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Page.4Al EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sat., April 21, 1S62 To Your Health There Are All Kinds Of Hernias By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Doi-tor Molner: I al ways thoupnt only men rould have hernias. My aunt was operated on for a tumor about a year ago. Recently on her check-up the doctor told her she has a hernia, but not to worry about it if it does not give her pain, and that it may never require surgery. Is that true? A.H.C. Certainly it's true. And, no, hernia is by no means limited to men. A hernia ia a weakened place or gap in some bodily wall, into which some other organ may push through, or threaten to do so. There are, in fact, all kinds of hernias, but by and large we think of a hernia as being one of the bowel a gap in the ab dominal wall through which a portion of the bowel can force its way. Men, because of their physi ology, have some comparatively weak points in the groin, and it Is there that a strain or injury can cause a hernia. Women do not have these weak points and hence are little troubled. Hernias occur elsewhere. An umbilical hernia is one exam pie. Another is a hiatal hernia or flaw in the diaphragm at the point at which the gullet passes through. Still another is called an in cisional hernia, meaning one that has developed at or near the Incision of an operation. This . type is mentioned in today s let ter. Often It requires nothing more tthan simple support, such as a corset or a girdle. Some hernias are of scant im portance; others, if not correct ed, can hecome intensely dan gerous. This applies particular ly to those in the groin. A por tion of the bowel can be grad ually forced through the gap and become "strangulated" it is pinched off by the small gap through which it has worked its way. When this happens, It is an emergency of the most dire sort, and must be relieved without an instant's delay. That is why so many doctors urge that hernias (depending on their location and extent) be corrected surgi cally before they seem to the patient to bo of any great an noyance. This sort of hernia, in short, can be easily repaired. However, if correction is put off too long, the hernia may be come strangulated and urgent measures will ha needed to save Vhc patient's life. (The strangu lation is also agonizingly pain ful.) Such a complication is much less likely to occur in an inci sional hernia, or in a hernia higher in the abdominal wall. So your aunt is quite safe in doing exactly as her doctor sug gests: Not to worry about it. 1962 Nw York Herald Tribune Inc. Jordan's Journey The River Jordan twists and loops 200 miles in making its 65-mile Journey down a valley between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. W.HAVEA NO PROBLEM, CHIN. fa f Ti 60 BELOW, CHARUE, fhCW PERHAPS YOU PREFER THE SME LL PROBLEM, LINS TO. (TLLTAKEHIMT0 5EA ) , I L, 6 L PUT ON TH05E CLOTHES. tuy OF J AIL, EH ? 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But when we visit the place, we leave the everyday world behind us and the bare facts of its size are lost in wonder. Crowded into this region there is a greater variety of splendid scenery and more natural wonders than any similar area on earth. The great park, which be longs to all of us, is equal in area to about half the land area of the Hawaiian Islands and about three times the area covered by the small state of Rhode Island. In plain figures, our scenic wonder land has an area of about 3,471 14 square miles but this is one of very few plain facts about Yellowstone National Park the rest is glamor. A tourist can drive the 150 miles of highway running through the park in an after Butterflies Depend Upon Their Gaudy Colors for Surivval The vivid colors of butterflies are useful as well as beautiful. Distinctive hues help some species to survive. The familiar orange-and-black Monarch butterflies flitting about on a bright spring day are a delight to the eye, but a warning to birds and other predators. Distasteful to its natural enemies, the Monarch flaunts its colors to make sure of recognition, the Na tion Geographic Society says. Inedible, or "protected," butterflies seem to know the value of repetition in such "keep off" signs. Uneatable species share strikingly similar patterns, though they may be from widely different genera and families. The uniform patterns doubtless simplify the learning proc ess for predators. If each protected butterfly had a different pattern, it would be difficult for most predators to learn them all, and many butterflies would die before their enemies mastered the code. Predators are emphatic in their dislike for bad-tasting butterflies. The guady llcliconius crato of tropical America is generally scorned. A frog that mistakenly snapped an erato gagged, spat it out, and shook and forth. A