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tO Tne Sydnay Morning Herald, War. 28, 1964 ft WAS IT A DEATH PACT BETWEEN THE CROWN PRINCE AND BARONESS? Shipshape Shape MAGAZINE SECTION AFTER 75 YEARS Mayerling Remains Of Ships To Come Nicholas Monsarrat and David Divine are old hat these days. They've taken their places in the annals of A Mystery By ROBERT PAYNE nautical fiction along with Kipling and Conrad. TVTO longer do decrepit IN tramps wallow creak- units can be operated from the tower by remote con, trol. This is no small achievement when it is con- By GRAHAM BENNETT mg tnrougn a Liuna sea typhoon, the drink-ravaged skipper regaining his self- siucieu mui norgsten powered by the largest die respect while facing green On January 30, 1889 75 yeora ago Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the throne of the Austro-IIungarian Empire, teas found shot to death in the hunting lodge at Mayerling, a small village south-tcest of Vienna.

Beside him lay the naked body of the 17-year-old Baroness Maria Vetsera. The Crown Prince, who ua 30, had apparently shot the baroness in the early hours of the morning and some hours later turned the revolver on himself. Why? To .1 11.. I seas on the open bridge and engine ever built in Britain. a lO-cylinder unit of h.p.

The next step is the nianl ning of engine-rooms on twJ 8-hour shifts, with nobodj on for the other i hours and control transfer MacUregor down neiow praying the engines will hold together until she gets to Shanghai. The typhoons still blow in season, but everything else has changed. The weather-beaten rule-of- une rraiij nnuws. Franz Karl Joseph of Habs- burg-Lothringen had everything to live for. He was reu to ine nnage, wnere i rPHE death of the Crown Prince had the effect of a shock wave travelling back and forth not only that his mysterious death seemed to symbolise the approaching dissolution of an empire, the end of an era; it implicated all the struments in tne control console will show engini operating temperatures, lubl rication conditions nnH across the empire.

European monarchies and 7 Far more than the mortal essential miormauon. Apart from the need fol 1 three months before his death, Rudolph met the young Baroness Maria Vetsera for the tirst time. The meeting, carefully arranged by the baroness, took place in the Prater, just ouiside Vienna. It was followed a few days later by a secret rendezvous in his bachelor apartments in the Imperial Palace. They were not alone, for Countess Marie Larisch, Rudolph's first cousin and a close friend of the Vetscras, was with them.

Maria had vowed to conquer Rudolph, and she felt after this second meeting a etncicncy and tor ellcctivi I life of a young and brilliant prince was involved. It was i The young Crown Prince (left). Be. not in the least a comic-opera prince, but a high-minded, sensible, serious man who spoke four or five languages, wrote books which can still be read with pleasure, and was deeply aware of his responsibilities. DEBONAIR Me was handsome and debonair, immensely attractive to women, popular with the troops he commanded.

His mother, the Empress Elizabeth, was perhaps the i- A 'rat -miF thumb skipper is growing roses ashore, his place taken by a highly skilled technician in charge of a million pounds' worih of scientific equipment. The decrepit tramps have gone to the scrapyard. The science of moving goods by sea is so complex that only the most efficient, specialised vessels can hope to stay in business. The open bridge has given way to a control-room which looks uncannily like Ihe flight deck of a jet aiiliner. As for Mac-, cuuuui oi inese monsteij which man has created, th highly developed contrdj equipment has the objectivl the entire fabric of monarchal rule.

The truth Is that we are still very much in the dark about the death of the Crown Prince. The mystery of Mayerling, the theme of countless romances, films and plays, remains unresolved. Crown Prince Rudolph or reuucing laoour costs. 1 I ok, Prince Rupert's body is carried from the hunting lodge. Small Crew The control tower of the Borgslen.

Maria Vetsera That this has beJ achieved in incredible degrj most beautilul ot all 4 4 empresses, little nearer her goal. him. The baroness was also is ue muiiMraieu oy tne faj The answer was drecor. nes wonuennc W5 WrWV If he had very little affec mat lioigsien is carrying he'll have a job I unorthodox for 14 any crew or only js dunne hM neiuicr nnice iiiiu mj t- i first six months at sea aiJ Coburg. who had just ar- long co ncc rived, nor Count Hoyos it is.

hoped to reduce this Rudolph was not averse to being conquered by this charming little chatterbox. She had fine eyes, a pert nose, a generous mouth and a determined little chin. She was no ravishing beauty, davs the skinner runs the another five years. The de- entered the death chamber. tion for his father, Franz Joseph, that impeccably correct and discreet emperor who had the mentality of a provincial postmaster, that was not a matter of great moment, for the Emperor engine-room from the bridge signer decided on a live storey tower with a marked It was decided that Count Hoyos should drive at once to Vienna to bring the news in the ligiil ot experfl ence.

