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TEN MEDFOB (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, October 13, 1955
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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
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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.
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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." However, the
study revealed that there are
benign forms-r-benign, that is,
when found in the specific ap
pendixes studied.
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