EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday. October 12, 19S8
The Medical Roundup
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Emeritus Prnfesor of Mdliln.
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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.
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COMMENTATOR DIES
Portland (U.R) James Tre
mont Wyatt, 58, one of the best
known news commentators on
the Pacific coast, died at his
home in Oswego yesterday of a
heart attack.
NEWS 'RACKET' BARED
Los Angeles (U.R) Ten-year-old
James Sides Jr., told police
he had to pay 10 cents a day
"protection money" to some old
er boys in order to run his newsstand.
MAKE WAY FOR YANKS
New York (U.R) A group of
businesswomen yelled foul ball
when a hotel here switched their
meeting to a smaller room to
make way for a New York vic
tory celebration.
Elvis Presley Draws Big Crowd. Summons
Dallas, Tex. (U.R) A large
crowd including several elder
ly women, teen-age girls wear
ing lipstick and high-heeled
shoes and a deputy sheriff with
a summons waited for Elvis
Presley Thursday night.
The summons was served on
a man in a green jacket who
drove up in a car and tried to
slip into the Cotton Bowl. He
protested he wasn't Elvis Pres
ley. The denial was confirmed
when the rock 'n' roll singer
Marine Corporal
Faces Court Martial
Parris Island, S.C. (U.R) A
supply room corporal went be
fore a court martial board at
this Marine boot camp today on
charges he slugged a recruit in
the' stomach for failing to call
him "Sir."
Cpl. Richard J. Bille, 21, of
Erie, Pa., appeared before a
court martial board made up of
four officers and two enlisted
men charged with "maltreat
ment" of Pvt. Donald Hamisfar,
20, of Norwalk, Ohio.
Hamisfar said that Cpl. Bille
hit him in the stomach Aug.
23 while the recruit's platoon
was being issued field equip
ment at a supply room where
Bille was assigned.
appeared in a black and white
Lincoln Continental. The depu
ty served the summons again
but "The Pelvis" refused to talk
about it.
The summons by the Amuse
ment Enterprises of Fort Worth
concerned a breach of contract
suit It was served by Dallas
County Deputy Sheriff Bill
Rike.
The rock 'n' roll idol sang
and gyrated to the accompani
ment of screams from many of
30,000 fans Thursday night in
the Cotton Bowl.
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