study can often detect the cause and 
make possible its correction. 
The sensation of hunger is caused 
by waves of muscle contraction in 
the walls of your stomach, especially 
in that part of it into which your 
cesophagus empties. In health the 
muscular walls of your stomach re-
main nearly, if not entirely, quiet 
for a time, after the organ has been 
emptied; and if the habit of eating 
at regular times has been formed, 
the "hunger contractions" will not 
come soon enough or become strong 
enough to cause any real distress be-
fore the next regular mealtime. If 
the hunger feeling goes beyond a 
mild sensation of "emptiness" and 
becomes pain or nausea, something 
is probably wrong, and the cause of 
the trouble should be investigated. 
One of the most curious facts 
about food protein, the digestion of 
which begins in your stomach, is 
that while you cannot live without it, 
if ,it is introduced unchanged into 
any part of your body except your 
digestive organs it will cause much 
trouble; and if it enters directly 
into your blood stream it will pro-
duce a state of shock that will 
quickly kill you. All protein must 
first be broken down into much 
simpler substances, called amino 
acids, before it is safe to pass from 
your digestive organs to other parts 
of your body. 
Many of the amino acids, of which 
there are at least twenty kinds, are 
more or less changed by your liver 
before they are used in your body. 
By a process not yet fully under-
stood, your living cells can then 
take them and build them up into 
sort of protein that the cells need; 
but different kinds of cells build 
slightly different kinds of protein. 
Even more interesting and puzzling 
than that, however, is the apparent 
fact that the same kind of cell—true 
at least of certain kinds of cells—will 
build protein of a gradually chang-
ing type as you grow older. 
The most important work of diges-
tion occurs in your small intestine. 
In its upper part, food is mixed with 
pancreatic juice from a large gland 
called the pancreas—lying below 
and behind your stomach against the 
rear wall of your abdomen—with 
bile from your liver, and with intes-
tinal juice from many small glands 
in the wall of your intestine. Both 
the bile and the pancreatic juice are 
emptied into the upper part of your 
small intestine, called the duodenum, 
through a common opening a few 
inches below the outlet of your 
stomach. The pancreatic and intes-
tinal juices both contain several 
15 
DR YOUR 
BODY'S USE 
H. 0. SWARTOUT, M.P., Ph.D. 
different enzymes, the most important 
of which will be named in the 
following sentences. 
It is in the small intestine that 
amylopsin and a few less important 
enzymes complete the change of all 
undigested carbohydrates into glu-
cose and similar sugars. Here tryp- 
sin and erepsin finish the work of 
breaking proteins into amino acids. 
Steapsin and a few assistant enzymes 
and other chemicals break fats into 
simpler substances that can pass 
through the lining of your intestinal 
wall. Digested fat is collected into 
the lymphatic vessels of your intes-
tine, which are called lacteals be- 
cause of the the milky appearance of 
the fat which they contain. All other 
digested food materials pass through 
the lining of your intestine and into 
your blood stream. So do water, 
minerals, and vitamins, which re-
quire no digestive change. 
Glucose needs no further change 
to be usable by your body cells. 
Your liver, however, changes all 
excess glucose beyond the immediate 
needs of your body into insoluble 
glycogen and stores it in its own 
tissues or in the muscles, ready to be 
changed back into glucose and used 
at once when needed. Many of the 
amino acids can be, and usually are, 
further broken down chemically by 
the action of your liver. This gland 
works on fats, too. Not all that it 
does to them is clearly understood, 
but it is known that it can change the 
nature of food fat in such a way as 
to make it more or less characteristic 
of your body fat. Your food fat may 
be a thin liquid, such as olive oil, 
or a firm solid, such as tallow; but 
your body fat will vary little in type, 
whatever the fat may be that pre-
dominates in your diet. 
From the above short discussion 
of some of the tasks performed by 
your liver, you can surely see that 
it is a very important organ. It is 
the largest gland in your body, 
weighing between three and four 
pounds, and lying to the right of 
your stomach, close beneath your 
diaphragm. The bile which it secretes 
does little to aid digestion, but it 
does help to break up fats, to make 
their absorption easier, and to sti-
mulate the normal activity of your 
large intestine. 
Contraction waves in the muscular 
walls of your small intestine not only 
mix and churn your food but slowly 
carry it forward. Within from six 
to ten hours of the time a meal is 
16 
eaten, part of its unabsorbed residue 
reaches the outlet of your small 
intestine and begins to pass into the 
first section of your large intestine, 
the caecum, located in the lower, 
right-hand section of your abdominal 
cavity. Your appendix, about which 
you have surely heard, is a small, 
tubular pouch attached to and 
emptying into the end of your cae-
cum. 
In your caecum, water and small 
amounts of other substances are 
absorbed. The food residue is pre-
vented from passing forward too 
rapidly by occasional contraction 
waves moving in a backward direc-
tion; but eventually this residue 
passes into the ascending, transverse, 
and descending portions of your 
colon, becoming more and more 
faecal in character as it passes along 
the way. The progress of the faecal 
mass is delayed considerably by a 
large double bend in your colon, the 
sigmoid flexure, in the lower left-
hand section of your abdominal 
cavity; but eventually it reaches 
your rectum, from which it is ex-
pelled from time to time. 
Since the work of your digestive 
organs is necessary to your life and 
health, it is surely wise to do what 
you can to help them work efficiently. 
Among these organs, however, it is 
your stomach that is most likely to 
be abused. If you eat too often or 
at irregular times, your stomach can-
not get its regular rest; and it needs 
to rest to be healthy, the same as any 
other part of the body. If you eat 
hastily and swallow your food be- 
fore it is well chewed, you throw 
an added burden on your stomach. 
If you eat food that is too hot or 
that contains muck pepper or other 
spices, you irritate your stomach. If 
the food is very cold, your stomach 
cannot begin to digest it until it has 
become warm. The work of warming 
a mass of cold food is a task which 
you should not force your stomach 
to perform. Alcohol temporarily in-
flames the stomach lining, and in 
many cases its habitual use results in 
a persistent inflammation. People 
who use much tobacco are also often 
subject to stomach trouble. A to-
bacco smoker with ulcer of the 
stomach has little chance for a cure 
unless he stops smoking. 
Regretful leave must be taken of 
this maze of subjects, a further study 
of which would pile wonder upon 
wonder about your wonderful body; 
and this discussion must close with 
an additional truth of more practical 
value. No matter how suitable your 
food may be, your digestive organs 
cannot handle it properly if your 
emotions are upset. Anger, fear, ex-
citement, and worry are all great 
hinderances to digestion and may 
turn good food into poison. Further-
more, it has always been true that 
-a merry heart doeth good like a 
medicine: but a broken spirit drieth 
the bones." Though it is important 
to choose your food with intelligence 
and to prepare and serve it with care, 
it is no less important to eat it with 
a calm enjoyment. then forget it, and 
go about your work with confi-
dence. 
Pleasant and congenial surroundings have much to do with the proper 
digestion of food. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OC ['OBER 1949 
. WHITEHEAD, D.Sc. 
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 breathing we draw impure venous 
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 blood to the lungs for purification. 
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 The impure blood collects in the 
�
 
 reservoir of the liver below the heart, 
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 and is circulated via the heart to 
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 the pleura in the chest. The pleura 
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 surrounds the lungs and under pres- 
sure of filled lungs the blood it con-
tains exchanges its waste impurities 
for oxygen, etc. The pleura is thus 
a temporary reservoir of pure blood 
above the heart, until the blood is 
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 released for distribution via the heart 
 
 around the body. 
