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Pige 4Axx EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, St., April 13. 1968 To Your Health Drugs Can Ease Tendonitis By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Doctor Molner: My . huiband nut pain and stiff ness in hia right elbow, and two doctors have diagnosed it as tendonitis. One suggested X-ray treatment and the other cortisone. My husband finally con sented to having a cortisone shot, which helped hl.j only temporarily. Should he try the X-ray treatment, or more cortisone? Ho Isn't having anything 'done now because he believes his condition is chronic and he "must learn to live with it." Mrs. J.F. I wouldn't be warranted in trying to decide an "either-or" question concerning a patient I'vi never seen, but here is one fact to keep in mind: Cortisone s v.'i-y effective in thes: cases. However more than one injc tlon may be required. II one shot afforded temporary relief, that s i good sign. Heat and salicylates (aspirin) also are very effective. Why not at least make use of whatever gives relief? That is no more than simple logic. Why suffer when you don't have to? True, tendonitis (inflamation of a tendon) might be slow to cure, but I can't agree that it necessarily is chronic or some' thing you "have to learn to live with" until a reasonable amount of treatment has been obtained. There are ailment'- you have to learn to live with, and some- times a doctor has a rough time In persuading i patient of that fact. But here it's the other way around. One Injection of cortisone already has given temporary relief, and there are other means yet to be tried. (The heat and aspirin.) There's another step which at times is helpful in cases re sembling this one. Gout should first bo ruled out. (Doubtless in this particular case this has al ready been done.) Gout, sometimes settles in a tendon, as well as other places. Tests for excess uric acid give a ready indication as to wheth er gout Is involved. . If it is, the obvious place to start is in treating the gout, rather than just its symptoms. Dear Doctor Molner: Sev eral women, recently have ilartcd to take plain gelatin to Improve hair, eyes and nail condition. Is tl.ls wise? Will it cause hardening of the arteries? E.C. - Gelatin Is protein although an Incomplete one and since somo peoplo don t get enough protein, it may help strengthen nails and sometimes aid in other ways. It won't harden the arteries. Doctor Molner welcomes all reader mill, but regret that due to the tremendous volume received dally, ha Is unable lo answer Individual letters. Readers' questions are Incor porated In his column whsnever possible. 'Wonder of the Ancient World Divers Find Ruins of Pharos WASHINGTON Divers have discovered fragments of the Pharos, the great lighthouse that was one of the seven wonders of the anicent world. In the harbor of Alexandria, United Arab Republic, the underwater explorers found a decorated stone facade, a broken column and statuary that may have ornamented the monu mental structure. The remains of the Pharos lie about 24 feet beneath the Mediterranean Sea, the National Geographic Society says. An earthquake top pled the lighthouse in 1375, destroying a sea mark that had stood for 1,600 years. The Pharos was completed about 280 B.C. In the reign of Ptolemy II, or Philadelphus. This enlightened ruler of Eygpt made Alexan dria Into a center of science and scholarship. The city also was a major port, and a beacon was needed to guide ships to Eygpt's low-lying coast and past the shoals outside Alexandria's harbor. The lighthouse was built on the island of Pharos, a natural breakwater. The island was connected to the mainland by a causeway, which has silted over and become an isthmus. The Greek architect Sostratus, who de signed the tower, was so proud of his work that he boldly carved his namo on it. He then prudently covered the place with plaster on which he engraved Ptolemy's name. Sostratus knew the plaster would disintegrate after Ptolemy's death and reveal .the original in scription. Ancient and medieval writers often de scribed the Pharos, but they mingled fact and fancy so capriciously that an uncertain picture of the tower survives. Archeoiogists believe it stood about 300 feet tall in several tapering sections. The base was 100 feet square and perhaps 200 feet high. It reputedly contained 300 rooms, and may have served as a fort. Above the base rose octagonal and circular stages. A cupola pro tected the signal fire. Surmounting all was a giant statue of Poseidon, god of the sea. Smaller statues in the Phoras supposedly included a rotating figure that followed the sun's course with a pointing finger and an other that