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The Medical Roundup by Emerittu Consultant Is Medietas, Mayo Clinic Emaiitos Pro tenor of Mwtlrrno. Mayo Foundation Or Alvares Nephritis, or Bright' Disease Many people ask what to da about kidney trouble, but al ways I have to answer that I c a n't make any sugges tion because I don't know what type of the disease they have. Most ot the p e o p I who think they have kidney trouble be cause of a backache really have only a backache. So far as I've ever been able to see, disease of the kidneys rarely causes backache. Such an ache is far more likely to be due to fibrosi tis or arthritis. It would never occur to me to take a patent "kidney medicine" for back ache, but thousands of people do. This behavior is based on an old folk idea. Many children get a form of nephritis following infections and particularly scarlet fever. Today, with the modern anti biotics, there is much less like lihood of the child's being left with a scarred kidney. Scarlet fever seems now to be disappear ing much as did typhoid fever, smallpox, diphtheria, and a lot o other diseases it is being wiped off the face of the earth. Some young women, especially during pregnancy, get an infec tion of the kidneys, and this needs special care. Some people get what is called a pyelone phritis, or an inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney, the cavity into which the . HTme gathers before it goes down the ureter (tube that carries urine o the bladder). Today such in Sfections can often be cleared up with antiftotics. Many infec tions of the kidney are due to the presence of stones. The in fection can hardly be got rid of antil the stones are removed by a surgeon. o Fairly Common There is a special form of kid ney inflammation called nephro sis which is fairly common in childhood. In this disease the child's face and body can swell up with e3ema (dropsy). In older persons nephritis is often associated with high blood pressure, and a special form . is associated with a diabetes that has not been well taken care of. A type of nephritis is due - to damage to the tiny arteries in the glomerulus (a tuft of tiny blood vessels which takes the poisons out of the blood and throws them into the urine). In some cases it is the tubules of the kidney that are injured. Obviously, anyone who has nephritis shoirM be taken care of by a good physician. The patient should be watched at intervals perhaps for the rest of his days. Often, in the past, when people found that they had a little albumin in their urine, they felt rather hopeless, and the insurance companies turned them down. Today we know that many persons with albumin in the urine are not in a bad way at all, and can live out a long life. Sometimes the trace of albumin is due to a little scar, and the bulk of the two kidneys is nor mal. We have tests, such as the urea clearance, which give us an Idea how much of the kidney tissue is knocked out. If only a small part is injured, and the disease is not progressing, the man should live long. If a man Jives sensibly not overeating or getting stout or drinking too much and smoking too much he has a good chance of living long. Trichomonas Vaginitis Hundreds of women ask what can they do to get rid of trichc monads, the little single-ceil parasites that wiggle around and cause an inflammation of the vagina and sometimes the urin ary bladder. Sometimes they cause a good deal of discharge and itching. Ordinarily, the parasites will die out by them selves or they can easily be killed with vinegar douches or with vaginal suppositories of various drugs, 4ut in some cases the infestation is resistant to any treatment. In such cases much thoughtful care by a good gynecologist is needed to rid the woman of her trouble. If the parasite gets into her blad der, as wall as the vagina, it will have to be cleared out from both places at the same time. Possibly at times the parasite hides in the neck of the womb or in some of the large glands around the outlet of the vagina, In many cases, the reason ths woman doesn't get well is that she and her husband keen swapping the parasite back and forth. Today there is' a medicine which can be injected, and this sounds like a good idea, because then the drug may kill the para sites wherever they are hiding. Histoplasmosis Many ask what is histoplas mosis. It is a chronic disease, slightly resembling tuberculosis, and due to a tiny parasite. The trouble is now being recognized more and more often. In some states it is common. The para site infects many children, but fortunately, most of them get over the disease. A few are left with the disease in a chronic form. Because it is known that the parasite occurs in some ani mals and birds, it is probable that we get our infection from them. For instance, recently several men cleaned out . a church belfry which was full of dung from the pigeons that for years had lived there. With in a couple of weeks all of these men were down with acute his toplasmosis. Evidently the dryed dung was full of the parasites. Efforts are now being made to find some effective treatment for the disease. 