Shall ow unconscious breathing 
tends to foster too much impure 
blood in the liver. There is a grow-
ing pressure on the heart. But full 
breathing reverses this. It makes the 
work of the heart in distributing the 
blood easier, and from this follows 
the reflexes of eased pressure on all 
associated organs. 
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TO SAY that we must breathe to 
live is a truism. The official rec-
ord for the length of time that a 
man can go without inhaling is six 
minutes 29 2/5 seconds. Few of us 
can manage three minutes, however. 
Despite its importance, breathing re-
mains one of the most neglected 
functions, and outside singing, the 
elocutionary arts, and athletics, its 
possibilities are given scant at-
tention. Surely this is all wrong, for 
respiration primarily determines the 
life and activity of every cell in body 
and brain, and the level at which 
they function. 
Most people take their breathing 
for granted as a purely automatic 
function over which they have, and 
need exercise little control. But ex-
perience in those fields where respi-
ration is of influential importance 
such as opera or field athletics, 
shows that triumph belongs to those 
who have consciously attained a de-
gree of breath control. If correct 
breathing is of value in these spe-
cialized phases of living, can it not 
be of equal value in the pursuit and 
maintenance of health? The answer 
is that we cannot only be better in 
health but in mind and outlook by 
giving some daily attention to how 
we breathe. 
DEEP BREATHING FOR VITALITY AND 
STAMINA 
ing has upon their physical and 
psychical well-being. We must 
breathe to maintain the fire of life 
within us. Body heat and energy 
comes from the oxidization (burn-
ing up) of substances derived from 
food in the tissues. Oxidization can 
only take place in the presence of 
oxygen conveyed froni the lungs, and 
obtained from the air we breathe, 
by the blood. The more fully we 
breathe, the more oxygen is avail-
able and the brighter glows the fire 
of life. Other things being equal, we 
have more energy, more vitality and 
more stamina when we breathe 
fully. 
The provision of abundant oxygen 
and other gaseous elements found in 
air has a dynamic effect upon every 
part of the body, tissues, nerves, and 
glands, and raises their level of ac-
tivity and harmony. A full, deep in-
halation also requires the comple-
ment of a full, deep exhalation. In 
exhalation the lungs play a signifi-
cant role as eliminative organs. They 
remove the deadly carbonic acid gas 
and spent volatile elements from the 
blood, which . would otherwise de-
press and poison systematic opera-
tion. In fuller breathing, therefore, 
we invigorate the bloodstream and 
raise the balance of pure oxygen-
ated blood as against impure. 
DEEP BREATHING FACILITATES 
ORGANIC WORKING 
This is not all. _The act of respi-
ration has a profound influence on 
RESPIRATION AND THE MIND 
Apart from effecting better physi-
cal functioning, full use of the lungs 
has a stabilizing effect upon our emo-
tions and psychical state. Excitement, 
fear, worry, and anxiety and other 
forms of emotional disturbance tend 
to go hand in hand with shallow, 
rapid, and negative respiration. 
Often our physiological reactions to 
emotional tension stimulate rapid, 
pool' breathing. But if we deliber-
ately and consciously begin to em-
ploy a full breathing rhythm, our 
fears are more easily mastered,- and 
we have greater control over them. 
Breath is life, and to the extent that 
we can draw upon it positively, we 
can and do infuse our beings with 
new dynamic power for health and 
happiness. 
Our breathing rhythm seems to be 
determined by prenatal influences. 
I'he respiratory movements are 
purely involuntary. If we let them 
remain so, the tendency is for the 
respiratory muscles to lose their of-, 
ficiency and our breathing to becorpe 
shallower as we grow older. Never-
theless, these muscles and the respi-
ratory organs can be and are re-
markably responsive to the control 
of the will. By setting out con-
sciously to improve our breathing, 
we set out to build up new vitality 
and health. Breathing exercises are 
exercises all
. 
 can do, young or old, 
sick or well, for they can be done 
whether lying down, sitting, stand-
ing, or walking. 
17 
Very few people use the full 
capacity of their lungs or under-
stand how vital an effect their breath- 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
(-)STEO-ARTHRITIS is primarily 
the result of "wear and tear" in 
a joint. It affects persons over middle 
age rather than young people, and it 
is entirely different from rheumatoid 
arthritis. In view of the fact that al-
most everybody over the age of fifty 
suffers from osteo-arthritis to some 
extent, it is fortunate that the disease 
does not cause any great disability in 
many cases. 
The joint first affected is usually 
one of the larger joints which has 
had some extra strain imposed upon 
it. Various occupations predispose to 
osteo-arthritis; e.g. in agricultural 
workers the spine and hips are 
usually affected. 
Eburnation and Osteophytes 
In this type of arthritis the carti-
lage in and around the joint is first 
attacked. The destruction of the 
cartilage takes place mostly where 
there is greatest pressure, and when 
the cartilage is completely destroyed, 
the bone ends are allowed to rub to-
gether. Owing to the continuous fric-
tion thus produced, the bone becomes 
very hard and polished. This process 
is called eburnation. 
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The amount of pain present varies 
in individual cases, but most suf-
ferers find that the pain is aggra-
vated in wet or cold weather. Ab-
solute cure of the disease is impossi-
ble, but much can be done to alle-
viate the symptoms. In severe cases 
surgical appliances may be used to 
ease the pressure on the affected 
joints. Deep X-ray therapy is help-
ful. Physiotherapy is of great assist-
ance. 
Treatment 
Treatment consists of rest, heat, 
massage, and exercises. Diathermy 
has proved the most satisfactory 
method of heating, but where this is 
not available, infra-red radiation 
sometimes produces good results. 
The massage should be carefully 
graduated from gentle stroking to 
petrissage and friction. The muscles 
are able to stand somewhat deeper 
massage than is the case in rheuma-
toid arthritis. Strong passive move- 
rounding muscles may be included. 
The disease may be acute or chronic. 
The word rheumatism is used to 
describe a very wide range of aches 
and pains. 
We have so far considered in a 
brief way the more or less well de-
fined groups of arthritis. We are left 
with a number of conditions which 
may be called "the non-articular 
rheumatic affections." Into this cate-
gory fall all the common aches and 
pains in muscles. Aches and pains in 
joints have already been dealt with. 
Fibrositis of all types, muscular 
rheumatism, neuritis, and pleuro-
dynia are all included in this group. 
Those most affected are persons 
over middle age, although an athlete 
who has been subjected to more than 
usual muscular activity may suffer 
from an attack of lumbago. 
Lumbago is an inflammation of 
the lumbar muscles, resulting in 
pain and stiffness in that region. The 
attack generally comes on after any 
sudden exertion, or after exposure 
to cold and damp. The muscles be-
tween the ribs (intercostal muscles) 
can be affected in the same way 
(pleurodynia). The attack in this 
case causes pain in the chest when a 
deep breath is taken. The causes are 
�
 OSTEO-ARTHRITIS 
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MUSCULAR-i RHEUMATISM 
Around the edges of the joint, 
bony projections called osteophytes 
are formed. These may interfere with 
the movement of the joint. The 
affected joints usually creak when 
they are moved. 
The onset of osteo-arthritis is 
usually gradual. The patient notices 
pain and stiffness in one or more of 
the larger joints, sometimes in the 
feet and hands. The skin over the 
joint becomes red and hot, and may 
be painful when touched. As the dis-
ease progresses, muscles waste and 
some deformity develops because of 
the presence of osteophytes. 
ments may sometimes be given to 
assist in restoring mobility to the 
joint. 