0 A most unusual vessel, tlj first of her type to tj launched in Europe is cil resemblance to an airport it and to hell wun muc-Gregor. The changes which have occurred in ship design and but she was pretty and un control tower. Here, 75 to the Emperor, the Empress was not in the habit of in feet above the watcrline. deniably seductive. Her mother was the rentiy Being completed spiring auection captain and officers have an 2 operation in the last iu Malnio.

Christened Pal Whenever he grew weary daughter of a rich Armen unobstructed view around the horizon. Access to this cnaacott, sne is designed fa and the Crown Princess Stephanie. CONFUSED Following Loschck's ac the rather mechanical, years are secona oniy to ine transition from sail to ian banker from Constanti 1 "HUCIIffl nople, her father belonged to air-conditioned room" is by lift. peiroieum gas at aimosphei the lesser Austrian nobility. court life in Vienna, he could always find a group of convivial friends to join him on a hunting expedition or pressure ana polling ten Bui even this height can Thn pn Ti On January 29 Count count he told a confused story of how the Crown Prince had died of poison Hoyos dined with Rudolph.

give an adequate view pt carried by the ship are nr tuhit ta nmnn tlm-toi tin i r. he could amuse himself by bird-watching he was an pane, butane and some othi It was, according to the count, a very simple meal hydrocarbons, as well bows in confined waters or when berthing. administered by the baroness. This was a very odd story indeed, but a excellent ornithologist. ammonia.

consisting of soup, goose-1 liver pie, roast beef, veni- So a short mast was fitted steam. In the matter of size alone, there has been a revolution. A decade ago, a tanker of 20,000 tons was considered large. Today Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd.

is openly inviting orders for tankers of 120,000 tons and the day of the is already dawning. Similarly with passenger ships, the liners which hurried out from Tilbury in six weeks before the When liquefied, these sa- convenient fiction was in He was deeply interested in military alTairs, and he took his military duties son and pastry. vented; it was decided to require only between 13M and 1500 of the corresponl ing qaseous volume. TM Rudolph was in an expan- seriously. He was Field- attribute bis death to heart failure.

Marshal, Vice-Admiral and right in the bows, as a mounting for a closed-circuit television camera. From controls on the navigating tower, the officer of the watch can pan and tilt the design temperature is mini i 1. uenerai inspector or infantry. It was a full life, and utiuc. vcuuiiue an 1-11 Two days later the court physician, Dr Hermann von Widerhofer, reported to the Emperor that Rudolph had been killed instantly by the the containers to expand SV "3 I here were, however, two contract according to the ivr ii- clouds on tbe horizon.

He camera at will, seeing what the camera sees, faithfully! reproduced on a screen at his side. war have given way to which can a jar1 -3 w-ibl-to' tates of temperature vara 3 had married, in 1881, Prin- lions, a bullet and suitcred no pain. The Emperor was thunderstruck. What bullet? cess Stephanie, the daughter Just to ensure there is no When? How? Told that are built of nickel alloy st and arc uninsulated, prevent possible leakast slip-up, the camera has been specially adapted for marine use. It is mounted in a Rudolph had apparently do the trip in three weeks.

Competitive The reasons are obvious. A passenger ship with twice the capacity and twice the speed will handle four times the passenger load a year. Although there are many gas from causing an expl heavy-duty weatherproof: shot Maria Vetsera and later turned the revolver on himself, the Emperor col Why Diseases Have Odd The diseases which have afflicted us through- out history have not changed very much, but our Jl 3,111 GS ot Leopold of Belgium. It was not a love match. The princess was plain, oddly colourless.