pet monkey picked up an erato, sniffed the butterfly, made a wry face, dropped it, and spent several minutes scrubbing at its hands. Many edible butterflies mimic protected species. The Vivcroy, for example, is a tasty noon. The park bus takes two days to give you a guided tour along this route with short pauses at countless outstand ing wonders. You can walk or ride horseback along miles of trails, stopping to picnic, to camp or just to gape where you please. The roads and trails, the re gions touched by human hands take up only one-tenth of the great park. Nine-tenths of the region is primeval, left in the wild state just as it was cre ated. Our national parks are set up to preserve the prim eval qualities of outstanding regions. For this reason, there are laws which forbid the de struction of any native plant or animal life. About four-fifths of the park is covered with native forest, tall trunks that climb up the many mountain slopes and cluster in the rocky gorges. There are also patches of grassy meadow, carpeted in certain seasons wtih colorful wild flowers. There are prairie regions, furry with sagebrush and sometimes decked with gaudy prairie flowers. There are gorges, waterfalls, rivers and lakes. There are dramatic geysers and hot springs with colored basins. And the whole Andy awards each day a r full ael of the World Book n RnPVplnnaillB fnr tha flrft, ?. P question be selects to answer, f when a second question Is answered a large world globe y or atlaa la awarded Questions are accepted from teen-age $ or lesa-than-teen-age readera Bj, rhey should be addressed to the Register-Guard, (75 High g St., Eugene. Andy prefers ft that questions be written on $ postcards, rather than In let. p. ter form. ft sEaHaaMwassaessssd its head back region teems with wild life. The animals are less timid than elsewhere because they seem to sense that here it is safe for them to let us pause and admire them. Million of people, as al ways, are planning to visit the biggest and the oldest of our parks this summer. As a va cation spot, it has the magic of restful calm and exciting beauty. For a family, the best and least expensive plan is to camp there on one of the many areas set aside for this pur pose. Because of its northern latitude and high altitude, the wonderful region is open for campers only from June to September just right for summer vacations. Andy sends a Hammond's Library World Atlas to Bill Morgan, age 10, of Rexdale, Ontario, for his question: How much of the world is under water? From an orbit high above the Pacific, our world looks as if it is completely under wa ter, for this vast ocean covers almost half of the globe. The Atlantic Ocean also covers a large area of the big globe. Then there are the Indian and Arctic Oceans, plus countless smaller seas. All these ocean waters are linked together, making is lands of the large and small land areas. Together, the sea waters cover almost 71 per cent of the globe. Rivers, lakes and swampy regions like the Everglades cover perhaps another one per cent of the surface of the earth. So we can estimate that about 72 per cent of our world is under water. morsel for birds, but it copies the unsavory Monarch's coloring so well that birds usually ignore it. The chief flaw in the mimicry is a black line across the Viceroy's hind wing. Occasionally a speciment is seen without the stripe, suggesting that it may gradually dis appear from all Viceroys. Sometimes only the female imitates an in edible species. In many regions, the female African Swallowtail is so unlike the male that it took careful study to prove the two sexes were the same species. In nature's scheme, mimics never should be as common as their models, for if enough imitators are caught, the predators would learn they are edible. Mimics often fly in the shade where their slight differences are not obvious. Many butterflies also copy natural objects, such as dead leaves, twigs, barks, and rocks. Varieties of an English moth vary in color to match the rocks each prefers to alight on. Tropical butterflies benefit from "flash coloration." At rest, the insects fold their hind wings beneath dull front wings. When disturbed, they take flight, exposing brilliant rear wings. Butterfly color may be a factor in court ship. Entomologist Jocelyn Crane described in the National Geographic an experiment in which she painted out the distinctive red patches on the black wings of an erato. The paint job turned a popular female into a scorned wallflower. I i ( M SCPRV. 1 loKAV-.THEN i.'i SCNW.SIS-- WglX.IP' VOU e OUT C v.'' V- LIKE TO GIVE OUFt) " TTWA S'BWEB f UL HV6 TM V(. VJE R OUT EVOYTHINS, WHY S0 VOU ) i CUS-OmESS A BIG V- n.S.T? aZbTW OUTOP CPA3CAK6S JN-OFCOAS. MAvE ALL THESE THINGS I t SELECTION TO CHOOSE ) WT W 'f?.. iiS IliM inlfi Slim.' 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