Medford mail tribune., March 20, 1957, Image 19

The Medical Roundup
E merit u j Conialtant la Mtdlcln.
Myo Clinic
Emerttai Professor of Medic in.
Mavo Foundation
SHADY COVE-TRAIL
Twins Born To Couple
By EVALYN P. WATSON
Shady Cove-Trail A birth an
nouncement from Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Graham of Coos Bay, for
mer residents of Shady Cove,
and former owner of the Rogue
dale Cash market, told of the
hirth 11 1 t m i n in 1Vi fminlA nn
8o-Called Feyer .temperature was 102.5. It drop-; ,,,, ln Xh im, , k
Many people come to me or j Pe? to norma.1 a jon as her a girl, have been named Jay Mi
write asking what on earth are fat,h" was uout of dan8er- . chad and Janice Marilyn. Ma
thev goinB to do because when-I 1 hav kn?wn pf,ss5 V h ternal grandmother is Mrs.
ever thev oet - ,Verna Graham of McMinnville.
k I worried or go' hours whenever they lost
J'4U 1 to a doctor orthelr temPer. and had violent Don Myers, son of Mr. and
to a party their '"1""- "L " " Mrs. trsal Myers ol tin creeK,
t e rn perature treatcd for vears lor Brucellosis Tl.aili is spending the weekend
g0 up to witnout Setting anywhere. I re- j at home on ,eave from the Navy
around 99.3 or -" tie is stationed ai ireasure is-
1 0 0 5 degrees ' thou?ht t0 havc tuberculosis be- land His Navy buddyi Herman
or higher I re-! cause' for ovcr a year' she ran, Stallard. of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
member well a ' an af,ernoon temperature of made tne trjp up to Xrail with
dIUUIlU 1U1.U. ividuy ItaiS lal,cu I him.
to show anything wrong w 1 1 n
her; her lungs were perfectly
clear, and years later I heard
that she had never become se
riously ill. I think all that was
tit
aaaasaaaat woman who,
or Aivam whenever she
came into my office, ran a tem
perature of 102. After I had
chatted with her a while and
calmed her fears, her tempera
ture would drop to 98.6 which
Is the supposed normal.
During my medical lifetime
I've seen scores of people who
have been thoroughly examined dgnt nealth
many umes oy piuiimitrufc uyai.
ians because of a supposed fever.
Most of them had been told that
they had Brucellosis, but my
bacteriologists could never find
much sig;i of it. I remember a
woman who ran "a fever" when
ever she went out with a beau.
Once for four days when she was
terribly worried about her father
who justohad an operation, her
Mrs. Bill Massey of Trail has
returned home from Los Angeles
where she was called by the
death of her mother. Mrs. Lot-
wrong with her was that she had .tie Kapp. On her trip home she
contracted a foolish marriage stopped off and spent four days
which distressed her greatly. visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Daily Temperature I Shea, former residents of Shady
Some 30 years ago. at a stu- cove.
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service in a great
university, the doctors found a
young woman with a daily tem
perature of 101 or so. Every test
known to science was run on
her and nothing wrong was
found. She said she .was perfect
ly well, and evidently she was
because when I heard from her,
as I remember, 20 years later,
she still had " a fever" and was
well. Apparently, she was born
w i t h a temperature somewhat
different from the average, just
as a young fellow who stands
6 feet 7 inches in his stockings
is a bit different from the aver
age lad who is about 5 feet 8.
Every children's specialist in
the land, I imagine, would just
love to smash the thermometer
in the medicine cabinet of some
of the mothers of the children he
takes care of. These mothers are
constantly ringing him up in
great alarm because Junior has
a temperature of 99.5. The doctor
perhaps feels compelled to go
out to the house to see the young
ster, but on arrival he perhaps
finds him reading, or wrestling
with his brother, or chasing the
dog around the house. He isn't
ill. It is the mother who needs
treatment.
Commoneit Figure
One of the things that some
of us physicians need to learn is
that there is no need for wor
shipping 98.6 or any other aver
age figure in medicine. This
figure is what the statisticians
call a mode; it is the commonest
figure which one finds if one
makes a thousand measurements
of a certain type on a thousand
people.
Ordinarily, I am a good-natured,
easy-going man, but 1 can
get annoyed when a patient tells
me that all her neurotic symp
toms have been diagnosed by
some physician as due to defi
cient function in her thyroid
gland because one measurement
of her basal metabolic rate came
out minus 12 per cent. Probably
in desperation, trying to please
the woman, the doctor is giving
her thyroid substance. Actually,
experts look on any variation
up to 20 per cent above or below
the mode as normal. Treating a
woman for a minus 12 per cent
is like treating a prefectly nor
mal and happy and husky little
woman five feet tall for dwarf
ism. She is no dwarf; she is just
a variant of the human race.