She had little education, a hot temper and a stubborn will. GAWKY At the time of the marriage she was only IS, a Housing, witn an automatic sion, tne space Between li containers and the insula: safety shutter to protect the lapsed on the tloor. hull will be filled with ma lube trom direct sunlight, a gen, an inert gas. Specialisation, automatic factors to be taken into the thermostatically controlled heater unit for effective Jose Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn in the TV version of "Mayerling." By the Emperor's orders there began the long, arduous and always dangerous expedient of concealing the evidence. Documents con equation, the overall econo understanding of them has.

greater size and highf operation at low tempera mics of the change help to speeds have complex lures, a sun-shroud to assist keen shipping in a competi victims of tuberculosis were! cause some doctor hits upon By A DOCTOR transformed the ships. Wd cooling in tropical condi nected with the case werel gawky schoolgirl. Since the marriage was brought about for dynastic reasons, Rudolph, with his keen sense of the obligations of royalty. TyHEN doctors had no! X-rays, no micro- term that captivates the of the crews? Today tw tive position. The growth in the size of tankers has impounded and kept in sec tions, twin aircraft-lypel floodlamps for night use, and layman's fancy.

Consider for that they were suffering from phthisis or consumption. What else could the are specialists, trained to she mood, drank a good deal of wine, and said nothing that could possibly be! interpreted as showing that ret tiles. been dictated not only by moment post-nasal dis higher degree than about because of a more precise understanding of the There were men in high wash and wipe controls to keep the lens cover glass economics but also by the charge." before. With rapid carl doctor say? he was suffering from melan sheer impossibility ot cop In the past, this has cone As the doctor watched the clear during freezing or bad positions who wanted to get rid of Rudolph for his liberal opinions. became a willing victim, and he learned to Regard her with tolerance and affection, doting on the daughter she gave Kim two years after ing with the mushrooming cholia or intended to lull actual factors responsible for disease.

Take, for example, the problem of back handling methods, us stays in port are extrems short. (The patient from day to day, he himself. demand for oil except by such terms as catarrh, rhinorrhea, rheum, and a variety of other terms. Men weather conditions. Control Room Someone perhaps manvl At 9 clock he rose and bv the employment of tanker Borgsten, mention! saw him being slowly consumed by a disease which neither he nor the patient could understand.

their marriage. said he was going to take care of a cold which he had people was lying. Count Hoyos, Loschek and Prince Philipp all acted strangely: copes or blood tests to rely on, the diagnosis, and naming of diseases was limple. Treatment was also simple, too simple. More often than not, the patient died.

In early Judeo-Christian times, disease was associated with dirt and filth. The Mosaic laws attempted to establish some rules of hygiene at a time when no one could understand that Meanwhile he was con have apparently always had coughing, sneezing and discharging from nostrils. But size increases are ache. In the older day, this might have been diagnosed as "lumbago" or "sciatica." "Lumbago" meant that the patient had a pain in the small of his back. "Sciatica" earlier, can discharge entire cargo in 11 hoc: Hence they are entitled the comfortable onlv minor among the tinually having affairs with women, notably with a Similarly, the patient with thev seemed to know far fa point of fact, the term "control room" is not far short of the truth.

Officer of the watch and helmsman sit in comfortable swivel chairs caught. I hey arranged to meet again at breakfast after which they would go: Catarrh seems like a vul changes which are taxing a rash was told that he had pretty dancer, Mizzi Kas- more about tbe deaths in the hunting lodge than they ever provided. Single cabins, gar term. Post-nasal dis pox. In some cases, it par, who amDlv returned his out hunting.

vate bathrooms, full charge is far more elegant. admitted. might be further described affection while at the same before a comprehensive con At 8 clock Count Hovos1 meant that the patient had pain running down the side of his leg, following the conditioning, swimm Rabelasian terminology It was remembered, too, sole. Arranged before them pools, Soccer practice fieli as the great pox or the "small pox." was about to join Rudolph for breakfast when a guard was proper in its day but are controls for intercom cinemas and every possil Rabelais, writine todav. of the sciatic nerve.

As doctors became more phones to all parts of the came running up with the comfort are the order ot would be considered porno that the Prime Minister, Count Edward Taaffe, had shown extraordinary elation when told of the prince's death. place. When the tanker Borgsten was designed in Britain recently for Norwegian owners, it was found that, with her beam of 120 feet, it was possible to provide adequate accommodation for her personnel in a comparatively squat structure. From the normal type of bridge, placed atop the accommo- news that the Crown Prince's time acting as a police spy and as an agent of the German Government. To close friends Rudolph sometimes confessed that his marriage to the Belgian princess was a burden to him.

