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Page Bxx EUGENE REGISTER To Your Health Surgery Can Help Cystitis By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Doctor Molner: Can trauma in childbirth cause bladder infections which con tinue to plague the mother? I doubt if there is any pain more disconcerting than the burning urgency and pressure associated with chronic cysti tis. How accurate are intraven ous X-rays? Wil" X-rays alone tell the "whole picture?" A. C. Trauma or injury in child birth isn't likely to cause blad der infection directly. Rather what happens is that upporting tissues are torn or stretched, letting the bladder wall sag into the vaginal tract. This is called cystocele, which I have mentioned rather often. It can result in incomplete emptying of the bladder and permit irritation (bacterial and chemical) of the lining of the bladder. This is cystitis. The consequences can include fre quent or painful urination, in ability to control urination (called "stress incontinence"), and a sense of general discom fort in the area. Very often the whole trouble can be eased or ended by a "vaginal plastic operation" to correct the torn or stretched tissues. (I don't mean that it requires a "plastic surgeon" in the common sense of the word. Gynecologists, urologists, gen eral surgeons all do this type of surgery.) As to your other question: Intravenous kidney X-ray (known as an I.V. or intra venous pyelogram) gives con siderable information about lo cation, size and function of the kidneys. It does not, however, give as much data as a "retrograde pye logram," which also involves X-rays. In this, the inside of the bladder is first inspected directly with an instrument called a cystoscope. Next, tiny catheters or tubes are inserted into each ureter, one of which leads to each kid ney. Thus it is possible to test for infection or bleeding from each kidney separately. X-rays also are taken. This whole procedure is much more elaborate and painstaking and usually requires one or two days in the hospital, where as the I.V. pyelogram does not. More time, more effort, more Information. Dear Sir: Is there any harm In using one-a-day vitamins? I have stomach ulcers and am on a bland diet. N.S. No. In fact an "ulcer diet" may be low in Vitamins B and C, so a combined vitamin sup plement is in order. C1B62, Field Enterprliei, Inc. TTDWIO, CW 1U$ CABLED PROW H0N6 KONfi THAT YOO ftRE TO PICK UP WHEN YOU ARE CERTAIN YOU w I D0NT APPEAR TO ASK QUESTIONS, LOCATE I -' ' 1 I " j I W A CHE5S SET FROIn A MRS. SAWYER AT THE CHERRY BLOSSOM INM. THS" CAN DO IT SAFELY. REMEMBER 1 1 WRS. SAWYER'S ROOM QU1ETVY AND GO TO J , i , I 7 1 I DONT BS ALAPMED.THIS VES, CEAAABKABL6 QL FALSE SOTTOM OF THE CHESS CASE CONCEALS A SHIPMENT OF THE TUFE THAT THE POLICE SEIZE0 THE 1 IT 0HLY WHEN SHE IS MUE.T WELL, Jf-JVBB otvCOW rSONLV EWICe-,V0U OH.TH'OWE A HOW SH6 LOVES tinmj.i H.BJMIIILI JJ . i. 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Water, like everything elsein the world, is made from atoms Of the basin phpminnl AlptriAnte The smallest particle of water is a unit caned a covalent bond, which is a special kind of mole cule. This unit i a hnnHIn nf three atoms linked together by the sharing of their electrons. It contains one atom of oxygen and two atnm nf hvrlrnctpn anH these individual particles of wa ter icna to link tncmselves to gether in pairs. Mavbe vnu have hparH watpr called H-2-0. This is chemistry snortnand which tells us that a basic particle of water contains two atoms nf hvrlrnppn anH nnp atom of oxygen. But in all the water in the world, there is ahnnt nnp naWipln in nunm 5.000 "articles which is sliphtlv different from its neighbors. It is a particle of heavy water. This narfiplp nf hpaw u-ator is different because of a special kind of hydrogen atom called an isotope. The ordinary hydrogen atnm rnntainc nnp nrnlnn nar. - - f" ticle in its nucleus and one or biting electron. An atom of the isotope heavy hydrogen, which is rallpH Hpiitprinm pnntaina a neutron particle in its nucleus in addition to its one proton. Thp isntnnp Hpiitprinm icahnnt twice as heavv as ordinary hy drogen. This atom adds extra weight when it occurs in a par Haiku: Traditional Japanese Poems With Just 17 Syllables 'The wingless cricket on the poet's pen. Unheard poems are sweetest." That is a haiku about haiku. Haiku are traditional Japan ese poems that compress a wealth of observation, emotion and philosophy into just 17 syl lables. Limited to three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, a haiku has no rhyme or meter. Translations, however, often employ both. These deceptively simple fragments are enormously pop ular in Japan, the National Geo graphic Society says. About 50 monthly magazines are devoted to haiku, and at least a million of the poems are published annually. Poems and Milk Thousands of unpublished haiku are written for pleasure of poets and their friends. Har old G. Henderson, an American authority on haiku, recalls that during a stay in Japan his milk man often brought him a new poem along with his daily milk. The earliest haiku date from the 13th century, but the form did not flower until the time of Matsuo Basho, Japan's great mmmuamm Ask Andy ticle of water. In nature, such particles of heavy water are rare. The job of preparing a quantity of heavy water in which the isotope deuterium is used in place of ordinary hydro gen must be done in a labora tory. Heavy water looks and feels like ordinary water, but it has different chemical properties. Ordinary water boils at 100 cen tigrade degrees, heavy water boils at 101.42 egrecs. Ordinary water freezes at 0 centigrade de grees, heavy water freezes at 3.82 degrees. Heavy water, then, has a slightly higher boiling Andy awards eacb day a 36 full set o( the World Book encyclopedia for tbe first i question be selects to snswer. 