SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tue.day, July 18. 1957
Science Succeeds in
Curing Strange Case
Of Forced Swearing
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
Kew York IB Medical sci
ence has succeeded, at last, in
deliberately curing one case of
an exceedingly strange disease.
But the victory is rather em
barrassing because science
isn't sure how it was done.
The disease "is compulsive
swearing which, scientifically.
Is "Cilles de la Tourette's dis
ease." Some people who are for
ever making the atmosphere
blue with their cussing, are not
victims of this disease. They're
victims, rather of habit.
The real victims have abso
lutely no choice about it. A
twitching of the facial muscles
comes over them. When this hap
pens, they spout obcenities
loudly and clearly.
Georges Gilles de la Tourette,
distinguished French ncurolgist,
(1857-1904) got his name attach
ed to it because he was the first
to describe it scientifically al
though not the first to observe
it.
Cites Classic Case
The classic case was that of
a woman who was seven when
she fell victims to it, spent a
life-time isolated from society
because she couldn't control it
and still had it when she died
at 85.
Most authorities consider it
a prelude to frank insanity. And
all authorities are gloomy about
the future of the victims, con
sidering it more or less incur
able. That is why the deliberate
cure of just one case is quite
big news in medical science.
The cure was brought about
by Dr. Richard P. Michael in
London hospital and reported
in full detail to the British Med
ical association. The victim was
28 and the disease had beeij
building up . since childhood.
Vvhen he came to treatment he
was utterly unacceptable in bus
iness, in social life, even in the
family circle.
The reason was that compul
sive swearing overtook him 10
to 40 times an hour. He was
free of it only while asleep. The
most thorough physical examin
ations and all possible laboratory
tests failed to reveal a physical
cause. The man was given psycho-therapy,
that is, an effort
was made to doctor his mind. It
was completely unsuccessful.
So. Dr. Michael set out to
treat the physical tension which
seemed to be behind the spas
modic twitching which accom
panied the swearing. He did so
by having the man inhale an
atmosphere that was 70 per cent
carbon dixode, which is the
sparkle and bubble of soda
water.
This was repeated 30 times,
over two months. Gradually the
twitching and swearing di
minished in frequency until it
was no longer present. The man
has been out of the hospital for
14 months, is a success in busi
ness, well-liked by friends and
family, and is free of the disease.
Michael thought that, perhaps,
the carbon-dixode had changed
chemical balances of the blood.
Suppose, he said, that the
twitching and "repetitive speech
disturbance" was due to a "self
perpetuating process" of "mus
cular and vocal discharges."
Then anything which interrupt
ed the process such as carbon
dixoide would also stop it.
ALOHA! Sandra Lei Lua
hiwa Forsythe poses on
Waikiki Beach with famed
Diamond Head for a back
drop after being named Miss
Hawaii. She will compete for
the Miss America title at
Atlantic City in September.
Sandra Lei, of Hawaiian-English-German
descent, is
a stewardess with TPA
Aloha Airline.
Crescent City Man
Killed on Highway 199
Crescent City, Calif. OP)
Darrell Barton Bishop, 30, Cres
cent City, was killed Saturday
night when his car struck a rock
fall on highway 199 10 miles east
of here, causing it to plunge from
the road 200 feet into the Smith
river.
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He's safer than you are at home.
Telephone man Ed Schneider may
look like he's in a dangerous spot. But
actually, he couldn't be much safer.
Thanks to his special safety belt, a slip
would mean a fall of no more than sev
en inches. Note that Ed's wearing
safety glasses, too. On other jobs he can
call on safety shoes,, gas detection
devices, breathing mask, any number
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phone work. Ed and thousands of other
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average person is in his own home. And' .
they're always reminded, on and off
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It pays off in peace of mind. It pays off,
too, in good phone service for you. Be
cause it takes skilled people on the job
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Motion Picture Industry Turns
To 'Shockers' To Boost Business
Editor's note: Following ig the
second of a two-part series on the
part being piayed by the motion
picture industry to lure its share of
tbe show business dollar.
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Hollywood Writer
Hollywood W The movie
industry has hit upon a new
so-far successful formula to
bring customers- into the the
aters! "Shockers" involving
everything from interracial ro
mance to narcotics.
Last year the industry dis
covered that spectacles lured
citizens from their TV sets. The
only films that were box office
bonanzas earlier this year were
"The Ten Commandments'
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"Giant" and "Around the Wrold
in 80 Days."
Now controversial films ap
pear to be box office insurance.
"Island in the Sun", produced
by Darryl F. Zanuck from a
novel, tells of romance on a
West Indian. Island.
Includes Top Stars
Blonde Joan Fontaine plays
an unhappy divorcee attracted
to Harry Belafonte, leader of
Negroes on the island. At the
end he spurns her.
Dorothy Dandrige plays a sul
try colored clerk who marries
the white aide to the governor
of the island, John Justin. Joan
Collins, erroneously thinking
she is part Negro, becomes preg
nant while engaged to the white
Salem OP) Gov.- Robert D.
Holmes has appointed Richard
A. Bain, LaGrande radio station
commercial manager and farm
editor, to be executive secretary
of the Advisory Committee on
Natural Resources.
Washington HP) The Atomic
Energy Commission has told Con
gress it will have to cut nuclear
weapon production drastically if
it is required to comply with
President Eisenhower's new
economy order.
Chin tm Mm ttian neven . oorts. That'i an average of 42
billion hot dogs were consumed hot dogs per person. It'i 625,434
by Americans last year, the Na- miles of hot dogs linked end to
tional Live Stock Producer re-1 end.
governor's son, Stephen Boyd.
Although most film critics ob
served the story was confused
and tinged with soap opera, and
Belafonte himself said it was
"a terrible picture based on a
terrible book", the picture has
done what the trade papers call
"boxoffice conniptions". Some
filmsters predicted the movie
never would be shown south of
the Mason-Dixon Line. Yet the
movie playing in four theaters
in Miami racked up hefty ticket
sales, trade papers report.
Other Similar Themes
Miscegenation also is theme
of Warner's "Band of Angels",
telling of a romance between a
white ex-slave runner, Clark
Gable, and the daughter of a
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Columbia Pictures is reported
to be dickering with Belafonte
to co-star with Lana Turner in
a re-make of "Gold Boy." ,
"Only a controversial adult
theme, or a supercolossal epic,
or teen-age attractions such as
rock n'roll or science fiction,
bring cutomers to the theaters,"
one film trade paper says.
Apparently realizing this, the
movie industry's own censors
pass many films that may not
have been approved five years
ago.
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