What does rheumatism really 
mean? The term is a very old one 
and it is based on the idea that the 
disease it was applied to was of a 
"moist nature, leading to watery de-
posits in the joints." In more modern 
times the word had been used to 
describe that group of diseases which 
show as their chief symptoms, in-
flammatory and degenerative affec-
tions of the fibrous tissues of joints, 
muscles, and other parts. The joints 
alone may be affected, or the sur- 
the same as those of lumbago—
sudden exertion, strain, or exposure 
to the elements. 
The most common form of non-
articular rheumatism is fibrositis. It 
may be defined as an inflammation 
of the fibrous tissues of the body. 
As with the other type of rheu-
matic diseases, the immediate cause 
of fibrositis is unsettled, but various 
factors are known to be of import. 
ance. Various authorities on the sub-
ject have different theories. All are 
agreed. however that exposure to 
(Continued on page 22) 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
BRAVE PETER 
MARIE LARSON 
PETER was the bravest boy in his 
neighbourhood. At least that is 
what he kept telling his friends 
every day of the week. 
"I'm not afraid of Beakin's dog, 
even!" he assured his playmates on 
the day he felt especially brave. 
Now everyone was afraid of the 
big dog Mr. Beakin kept tied to his 
verandah while he was away at work. 
Even though Peter had boasted so 
often of his bravery that no one paid 
any attention, this time Peter's 
friends stopped to listen. 
"I'll walk right up and kick that 
old dog!" Peter told the wide-eyed 
group around him. "You can watch 
me do it. Watch through the high 
fence here under the shade of this 
tree." 
Every boy in the group held his 
breath. 
Peter puffed up. They knew now 
how brave he was! 
Peter gave Mr. Beakin's gate a 
shove and strode up the path with 
his head high. The big dog came out 
of the shadows of the porch, 
growling. 
As the dog came down the last 
step, Peter kicked out swiftly. His 
foot soundly caught the dog's shoul-
der. Any other dog might have 
yelped, but Mr. Beakin's dog merely 
growled a deeper-sounding growl. 
The hair on his back began to 
bristle. Peter darted away, planning 
to get a safe distance beyond the 
reach of the dog's rope. 
"Peter! Look out!" From behind 
the high fence the boys called out a 
warning. 
And then brave Peter saw his 
mistake. The dog had not been tied 
up that day! 
The angry animal came down the 
path behind Peter. He leaped at 
brave Peter with a growl that 
sounded as if he meant to eat the 
boy. All the puff went out of Peter's 
chest. His face grew pale. He did 
what any other boy would have done. 
He ran as fast as he could! 
Straight for the tree that grew be-
side the high fence Peter flew. He 
swung himself up into the lower 
branches just as the dog buried his 
teeth into the leg of Peter's pants. 
There was a strange r-r-r-ip! 
Peter looked down at his bare leg 
and shuddered. He looked at the 
dog crouched below and shuddered 
again. 
"Crawl out on the limb that comes 
out over the fence," Peter's friends 
told him. "We'll help you get down." 
Peter felt so weak that he almost 
fell into the arms of the boys who 
reached up to help him. He sat on 
the sidewalk and through the high 
fence watched the dog chew the leg 
of his pants into ribbons. And the 
longer he watched the more foolish 
lie felt. Those had been his best 
pants! 
How silly to try to prove his 
bravery by looking for danger! 
Being brave by playing safe in the 
first place would have been much 
less costly. 
THE FOOLISH MONKEY 
WHEN your grandpa and grand-
ma were children they no 
doubt heard a story of "The Monkey 
at School." 
A monkey seeing some boys enter 
a school followed them and sat down 
in one of the seats. When they took 
up books, he took up one and began 
turning over the leaves as he saw 
them do. 
When the children began to laugh 
at him, he began to chatter and 
grin. Then a boy threw a book at 
him, and the monkey threw it back. 
Another boy pulled the monkey's 
ears, and the monkey pulled the 
boy's hair until he screamed for 
help. Just then the teacher came in 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 �
19 
and the boys cried out, "Beat him, 
kill him!" but the teacher said, "He 
has only done what he saw you do. 
If you had done right he would have 
f ol lowed." 
Here is the story of another 
monkey. This monkey would go with 
his master to different places to visit 
friends. At one place to which they 
went, liquor was given to them. 
Jacko drank and it made him very 
merry, and he hopped and danced 
and made the people laugh. They 
had so much fun with Jacko that the 
next day they thought they would 
try it again, but the monkey could 
not be found. At last they saw him 
crouched inside a box almost out of 
sight. 
"Come out here," said his master. 
He came out on three paws, one 
forepaw was on his head. Jacko was 
sick. 
They tried for three days to get 
Jacko to again take some liquor but 
in vain and the monkey eventually 
got away from his tormentors. His 
master kept him twelve years, but the 
monkey never could be persuaded to 
touch liquor again. 
Boys and girls are sometimes like 
the foolish monkey--they follow bad 
examples set by others; but unlike 
the wise monkey they do not always 
give them up when they find they are 
harmful. Boys do as older boys do 
and form bad habits. Girls do as 
other girls do. 
Boys and girls, stop and think. 
Remember somebody's brother or 
sister is watching you. Help to keep 
them in the safe path—Selected. 
De-Inking Machine 
A NEW machine capable of de-ink-
ing waste newsprint so that it may 
be re-used as newsprint, is already 
in operation at forty-two paper mill 
installations in the United States, ac-
cording to an article by Kurt Wandel, 
the machine's inventor. The article 
in Editor and Publisher, trade pub-
lication of the American newspaper 
industry, added that newsprint de-
inked by the machine had been run 
in the presses of the Kalamazoo 
(Michigan) Gazette. 
Known as the Dyno-Pulper, the 
machine is said to defibre, de-ink, 
and wash used newsprint in one pro-
cess for conversion into new paper. 
Described as being of simple con-
struction and operation, the machine 
20 
utilizes a mechanical and hydraulic 
action to reclaim newsprint. In the 
process, caustic soda, to remove the 
ink, is left in contact only long 
enough to do its work and then is 
immediately and completely washed 
out. 
The inventor said that previous 
processes in the United States to de-
ink newspFint either have resulted in 
failure to remove the ink completely 
or have so injured the fibre as to 
make it unusable for newsprint. As 
a result, most reclaimed newsprint 
has found its way into plants for 
making paper boxes.—U.S./.S. 
Rocket 
A "TWO-STAGE" rocket reached an 
altitude of more than 250 miles in a 
test at the White Sands proving 
ground, New Mexico, U. S. A., Feb-
ruary 24. A German V-2 carried an 
American designed rocket to a height 
of approximately 20 miles, when the 
second missile was released to at-
tain the altitude record, travelling 
at a speed of 5,000 miles an hour. 
The two rockets together weighed 
fifteen tons. 
Burma's Teak Output 
BURMA hopes to reach her pre-war 
level of teak production by 1952, de-
clared Mr. T. C. Hoe, Director of 
Marketing, State Timber Board, 
Burma, in an interview here. 
Mr. Hoe, who is leading his coun-
try's delegation to the International 
Forestry and Timber Utilization 
Conference meeting here, said the 
Burma Government had prepared a 
working plan which envisaged a 
programme of forest development 
for a period of ten years. 
