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o o TEN MEDFOB (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, October 13, 1955 t Appendix Has Uncanny Ability To Get Human Body Into Trouble By DEL09 SMITH Uniled Press Science Editor New York !U.R If 50,000 human appendixt can't be wrong then its uselestness in the human bod) is matched by an j uncanny ability to get the body into trouble. For 52 years new hospitals in three cities have been amassing their , surgically-removed appen dixes, giving that organ such a concerted look-see as few organs have ever had. The study has just been called off, with the 50,000th appendix. Inside the 50,000 the scientific explorers found such items as bubble gum, lead shot, tooth picks, screws, nails, fish and chicken bones, needles, safety pins, bits of plastic, pins, and pieces. of assorted metals. They also found members of W A , if - 4 Ik . , . V V .,"' -' . 4 JUUiUING HEART SURGERY would give President Eisen hower longer life expectancy, better work capacity, Drs. Ber nard L. Brofman (left) and Claude S. Beck, Cleveland, 0., give Washington, D. C. doctors details of new technique. Dr. Beck 4fclds two glasses representing amount of extra blood avail (gtif for heart muscles as result of operation. (International) A ftcto'f Worth of s . . "Comment On This and That 9f HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pre FeataM Writer Washington tU.R) 100 years ago in Washington: Real estate values must have been, on the upgrade in the na tion's capital a century ago. At the start of 1855, news paper adver tisements off er i n g property for sale always carried a price tag. Also come- ons, like a fine location, a well out back sup- Haiman NichoU plying 'drink ing and cooking water, and com fortable shelter for 'the cow and the carriage horses. But in mid-October of 1855, , the real estate ads took on an aloof tone that smacked of a sell er's market. Places for rent and sale could be "viewed by ap pointment only," and instead of a price tag, the seller was often content to say that a home was "available." It was a little different in the matter of dry goods. Perry and Brothers "opposite the Centre Market" was proud to say it had a fine sale on 40 pieces of fine white Birds-eye diaper cloth at 25 cents a yard "well worth 37V4 cents; a superior article for children's aprons." Diapers can be used for other purposes than wrapping the bottom of a baby. Indeed, the latest Webster lists as the first definition of diapers: "Since the early renaissance of a fabric of linen or cotton." Not until a few lines later does the dictionary define a diaper as "an infant'sJjreechcloth." Letter to Editor The Washington Intelligencer conducted a Letters to the Editor column. People wrote in com plaining that there were not enough hitching posts in the downtown area. One reader said he had "the very devil of a time finding a place to tie up his horse 'Bessie, so's Martha could run in and buy some gingham ' which was for sale at 7V4 cents a yard. By the . time I got 'Bessie' (the mare) tied- up, Martha had to walk three blocks and every last yard, of that ging ham was plumb gone." Congresf , was supposed to be in session, but there wasn't a line about the business the law makers were transacting; nor any mention of all of the com ing and goings of President Franklin Pierce. Perhaps Jane Pierce, the Pres ident's wife, was keeping him out of emulation. When he was nominated, Jane protested vio lently. She . warned him that "Those politicians will make a " drunkard of you." The record shows that the politicians failed, tf that's what they were up to. gfeMjtv Page n the societv side of life in Washington in 1855, the papers noted that there was an "epi demic of female equestrianism." ' One of the papers noted that "A fair wjjthout female competition j in the ring is not a fair." It ! added that "Fashionable ladies are riding on all the paths. See adv. on page one for bargains in leather side-saddles for ladies." Along his same line, the In telligencer pilfered an editorial from the Cleveland Herald, which declared: "Encouragement (or female riding is very well, but the danger to watch is that firfc Americans often tend to run the every new thing into ground." The Herald went on to say that lady horsemen were fine, but warned "against this circus stuff." "The pain of it is the ladies don't know how to pull in the reins," said the Herald, "and have a bad tendency to go too fast." U.S. National Deposits Listed Deposits in the M e d f o r d branch, United States National bank, totalled $23,187,136.70 as of Oct. 5, according to figures re leased today by Allan F. Perry, manager. Total loans and discounts for the Medford branch were $9, 453,408.32. Statewide figures for United States National indicated the bank has marked up a better than 12 per cent increase in de posits since October, 1954. The bank's statewide deposits now total $762,003,269, a gain of more than $86,000,000 during the past 12 months. During the same period, loans and discounts for the statewide banking sys tem increased more than $46, 000,000, to- a total of $292,505, 416. As of Oct. 5, U.S. National also showed gains in total re sources, from $732,933,021 in October, 1954, to $827,562,848 on Ock 5, 1955. on VlaftV Wore wot 'xm . BUY THE NEW Qui coven AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC G E Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR -All Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer GENERAL Q ELECTRIC Water Heaters 10 different families of fungi and 18 varieties of parasitic worms. Appendixes had been affected by 25 specific diseases, not one of which is a disease of the appen dix primarily. Twelve kinds of benign tum ors were found, and 16 kinds of malignant one. And there were 10 different sicknesses which had originated in the ap pendix sicknesses which weren't' "appendicitis." No Trouble Yet the 50,000 . provided no reason for anyone who has never been troubled by his appendix, to start feeling troubled now. Something like half the 50,000 were found, on close examina tion, to be "within the realm of normalcy." The final report was made by Dr. Donald C. Collins, of the Col lege of Medical Evangelists, Los Angeles, in -a techincal journal of the American College of Surgeons. There had been 22 previous reports over the 32 years, each dealing with a sep arate phase of the new appen dectomal lore. The hospitals were in, San Francisco, Rochester, Minn., and Los Angeles, and the United States Army Medical Depart ment cooperated during the war. Each appendix removed was sub jected to minute scientific exam ination. The findings, together with microscopic samples and slides, were sent to Dr. Collins for mass comparisons and for tabulating. A Pair Found ' Oddly, the 50,000 appendixes came from 49,999 persons. One surgeon, having opened his pa tient, was astonished to find two appendixes. But 12,018 appen dixes were "either perforated or gangrenous it was a good thing the surgeons went in after them. "Happily," Dr. Collins said, "it can be reported that in this par ticular study there has been nearly a thousand-fold reduction in the hospital mortality for in stances of acute appendicitis in the last 32 years." The specific reduction was from 13.09 per cent mortality in 1025 to 0.01 per cent in 1955. Speaking of fungi, a very use ful discovery yielded by the 50,000 was an unexpected liking of histoplasma capsulatum for the appendix. That is a kind of fungus which causes histoplas mosis and which older medical references classify starkly as, "a fatal disease." 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