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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. October 12, 19S8 The Medical Roundup UK-" u Consultant In Hadlcla. 51 aye Clinic Emeritus Prnfesor of Mdliln. Mavn Foundation The Food and Drug Administration Not enough of us in the United States know that in Washington there is a aovernment bureau the Food and Drug Adminis tration which is constan 1 1 y working and striving to pro tect in fmm lr-jj eating spoiled li"' I tood or taking harmful drues. JJr. Alv., j h a v e jujt been reading an informative book, called "The Impact of the Food and Drug Administration on Our Society." It is filled with several dozen short chapters, dealing with the many ways in which this remarkable bureau and the able and devoted men and women in it protect Americans from harm. For instance, if I go into a lunch counter and eat a "hot dog" it is the Food and Drug Administration which has seen to it that I am not eating some horse meat. When a child is ill and one of us takes the physi cian's prescription to the drug gist, it is the FDA that has seen to it that the drug is pure, prop, erly labeled and standardized By standardized I mean that it has the proper strength. Years ago. when I was a small boy, and my physician-father bought digitalis with which to treat people with serious heart trouble, he had no way of know ing that the material in the bot. tie had the proper strength. He couldn't be sure even that the material was digitalis. Today, thanks to the FDA, when a drug gist fills my prescription for digitalis, he knows that the ma terial has been tested on an ani mal, and has the standardized strength. Today, if I prescribe for a patient some serum or vaccine, it is the FDA that has seen to it that the ampule is sterile and the medicine is safe and active and properly made. Could Do Immensely More The FDA could do immensely more for us in America if, years ago, legislators had not done their best to emasculate the law and make it very hard for the officials to jail or fine men who had been chiseling and trying to sell dirty or spoiled food and good - for - nothing medicines. These legislators also saw to it that the FDA had only a small budget with which to work. Some day, when we in America become more civilized. Congress will perhaps pass a new Food and Drug law which will have more teeth in it, and which will not be left full of loop-holes designed to let men off when they have been selling bad food and bad drugs. Often, in years past, when I have dropped into visit with the top administrators of the Act. I have found them filled with heartbreak over some of the difficulties they had encountered in trying to fight very powerful offenders through the law courts These offenders had so much money, and the law had so many loopholes that it was hard to do much. Just Try To Convince Jury As my friends, the devoted administrators, said, it is easy enough to satisfy a physician or an expert that a certain drug is of absolutely no value in the treatment of a certain disease. such as cancer. No one who knows anything about drugs would doubt this for a minute. but just try through weeks of testimony in court to convince a jury of laymen of this when 50 or 100 persons are brought in, perhaps by a cruel quack. to testify that they were cured by the drug of what they had assumed was cancer or had been told by the quack was cancer One of the loopholes in the law is that a manufacturer can say pretty much what he likes about a good-for-nothing drug so long as he does not make false statements on the labels of the bottles which he sends across statelines. I remember one day hearing over the radio about "a marvel ous new drug" that had been discovered that would cure arth ritis and relieve the pain almost instantly. I turned to the friend who was with me and said, "What will you bet that that is aspirin?" Going across the street into a drug store. I picked up a bottle of the medicine off the counter and there, on the label in fine print, I read that the stuff was acetyl-salicylic acid aspirin, just as I had said. Hence the person who bought the bot tle of tablets with the fancy name was just paying for his aspirin about 50 times the cur rent retail cost for that quantity of acetyl salicylic acid a very cheap drug. Hard To Get Quack Similarly, when a quack says that he has a sure cure for can cer and offers it to you for S400, cash, it is hard for the FDA to stop him. They would love to do it, but they may have to wait to get after him until he sends a bottle of his medicine mislabeled across the state line. Then, if the quack has waxed rich off his suckers, it may take the FDA months to get a court decision against him. Then, if he is powerful enough to hire lawyers with political connections he can sometimes go ahead and thumb his nose at the FDA. The FDA can broadcast to the nation that his so-called medi cine could not cure anything, but no one pays any attention to the top drug experts in the country. Aren't we Americans funny? Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer requests for information or to attempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1956) Home and Foreign Missions To Be Featured During Week by Baptists Home and foreign missions will be emphasized at services in the First Baptist church. North Central at Fifth, this week. Sunday Miss May Halstenrud, appointee under the Conserva tive Baptist Home Mission so ciety to the Navajo Indians, will have portions of the Sunday school and morning worship hours. She will have the even ing service at 7:45, and show colored pictures of work being done in Arizona among the Navajos. Tuesday the local church will Group Formed Of Scholarship Winners Ashland Eight winners of Bernard Daly Fund scholarships attended a dinner meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Dawson, 63 Pine St., Ashland, Wednesday, to form a perma nent organization to promote so cial and service affairs, and to commemorate the name of the donor. Philip E. Wilbur, freshman from Lakeview, was appointed leader of the formative group, Dawson said. Dawson is assist ant professor of science at South ern Oregon college, and adviser to the organization. In addition to Wilbur, other students attending included Feryl E. Angele. Darlene C. Johnson. Anna R. Lamb. Lief Ostmo, Marjorie I. Samples. Mcl ba Snow, and Becky St. Clair. Under terms of the will of the late Dr. Bernard Daly of Lake view, worthy young men and women of Lake county may re ceive a part or all of their neces sary college expenses. The terms of the will provide that the in come from the fund be used to pay college expenses of at least 15 students each year who at tended high school in Lake count', , 1 be host to the Shasta-Cascade Women's fellowship in its an nual fall rally. Women from the southern Oregon and north ern California area will gather for fellowship and business. Miss Halstenrud and Miss Mel ba Means, candidate for mission ary service in French West Afri ca, will speak. The sessions will begin with registration at 9:30 a.m., and last throughout the day. A banquet will be served at 6 p.m.. to which the men are also invited, and a general evening service at 7:30 will follow. The Win-One Girls "group, which usually meets on Tuesday, will have their meeting on Mon day night, Oct. 15. Miss Halsten rud will be guest speaker. Wives of Marines Refuse 'Move' Order Atsugi, Japan iU.FS Dozens of infuriated wives of U.S. Ma rines here said today they will refuse to obey a directive of the U.S. 1st Marine Air Wing ordering them to return to the United States. Some 500 dependents of Ma rine air wing personnel were told by Wing Commander Brig. Gen. David F. O'Neill last week that they must be out of Japan within 30 days because of "Ma rine Corps policy." The wives had paid their own travel ex penses to Japan to be near their husbands. San Francisco's famous "Em peror Norton I" was born Josh ua Abraham Norton in England in 1819. POISON OAK? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL Yeo must be satisfied er four monev cheerfully refunded. Gel bottle te di, at WESTERN THRIFT. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Pierre, the dome-doily specialist, swore tu4t no one would ever know tvwt qruller WORE A CR4MIUM C4RPET ifH 8-B-BUT WONT EVERY- 7 4RE GU4R4MTEED TO BE Vs2 S BODY KNOW J I NOT DETECTED.' 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