O
SIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON)
The Medical Roundup
ADHESIONS
Recently, I have had a num
ber of people ask me if they
should have an operation for
adhesions. For
a while I had
been thinking
that the diag
nosis of adhe
sions had gone
into the dis
card, together
with diagnoses
of inte s ti n a 1
autointox i c a-
Aivarac iion, ente r o p-
tosis, tipping-back of the womb,
loose kidney, and chronic ap
pendicitis. As I have often said
in thi column, it may be that
there rt such abnormalities,
Snd it may be that rarely they
give trouble; but in the past, I
fear that many of us physicians
have used these diagnoses largely
to pleas woman who would
have gotten angry if told the
truth, which was that all her
troubles were due to her nervous
neiK, her bad temper, or her
tendency to fuss at everybody
Mnd everything.
As to adhesions, all I can say
is that in my 25 years at the
Mayo Clinic I never heard of
anyone there making that diag
nosis, and I never saw a patient
operated on for it. The surgeons
found plenty of adhesions at
many an operation, and at
many an autopsy, but they never
could feel sure that these ques
tions had played any part in pro
ducing the patient's symptoms.
Usually, when at an operation
for something or other, the sur
geon found a lot of adhesions,
he didn't bother to try to tear
them all apart, because he knew
that they would probably form
again.
I'll never forget one day when
my old friend, Dr. H. E. Robert
son, the great pathologist (ex
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Emtntui Consultant 1b Medicine,
Mayo Clinic
Emeritus Profeunr of Medicine.
Maya Foundation
pert on diseases as found in a
dead body) showed me the body
of a man who had died of heart
trouble. What was most unusual
was that his abdomen was so full
of adhesions that he had practi
cally no abdominal cavity. Every
loop of his bowel was fastened to
some other loop. But strange to
say, when Dr. Robertson ques
tioned the man's wife with great
care, she said that he had always
eaten three square meals a day
with pleasure and comfort; he
hadn't known what indigestion
was, an he had never had a stom
ach ache!
If I were still teaching under
graduate or graduate students,
I would devote much of my time
each week to showing the young
men cases like the one just de
scribed in which tremendous ab
normalities produced no symp
toms. Then, perhaps, when a
very nervous woman came in
with some "butterflies" in her
abdomen the young doctors
wouldn't jump to the conclusion
that her troubles were due to
adhesions.
Portland Man Jailed
On Check Charges
Alfred Smith Price Jr., 26, of
Portland, was lodged in the
Jackson county jail Friday after
noon on charges of uttering and
publishing a false check.
Price told state police, who
arrested him Thursday night for
driving a car without tail lights,
that he had cashed more than
140 checks in the Pacific North
west during the past year. Police
said he told them he cashed four
checks totaling about $50 in
Medford early in November.
State police said Frice cashed
the checks at grocery stores
after selecting several articles.
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' Sunday, November 24, 1957
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Drive Nets Over $1,200
By HELEN BOTTLE
Cave Junction Over $1200,
including pledges, has been col
lected for the United Fund drive
in the Illinois Valley, according
to chairman Mrs. Harry Floyd.
Volunteer workers in several
outlying areas had not yet re
ported as the drive reached its
close, the chairman added. -
Mrs. Floyd has also been ask
ed to organize bloodmobile work
to be conducted next month in
the valley. The Red Cross unit
will be at the Legion hall in
Cave Junction Dec. 13, from 10
a.m. until 2 p.m. Local quota is
set at 125 pints.
Until Nov. 1 of this year, says
Mrs. Floyd, a total of 43 pints
of whole blood has been used
for Illinois Valley patients in
Josephine General hospital.
A benefit dance for the widow
and sons of Shelby (Curly) Rob
inson is being planned by the
Kerby Eagles Lodge for Thanks
giving eve, Nov. 27, at the
American Legion hall in Cave
Junction.
Mr. Robinson was a charter
member of the local lodge. His
many friends in southern Ore
gon and northern California are
invited to attend the dance which
will begin about 9 p.m. A Grants
Pass orchestra has been se
cured. Mrs. Robinson, her mother-in-law,
Mrs. Ada Robinson, and
her daughter Norma Fay Spen
cer, returned to Fortuna Tues
day with the two Robinson boys.
Plans for the future are still
indefinite.
Bob Keller, who purchased the
A. K. Smith property on the
Caves highway last year, has
built a series of trout ponds and
is planning to put in around
75,000 eggs next month. He will
raise fish commercially in the
ponds which average 100 by 50
feet and are from nine to 10
feet deep.
John and Emma Abernathy
and their 10-month-old son,
Douglas, were guests last week
at the home of Mr., and Mrs.
George W. Martin in Cave Junc
tion. Abernathy, the son of Mrs.
Martin, was publisher of the Il
linois Valley News about six
years ago. He is currently with
the personnel division of Aer
inks, Inc., Washington, D.C. The
family, who lives at Kensington,
Md., made the trip to the coast
by air.
Election of officers is set for
Dec. 2, it was announced Mon
day night at the regular meeting
of Bethel No. 36, International
Order of Jobs Daughters. Open
installation will be held in
January.