The other day I saw a woman
who had been treated for months
with shots of liver and iron be
cause she had been found to
have a hemoglobin (red coloring
matter of the blood) readirjg of
90 per cent. Her doctor thought
this was dangerously low. I told
her that for much of my life my
hemoglobin reading had been
around 83 per cent. I never did
anything about it because I al
ways felt'so healthy. Further
more, today the best figures in
dicate that the average normal
for women's hemoglobin is 85
per cent of the figure normal for
men.
Whan Polio Is Gona
Perhaps the most eloquent
proof of the fact that now, with
the help of the Salk vaccine,
polio Is going to follow into
more or less oblivion, typhoid
fever, diphtheria and malaria,
is the announcement that at a
recent conference of medical
scientists who gathered to do
honor to Basil O'Connor, pres
ident of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, the ques
tion was raised what to do with
this great organization when its
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Krotz II
are on a vacation trip to Ohio
where they are visiting with rel
atives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Mills and
family of Mills TV Repair Ser
vice of Shady Cove have left
Shady Cove for Denver, Colo.,
where Mills has accepted a posi
tion as engineering labaratory
assisistant with the Glen L. Mar
tin industries where he was
previously employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Chamber
lain, of Trail, are vacationing in
Arizona but are expected home
soon.
Mrs. Wendell Stalker of Shady
Cove is home from the Forest
Glen hospital in Canyonville,
where she underwent surgery
recently. She is now convales
cing. Several members of Shady
Cove Garden club armed them
selves with g aloshes and un
brellas for a trip through the
Gentner Gardens on Groveland
ave. In Medford Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ripley
of Long Beach, Calif., are visit
ing their aunt and her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Landry of
Trail, and plan to make their
home in Shandy Cove-Trail vi
cinity for awhile.
Mrs. Bertha Newman, mother
of Mrs. Don -Harmon of Shady
Cove, is ill and confined to
Rogue Valley hospital in Medford.
Mrs. Louis Dusenberry of
Trail attended the meeting of
the Child Guidance Clinic in
Medford last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Oliver
and daughter have returned to
their home in Shady Cove from
Lancaster, Calif., where they
have been living for the past
several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Campbell
of Trail have been spending the
school spring vacation visiting
with Mr. Campbell's parents in
San Jose.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sackett
and son, Kerry of Shady Cove
spent the spring school vacation
by taking a trip to the Oregon
coast. They also visited with
Mrs. Sackett's uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Seefeldt
of Corvallis and with Sackett's
aunt, Mrs. Amy Seeley in Rose
burg. Mr. and Mrs. John Jantzer of
McKinleyville, Calif., were visit
ors at the home of Mr. Jantzer's
sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Kelley of Shady Cove.
Winners in the B. division of
the district debate tournament
for high schools were two local
students of the Eagle Point High
school, Carole Shepherd and Mil
lie Haynie, both of Shady Cove.
They will go to Corvallis early
in April. Other members of the
winning team were Sally Mon
gold of Eagle Point and Ron
Hanson, a former Shady Cove
resident.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jantzer
and daughter, Janice, have been
visiting friends and relatives in
the Shady Cove-Trail area. Mrs.
Jantzer and daughter are staying
in Grants Pass as the climate in
Oregon is more beneficial for the
little girls health.
Wednesday, March 20, 1957
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business with A M4TTER?ooNyou Ksiovvyj P-pJ
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Reed
McKay of Trail learned from a
letter that they expect to re
turn home in May from Phoenix,
Ariz., where they have been
staying all winter. Keed was
helping his brother with his
nursery business during his ill
ness. They said they miss Oregon
and all their friends here very
much.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Oliver of
Trail are the parents of a baby
boy born last week in a Medford
hospital. This is the couples first
boy. Paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Alice Oliver of
Trail.
When giving the outdoor pool
a spring housecleaning what we
thought were embryo goldfish
that were dug out of the ooze
at the bottom, turned out to be
only a specie of snail.
A number of Shady Cove resi
dents have been on vacation
trips. Joyce Connor of Shady
Cove flew to Los Angeles last
week to visit her brother, Henry
Connor, who is working for an
insurance company there. Mrs.
Ray Briggs and daugter, Phyliss
is working for an insurance com
pany there. Mrs. Ray Briggs and
daughter, Phyllis spent a few
days during spring vacation vis
iting in Crescent City, Calif.
