@ Interval Music
2.5 World History
â¹ 'Rome and Carthage: The Story of Hannibal'
E. A. Craddock
The story of Hannibal's march across the Alps is one of the most daring and sensational in the whole annals of military history. In the words of Plutarch: 'Hannibal led his army into the Alps..... As he passed through them he had many losses ; not only had he to fight the inhabitants of the mountains, but also to make his way through narrow passes. In certain places where the rocks were highest he was compelled to force a passage through by means of fire and vinegar.'
This afternoon listeners will hear how this passage was effected and why the Carthaginians under Hannibal were so jealous of the great empire across the Mediterranean.
2.25 Interval Music
2.30 Biology in the Service of Man
Health
'Diet'
H. Munro Fox, F.R.S.
This afternoon Professor Munro Fox will discuss the importance of diet insofar as the general health of the body is concerned. While illness and disease may be due in many cases to poisons in the body, they are frequently caused by the lack of essential vitamins in the food eaten. Among the most important substances contained in food are protein, iron, and calcium, and should there be lack of these elements in the human diet ill-health is the almost inevitable result. Vitamins themselves are no less important. These substances were discovered only some twenty-five years ago, when it was noticed that rats could not grow and develop healthily on a diet of purified food unless some natural food, such as milk, was added.
(From Midland)
