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o 3) MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Oregon, WdnttJy, July U, 1958 o Training ScDiedule lor First Bacteria Becoming Resistant To iotics Worries Scientists I VV ; ' By DELOS SMITH ! UPI Scienc Editor : New York (UPI) Medical science is so worried over subtribes of disease - causing bacteria get ting wise to its most effec tive way of killing them that it has needled the governm e n t into acting. &ZA U.S. Surgean VtZTijL General L e- Deioi smitu roy E. Burney is sponsoring a medical-hos pital conference in September to go ito this deepening problem. Simply stated, the problem isQthis: disease-caus ing bacteria ar,e being educat ed in how to live and flourish In the presence of the antibi otic drugs. - This education is being ad ministered by physicians and often in hospitals unwilling ly and usually unwittingly, of course. It is a pity because the antibiotics (penicillin is the best known) are the most miraculous of the "miracle drugs." Adapt Selves to Drug .-, Medical science tes never had other bacteria - killers nearly aspeffective as these. "But wherewill we be if and when the day comes when all bacteria are able to resist all the antibiotics without the 'slightest harm either to them selves or their prodigious re productive capacity. Say you have a human body in which there are x-bil-lion bacteria making it very sick. You inject an antibiotic. It kills all the billions, presto, and the body rebounds into health. But if you repeat it often enough in enough bod you're going to run into a relatively few bacteria which adapt themselves to the drug. These few become parents of a new sub-tribe of their kind, all of whose members are resistant to that particu lar antibiotic. This is going on right now. More and more of these bacterial strains are ap pearing around the country; indeed, around the world. Not the Answer They still are a very small minority of disease-causing bacteria, and the comrrton way of dealing with them is to inject a different antibiotic one to which they are not resistant. But that permits LEFT OUT Mrs. Jessica Freeman-Mitford Truehaft, wife of Oakland, Calif., at torney, and sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, was pointedly disin herited in will of her late father because her political sympathies differed from those of her father and her brother-in-law. them to acquire even more education. Strains now are in existence that resist as many as five antibiotics which for merly killed them. Medical science feels the answer can't be a new antibi otic indefinitely. Antibiotics comes from chemical stews produced by earth molds. Many kill people as well as bacteria; only a very few are potentially usable as drugs. Thus the day can come when most disease-causing bacteria are "resistant" to all antibi otics and there is no new an tibiotic to save the day. ' Physicians use antibiotics in copious quantities. Hospi tals teem with them. If you have an effective- weapon, you're going to use it fully and often, naturally. But the more the antibiotic weapon is used, the greater is the chance of it becoming progressively less effective. Thrive in Hospitals Small epidemics of illness es caused by resistant bacte ria now appear occasionally in hospitals. They're quickly put down with a newer anti biotic, but they show what's going on. Bacteria are every where, even in hospitals, and so hospitals are places where bacteria get educated, since all the antibiotics are always around. Leaders of medical science believe the antibiotics should be used against offending bac teria only when the need is great and nothing else will do. Hospitals should rely more on older drugs and old er methods for holding down the bacterial population to the barest minimum and less on antibiotics, they say. 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FREE $1,000 GLASS BOAT JULY 30 Doctors Awate Pilot Can Stand Forces Imposed Editor'! note: Following is the third of five articles on plans of the United States to send a man into outer space. In previous arti cles Author Martin Caidin wrote that haste is essential if this coun try hopes to beat Russia as the first nation to rocket a man into space. The first man to attempt the feat will be a perfect physical specimen and will be found in the ranks of test pilots, according to Caidin. By MARTIN CAIDIN (Written for United Press International) (Copyright 1958 by UPI) The training schedule for Jim Randall's first flight be yond the earth was so de manding physically that the average man would have re garded the punishment as sheer torture. There are no second chanc es on this space mission; the doctors know that Randall can withstand the forces im posed by his rocket plane's performance. Further, his su periors know he is able to operate controls and equip ment during those same mo ments when he may be suffer ing most severely. Can he take high gravity forces? In a jet fighter, a steep turn at high speed im poses tremendous loads , (g-loads) on a pilot's body. As a jet pilot Randall has taken as high as 9-g's, when with his personal flying equipment his body weighed nearly a ton. Can he take 14-g's? Placed in Centrifuge To find out, scientists plac ed him in a centrifuge, a giant machine that was . whirled around rapidly. At