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o Thursday, November 7, 1957 MEDFORD (ORESON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Solving Blood Pressure Problems Seen as Way To Save Many Lives BY DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York IP) A head-on tcientific attack on all the medi cal rTblems of high blood pres sure has been proposed by a n ot e d blood pressure e x p e r t, on the grounds that if those prob lems were sol ved, scores of lives would be saved every Delos Smith year. Dr. I. McD. G. Stewart spoke especially of blood pressures which are high but not so high they have caused any damage yet or produced any sense of ill in the persons who contain them. The lives of many of these persons could be prolonged, he said. He made the following state ments as facts: (1) death or dis ability are produced by the dam age excessive blood pressure pro duces in arteries and veins, and not by excessive blood pressure itself; (2) a reduction of blood pressure "can delay or arrest" this damage; (3) "a relatively slight" reduction might be enough in most people. Blocks Nerve' Centers Right now medical science throughout the world is employ ing an effective blood-pressure reducing weapon in the form of chemicals which "blocks nerve centers of the sympathetic ner vous system. But this weapon is employed only in persons whose blood pressure is extremely ex cessive or has been excessive for so long, that life-shortening dam age has been done. In these severely ill persons, many of whom have reached the "malignant" high blood pres sure stage and svare at death's door, these chemical weapons have produced wonders in low ering pressures, keeping them down, and so prolonging lif. Dr. Stewart said they had beon proven "potent, practical, fcnd -seasonably predictable." Then why not use them in &11 persons with only moderately elevated blood presssure sine life insurance statistics show that "any sustained rise of art erial pressure occurring short of old age, particularly in men, presents a grave long-term threat." There are two main rea sons why not, he said. One is a lack of knowledge of how the For Half-Sizers 0 SIZES UYt-24H 908 Rows of tucking soften the neckline of this Printed Pattern for half-sizers. The skirt has an easy flare that is fashion able, graceful. Proportioned to fit no alteration problems. Printed Pattern 9084: Half Sizes 14li, 1612, I8V2, 20, t e t at 1 t m nv2, l-2, size id ',2 requires 4!8 yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mail ing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plain ly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. -e BADGE TURNS UP Boston m When State Trooper E. J. Souza stopped a motorist and asked to see his registration, Souza was surprised to see a state trooper's badge pinned to the driver's wallet. The motorist said he found the badge. It developed that the badge had been lost by a trooper Concord, Mass., more than a year previously. agents work in healthy bodies against blood pressure that is high but not very high. New Control Studies This is knowledge which medi cal science needs, and which it can obtain only in massive "con trolled" studies everywhere of the effects of the chemical agents in more-or-less normal persons. But at this point Dr. Stewart encountered his major difficulty and that big difficulty is people generally. Mention blood pressure (if you are a doctor) to the average person and the mere mention of the subject increases his blood pressure. If you're going to have a "controlled" study of the chemical weapons in persons whose blood pressures are not elevated by very much, you'll have to have their cooperation because you'd have to measure their pressures repeatedly for a few weeks. And so you'd have to tell these persons their blood pressures. Dr. Stewart said he was against telling patients their blood pressures as of now, but if the blood pressure problems were solved, "The whole climate of professional and private opin ion" might change and then it would be possible to tell the patient about his high blood pres sure "without inevitably releas ing a flood of anxiety symp toms." A British specialist, he made his proposal in a London lec ture. That lecture now is being widely discussed among Ameri can medical scientists. am ESSE SALE EHDS Hoy. 16th for the first time ever! g HELP US! W. 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