IT was only years later, that doctors were able ship, radar, echo-sounder, day. so many of our infectious diseases are transmitted from person to person by micro-organisms. What the graphic or crude, and his books might be banned. To The use of small gyro compass repeaters, tachometer, speed log and personal servant, Loschek. had been unable to wake his master.

to identify the "great pox" as being due to syphilis and highly trained crews ensc: read Shakespeare, the mod He had most to gain, anc ather devices. that there is still room skilled in the diagnosis of backache (and had X-rays and more surgery to guide them), it' becicne gradually apparent that "lumbago" was really a meaningless term because so many dif eye could not see, the mind could not understand. ern High school or college: smallpox due to a virus The other cloud was a Count Hoyos was not par More significant and this MacGrecor. he was not the kind of man who would let opportunities infection. "Chicken" pox is where Macureeor mav course he takes tvainins Epilepsy and insanity were was classihed still later.

pass him by. show his concern al student needs a glossary ot terms to understand the language which was familiar to the average man of that lation, the view aheac darker one. Both on his father's and his mother's side, Rudolph was related to the Bavarian roval house ft But if suspicion seems to electronics, the proper) and handling of liquet! In describing diseases, ould be almost entireh considered tbe result 01 an Invasion of the person's mind or body by "evil ferent conditions could point heavily to the Prime doctors try to be as specific olocked by the 700 feet ol petroleum gas and whale cause the same kind of pain. day. though orders are usually passed to the engine-room in normal manner, the main engine and ancillary of Wittelsbach, in which nirits" or "filthy spirits, between bridge and The modern doctor can as they can, but wnen tney do not.

understand the cause other variations the designers think up. Minister, there is no hnal Droof. We may never know what happened. It may have ticularly alarmed. "He is probably sleeping very well and soundly," he said.

Then he walked to the lodge, found Loschek, and learnei that at 6.30. Rudolph, fulh dressed, had told Loschek to have the carriage ready and breakfast prepared 7.30. He also told Loschei that he was going back tr. there ran a pronounced bows. not "read" intelligently pre-J The concept of evil spirits as cause of disease extended strain of insanity.

Slipped Disc Kidney diseases, sprains of a condition, when they cannot pinpoint precisely the mere were occasions scnptions written a century ago. Language is a living been suicide, but it is more likely to hove been murder. through the Middle Ages. Blood-letting and trephin when the Empress Eliza basic tault, tney are torced thing and is subject to beth acted strangely, and to use. descriptive terms.

ing (making a hole in the and arthritis of the lumbar spine were all common causes. Searching still further, some doctors detected chance in time. This is es still stranger was the be ikullj were carried out so as pecially true ot medical bed and wanted to be awak-i haviour of her cousin, Kine With the death of Rudolph, there died the last hope for a new and enlightened monarchy. At the age of 84. Franz Joseph, the most unwarlike language.

Ludwig II of Bavaria, the to let out the beoeviimeni which lav within. If such In skin diseases, especially, many old terms have remained because more specific causes have not yet been found. Terms like a small, cartileginous' tumor of the spine I erminology otien friend of Richard Wanner. who progressively escaped wwJ st- --rq- changes because concepts change and because new dis treatments did not hasten the departure of the "evil spirits" they often hastened of emperors, blundered into pressing on the nerves and they believed that this, too, could cause backache. "acne vulgaris." "psoriasis, irom tne real world into a world of alluring fantasies.

eases are discovered ened in an hours time. Hoyos and Loschek ther decided that they shoulc both assume responsibility for breaking down the door but Loschek was to enter thi bedroflm alone and report. This was done. Loschek said the Crowr war with Serbia because "lichen planus," hark back! the departure 01 me puui.ni. created.

This is particularly l-ie aieo mysteriously in About 30 years ago, how true of man-made diseases to an older day when the doctor could merely describa 1886. SUPPOSE, during the ever, further progress was Franz Ferdinand, the heir to ihe throne, had been murdered by Serbian nation-ilists. With this war all our As technology advances, the Nevertheless, Rudolph made when Dr Joseph Barr, a condition in Latin or in Greek and in terms which man-made diseases appear to at the Massachusetts General gave ine impression ot a man completely in command of himself. Prince was lying over the Hospital, discovered that the he, and not the layman, be increasing with frightening rapidity. 'roubles began.

