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0 . O o o TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE O i Monday, October 3. 1SSS Family of Drugs Now Available To Prevent Closing in Arteries Br DELOS SMITH UrtBed Presi Science Editor New York (U.R) There's a whole family of drugs which will prevent clotting of blood in your arteries and veins. Since seizures like President Eisenhower's begin with a blood clot and the most dangerous pos sible complication is the forma tion of another clot, these drugs command the esteem of throm bosis sufferers. ' They're wonderful, all right, but they have a second edge and that edge is no less sharp than the first one. What satisfaction is it for a doctor to save a patient from coronary thrombosis only to lose him to hemorrhage? When you derive the blood of its ability to coagulate, you're robbing the body of one of its prime life preserving mechanisms. For that reason there is unani mous agreement in medical sci ence that the anti-coagulant drugs must be used only in dire emergency and then with the greatest possible caution. Indeed, there is one school of experts though which does not consider a coronary thrombosis like the President's, dire enough to justi fy their use. Against Use Dr. Paul D. White, the emi nent heart specialist called to the President's bedside, has often expressed an ultra-conservative view. He's against their use ex cept in the most advanced cases. The body itself is keenly inter ested in keeping the blood stream flowing. A substance is formed in the liver by the action of vita min K, spinach, cabbage, cauli flower, and tomatoes are all rich in this vitamin galled prothrom bin. When prothrombin encounters thromboplastin, which is to be found in body tissues and the blood cells, it becomes the en zyme, thrombin, which causes shed blood to coagulate. It does it by combining the fibrinogen, a globlulin protein of the blood plasma, to form fibrin which is a fibrous protein. It forms a kind of network. Blood capsules are caught in it and so they clot. The anti-coagulant drugs in terfere with this chain at one point or another. Some of these interferences can be "reversed" quickly by administration of an other drug by the giving of vi tamin K, for example, to neu tralize the action of the drugs which interfere with the forma tion of prothrombin in the liver. Reviewed Ailment Dr. Alphonse McMahon, a well known medical educator and spe cialist of St. Louis, recently re viewed the treatment of Presi dent Eisenhower's kind of heart attack in the technical journal, "Post-graduate Medicine." H e found that many doctors opposed the routine use of the anti-coagulants, while "equally promi nent clinicians favored their routine use. , But in "poor risk" cases their use "is generally accepted by all." In one large group of cases of all degrees, they reduced mor tality from 24 to 15 per cent, and the complication of a second clot 25 per cent to 11 per cent. In no case, however, should they be used if the patient showed "insufficiency"- either of liver or kidney function or if the patient also had any other disease in volving the chance of hemor. rhage, Dr. McMahon said. WOULD END OWN JOB . Morris Plains, N. J. (U.R) Warren G.. Bath, a Democrat campaigning for Morris County coroner, said if he is elected he will seek to have the post abol ished. The county presently has three coroners, all Republicans and all unpaid. BIG HUG, NO WALLET Minneapolis (U.R) Martin Hagberg complained to police that a woman acquaintance gave him an affectionate hug as they walked along the street. The next thing he knew his wallet containing $350 was gone. fSSitaix Jaf m iiii-UJa fa.. .JULU r, United Stt. fiX ! Ill . 2, Tester Collin, of Ylrglai A. WMmmimmgmmmmM TAKING FIRST SMALL but momentous step in long march back toward active command of government, President Eisenhower signs two federal documents from his hospital ted in Denver. This was first business transacted by Dee since heart attack. (International) Where Is Sharp-Tongued Lewis? Hes Still Boss of Coal Miners By MAUREEN GOTHLIN - United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) What has happened to the flaming tongue and temper with which John L. Lewis once split the house of labor, defied the gov ernment and shut down the na tion's coal mines? The career of the nation's stormiest labor leader has been relatively peaceful for the last several years. There hasn't been a major coal strike since 1949. The Unit ed Mine Workers union hasn't had any altercation with the gov ernment since 1952. The Shakespeare - quoting mine chief is not the firebrand he was during