WE MUST BREATHE 
(Continued front page 17) 
How TO BREATH CORRECTLY 
The basic posture for good breath-
ing is the same in all positions. We 
need to lift the chest wall high, to 
arch the diaphragm or midriff, to 
throw the shoulders back and down, 
and then concentrate with body re-
laxed upon filling and collapsing 
the lungs within the chest cavity as 
fully as possible as we breathe. We 
can breathe out through the mouth 
on occasion if we like, but the in- 
halation should be nasal, if only to 
insure that the impurities present in 
the air are efficiently trapped, and 
the air properly warmed before it 
enters the lungs. 
Breathing intended to re-educate 
the lungs has a four-phase rhythm: 
viz., inhalation—pause----exhalation 
—pause. A good exercise is: Inhale 
slowly and steadily, mentally count-
ing six, seven, or eight; hold the 
breath in a moment; then exhale 
slowly to the mental count; hold the 
breath out a moment: then repeat 
about fifteen to twenty times at a 
time. Such a simple exercise can be 
done on awakening, and just before 
going to sleep. It can also be done 
during the day in almost any pos-
ture where the lungs are free to 
work unimpeded and the body re-
laxed. 
EXERCISES FOR THE AGED 
Older people who find that "their 
chests have slipped" will probably 
do the exercise best lying flat on 
the back, aiding the breathing by 
gently but firmly holding the dia-
phragm in and up with the hands 
on the midriff. Once the basic rhythm 
has been mastered, variant breath-
ing gymnastics can be practised. For 
instance, the exhalation can be made 
twice as long as the inhalation, or 
vice versa. The pauses can be length-
ened and varied, though this should 
not be overdone. It is often helpful 
to inhale jerkily as if sobbing and 
then let the breath out with a long 
steady sigh. With the passing of 
years, there is a grave tendency for 
debris to accumulate in the lung tis-
sues, and to vary the breathing helps 
to loosen and excrete some of this. 
As the respiratory organs respond 
to consciously controlled breathing, 
it will be found possible to unite 
breathing exercises with physical ex-
ercises. One of the best ways is to 
link the respiratory rhythm to 
stretching and rhythmic movements 
—inhaling on the stretch, holding a 
moment, exhaling on the relaxation, 
and holding out for a moment when 
the body is at rest. 
It will be found that the regular 
practice of simple breathing exer-
cises five or six times a day, condi-
tions the lungs to a longer breathing 
rhythm all the day, and the bene-. 
ficial effect is cumulative. It gives us 
greater control over body and mind 
and is undoubtedly a factor in spir-
itual self-expression. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
RECIPES 
64WE WANT rice," is the cry of 
most of the middle class people 
from the southern part of India and 
also of all those who have located in 
other parts of India after emigrating 
from the south. The rice they like best 
is the 't-ery white polished kind, the 
kind with the least nourishment and 
the most starch. In polishing the rice 
it is a well-known fast that the peri-
carp or outer coloured layer, as well 
as the germ are lost and these are the 
vital elements, containing the minerals, 
the proteins, and the vitamins. Rice 
which is hand-pounded is preferred to 
milled rice, since hand-pounding can be 
gauged to removing only the coarse 
husks. Brown rice is an excellent food 
but wheat, millets, maize, and jowar 
or cholain are superior to it in nourish-
ment. 
The ground-nut and soy bean take 
first place as good ifrotein foods in a 
vegetarian diet. It is therefore good to 
learn the food value of different foods 
and how to prepare them appetizingly 
for the family. Green leaves and lentils 
are rich in protein elements and in 
these days' of food stringency it be-
hoves us to get away from age-old tradi-
tion and learn all we can about the 
abundant food-elements obtaining in 
our country. 
"THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN AND 
HERALD OF HEALTH" is always on 
the alert for ways and means of help- 
Don't tolerate 
COCKROACHES! 
Their habits and HABITAT are filthy. From 
FILTH they creep into the home and con-
taminate food, destroy clothes, books and fur-
nishings, and endanger your health. The in-
testines of a COCKROACH breed dangerous 
germs. Their hairy and spined legs carry in-
numerable bacilli. They are more obnoxious 
than the common house-fly. Their presence in 
the home is highly undesirable. Be rid of 
them by using BLATTABANE, a non-poison-
ous, non-inflammable, non-injurious, odourless 
clean powder that exterminates these pests 
BLATTABANE is harmless to humans, all 
pets and plant life. 
Available at leading Chemists and Stores, in 
PA oz., 3 oz., 8 oz., 1 lb., 7 lb. and 56 lb. sizes. 
AGENTS:—BOMBAY—Whiteaway Laidlaw & 
Co. Ltd. KARACHI—J. Thadhani & Co., P. B. 
508, Frere Road. MADRAS—Aryan Drug 
Stores, 2/88 Iyyah Mudali St., Chintadripet. 
CALICUT—T. Hosain Sahib, Huzur Road, 
Dibrugarh & Branches. POONA—Barnes & Co., 
East Street. In case of difficulty kindly refer 
FRUGTNEIT & Co., 16, Crooked Lane, (off 
Waterloo St.), Calcutta. 
Ask for 
BLATTABANE 
(The Safe Insecticide) 
Ileet 
ing our country in this respect and 
here is hoping you try these recipes. 
VEGETARIAN CURRY PUFFS 
Pastry: 2 cups flour; 3 tablespoonfuls 
shortening; salt to taste; water to 
make a stiff dough. 
Mix all ingredients together, knead 
well and set aside. 
Filling: 1 cup boiled ground nuts; 1/2 
teaspoonful ginger powder; 
1/2 cup 
minced onion, fried; 1 cup mixed vege-
tables, cooked and chopped; 1 teaspoon-
ful curry powder. 
Fry the onions in a tablespoonful of 
ghee or fat. Add the masala and if de-
sired some finely chopped garlic and 
fry a few minutes. Add the well-cooked 
groundnuts and the vegetables. (These 
should be nearly dry and free from 
juice. If any juice remains after cook-
ing it should be drained off and used 
in soup or gravies). A little chopped 
green coriander or parsley may be 
added. Cook together for a few minutes. 
Now divide the pastry in about thirty 
equal parts or more. Roll out very thin, 
in shapes of squares or circles and 
place two teaspoonfuls of filling in each. 
Wet the edges and press together in a 
half-moon shape or oblong. Fry in deep 
fat, or bake in hot oven until golden 
brown. 
NUT CUTLETS 
One cup boiled sieved groundnuts; 2 
tablespoonfuls ata or bread flour; 1 
egg; 2 tablespoonfuls cream; i/4 tea-
spoonful each of powdered cloves, nut-
meg and allspice; 1 teaspoonful mixed 
dried herbs, powdered. 
Mix in order given. Drop by spoon-
fuls in well-oiled hot skillet. Fry a 
golden brown on both sides at slow 
heat. Serves four to six. 
VEGETABLE PILLAU 
One cup rice; % cup minced onion; 
8 cloves; 1 stick cinnamon (1 inch); 2 
cardamoms; 2 tablespoonfuls ghee or 
fat; 2 cups mixed vegetables. 
After the rice is washed, soak it in 
water while the onion and fat are sim-
mering in a pan, add to the onion the 
spices and fry again. (A little ground 
huldi may be added also). Now add 
the drained rice and fry a little more. 
Add enough water to cover and let 
boil until done. Now add the cooked 
and cubed vegetables. Peas, potatoes, 
and carrots are good, also cauliflower. 