It mighi not have happened if Ru dolph had been alive. cartileginous tumor could understand. edge of the bed with a grea pool of blood in front Early in November, 1888, The tanker Borgsten. Even today, the word fLDER physicians never pressing on the spinal nerves was really not a tumour but Middle Ages, you lived in Italy in the valley of the Tiber River near Rome. Suppose one night you came down with a shaking chill and a high fever.

Suppose, too, that your illness (if you survived) left you very weak and your recovery was slow and uncertain. cancer is inexact and un V-f had to concern them slipped, herniated or rup clear because the cause of tured intervertebral disc. selves with pollution of the air by radio-active chemicals cancer is vet unknown. Can This, ot course, is a precise fron nuclear testing, cancer- term with precise meaning. causing hydrocarbons from it explained some back cer Is an old Latin term tor "crab" and.

in the ancient doctor's imaginative mind, cancer ate away at the tissues in much the same If you called the doctor, ed by the Dutch in the them with some cake?" 1 "What can I buy for the quokkas?" I asked the woman in quokkas was jamboll aches that bad previously the exhaust ot automobiles, or disease and disability re seventeenth century. When asked. around an adult female, he would have maae tne correct diagnosis malaria. been bard to understand. the bakery on Rottnest Island.

I was rather pleased at knowing they sulting from inhalation or became threatened tiny head of a joey protri The person with lumbago. way that a crab might go ingestion of insecticides. These are all man-made af therefore, may have a her about devouring its victims. ea irom ner pouch, it delightful sight and I cc how to pronounce quokka in the local fashion. If you live in Wlth extinction, the Western iyt.

A. it- Australian Government Western Australia, a quokka is a quogga. placed them under strict flictions and must be given Cancer, thus, is a dram But your doctor, at that time, could not have known that the disease was due to a microscopic parasite that was transmitted by a mos-ouilo. He called it "mal have lingered indefinitely niated disc, arthritis, or some other "disease." If the modern doctor can't atic term but one which we "Anything you like," said the guide. 1 offered the scraps gingerly, thinking of the lice.

The quokkas snatched and ran, gobbling furiously as they went. I thought them adorable, but there was also this nagging names. Strontium 90, smog protection. On Rottnest. "Now, ladies and gen1 all hope will soon be re-l have some of that," I said.

volubly about tbe military at least, there is hope that IDONT know quite what I expected to be offered: and Parathion are new words, all relating to called the guide, revving reach a more exact diag placed bv newer words that pointing to the sandstone garrison it had supported in World War II. This, it bus engine. He sec; nosis, he may still resort to cake. The woman reached modern, man-made diseases, not special quokka buns, to anxious to be on his aria" because "malaria' means "bad air." tbe older term lumbago. seemed, had been Rottnest's have more specific meanings.j Sometimes, styles in medical terminology change be be sure, or pretzels in the Mostly, however, new "It savs here that into the case and scraped together a handful of the fragments that had been In the field of chest con names in medicine come, finest hour, although not a shot had been fired in anger.

female kwarker loses young she can produce shape of a Q. If anything, six-penno'th of broken biscuits, perhaps, or ready-bagged stale bread. Bad Air, Demons Nothing was said about; chipped off the main mass. She held it out to me. aouDt.

"I gather," I murmured, moving close to the guide, "that they're in no danger now of becoming extinct here?" "Breeding like flamint other without further iney wm survive." Our guide waited patiently until she had done. Camera-Blase 'This is where the officers' mess stood," he said, pointing to a grassy mound. drove on. Five minutes later, in the middle of a long speech about what size of fish Western Australian holi ditions, new ideas and new words have appeared very rapidly. Not many years ago, the patient with respiratory symptoms had ing, said the Amen 'If I could have it in a When you've travelled woman.

"Now wouldnt the quokkas. "When'J he going to tell us about the kwarkers?" an American woman behind me muttered peevishly. "That's piece of paper, please think he'd have told more than 2,000 miles in the hone of seeing a unique either a cold, bronchitis eighteenth centuries, man tried to find more rational explanations for disease than bad air and demons. Doctors now began to be said. And how much do flies," he said.