Scott Turner of Cave Junction
will undergo heart surgery next
Wednesday at the University of
Oregon Medical hospital at Port
land. He has been in the hospital
for two weeks, and must remain
there for an additional two
weeks following surgery.
Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Dick
Nealy of Grants Pass, Turner's
sister, will leave for Portland
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs.Richard Eddy of
Cave Junction were called to
Corvallis this week by the death
of Mrs. Eddy's uncle. Mrs. Don
Smith is caring for the Eddy
children during their absence.
Mechanized cowboys and cow
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as Low as
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girls in pick-up trucks herded
some 100 head of heifers down
the Caves highway and up to
the Redwood highway to Rocky
dale road Monday afternoon
when an Illinois Valley dairy
herd moved from its summer
pasture on the Clyde Broeffle
ranch to winter headquarters at
the dairy.
Ortis Seat was in Los Angeles
last week, attending his brother,
Orval, who underwent major
surgery recently. Seat termi
nated his summer work at the
Redwood Highway inspection sta
tion Nov. 13. The winter crew
now consists of five men.
TA Georee Jr. no longer be
lieves in the basic goodness of
man. Running out of gas around
mMniPht Thursday, he trudged
a mile for a refill. And returned
to find the spare tire stolen from
hi car. The theft occurred on
the flats just north of O'Brien.
Mrs. William Weingart en
tered Sacred Heart hospital in
Medford Tuesday for eye surgery
which was performed Wednes
day morning.
A birthday dinner party hon
oring Mrs. Olive Berkner and
her daughter, Marilyn Sams,
was given Monday at the home
of Mrs. Berkner's sister, Mrs.
Doris Boyd.
Guests were Edna Hoskins,
Frances Wilhelms, Audrey Lem
mon,' Phyllis Wilber, Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Wilber, Roberta
Boyd and the honorees. ,.
Dinner guests at the Earl
Boyd home Thursday evening
were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spitz
and their son, Norman.
Clifford Sowell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William J. Sowell of Cave
Junction, is home from Japan
where he served as specialist
third class in the Army Signal
corps at Camp Zama near Tokyo.
Now a member of the Army
reserves, Sowell plans to stay
in Cave Junction for the pres
ent, assisting his father on the
William Sowell Logging opera
tions. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jansson and
son, Leslie Roy, returned last
week from Twin Falls, Idaho,
where they had spent their vaca
tion with Jansson's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Jannson.
The elder Janssons returned
with the family to Cave Junc
tion where they will stay for
two weeks.
Home from Ashland is Mrs.
Art Williams of O'Brien, who
stayed with her niece and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. . Harry Kan
nasto and daughter during Mrs.
Kannasto's recent attack of Asian
flu.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Kannasto
(Shirley O'Brien) are teachers in
the Phoenix school system.
Received as new members of
the auxiliary of Veterans of
World War I last Tuesday were
Mrs. Mae Myers and Mrs. Maude
Charlton.
Art Kellert and his son,
George, filled their elk tags on
a trip to the ohn Day area.
David Knight, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Knight of Westside
road, has started work as a cus
todian at Oregon Caves. He re-
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TV COORDINATOR Honor
Stansbury.sophomore student at
Southern Oregon college from
Medford, holds the newly estab
lished position of student tele
vision coordinator. She will
work under Hugh G., Simpson,
public relations director. As co
ordinator, she will organize pro
grams for the "College Hour"
on KBES-TV Sunday afternoon,
contact personnel involved and
plan production of programs,
Simpson explained. Saturday
night she was crowned queen
of the Winter Forest formal
sponsored annually by the men's
dormitory.
cently recived his Army dis
charge from Fort Ord.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cavyell
left Atoka, Tenn., last last week
for Cave Junction, where they
will spend the Thanksgiving
holidays with Mrs. Cavywell's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Crowl.
Cavywell has graduated from
his training course at Memphis
Naval Air Base, and will be sta
tioned at a California base.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cornett
of Kerby purchased the Will
Benjamine home on Rockydale
road last week, and moved in
over the week end.
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Library To Be Shown
"Books For All," a 29-minute
film will be shown on KBES-TV
Sunday, Nov. 24 at 2:30 p.m.
The picture tells the story of
one family recently moved into 1
a small community from a large j
city, and how they learn the j
county library can serve their j
various needs. The rotating col-'
lection of books and the inter-li-;
brary loan are only two of the
advantages of belonging to ' a
larger system.
"Books For All" was planned
over a two-year period by a joint
committee of the New York Li
brary association and Library
Trustees Foundation, under the ;
chairmanship of Winifred K. j
Harper, of the Buffalo and Erie
County Public library, Buffalo, !
N. Y. j
The Sunday showing in Jack-1
son County was made possible i
through the interest of the state j
library which lent the film to the
Medford Public library for this j
purpose. The presentation is a j
final observance of Children's !
Book Week and "Know Your j
Public Library Month." j
WOMAN PROMOTED
Tokyo (IB As another sign
of changing times in Japan, the
Ministry of Postal Services has
elevated a woman to the post of
section-chief for the first time in
its history. Mrs. Yoshie Ooyone,
56, who has been working in the
post office since 1917, was pro
moted Friday on the recommen
dation of vice minister of postal
services. Mrs. Hideko Mogami
who said she wanted to see more
women holding higher positions.
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