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, 1957) flu Epidemic Deah Toil Hits 46 in Chile Santiago De Chile W The influenza epidemic reached a new peak here today with the death toll reaching 46. Sixteen persons died Sunday from the struck 600,000 persons. Despite important recent gains in the fight against tuberculosis. more than 50,000 persons die of the disease annually in the United States. to open your tavingi account with as... -AND THERE'S NO BETTER TIME THAN RIGHT NOW I OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US TODAY Investments Made by the 10th of the Month Receive Dividends as of the 1st Current Dividend 3 Per Annum FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Association of Medford 29 North Ivy Street R. F. Kyle, President Red Skelton Denies Journey With Son Made for Publicity New York W Comedian Red Skelton and his leukemia strick en son returned to New York today from Europe. Skelton vig orously denied that the trip was made tor publicity as charged by several British newspapers. With his arm around his boy, Richard, 9, who said he was "feeling fine," Skelton said he bore no malice against the Eng lish people for their press at tacks. "It was really one newspaper which was responsible for this thing. A reporter from this news paper approached me as we got off the plane in London and ask ed me to give him an exclusive interview on the medical aspects of Richard's illness," Skelton said. Could Write lo Doctor "I told him I was not a doctor, that I was not familiar with medical terms and that I couldn't give him such an interview. However, I told him that if he wanted such information, he could write to my doctor. "A little later, a number of reporters asked me if they-could come up to my hotel room for an interview. "The last man to arrive was this man who wanted the exclu sive interview. He asked me 'What about this adverse publi city?' I said what adverse publi city? This is not publicity. I took my boy on this trip so that he could see as much of the world as possible. First Publicity Remark "We are living a normal life. This was the first time that any one made a remark like that concerning publicity." The TV and movie star left Britain suddenly Sunday night with "his son, wife, and daugh ter, Valentina, 13. They had been in Scotland and had planned to spend several days in Dublin, but decided instead to return to America. A sharply critical editorial in the London Express Sunday cri ticized Skelton for presenting Richard at a "sickening display" of "sickly run receptions and publicity handouts." "Take the boy home, Mr. Skel ton," the newspaper said. McDonald Wins Dairy Showmanship Trophy Jerry McDonald of Eagle Point 4-H Club was named dairy grand champion showman at the Applegate Valley 4-H pre-fair Friday at the Ruch grade school. .Jerry was presented a rolled leather halter following approx imately a half-hour of competi tion with the top showmen in the county. Grand champion beef show man was David Woolfolk of An telope 4-H club. Gary Smith of the Applegate 4-H club was grand champion swine showman. Gary was the only local showman to win a championship although many of the Applegaters participated in the championship run-offs. He was presented a pig brush. Another brush was presented Linda Gibson of Westside 4-H for winning the grand champ ion sheep showman. . Mary Anne Cantrell was among the top placing showmen of the Applegate Valley 4-Hers. She won a dairy trophy from Hunter and Best sawmill of Ruch for placing first in her beginners showmanship class. ' Madge Barker won the sheep trophy from Riverview Market of Applegate. The beef trophy was won by Shirley Dun- lap. It was donated by Sunny- sicte market of Ruch. Gary Smith won the swine trophy. All trophies will be present ed at the combined achievement night for the Ruch and Apple gate clubs- in November or De cember at the Ruch gymnasium. Nat Edsel was judge for the contests. Grange Notes Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue grange met Thursday evening Aug. 1 with Master Caroline L. Harding pre siding. Brother Carlton reported on agriculture and brother Greive reported on" grange in surance. Chaplin reported that Sister Ditsworth has left the hospital and is now at home and sister Harding on crutches. Oth ers reported ill were Sister Rena Home, Leona Hughes and Esther Simek. The Master thanked tfie mem bers for the cards and gifts she had received while in bed with a broken leg. The secretary was instructed to write to our con gressman in regards to retain ing the National grange build ing in Washington D.C. Lectures program was community sing ing and a Waltz solo by Sister Gillispie of her own composi tion, a skit by brother and sister Richardson and a reading by Caroline Harding after the busi ness meeting. Home made ice cream was served by brother Bill Miller and Monte Axtell. EDUCATOR DIES Eustis, Fla. OrT Charles Mc Cracken, 75, prominent educator and author, died Sunday after a prolonged illness. France Facing Worst Economic Turmoil Since Days of War II Paris (B France today is facing her worst economic crisis since the bleak days when she was digging herself out of the havoc of World War II. After years of carefree spend ing, Frenchmen have awakened to a fact cf life no individual or nation can spend more than is earned. The awakening has been as sudden as it was brutal. The reason is simple. For many months past, government after government has tried to keep the unpleasant truth hidden. In May, it began to come to light and there was a fury of recrimi nation between right and leftist parties. ' But it couldn t do away with the facts that the new premier, radical Maurice Bourges Mau noury, has now to be wrestled with. 1. France has been living be yond her means since 1945. No post-war government kept the deficit down to manageable pro portions. 