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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 1, 1 July 1925, Page 9

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MEDICAL SPECIALISTS ■ ■ ' "■ MEET ■■'■-v

EXPERTS AND NERVE SECRETS

(FROM OCS OWN COR!,l9fO!fDlirr.)

PARIS, 13th May,

Nearly sixty medical specialists from various parts of the world, and fifty of their French colleagues, have assembled in Paris to investigate the disooveriei made in one of the :nost mysteriout spheres of life by .in eminent French physiologist, Professor Lapicque. With the- assistance of his wife, who hold* the degree of Doctor of Science, Professor Lapicque has devoted 20 years to experiments which have thrown a great -deal of light on the operation of the nerves of the human body. The professor is generally unknown to the public, but the importance of hie work is sufficiently attested by 'the present gathering of experts from England, America, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Argentina, and even distant China. It is quite possible that Professor Lapicque's observations may leadeventually to the diagnosis of various forms of mental disease by means of electric currents. ■ MAKING X-RAYS SAFER A filter which it is believed will enable X-rays to be juscd without danger was described at yesterday's meeting of the Academy of Science in a paper by AIM. J. Risler and P. Mondain, read by Professor Berthelot. , -The filter, which is made of .plastic.substances, is' impervious to ah 'ray* except red and yellow which so far from being injurious serve as cures for lesions caused by other colours forming part of the X-rays. The invention open* up a prospect of treating tanoer by filtering the rays so as to us'j only those that can be employed with safety. NEW CARNAVALET President Doumergue yesterday at* tended the formal opening of the new wing of the Musue Carnavalet, in which a great many in cresting relics of the history of Paris are preserved.- ■ The new structure harmonises completely with the old house fomerly inhabited by Mme. de Sevigoe, and the museum now comprises 80 rooms. One of the most interesting of the new features is a collection of French' costume*. M. Maurice Quentin, president of the' Municipal Council, in :r charming speech said that Carnavaict was far from being one of those gloomy monuments in which the legacies of a vanished past deep in the icy cold of a royal tomb. It was alive with the image* of a history of twenty centuries. TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT Some o? the most celebrated French" ' air pilots have been consulted v to' the possibility of flying acroei the Atlantic this year. Captain Pelletier Deity, the hero of the great flight from Farii to Tokio, thinks that the feat might be accomplished, but only with a good deal of luck. Bossoutrot. who took hi* machine to Dakar, on the west eoait of I Africa, and held the long-dittance record for g, considerable time, think* that it would be quite postible to fly from New , York to Paris this yeer, but not from > Paris to New York, the prevailing wind* i being westerly. He believe* that Transatlantic flight will become a practical proposition when constructors produce a machine with a radius of 4500 miles and a speed of 120 miles an hour. Such a machine would need three engines. A leading constructor predicted that in five years the problem would be solved by a monoplane with thick wines, in which the onginee, pet rol tanks, and passenger* would be carried. "COURTS OF LOVE" ' It i* proposed to revive the ancient ' "courts of love," or asuembliee of poets ar-d rhetoricians, in the neighbourhood of Paris. Poets are to »<ind in a sonnet and a madrigal, to be read at the first "court," which is to be held on Suucay, 7th June, in a garden ou the eastern fringe of Paris, under the auspices of. the "Realm of Chimeras," which is an offshoot, dating from Ist April, of a very old society of poets, the Rosati. The , realm will begin by electing a poetess r.s its queen, and she will be provided with heralds, pages, chambermaids, and even ambassadors. According to Mme. Mir-ane-Def&ns, wao discharges the functioii* of regent, the court costumes will anticipate the style of the future and will be "very 1935." The men will probably wear whit a trousers, black tail coats with white lapels, and bunches of white ribbons aft the shoulder. As ts the women the question if more complicated, and has not yet been settled, but they will be expected to v?car the arms of the realm—a gold chimera (a fantastic heraldic figure composed of parts of different animals) on a blue ground. MME. ZOLA DEAD . The death is announced, at the age Gf 35, of Mme. Zola, widow of the celebrated novelist, whose remains are interred in the vaults of the Pantheon. H» death, which took place in 1902, wan , caused by gas from a defective stove. He was found one morning lifeleu on the floor of his bedroom. He had apparently awakened and tried to open tho window, but was overcome and aephysiated before he could reach it. Mme. Zola, who was lying insensible in' bed, was saved just in the rick of time. Sincu ' her husband's d&ith, ehe had lived in strict retirement, her only public appearances being e,t some ceremony held in honour of his memory. She spent a considerable part of her income in ity-EX-SULTAN'S QUiET LIFE. His late CheiiSan Majesty Muley Hafid, ex-Sultaa of Morocco, who, as announced a few-'davs ago, has applied for and obtained permission to live in French torritoiy, is now slaying incog--nito in a Paris hotel -until a nouie, probably at Versailles, c&.i' be found for him. He makes no attempt to keep up any I 1 appearance of rank, and no one meeting him could imagine that the quiet, bearded man in the red fe-. once held sway over a warlike people He sided with the enemy during the war, and, after his abdication, retired to Spain, where he , lived for yeavß on German subsidies and tho proceeds of his crown jewel*. The French Government generously pardoned his defection, and is now arranging to grant him a pension which, according to ."Excelsior," will amount to 380,000 francs a year. THE GENEROUS THIEF A thief who gave away the proceeds of his misdeeds is the latest curiosity to come under the notice of the Paris police. A youpg man rumed Valade was observed handing fivo-franc notes to pas-ers-by ir tho Boulevard de' la Chapelle on Sunday night. He was arrested and taken to the station, where he stated that'he had stolen 30,000 francs from a pork butcher's shop. Ho added that hi> had sent 15,000 francs to friends in thu country, and given tho rest away to strangers whono looks appealed to him . He is detained in custody,