Pour a ljttle melted butter over the 
whole before serving. 
PUMPKIN SWEETMEAT 
Two cups steamed pumpkin, mashed; 
3 cups sugar; 1/2 cup butter or ghee; 
1/2 teaspoonful salt; 1/2 teaspoonful 
ground cardamom seed. 
Make a thick syrup of the sugar, add 
the pumpkin and cook until thick. Add 
butter and salt, stirring constantly. 
Add the cardamom and stir well. Turn 
the mass into a well-oiled dish. Press 
down and cut into pieces when cool. 
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POTATO SURPRISE 
Six potatoes boiled and peeled; 1 
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CURD RELISH SALAD 
One cup curds (very thick); 1 cup 
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chopped; /2 teaspoonful salt or more if 
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Mix all together and serve. 
SWEET POTATO BALLS 
Three cups mashed sweet potato; 1 
coconut shredded; 2 tablespoonfuls or 
more ghee; 1 tablespoonful sugar, salt 
to taste. 
Mix all together using only half the 
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OSTEO-ARTAITIS AND 
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM 
(Continued from page 18) 
damp and cold, and the patient's 
occupation are factors which must 
not be forgotten. The incidence of 
rheumatic disease of all forms is 
very high in persons whose occupa-
tion entails exposure to damp, cold, 
and excessive strain. 
Treatment 
In the acute stage of fibrositis 
massage is in most cases contra-in-
dicated owing to the amount of pain 
suffered by the patient. Physical 
treatment usually consists of the 
application of heat to the affected 
parts. Infra-red radiation is very 
effective. Hot water bottles, kaolin, 
or linseed poultices, or even a hot 
iron applied to a towel over the pain-
ful area, all give relief. 
When, in about two or three days, 
the acute stage has subsided, more 
vigorous physiotherapeutic measures 
may be employed. These consist 
mainly of the application of heat, 
and massage. Deep massage is em-
ployed to break up the fibrous 
nodules which sometimes form in 
the affected muscles. Immersion 
baths with under-current douches, 
followed by vigorous massage, also 
have very marked effect in helping 
to remove the fibrous nodules. 
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Eczema is a term covering a multitude 
of differing conditions; so without know-
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eczema, is of allergic nature, a reaction 
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TWILIGHT SLEEP; AN2ESTHESIA 
IN CHILD-BIRTH; COLDS; ECZEMA: 
Ques.—"(1) Is there a hospital in India 
where the twilight sleep method is used 
during child-birth? (2) Is the use of 
anaesthetics in child-birth harmful? (3) 
What causes common colds and how 
can they be prevented? (4) My husband 
is suffering from eczema and has tried 
several medicines without effect. What 
should he do?" 
Ans.—(1) I think that most maternity 
hospitals in India are prepared to pro-
vide for painless birth. It is not ad-
visable to eliminate all pain as then 
there is lack of essential, co-operation 
on the part of the mother. Taking the 
edge off the pain is the best method. 
This, any well-trained obstetrician can 
do for you. (2) Excessive anaesthesia 
is not desirable as it may affect the 
'child. (3) Colds are the result of in-
fection. The best preventative is care, 
cleanliness and disinfecting of the dishes 
when anyone has a cold. Low resistance 
due to vitamin deficiency is a frequent 
cause of colds. Taking a well-balanced 
vitamin formula daily in adequate 
dosage does much to prevent colds. 
Avoid excessive use of fats and sweets. 
Frequent head colds often indicate 
sinus infection, and call for the clearing 
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PIMPLE SCARS ON THE FACE: 
Ques.—"For the past two years I have 
had pimples on my face. Now they 
have disappeared leaving scars. What 
can 1 do to get rid of these?" 
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about those scars except to leave them 
alone. Do not worry about them or you 
may develop an inferiority complex. 
Time will either clear away the scar 
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MISSING HEART BEAT: Ques.- --A 
friend of mine has developed a heart 
disease in which his heart misses beats. 
His heart will miss a beat after every 
third or fourth beat. I would be greatly 
obliged to have your advice. He fears 
this will interfere with his ambitions." 
Ans.—Missing heart beat is not a 
disease. It is a functional condition in 
which the nerve impulses governing the 
heart beat lapse every so often. This 
is much like a telegraph operator miss- 
ing a letter at intervals. Your friend's 
health will not suffer unless he develops 
a heart complex and becomes nervous 
from useless worry over thinking of 
this missing beat. Many people have 
this phenomenon but are not conscious 
of it. Good nourishing food, some added 
balanced vitamin preparation will be 
good for him. Along with this, a pure 
unblemished life, with high thinking 
will make him a useful and healthy 
citizen and help toward accomplishing 
his ambitions. 
9 
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS: 
Ques.—"My brother, who is twenty-five 
years of age, has been attacked by pul-
monary tuberculosis. He is under the 
care of a doctor who is giving him 
streptomycin injections and oxygen by 
mouth. He is taking complete bed rest. 
Is there any other treatment that would 
speed his recovery?" 
Ans.—In tuberculosis the major treat-
ment as now recognized is absolute and 
full bed rest and the newer forms of 
streptomycin. This treatment your 
brother evidently has received. It now 
remains that the absolute bed rest be 
continued until about six months after 
sputum and gastric examinations are 
consistently negative, and X-ray studies 
indicate healing of all lesions. In some 
cases lung surgery is necessary to ob-
tain the desired results. Other cases 
must have the lungs collapsed by air 
pressure over a considerable period of 
time. Each case must be treated ac-
cording to individual findings. Your 
brother needs much time and care for 
such results as are possible in his case. 
SWEATING OF THE HANDS AND 
FEET: Ques.—"I am twenty years of 
age and in good physical condition but 
I always perspire in my hands and feet 
when I talk to a stranger, or write my 
exams. However, when I speak in pub-
lic to a group of people I do not have 
this trouble. Tell me what I can do to 
overcome this weakrfess." 
Ans.—Sweating of the hands and feet 
when under nervous tension is a condi-
tion that affects everyone more or less 
at some time in their lives. The cure 
is not medical but psychological. As one 
gains in experience and becomes more 
at ease this annoying symptom usually 
lessens or disappears. 
9 
of it then and forgot about it. Now 
for a year I have been having a pain 
on my right side just below the rib. 
I consulted a physician and he said 
that it is a pain due to a nerve con-
nected with the former spinal trouble. 
He says that the nerve can be killed 
by an alcoholic injection. What is your 
opinion?" 
Ans.—Pain in a nerve resulting from 
spinal vertebra: disease can be treated 
with alcohol as suggested. Sometimes 
an anmsthetie solution is first injected 
to ascertain if this gives relief. If the 
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POTT'S DISEASE: Ques.—"Some 
seventeen years ago I had a spinal 
operation for Pott's disease. I was cured 
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anmsthetic gives relief, then the alco-
hol is injected for permanent relief. 
Such measures are frequently used when 
other things fail to give results. 
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HYPERACIDITY; LEUKORRHCEA: 
Ques.—"(1) For the past eight years 1 
have been suffering from hyperacidity. 
Even though I have taken a course of 
injections and have taken medicine fre-
quently T have only gaMed temporary 
relief. (2) My wife suffers from leukor-
rhma. What treatment should she take?" 