musically sounded the hours. Some accounts describe an interior ramp that wound gradually all the way up to the light. Donkeys hauled fuel up the incline. Other scholars say a windlass at the top hoist ed palm logs through a center well. In any case, the flare was kept burning constantly a pillar of fire at night, a column of smoke by day. Ancient writers said the Pharos beacon was visible 60 miles at sea, and that sailors sometimes mistook it for a strange new star. Modern authorities calculate that the beacon probably was visible only 30 miles. The light may have been reflected by a polished stone or metal disk. According to legend, the reflector could beam the sun's rays 100 miles to burn an enemy ship. One credulous writer claimed that the Pharos mir ror reflected events in distant Constantinople. Top sections of the Pharos collapsed around A.D. 700. Men seeking Alexander the Great's treasure, rumored to be hidden there, may have undermined the top. An earthquake in 1200 and the severe temblor in 1375 completed the destruction. Today, all that remains above ground of the wonder of the world are a few stones in corporated into a 15th-century fort on the site. Ask Andy Asteroid Source Unknown Athenian Makeup Women of ancient Athens darkened their eyes with mas cara, and used creams and beau ty lotions. Andy tends a complete, 20 volume tet of the World Book Encyclopedia to Richard May- field, 11, of Shreveport, La., for his question: How are the asteroids formed? Lately, science has revealed some astounding information about meteorites. Theso are grounded space travelers which, we are told, form part of the drifting debris in the spaccways of the solar system. Most ex perts agree that many of these meteorites were once asteroids. Iron and nickel meteorites are mado from heavy metals like those in the earth's core. Stony meteorites are made from light er minerals like those of the earth's crust. In the formation of a planet, the heavy elements tend to sink to the center, but this process takes time. The dif ferent meteorites suggest that they might be fragments of some larger body which was once a planet. The asteroids which give us many of our meteorites, then. might be the scattered remains of a planet which once orbited between Mars and Jupiter. But we have no proof of this theory. Nor can we explain how a planet could be smashed Into fragments. Tho meteorites now being studied contain large amounts of carbon compounds. They are called carbonaceous chondrites, and lately we have learned some amazing facta about them. Some of theso facts might lead us to fanciful ideas that cannot be proved, Some of the minerals in these chondrites are like the hydro carbon chemicals in butter and other organic substance which come from living things. But we cannot argue that there were cows on the planet which broke apart to form the asteroids. Far from it. We may suspect, but we cannot prove, that some meteorites are grounded aster oids or that the asteroids are fragments of a planet. True, the newly found compounds are like thoso which form living or ganisms. But this does not help us prove how the asteroids were formed. As of now, we just do not know. The carbonaceous chondrites may or may not prove that life exists outside our world. Their compounds are like the basic chemicals from which living matter is' formed, but such chemicals can exist is non-liv ing substances. What's more, the rather soft chondrites are porous, and chemicals may have seeped into them from the soil. The life forming compounds may prove to be from the earth and not from outer space. Andy sends a 14-inch globe to Lyn Paulson, 12, of New port News, Va., for his question How long does an eclipse last? A total solar eclipse can be seen from only a narrow path along the earth. The dark disk of the moon creeps gradually across the sun, blotting out its brilliant face. At the time of total eclipse, the sun is hidden completely, tho world becomes dark and stars can be seen in the sky. This eriod of darkness, how ever, is never longer than a few minutes. Total eclipse of the sun can be as long as seven minutes and 30 seconds, but this docs not often occur. As a rule, the sun begins to peep out from behind the moon after per haps two to five minutes. Andy awards esch day a full set of the World Book Encyclopedia for the first question he selects to answer. When a second ques tion is answered a large world globe or atlaa la awarded. Ques tions are accepted from teen-age or less-than-teen-age readers. They should be addressed to the Regis-ter-Guard, 075 High St, Eugene. Andy prefers that questions he written on postcard, rather than In letter form. 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