1 When a second question is R answered a large world globe U or atlas Is awarded Questions i4 are accepted from teen-age II or iess.than-teen-Bge readers. P They should be addressed to & the Register-Guard. 975 High p St., Eugene Andy prefers that questions be written on postcaras. ratner tnan in let la j ter form. j point and a still higher freezing point than ordinary water. Seeds refuse to germinate In heavy water, tadpole and cer tain other animals cannot live in it. But heavy water is a very useful liquid in the fields of atomic energy. It can be used to discipline the furious energy of an atomic pile. It can be used to take the heat from an atomic pile and put it to use. Some of the reactors which generate atomic energy use heavy water as a moderating agent to con trol the atomic energy which is est haiku poet, who was born in 1644. Scholars have discussed Ba sho's poems for 300 years. Liter ally translated, his most famous haiku reads: "Old pond: frog jump in, water-sound." It has been more graphically ren dered: "The ancient pond! The frog plunged splash!" Profes sor Henderson says that some critics consider this haiku too darkly mysterious to understand at all. A famous story is told of Basho and a disciple walking through a field. The youth com posed a haiku. "Red dragon- flies! Take off their wings, and they are pepper pods!" Basho said it was not true haiku, and pods! Add wings to them, and they are dragonflies." Some of Basho's best-known haiku are: "On a withered branch a crow has settled autumn nightfall." "Poverty's child he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon." "So soon to die, and no sign of it is showing locust cry." "Snow that we two looked at together this year has it fallen anew?" released by chain reaction. Some reactors use heavy water as a cooling agent to reduce the seething temperature of the atomic pile and syphon off this heat, using it to make electrical power. This man-made heavy water, so useful in the field of atomic energy, is called deuterium ovide. So far, our chemists have not found a cheap way to pro duce it and deuterium oxide is a very expensive fluid. If we find an easy way to separate that one particle of heavy water from some 5,000 particles of ordinary water, the cost of producing atomic power will be much less. Andy sends a HAMMOND'S NATURE ATLAS OF AMER ICA to Roy Wayne Chrisman, age 11, of Goodlettsville, Tenn., for his Question: How can you tell the moccasin snake from the cottonmouth? The copperhead, alias the cot tonmouth, alias the water moc casin is one and the same breed of snake a deadly poisonous pit viper somewhat like the deadly poisonous rattlers. There are a couple of cousins in this breed of snake with slight variations. The breed is native to the east ern states with a westward range reaching through the prairies of Texas. The copperhead, more than a yard long, lives on high, dry ground. His head is copper color, his body blotched with coppery colored hour glasses. The water moccasin is a swamp snake, larger and darker than his cousin. Both members of this deadly breed have mouths lined with skin as white as cotton. The elusive essence of haiku is evocation, allusion and sug gestion. It is impossible to put all the connotations of the best haiku into words. Sometimes, however, the meaning is quite clear, as in I "Striking the fly, I hit also a flowering plant." A haiku writ ten by a poet-journalist reads. "Alone in the editorial depart ment; summer rain falling. Use Season Words Haiku poets draw upon thou sands of traditional themes, most of them dealing with na ture. Each haiku contains onei "season word" that relates the poem to a specific time. But terfly is a spring word; dragon fly evokes summer. A vivid spring haiku reads: "Up the barley rows, stitching, stitching them together, a but terfly goes." Another famous butterfly haiku is "On the tem ple bell has settled, and is fast asleep, a butterfly." Haiku con-1 noisseurs were incensed by a translation that read, "The but terfly sleeps well perched upon the temple bell . . . until it I rings." The last three words de stroyed the poem, they said. I rrm ir you're thr vwa m y oAswccf 7H I TrJ--''' PWKEUNOJJSI (MOSTGEMBUS) j THERE'S; NO) -1 pf THAT'S VYHY I , CW3WOOO HTAKE ALL -i 'S. HUSBAND-' ! 7 MONEV IN V" -W V j CMi AFFORD ) . WAU5( iljfV Jt&i M W 18 i0-1 beared m fa-V" Atru : seems determined, la place out in About ten.NT. 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