Buffered, Unbuffered Aspirins
Of No Difference, Tests Show
Dfloi Smith
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York TO The
burning public question of
how one should take one's as-
. pirin, buffered
or unbuffered,
the scientific
answer is that
it makes no
differ ence.
The unbuffer
ed acts as fast
; as the buffer
ed and neither
.
i is likely to
upset your
stomach.
These answers were ob
tained separately by Dr. G.
A. Cronk of Syracuse (N.Y.)
University and Dr. Robert C.
Batterman of New York City
Medical College by testing
both kinds in large numbers
of people, using methods
which science feels are the
only ones capable of produc
ing factual answers.
Two Techniques Used
One of these is the "double
blind," in which neither the
doctor giving the drug nor the
patient receiving it knows
which drug is being given and
( taken, "A" or "B," until after
' the results are in and tabu
lated. Another is a statistical
technique, "crossover," which
is something like multiplying
after you've divided to prove
you divided correctly.
These agreeing results from
independent i n v e s t i gators
caused the New England
Journal of Medicine to remark
that "many physicians" had
been sold on buffered aspirin
by high-pressure advertising.
"Unquestionably, the medicine-show
technique has again
demonstrated the power of its
approach," commented the
Journal which is a consistent
critic of the ways medicines
are advertised to the public,
especially in TV commercials.
It recalled that some 50
years ago "the American Med
ical Association made a pow
erful attack on quacks, quack
ery and nostrums of all types,
and largely succeeded in forc
ing many of the more harmful
and useless preparations from
the market.
Medicine Show Returns
But now, "television has
brought the ancient medicine
show" back to life. Just as the
credulous grandfathers of the
present generation found the
Indian medicine man and old
Doc Jones and his cure for
rheumatism convincing, so do
their grandchildren find 'tired
blood,' 'relieves headache
twice as fast,' 'like a doctor's
prescription' and other ridicu
lous statements, claims, half
truths and the associated en
tertainment convincing to an
incredible degree."
The New England Journal
is among the most respected
and influential of medical
journals. That gives weight to
the final statement of its edi
torial, which was: "Apparent
ly, the need is great and the
time is fast approaching for
another crusade against the
pernicious practice."
33 Million Forest I
Tree Seedlings Set
Salem TO In almost nine
years of Oregon's multi-million
dollar forest rehabilita
tion project more than 33 mil
lion forest tree seedlings have
been planted on 40,377 acres
of state-owned forest land and
over 54,000 seeded aerially, J.
H. Hann, State Forestry De
partment project officer reported.
Monday, February 10, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
United Nations, N.Y. Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim,
on the French bombing of a Tunsian town on the Algerian
border:
"My government and I feel it was an act of aggression
which was premeditated and which is contrary lo the obli
gations of the charter of the U.N."
Tunis, Tunisia An International Red Cross official, on
the fact that French bombs struck at mercy organization
trucks during the air attack which killed 75 persons:
"Our trucks had a red cross on their lops which was well
in evidence. The aviators could not have missed them since
the planes flew so low. It is horrible."
Washington Attorney General William P. Rogers, on a
charge that the administration is "procrastinating" on 'civil
rights prosecution:
"We will enforce these civil rights statutes with the same
vigor that we enforce other laws in this, country."
Washington Senate Republican Leader William F. i
Knowland (Calif.) on whether the GOP again would use
"Peace and Prosperity" as a campaign slogan this year:
"We're still running on peace and we think by fall we'll
be running on prosperity."
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Charges Denied
In Senate Probe
By Rep Bob Hale
Washington (IP) Rep.
Robert Hale has denied he
tried to block a congressional
investigation to "protec t"
President Assistant Sherman
Adams, Secretary of Com
merce Sinclair Weeks and
Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R
Mass.). The Maine Republican
made available a letter sent
to newspaper columnist Drew
Pearson asking him "in all
fairness" to retract the charge
which was published Friday. ,
Hale wrote that "there is
not a syllable of truth" in
Pearson's claim that he at
tempted last fall to block an
inquiry now underway by a
special House Commerce
subcommitte into members of
the Federal Communications
commission.
Pearson reported that Hale
and Rep. John W. Heselton
(R.-Mass.) members of the
subcommittee, attempted to
sidetrack the inquiry for fear
it would explore the disputed
award by FCC of a Boston
television station to the Bos
ton Herald and Traveler
newspaper.
Pearson reported that the
FCC overruled the recom
mendations of an . FCC exam
iner and made the award in
response to "wire - pulling"
from Adams, Weeks and Sal
tonstall who "put their pow
erful fingers in the FCC pie."
The FCC is supposed to
operate independently of ad
ministration or congressional
pressure.
Info Agency
Gets Criticism
From Film Man
Chicago (IP) Eugene Cas
tle, author and founder of
Castle Films, scathinginly
criticizes the U.S. foreign aid
program and particularly
vented his ire at the United
States Information agency.
"Day by day it continues to
cast suspicion on our great
press services that not only
serve the newspapers of the
United States but the entire
world," ha said.
"The USIA," Castle said,
"is directly competitive in
many foreign areas with the
overseas operations of the
Associated Press, the United
Press and the International
News Service."
Addressing the fourth an
nual Lincoln day seminar of
the Abraham Lincoln Nation
al Republican club, Castle
charged that the "self-deceiving
'made in Washington pro
nouncements" of the USIA
all too frequently make our
"false sense of security" even
more precarious at home and
abroad.
"This 'cava of the winds' "
he said, "already o'verbudget
ed by $50 million, is branded
round the globe as the gov
ernment subsidized propagan
da bureaucracy which it is."
"No single agency of our
government has been more
wasteful or harmful to our
country and all of its citi
zens," he said.
The remains of a 13th cen
tury building used by monks
at Canterbury Cathedral have
been found in the garden of
the - Archdeacon of Canter
bury, Alexander . Sargent.
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