the turbulent years that saw him break away from the AFL, form the CIO and then break away from it, reaf- filiate with the AFL and "dis affiliate," and then reestablish the UMW as an independent un ion. " ' s At 75, Lewis might logically be expected to slow down a lit tle. He was admitted to a hos pital hre earlier this month for what was described as a "rest and checkup." a Still The Boss But age and health aren't the real explanation of Lewis' "quiet period" of recent years. He still vis undisputed boss of the UMW and there have been no indica tions that he was thinking of re tiring. Lewis heads what is probab ly the richest union in the coun try, with reportedly more than $40,000,000 in its treasury and more than $100,000,000 in UMW soft coal pension and welfare fund reserves. Lewis' . miners, with a hefty new $2 a day pay increase rais ing the basic wage to $20.25 a day, are also among the highest paid industrial workers in the nation.0 - All this is true despite the coal industry depression that started after World War II and hascut mine employment to 50 per cent since then. Harry Moses, head of the Bit uminous Coal Operators associa tion, which represents the major segment of the0 soft coal industry, claims that the last five years of peaceful coal labor relations "unparalleled in modern his tory," were the fruits of a change in bargaining tactics in 1950. o ' Change In Methods The big change was simply this: Northernocoal producers, in cluding the big steel companies that own their own mines, turn- As Wo Livo y ftlZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. A. Firm Hand It Needed With The "Helpless" e Some people find it easier and more pleasant to have others do things for them than to do it themselves. They put on a pose of being helpless and they usual ly find it works. This is the prob lem facing a man who wrote: (Q) "My wife is one of those helpless women who must al ways have someone do things for her and help her in what ever she does. Wheawe were first married, she used lo wait until I came home in the eve ning to help . with dinner. During week ends she expect ed me to help her with the cleaning, washing and ironing. Now we have a baby anj she wants me to help give the baby his bath before I leave for work. When I come home, she expects me to help prepare his bottles, feed him and then help get supper. I don't mind help ing some but I feel that I am doing her work and mine. It is getting to be too much for me and I am tired out before I begin my work at the office. I never get any rest over the week ends because I am doing housework all the lime. How would you suggest that I rem edy this situation? B.A. (A) First of all, explain to your wife that you cannot do a double ed over to Moses the job of bar gaining withewis. Since 1951 these two men have negotiated their- agree ments secretly, sometimes over lunch, sometimes in their of fices. Lewis' strategy has been to negotiate with Moses first and then use that agreement to in duce the Southern Coal Pro ducers association to grant the same terms. - So far, it has worked. The change in bargaining methods was brought to a head by a series of strikes from 1946 through 1949, during which the government seized the - coal mines several times. The union defied government back-to-work orders, were hauled into court and fined a total of $4,930,000, later reduced to $2,130,000. By 1950, Moses said, the pro ducers that make up his organ ization concluded that "kleig light bargaining with the union had failed." job and hope to advance in your work. Empha size also that you are jeopar dizing your .health by over work and this u n q u e s t ionably will af fect the qual ity of work you do in the office. Then help her to map out a plan of home duties so she will be more efficient. Outline the work to be done in the morn ing and afternoon each day. By now, she surely has learned to cook, clean, wash and iron, and could do these things if she Dr. Hvrlock wanted. Outline the duties you will be able to assume in the house and in the care of the baby. Of fer to help with the heavy clean ing but let her do the rest. You can help with the dishes and with some of the cooking, especially if the baby needs attention at meal time. She can do these things, or learn to do them, if she discov ers that you are unwilling to do them for her. Explain that she is not being fair to you to expect so much help, and then refuse to do things she could do if she were willing. A firm hand is the only cure for assum ed helplessness. (Copyright 1955, General x Features Corp.) 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