"Come back that?" pneumonia, the 'flu or T.B.i I owe you?" But the guide was talk what weve come to animal, it's only natural to want to pay it some form of tribute. Rottnest The woman dumped the in ten years and there won be nobody else on the island but the He bit the TOURING World War II, day-makers usually catch on about the island water plies. "The Army scraps on a small piece ot lieve inai mere were iuui lifewC major fluids or humours in isn't it7" Her companion started rustling the pages of a book. a short boat-ride fromi tissue paper and pushed the word off into a cough and annual visits to Rottnest, he suddenly said: "I'd better was saving. however, many soldiers were found to have a variety of respiratory diseases which Perth, is the onlv place in heap toward me.

As Si Matthew cuts sound the horn. It lets Them the world where the tourist pretended to inspect the back tyre of the bus. In a shadv part of the "A quokka is not did not fit into these cate can see the vanishing species gories. Some of these cases know we're coming." He tooted, slowed on a bend and there, in a sort of' honour, save in his country." By TESS van SOMMERS known as the quokka or dell, a group of young were called primary atypical short-tailed pademelon, a wooded dell, they were, sort of kangaroo rat. pneumonia.

They were believed to be due to a virus; Not exactly tapping their "No charge," she said. When our guide fell silent, to allow us to drink in the In most tourist resorts marsupial hind feet impat hence, virus pneumonia. Then, with suppressed vio they cash in on that tort of Today, we know that ently, but sitting up and gazing at us, obviously expec thing. Not on Rottnest. lence: "I don know wnat ncoolo want to be feeding The bakery woman's ami there is no one virus pneumonia but more than 75 dif the body.

These humours were blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Diagnosis, now, was a little more complicated because doctors had to try to determine which mixtures of the various humours caused disease. The man with the ruddy face and the full-blooded look was called "sanguine" and was not suspected of having high blood pressure, because the blood pressure machine had not yet been invented. The person who was depressed was told that he was sulfcririg from "melancholia" whiih tant. beauties of a mouldering gun emplacement, she began reading aloud to her companion.

I've always admired the way Americans can read aloud in moving able expression vanished at mv question. She scowled THEM for, at all. If you knew what THEY do to us. Can't keep a thing growing. ferent viruses, all capable of causing similar symptoms.

ar 1 and planted her arms on her Not a thing, rences areni These are RS viruses, myxo-viruses, adenoviruses- and plump hips. Iheres only wnat you many others. Since some of any good. Noming is. Over everything, THEY are, destroying it.

Feed them! see here. That's all," she transport. I ve had the benefit of it all over the world. "The kwarker, a unique marsupial no bigger than a said curtlv. these viruses are treatable with 1 road spectrum antibiotics and some are not.

careful classification (and 1 peered into the glassed As we tumbled from the bus, the guide impassively produced and doled out three withered carrots. "Hang on hard when They go to take it," he advised. "If you don't. They snatch and run." The air became so full of clicking of cameras it sounded like a Zulu conference. Not only Americans but also native-born Australians used the word "cute" in a screaming tone.

The quokkas, nibbling at the carrots, posed screnelv. Some hare, which hops on its hind lees like a miniature counter case. Lamingtons, custard tarts, and a slab of cake that looked like sand naming) is important. meant that he had too much black bile (mela Hack: I teed 1 hkm Parltnn Shot The lamingtons bounced as she slammed the door of the glass case. I backed away, murmuring thanks.

I She called after me. "Cov-l ercd all over with lice. New ideas make for new- stone. "No bread?" I asked. "No bread," said the; woman heavily.

"What do you usually re-: kangaroo, is believed to have vanished from mainland Australia," she intoned. 'The only remaining members of the species are on some of the islands off the West Australian coast, notably Rottnest Island. These delightful little animals, which carry their young in the pouch, were first obscrv- THEY are, too." words. In medicine, the rush of ideas and words ha: been hectic. The end of ou growing vocabulary, hope, is not yet in sight.

The medical terminology of today will certainly seem primitive to the doctor of tomorrow. ommend 1 began cholia bile). Until the discoveiy ol the microscope, drctors no concept that the world whs inhabited bv tiny, invisible eie.itures that caused man of man's baffling Illnesses. Until the discovery of the tubercle bacillus. ITien I caught her eye; the of them even looked as if iheer hostility in it baulked We sat obediently in rows in the tourist bus while the driver rattled us over the bare little island.

Ulking Andreas Vesaliut, the anatomist the sixteenth century from a contemporary engraving. ine. they were turning their best profiles. "Do you mind if I try Perhaps youd let me.