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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
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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
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