the end of long steel girders rode an en closed cabin, simulating the X-15. Inside Jim Randall was whirled faster and faster. The g-loads increased until Ran dall's arms were like steel bars. He could not move his feet. His head seemed to be imbedded in concrete. The blood drained away from his brain, forming a grey cloud before his eyes. His heart pounded madly, his chest muscles could barely raise his lungs. Finally, "weighing" more than 3,000 pounds, Ran dall blacked out. The doctors were pleased. Randall worked fingertip con trols with his right hand up to a force' nine times that of gravity, much higher than that required for his impend ing space flight. But what about the return to earth? When Jim Randall's X-15 plunges back into the atmos phere from space it will race into air that resists the rock et's performance as though it were a thick and viscous mass. The ship may decele rate rapidly, slowing down with such force that Randall will be subjected to violent punishment a deceleration force of nine gravities. Body Bursts Forward But on that earthbound day of testing, Randall re turned to the centrifuge. With a booming whine the great machine began to whirl, spin ning faster and faster. Sud denly the control engineer slammed on the brakes. With in the sealed cabin, Randall's body burst forward against his restraining straps. The pressure mounted with cruel force. Blood pounded heavily against his eyeballs. His skin stretched and twisted into a rubbery, grotesque mask. Small blood vessels ruptured. Finally, at a force just above 9-g's, he passed out. His lim its of control operation were carefully noted; the X-15 is designed to fly with maxi mum forces well below Ran dall's limits. His flight in space will be in vacuum. Because the X-15 orbital flight is a crash pro gram, the rocket is not de signed for pilot comfort. The pressurized cabin is small, and Randall will wear his pressure suit for the entire mission. If the cabin suddenly springs a leak and the air rushes into space, the suit will mean his life. Without this suit pressure, the air in Randall's body would explode outward. Under zero-pressure conditions his blood and oth er body ' fluids would boil with such violence that they would literally explode. With out his pressure suit Randall would be unconscious in a few seconds, dead in less than 15 seconds. Decompression unamser I Can he live, can he perform his flight duties, in a tight pressure suit? During his preparation for the space flight, the doctors placed Ran dall in a decompression cham ber, inflated the suit, and de pressurized the chamber. They kept Randall there for two days, eating baby foods and drinking liquids within Space the suit. After the first three hours he perspired freely J from the slightest movement. "It was hell in there," he re ported. But he could survive, and he could control his spaceship. Another hurdle had been overcome. During his orbit around the earth, Jim Randall will be to tally weightless. No human being has ever been in a weightless condition for long er than 45 or 50 seconds. To simulate zero gravity condi tions, in readiness ftjr this, Randall flew as a passenger in a jet fighter. The pilot dove the jet, then pulled up sharp ly to swing into a great soar ing arc in the sky. For as long as 48 seconds, while the fight er coasted "up and over," Randall was weightless. At first he couldn't coordinate his hands. Everything "seem ed wrong." But after a dozen flights weightlessness no long er bothered him. The doctors Flight were elated, for Randall's nat ural pilot instincts and con tinued practice in the weight lessness flights, meant he would experience little or no difficulties from zero gravity in orbit. For more than a year, while he flew special test flights, while he visited the North American factory to keep pace with the rocket plane's construction, Randall contin ued with his special medical tests. Finally they were all completed. He had passed ev ery test that aviation and space medicine could devise. As much as any man on earth could possibly be pre pared, Jim Randall is ready for the first manned space flight in history. (Next: Randall's ticket to space.) Both sea and lake sturgeon live in the fresh waters of the St. Lawrence river the year round. Physically I m mum Goldfine Tells of While House Visits Washington (UPI) Ber nard Goldfine said today that he had visited the White House a number of times in this administration and once lunched with White House executives, including Presi dent Eisenhower. The Russian-born textile ty coon told newsmen of his White House visits after his sixth round of testimony be fore a House subcommittee investigating whether his firms got favored treatment from federal agencies because of his friendship with Presi dential Assistant Sherman Adams. Portland (UPI) Word has been received here of the drowning of the Rev. Patrick G. Madden, assistant at St. Peter's Catholic Church here during a visit to his native Ireland. Goldfine, holding fast to his earlier refusal to answer cer tain questions about his com plicated financial dealings, asked the - subcommittee to halt its hearings pending a ruling by a federal court on whether the questions were pertinent. The subcommittee rejected this request. 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