Ans.—Constantly recurring hyper-
acidity strongly suggests the existence 
of peptic ulcer. Accordingly it is ad-
visable to adopt and follow the diet ad-
vised for peptic ulcer. As existing food 
conditions in India vary so greatly at 
present, you will probably need to seek 
local medical advice in working out a 
diet regime of available foods. The fol-
lowing is a sample text book diet 
covering the first three weeks. This is 
gradually modified and developed ac-
cording to progress. You will need to 
be on a restricted and regulated diet 
for at least one year. The first week is 
as follows: 8 a. m.—A small dish of 
cooked cereal, such as Farina or Quaker 
oats, etc., with a quarter of a pint of 
cream, a little sugar and half a pint of 
milk. 10 a. in.—Half a pint of milk. 
12 noon.—Two slices of toasted bread 
in half a pint of hot milk to which has 
been added a quarter of a pint of 
cream. 2 p. m.—Half a pint of milk. 
4 p. m.—Half a pint of milk. 6 p. m.—
Same 0.s 8 a. m.—Half a pint of milk, 
quarter of a pint of cream. Observe 
great regularity in taking the feedings. 
NO SMOKING. The second and third 
weeks are as follows: 8 a. m.—Cereal 
with cream and sugar. Soft part of 
white bread one day old, butter, half 
a pint of milk. 10 a. in.—Choice of 
malted milk, buttermilk, milk and egg. 
12 noon.—Milk soup made with vege-
tables, strained but with no meat stock. 
Mashed or baked potato with butter. 
Simple desserts such as farina, custard, 
tapioca, corn starch desserts, rice, 
brcad pudding, etc. 2:30 p. 
a pint of milk and a quarter of a pint 
of cream. 5 p. m.—Same variety as at 
10 a. m. 7 p. m.—Same variety as at 
noon. 10 p. m.—Half a pint of milk 
and a quarter of a pint of cream. (2) 
Leukorrheea, usually indicates a vaginal 
infection. The discharge should be ex-
amined to determine nature of organ-
isms present. This will indicate the 
necessary treatment. Under correct 
treatment the condition will readily 
respond. 
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EXERCISE AFTER FOOD: Ques.—
"Please advise me whether egg, almonds 
or dry grapes should be taken before 
exercise or after exercise. Many people 
differ in their opinions of this matter." 
Ans.—Most authorities advise that 
one should not engage in strenuous ex-
ercise immediately after a heavy meal. 
However, exercise immediately after a 
glass of milk or a handful of raisins 
should not give any trouble at all to 
one who is in normal health. 
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ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; THIN-
NING HAIR: Ques.—"(1) For the past 
few years I have been suffering from 
some trouble in my abdomen. I have 
regular motions but occasionally I will 
be either constipated or pass loose mo-
tions containing reddish mucus. There 
is always a feeling of heaviness in the 
stomach. Often during the afternoons I 
have pain in the left side of my chest 
accompanied by feelings of mental de-
pression. After every meal I feel un-
satisfied and crave more food. I am 
thirty-one years old, 5' 11" tall and 
weigh 185 lbs. There are periods of sev-
eral weeks when I am free from these 
symptoms and then I feel quite well. I 
smoke about twenty-five cigarettes 
daily. Your advice will be valued. (2) 
My wife is twenty-eight years old and 
is quite healthy, but her hair is thin-
ning down considerably. When younger 
she had a profuse growth of hair but 
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since the birth of our two children she 
has become almost bald. Is there any-
thing we can do to prevent her hair 
from falling?" 
Ana.—(1) The vague discomfort you 
feel in the abdomen and the occasional 
diarrhoea may be due to intestinal para-
sites such as worms or amoeba. I would 
advise that you have a careful physical 
examination and a microscopic exami- 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
nation of your stool on three different 
occasions as amceba are sometimes not 
found on examination of just one speci-
men. We do not advise anyone to 
smoke and twenty-five cigarettes a day 
is quite a lot. You should stop alto-
gether. You are just slightly overweight 
for your height. A person 5' 5" tall 
should weigh between 153 and 165 lbs. 
You are apparently eating sufficient 
food to keep your weight up even 
though you do not feel satisfied. (2) 
Thinning hair, in otherwise healthy in-
dividuals, usually proceeds in spite of 
all efforts to check it. It would be well 
to have your wife carefully examined 
by a competent physician and have a 
Kahn test done to be sure that she 
does not have some unapparent disease 
which might be causing her loss of hair. 
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1949 
THE MIRACLE OF EVIL 
ARTHUR S. MAXWELL 
DURING World War II, as re- 
ports began to filter through 
concerning the torture of prisoners 
in concentration camps and the de-
struction of thousands of men. 
women, and children in specially 
constructed incinerators, many peo-
ple simply refused to believe that 
the stories could be true. They could 
not conceive that human beings 
could be guilty of such bestial 
cruelty. "Propaganda!" they ex-
claimed. "Just more war propa-
cranda!" 
Yet the stories were true, as photo-
graphs and innumerable eyewitness 
accounts have clearly demonstrated. 
Unbelievable though it seemed at the 
time, mankind had indeed sunk that 
low. 
Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, 
then editor of the Christian Century, 
was one of those who for long was 
convinced that the reports were only 
"atrocity-mongering," as he called it. 
But at last he surrendered to the 
facts, sadly declaring: "It will be 
a long, long time before our eyes 
will cease to see those pictures of 
naked corpses piled like firewood or 
of those mounds of carrion flesh and 
bones.... The thing is well-nigh in-
credible. But it happened. Buchen-
wald and the other memorials of 
Nazi infamy reveal the depths to 
which humanity can sink, and has 
'unk. in these frightful years." 
With victory came the conviction 
that such horrors would never be 
known again. Total destruction of all 
those responsible for this deviltry, 
with all their works, and all their 
sources of power, must, it was 
thought, surely cleanse the earth for 
all time. 
So men hoped. But they were mis-
taken. The evil spirits were not exor-
cised by bombs and shells. In new 
places and under different guises 
they have begun to reappear, reveal-
ing that there are yet new depths of 
savagery for humanity to plumb. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
With hostilities not yet four years 
past, and peace not yet signed, the 
world is witnessing the emergence 
of an abomination unparalleled in 
all the sordid, terror-filled story of 
the race. 
What we see now is not merely 
the torment of the body, frightful 
as that can be, and has been, but 
the torture of the soul, and twisting 
of man's inner being, his mind, his 
centre of control, until he is no 
longer the man he was—until, 
while his outward appearance is un-
altered, his will power is shattered, 
his judgment destroyed, his reputa-
tion ruined. What he once reckoned 
evil he now calls good, and good, 
evil. 
By what damnable alchemy this 
change is wrought the Western 
world is still in ignorance. Some 
have suggested that it is caused by 
the torture, not of the individual 
himself, but of his loved ones, his 
The stamp of Satan is on the atrocities 
committed around the world today. 
mother, wife, or children. Others 
have concluded it is due to the ad-
ministering of some dread potion 
having a catastrophic effect upon hu-
man nerves and brain. 
Before his arrest Cardinal Mind-
zensky issued a document, now pub-
lished by the London Tablet, telling 
in detail how "confessions" are ex-
torted behind the Iron Curtain. A 
prisoner is deprived of water until 
he is almost dying of thirst, then 
given a drink in which actedron, a 
nerve destroying agent, has been dis-
solved. The first reaction is a revival 
of self confidence, followed by a 
"strong headache and vertigo; then 
a steadily increasing sense of un-
certainty.... Finally he becomes 
semiconscious. He is paralyzed, as 
though he were in a hypnotic trance. 
Neither his judgment nor his mem-
ory functions any more.... He has 
an urge blindly to obey the slightest 
orders, and is psychologically in-
capable of saying 'no' to anything." 