Mrs. Richard Pfeifer is visiting
relatives and friends in south
ern California.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Briggs
of Belle Fourche, S.D., are guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Briggs
of Shady Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Williams
of Shady Cove have purchased
a modern 35 foot trailer house
for rental purposes and have it
parked on their lot adjoining
their residence.
Music Professor Finds Hobby Now Taking Full Time
Newark, N.J. (U.R A univer
sity professor who went into a
sort of "salvage work" as a part
time hobby several years ago
now finds the hobby becoming
a full-time job, but he as no re
grets.
Dr. Alfred Mann, associate
professor of music at Rutgers
University, believes his work en
riches the cultural life of the
contemporary world.
Manns self-appointed task is
the reclamation of music ac
claimed in past centuries and
then forgotten. His quest has
carried him to archives, ancient
music volumes and collections of
dusty manuscripts and papers
of the composer who created
them.
For Mann, the re-discovery of
a neglected work is well worth
the time-consuming, often hit-or-miss
labor. '
He has brought back to the
concert stage several such
works, including a piano con
certo by Johann Christian Bach,
son of Johann Sebastian Bach,
who 200 years ago gave the first
public concert on the modern
piano.
He also has restored to public
favor a "Christmas Anthem"
composed in 1687 by Henry Pur
cell, England's major composer
of the period.
Holds To Customs
Mann believes a knowledge of
works played and enjoyed 300
years ago results in "a greater
appreciation of our musical heri
tage, particularly if the perform
ance of these works follows the
manner the composer intended."
In performances of the resur
rected compositions, Mann rigor
ously holds to the customs of the
past, using relatively small;
groups of 20 voices and 20 in
struments common in the time of
Bach and Handel for oratorios
usually presented with massive
chorus and orchestra.
"A group of these proportions
assures a clearer performance
and enables listeners to hear in
dividual voices," Mann pointed
out.
Mann's concerts in the spirit of
the past at .the Newark Museum,
where he is musical director,
have won a devoted following
during the past six years. Rut
gers currently is publishing a se
ries ot "Documents of the Musi
cal Past" based on his re-exami
nation of forgotten music.
terest in antique music is well
worth while.
"You might say," he explained,
"that we are adding still another
dimension to the high fidelity
provided by today's electronic
equipment. This is true high fi
delity to the composer.
An underwater canyon below
the lower Mississippi river is
about five miles wide and 600
feet in depth.
Fish are the principal source
of animal protein for the Japan
ese people, and provide an esti
mated 85 per cent of their to
tal supply of that variety of es-
Mann believes this renewed in- sential food products.
Presley Declared
Harmful Influence
Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Elvis
Presley is a "harmful influence
on American youth," according
to the result of a collegiate clas
sical debate.
Two Smith College girls and
a pair of Trinity College males .
debated the topic Monday night
before 400 persons, mostly
adults, in Trinity's auditorium.
The judges' decision was split
two to one, the single female
juror siding with the girls that
Presley sets a "good example."
The college girls argued that
the hip-swinging idol set a good
example by "being good to his
parents and not smoking and
drinking."
Holes in Swiss cheese result
from bacterial action.
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job is done, and there are no
more crippled children to be
cared for and helped. Should the
Foundation fold up and quit, or
should it choose a new disease to
fight, or should it tackle one of
the two biggest problems of all
mental diseases and the dis
eases of the aged?
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.
(Ralaasad by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, 1957)
Mrs. Bill Massey of Trail wish
es to thank her many friends
for their sympathy and condol
ence which she received at the
time of her mother's death.
Two Liquor Inspectors
Declared Too Young
Portland (U.R) The Oregon
Liquor Control Commission said
Tuesday it had released two 21-year-old
agents.
A statement by the commis
sion said:
"The new liquor commission
took the stand that it was a very
poor policy to close up a licensee
for selling alcoholic beverages
to a youth under 21 years of
age, and in turn hire a 21-year-old
to act as undercover agent.'
Tennessee and Missouri each
are touched by the borders of
eight other states.
CONSTIPATED?
New laxative discovery un-Iocks bowel blocks
without gag, bloat or gripe
Constipation is caused by what doc
tors call a "thrifty" colon that, instead
of retaining moisture as it should,
does the opposite: robs the colon of
so much moisture that its contents
become dehydrated, to dry that they
block the bowel: so shrunken that
they fail to excite or stimulate the
urge to purge that propels and expel
waste from your body.
To regain normal regularity, the dry.
shrunken, constipating contents of
your colon which now block your
bowel must be remoistened. Second.
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And, of all laxatives, only Colonaid,
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Superior to old style bulk, salt or drug
laxatives, Colonaid neither gags,
bloats nor gripes: won't interfere with
absorption of vitamins and other valu
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It's a physiological fact: Exercise tones
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