2. Until 1954, aid from the United States tided the nation over. 3. This aid no longer exists. But, as new Finance Minister Felix Gaillard put it, the past governments acted as if Uhcle Sam still was doling out millions to finance reconstructions, mod ernization and rearmament. The deficit in 1955 was 660 billion francs 51,868,000,000. Last year it skyrocketed to 1,500 billion francs more than $4 billion. A strange accompaniment has been that the gross national pro duct, the total of all goods and services produced, increased 20 per cent since 1955 but that was pitifully small in view of the budget deficit. The Algerian war is one of the main culprits. It costs France almost three million dol lars a day. It has rained 450,000 soldiers to Algeria and put a servere load on a working popu lation of only 12 million out of a total population of 43 million. Offer Higher Wages Employers are offering higher salaries in many trades to lue workers. There has ben a buy ing spree on the home market, with wages up and many prices frozen,- and this had led to im port of more and more goods. At the same time, no serious effort was made to compete on foreign markets. Now Finance Minister Gail lard has institued a .drastic cut in the budget. It will be around 15 billion dollars instead of the planned 17 billion. The cuts will hit every department including the army. He has ordered an end to road building and on many construc tion projects. And the French had a foretaste of the taxes to be imposed when the govern ment last week put an increased sales taxes on 24 categories of goods ranging from household appliances to motor boats. Monday, August 5, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Nuclear Explosion Opponents Plan Demonstration Las Vegas (W Participants in a non-violent action against nuclear weapons today set a tar get time of 1 p.m. (p.s.t.) Tues day to demonstrate "civil disobe dience" by walking into the atomic testing grounds north of here. The group plans open defiance of the Atomic Energy Commis sion in having its members walk into the area near AEC head quarters at Mercury, Nev., in protest to testing of nuclear de vices. Barbed Wire in Desert A spokesman for the group said one detail that must be worked out is the miles of barb ed wire which has been strung into the desert recently, presum ably -by the AEC. Leaders of the group visited the Mercury area Sunday and found new barbed wire stretch ing into the desert as far as they could see. Lawrence Scott, co-ordinator. Cuba Army Orders Arrest of Strikers Hevana, Cuba (OT The government ordered "energetic" action against opposition groups who called a general strike in Havana today. It warned against possible violence. The army ordered the arrest of nine opposition labor leaders including four Communists, and said action would be taken against anyone interfering with trade and commerce. It said all disturbing elements' would be considered as "rebels" and treat- who will lead the group Tues day, has described their project as depending "entirely on non violence and the power of love and good will." Willing to Sacrifice He said his group is willing to suffer "loss of liberty by im prisonment" and some members 'even loss of life if necessary, in order to register our pro test." 1 The group will begin a "prayer vigil" at the entrance of the AEC headquarters at 10 a.m. Tuesday. After that the walk into the desert is slated to be gin. , ed as such. The ministers of labor, com merce and national defense warned employers not to "coop erate or contribute" to any strike plan. 9 President Fulgencio Batista said the government has taken all the necessary steps to upset the opposition plans to "foment anarchy." He said industry, commerce and Cubans in gener al could rest easy because the government was prepared to cope with the "plans of saboteurs-terrorists." Use M-T Classified Ads cashi RTa m m not PACIFIC . INDUSTRIALS 16 S. Control Km SP 3-530 Heavy Rains Kill 115 in South Korea Seoul, Korea (IP) Floods caused by the heaviest rains in 30 years killed at least ,115 per sons in South Korea, national police headquarters said today. It was said 37 others were miss ing and 51 injured. Police said 9,243 houses were destroyed or flooded and more than 45,000 persons homeless. They reported nearly 100,000 acres of farmland washed away or damaged. The torrential rains started Friday night after a month of heavy, but intermittent, rain. It stopped Sunday afternoon and railway operations were partial ly restored. Slash fire Controlled In Coos Bay Area Coos Bay (OT A slash fire 30 miles south of here which got out of control Saturday was brought under control Sunday without reaching green timber a'ter it covered about 75 acres. era o SOUTHERN OREGON COLLEGE LIBRARY ol-6 DAILY Fabulous treasure from the near-east, featuring the inspirational LORD'S LAST SUPPER superbly hand-carved, hundreds of years ago from pearl, overlaid with gold filigree Priceless jewels from King Farouk's Collection Ancient Hand-loomed Rugs Beyond Value A $2 Million Collection for the First Time in the Valley Sponsored by Ashland Kiwanls Admission, Adults 75c Children over 12, 35e ' Due to the nature of this exhibit, children should lie uccompanied by an adult. 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