Whether or not this is an accurate 
description of the method of soul-
destruction now being practised in 
the torture chambers of communism 
we shall not know until the Iron 
Curtain has been eliminated. But all 
the world can see the horrible pro-
cess in operation. It has beheld a 
prince of the Roman Church, a man, 
whatever his faults, long noted for 
his strength of character and convic-
tions, changed into a grovelling weak-
ling, a shadow of his former self. 
It has seen leaders of the Protestant 
churches in Bulgaria weeping in 
court, confessing political crimes of 
which every reasonable person 
knows they were never guilty. 
Here, surely is wickedness at its 
zenith. No outrage could be worse 
in the sight of God than this cal-
lous. demoniacal wrecking of the 
mind, character, and influence of 
upright men. Time magazine rightly 
named it the "miracle of evil." 
Such monstrous wickedness bears 
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upon it the stamp of Satan himself; 
and it may well be that in this new 
manifestation of heartless inhu-
manity we are witnessing a new ful-
filment of the prophetic word: "Woe 
to the inhabiters of the earth and 
of the sea! for the devil is come 
down unto you, having great wrath, 
because he knoweth that he hath but 
a short time." Revelation 12:12. 
If ever there was a time when 
Christian people should be praying 
for each other, and in particular for 
those upon whom the full fury of 
the enemy has fallen, that time is 
now. Beyond question all who name 
the name of Jesus are about to face 
DR. PAUL AEBERSOLD, chief of 
the Isotope Division of the 
Atomic Energy Commission, has been 
studying physiological processes with 
radioactive isotopes. He believes 
that humans since the beginning of 
time have drawn on a universal 
atomic bank. 
His study reveals that half the 
atoms constituting a human body are 
exchanged every six months. Half the 
water (which constitutes seventy-five 
per cent of the body) is replaced 
once a fortnight, only an infinitesi-
mal amount remaining more than 
a month. Half the other main body 
substances—sodium, potassium, and 
sulphur—are replaced each month, 
and half the body's carbon every two 
months. Other minor ingredients are 
exchanged at a much lower rate. 
Actually, said Dr. Aebersold, it was 
doubtful if one atom remained with 
the body continuously from birth to 
death. That would mean that a 
person born pure Aryan would in 
the course of his life have a consider-
able portion of atoms used by Ne-
groes, Chinese, or even Australian 
Aborigines. 
Bodies of people living today 
probably contain thousands of atoms 
from Julius Caesar, the queen of 
Sheba, Henry VIII, and, for that 
matter, all the ancestors of mankind, 
said Dr. Aebersold. 
These scientific findings should 
add another string to the bow of 
psychologists as they study the 
peculiarities of human behaviour. Of 
course we believe that such monsters 
of iniquity as Pope Alexander Bor-
gia and others of like ilk may have 
their counterparts today—but we do 
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a time of testing the like of which 
His people have never known, a time 
of trouble "such as never was." 
Daniel 12:1. As never before we 
should seek to "put on the whole 
armour of God" that we may be 
able "to stand against the wiles of 
the devil" and "to quench all the 
fiery darts of the wicked." Ephesians 
6:11, 16. 
Only God can give us strength to 
stand at such a time, against such 
a foe. Only the miracle of love 
divine, of God's grace and power 
in the individual life, can suffice to 
overcome the awful miracle of evil. 
Let us seek His power today. 
not think it is because of some un-
lucky stroke whereby they have in-
herited the identical atoms. Human 
behaviour is governed by the will. 
Man is not controlled by the electri-
cal forces of which he is composed. 
The psalmist has observed that 
nian is "fearfully and wonderfully 
made." Ps. 139:14. If this was clear 
to David some three thousand years 
ago, surely we have abundant evi-
dence to the fact today! Can this 
knowledge lead us to do any less 
then he did then? Said he: "I will 
praise Thee; ... marvellous are Thy 
works; and that my soul knoweth 
right well. My substance was not 
hid from Thee, when I was made in 
secret, and curiously wrought in the 
lowest parts of the earth. Thine -eyes 
did see my substance, yet being un-
perfect; and in Thy book all my 
members were written, which in con-
tinuance were fashioned, when as yet 
there was none of them." Verses 14-
16. 
Compare this language with our 
present knowledge of anatomy and 
its development, and let us praise 
our God as did David of old for all 
the preciousness of His thoughts to-
ward us. Does not the language of 
Inspiration speak in the language of 
modern science when it says of the 
thoughts (atoms) of God toward us: 
"0, God! how great is the sum of 
them! ... they are more in number 
than the sand." Ps. 139:17, 18. 
Whenever the Bible touches on 
true science it has always been 
proved right up to date. How much 
more up to date and suitable to our 
present problems and needs are its 
moral claims upon the human 
ATOMS OF CAESAR OR BORGIA! 
which controls such a marvellous 
electrical organism as the body! 
After making some observations 
about the resurrection of the body, 
Paul anticipates an objection com-
mon to the thinking of men in all 
ages. "But some man will say, How 
are the dead raised up? and with 
what body do they come?" 1 Cor. 
15:35. In the light of observable 
science he remarks on the foolishness 
of such a question, citing the fact of 
germination of seeds and growth in-
to plant life as an example. 
With our present knowledge of 
atomic science his words gather 
added force. It is clear now that all 
matter is composed of atoms which 
ever continue as part of the living 
creation of God. Even the processes 
of corruption have in them the germs 
of life in a new form. Nature has 
-been invested with the power to re-
produce these new forms of life ac-
cording to a regular pattern. This 
being so. Paul reasons, it is not hard 
to conceive that God who created the 
natural processes should be able, on 
a set day, to bring all who have died 
to renewed life in a body identical 
in all aspects with their original, but 
possessing in it none of the original 
elements of corruption. 
"So also is the resurrection of the 
dead. It is sown in corruption; it is 
raised in incorruption: it is sown in 
dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is 
sown in weakness; it is raised in 
power: it is sown a natural body; it 
is raised a spiritual body." 1 Cor. 
15:42-44. 
Having then removed from the 
atoms that earthiness which was 
added with the curse of disobedience 
and which has been the cause of a 
constant breaking down and ex-
change process in physical life, the 
body is destined to maintain a 
perfect youthful vigour for all eter-
nity. The atom bank from which it 
shall draw its supplies will have been 
completely cleansed from previous 
limitations. Subject then to a will in 
tune with the Infinite, and under His 
special favour, the body we shall 
then possess will be capable of feats 
unimagined in this present existence. 
In Christ we have the promise of 
entrance into the ideal life: "The 
first man is of the earth, earthy: the 
second man is the Lord from heaven. 
... And as we have borne the image 
of the earthly [and we all do], we 
shall also bear the image of the 
heavenly." 1 Cor. 15:47-49. The pro-
cess by which this is to be effected 
is nothing less than the resurrection 
THE ORIENTAL R ATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
The hectic conditions in the world assure the Bible student that the 
coming of Christ is just at hand. 
to take place at Christ's second 
coming. 
"Behold. I show you a mystery; 
we shall not all sleep, but we shall 
all be changed, in a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye, at the last 
trump for the trumpet shall sound, 
and the dead shall be raised incor-
ruptible, and we shall be changed. 
For this corruptible must put on in-
corruption, and this mortal must put 
on immortality. So when this cor-
ruptible shall have put on incorrup-
tion, and this mortal shall have put 
on immortality, then shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is 
written, Death is swallowed up in 
victory." 1 Cor. 15:51-54. 
