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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.
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on a bland diet. N.S.
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may be low in Vitamins B and
C, so a combined vitamin sup
plement is in order.
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I Heavy Water: What Is It?!
Andy sends a complete,
20-volume set of the WORLD
BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA to
Jimmy Wehfcinfj, age 11, of
Houston, Texas for his ques
tion: What is heavy water?
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
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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.
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& the Register-Guard. 975 High
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that questions be written on
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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.
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