The more reflection is given to the 
great facts of observable science and 
the proved findings of the mathema-
ticians. the more reasonable the pro- 
mise of the resurrection will appear. 
Paul was able to stress this cardinal 
point of the Christian faith to the 
most learned philosophers of his day. 
Come now, and let us reason to-
gether" has always been the invita-
tion of the gospel. Given a fair 
hearing, there has always been but 
one outcome—the dedication of the 
reasoner's life to the resurrected 
Christ. —R. P. B. 
WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? 
GLADYS WILSON FLETCHER 
WE ARE living in an unusual age 
of this world's history; that 
much is agreed to by everyone. This 
age is perhaps best characterized as 
one of rapid and sweeping changes. 
Within the span of a single lifetime 
the world has progressed from the 
age of steam to the age of electricity, 
and now to the age of the atom. 
These changes are revolutionary, 
and history records no precedent for 
them. In the past, men have had no 
reason to expect a revolution every 
twenty-five years, or even every fifty 
years. For a real revolution must cut 
deeply into the habits of people, and 
people are usually slow to change. 
As one historian expresses it: "Any 
fundamental change which affects a 
large number of people, altering 
their mode of living, their habits of 
thought, ar their form of govern-
ment, may be styled a revolution." 
Although people are generally 
agreed that our age is an unusual 
one, they differ widely in their re-
action to it. Some, perhaps the great 
majority, are complacent and indif-
ferent, seeking only to obtain a maxi-
mum of creature comforts for them-
selves, and neither seeking nor find-
ing any larger interpretation for the 
course of events. Others are puzzled 
and apprehensive, foreseeing some 
inevitable climax, either a universal 
Utopia or the complete destruction 
of the civilized world. 
But students of the Bible, no mat- 
ter what their denomination, are 
unanimous in agreeing that if the 
Bible has any validity at all, the 
hectic conditions of our day fore-
shadow the second coming of Christ 
and the end of the world. In spite of 
the rapid economic, political, and in- 
dustrial changes, there is a constant 
social, moral, and political tone 
which characterizes the people of the 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
made public ... by the Research and 
Development, Board." 
Conditions similar to those we are 
now witnessing were sufficient to pro-
voke God to destroy the entire earth 
which He had made so beautiful. 
Will He do any less to us today? 
They were sufficient justification for 
the total destruction of Sodom and 
Gomorrah also. 
People in Noah's time "knew 
nothing about it until the flood 
came." Like people today, they were 
"willingly ignorant." not because 
they had never heard, but because 
they paid no attention. They did not 
want to be disturbed; they preferred 
to believe a lie. 
Yet the time came when the ante-
diluvians were compelled to believe, 
because they saw the flood actually 
happening. But it was then too late 
to repent. And the time is corning 
when the modern world will be com-
pelled to believe because of what 
they see with their own eyes, but 
that kind of belief will profit them 
nothing. 
Meanwhile our general lack of 
faith has been well described by the 
apostle Peter: "First of all, you must 
understand this, that in the last days 
mockers will come with their mock-
eries, going where their passions lead 
and saying, 'Where is His promised 
coming? For ever since our fore-
fathers fell asleep everything has re-
mained as it was from the beginning 
of creation! For they wilfully ignore 
the fact that long ago there existed 
heavens and an earth which had 
been formed at God's command out 
of water and by water, by which 
also that world was destroyed. 
through being flooded with water. 
But by the same command the pres-
ent heavens and earth are stored up 
for fire, and are kept for the day 
when godless men are to be judged 
and destroyed." 2 Peter 3:3-7, Smith 
Goodspeed. 
What an accurate description of 
the "findings" of our modern scien-
tists! They ignore all the geological 
and other evidences of the flood, and 
assert that, since they started observ-
ing things a couple of hundred years 
ago. no such thing has happened, 
and, therefore, it never did happen. 
But remember the words of our 
Lord to Thomas: "Because thou 
hast seen Me, thou hast believed: 
blessed are they that have not seen, 
and yet have believed." John 20:29. 
"Watch ye therefore: ... And what 
I say unto you I say unto all, 
Watc.h.- Mark 13:35, 37. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, OCTOBER 1949 
modern world. That tone has been 
summarized by Christ Himself in 
these words: "For just as it was in 
the time of Noah. it will be at the 
just 
as �
of the Son of man. For 
as in those days before the flood 
people were eating and drinking, 
marrying and being married, until 
the very day Noah entered the ark, 
and knew nothing about it until the 
flood came and destroyed them all, 
so it will be at the coming of the 
Son of man." Matthew 24:37-39, 
Smith Goodspeed. 
It may be well to pause here 
and point out that the people of God 
simply must be students of current 
events, watchers of the heavens as it 
were, for it is through current events 
that God has always spoken to His 
people. The parents of Moses knew 
from the prophecies that it was time 
for a deliverer to be born among 
the Hebrews. Lil&wise, many pious 
people knew before Christ was born 
that His time had arrived. And the 
disciples of Christ knew, when they 
saw Titus' armies surround Jeru-
salem, that it was time for them to 
flee from that city. 
-Watch therefore," Christ told His 
disciples, "for in such an hour as 
ye think not the Son of man cometh." 
Matthew 24:42. 44. And "when ye 
shall see all these things, know that 
it is near. even at the doors.- Verse 
33. Obviously, unless one watches 
anxiously and tries to interpret what 
he sees, he will not discern the near-
ness of his Lord's return. But a true 
follower of Christ not only watches 
current events, but he predicates his 
actions and philosophy of life on 
what he sees. 
In the light of these observations. 
is it not in order to compare prevail-
ing conditions in our times with 
those which existed in the "time of 
Noah"? Are people today "eating 
and drinking" to excess? Yes, be-
cause although millions are starving 
in some places, those who have the 
money move from tavern to tavern, 
from club to club, from hotel to 
restaurant, in a constant round of 
cocktail parties, bridge luncheons, 
and beach suppers, eating for drunk-
enness rather than for strength. 
The people in Noah's day were 
so wicked that "the Lord saw that 
the wickedness of man on the earth 
was great, and that the whole bent 
of has thinking was never anything 
but evil," and "the Lord regretted 
that He had ever made man on the 
earth, and He was grieved to the 
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heart." Genesis 6:5. 6, Smith-Good-
speed. God found only one righteous 
man in all that world, and He would 
probably find it just as hard to find 
a really righteous man today. 
Many people who maintain an ap-
pearance of respectability delight in 
reading and hearing about crime and 
immorality, and that is why so much 
of that sort of thing is in news-
papers, magazines, comics, radio 
serials, novels, and movies. Truly, 
"the whole bent of our thinking is 
never anything but evil." This point 
is emphasized by the following re-
cent news item from London, Eng-
land: "The News of the World. a 
Sunday newspaper specializing in 
accounts of murders and divorces, 
announced tonight that its net cir-
culation exceeds 8,000,000 copies." 
"The earth was filled with 
violence" in Noah's time. In this 
hour of peace, China, Indonesia, and 
Palestine, to mention only three 
trouble spots, are filled with vio-
lence. But other "peace-loving" na-
tions are preparing for violence, as 
witness the following news item: 
"American military scientists appear 
to be working on the idea of a 
`thinking' guided missile that• will 
identify the intended target from a 
picture, then attack it. A hint of the 
development was contained in a 
'Glossary of Guided Missile Terms'