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Eruptive Diseases
Of Skin Traced To
Disturbed Emotions
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York - (UPD - At least
18 eruptive diseases of the
skin have been traced to dis-
tions. This is
for the infor
mation of peo
ple skeptical
or curious
about the
mind influenc
ing the body.
1 Sf i,1 "borne sKin
- - '2 diseases are
Deios smtui s o commonly
associated with emotional dis
turbances that the nature of
the dermatologic (skin) condi
tion itself sometimes suggests
the possibility of psychogen
esis" (that is, the disease was
set off by the mind), said
Dr. Philip F. D. Seitz.
Emotions Show Effect
Seitz is a Chicago mind
physician who was lecturing
physicians who deal in the
main with the body in the
Technical Journal of the
American Academy of Gen
eral Practice. Psychosomatics
still rouses controversies in
medicine; some body (somatic)
doctors have reservations.
The lecturer reminded that
there is no question whatever
of certain emotional states
producing reactions in the
skin. A shamed person blush
es, an angry man flushes and
a frightened person pales and
sweats and gets goose pimp
les. When these emotional states
fade, the changes in the skin
fade, too. But what if the emo
tional states are prolonged?
"If a person stays angry,
or is constantly afraid, or con
tinusously unhappy and de
pressed, the associated (cu
taneous) reactions of flush
ing, blanching may also con
tinue," he said. "In this way,
chronic states of emotional
tension may produce sustained
alterations in the physiology
of the skin."
And this predisposes the
skin to make sick reactions
to almost anything that comes
along. Micro-organisms caus
ing skin infections, for in
stance. Or allergic reactions
to chemical contaminants in
air or soap or wash clothes
or whatever. Or to digestive
idiosyncracies to certain
foods.
Check Disturbing Experiences
The causing emotions are
unconscious the person
who has them doesn!t know it,
or, perhaps, he has a vague
idea which, in no case, does
he want to admit to his aware
ness. Seitz advised somatic phy
sicians to think of this ques
tion when confronted by a
skin eruption for which they
find no body cause: "Imme
diately prior to, and at the
time of onset of the cutantous
disorder, were there disturb
ing life experiences that
might account for emotional
upheaval?"
He said some "life situa
tions were especially prone to
precipitate chronic states of
emotional tension" which
could have eruptive reactions
in the skin. He listed them
as:
Friction inside the family;
death of a loved one; mar
riage; leaving home; rivalries
among brothers and-or sisters;
birth of a child; a new mem
ber entering the family group,
especially if an in-law; love
affairs, trouble with the boss
and increased responsibility,
no matter the kind.
Dates for Summer
Training Announced
The annual National Guard
summer training program
will be held June 13 through
27, according to 1st Lt. Don
ald M. Ivie, commanding offi
cer of headquarters company,
First Battalion, and 1st Lt.
Jack C. Phillips, commanding
officer, of company A, 186th
Infantry.,
They reported that the lo
cal guard units will leave
Medford by train at midnight
June 12.
A total of $52,012.08 in sal
ary payments has been made
to the members of the local
units during the past, year,
administration personnel of
the units report. This amount,
it was explained, does not in
clude the pay of six regularly
assigned administration per
sonnel. ,
The average American trav
els about 4,300 miles a year.
SEEKING TO EASE BERLIN tension and to find if there
mc wiu wen, x-icaiueiii. n,isexuiower meets wim xtussia s Deputy Premier Anastas I.
Mikoyan and U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington, D. C: Stand
ing, left, U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Mikhail Menshikov, Russian am
bassador to the United States. Mikoyan met President, Dulles Saturday at capital.
Boy Scouts Official
Visits Local Council
Horace Gorton, assistant di
rector of the volunteer train
ing service of the Boy Scouts
of America, arrived in Med
ford Monday for a' two-day
service visit to the Crater
Lake Council.
Gorton met with the Roar
ing Rogue district leadership
training committee Monday
night in Grants Pass and the
Big Pines district leadership
training committee today in
Medford, . John J. Patton,
chairman of the council's
leadership training commit
tee, announced.
Gorton also met with the
Exploring Committee ofxthe
three-county Crater Lake
Council this morning and had
two meetings with the coun
ters executive staff, Patton
said.
Plans will also be made for
a return visit so that the rep
resentative of the national or
ganization may assist in a
series of "train - the - trainer"
meetings, Patton explained.
More than 85 billion paper,
towels were used up in the
United States in 1958, accord
ing to The Tissue Association,
Inc., which figured it out to
500 paper towels for every
man, woman and child in the
country. '
Court Says Pound
The Jackson county dogi
pound should be moved to
some other section of the
county, County Judge Earl
Miller said today.
"I'm not a bit proud of the
pound but don't think it is as
bad as has been stated," Mil
ler said. "Under' ' certain
weather conditions it can be
bad. It should be located in
some remote part of the
county."
Judge Miller said last week
end he had received many
telephone calls on the condi
tion of the pound. '
'Judge .' Miller . said more
adequate dog control , meas
ures are needed and the gen
eral public should be en
couraged to take better care
of their dogs instead of let
ting them run loose. One
means of better dog control
might be to raise the license
fee of unspayed female dogs
to $5, he suggested. It is, now
$2.50.
County Commissioner Ches
ter Wendt said the dog pound
has to dispose of an average
of 200 dogs a month. The
problem is what - to do with
all. the dogs brought in,
Wendt commented.
The -present facilities
" I
is any real hope of endine
Should be Moved
simply aren't
Commissioner
said.
large enough,
Ralph James
Eagle Point Juniors
Schedule Class Play
Eagle Point - The junior
class at Eagle Point High
school will present the play
Class Ring" Thursday, Jan.
22, at the grade school gym
nasium. It will start at 8 p.m.
The three act play is direct
ed by Miss Yetta Olson assist
ed by Pat Clave.
. Cast members include Lana
McGraw, Pat Kaiser, Judi
Hannah, Bev Tresham, Karen
Walton, Sandy Smith, Molly
Gregg, Ann Higday, Bob As
sali, Rolf Gusland, Duane An
derson, Max -Hawks, Dewey
Henderson and Bill Harmon.
New Orleans (UPI) - Future
farms will be '"run like an
efficient factory" with elec
trical appliances performing
every chore from milking
cows to irrigating fields and
cleaning out the barns. So
says G. C. Rawls, vice presi
dent of the American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers,
who told a conference on
rural electrification here that
even pig pens will be air-conditioned.
-
Cancerous
Straying From Nature's Way
fcditor's note: This is the sec
ond of four dispatches on latest
developments in the war on
cancer.
By PATRICIA McCORMACK
New York (UPD Cells are
your body's building blocks.
When they go about their
business : as nature intended,
there is orderly growth.
, But when they stray from
nature's way, they turn out
grotesque, mixed - up cells.
Unless the body can beat
them into submission, even
tually there is cancer.
The law-breaking cells zig
when they should zag, go the
wrong way on one - way
streets, run through red
lights and stop at green ones.
Some of the anti - social
cells turn out their grotesque
descendants very slowly.
Others, very fast. And some,
oddly, get to a certain size,
stay that way for a long time
and then blaze out all over
the body like a flash fire.
Some Depart -
Confounding the cancer
scene are some malignancies
that grow to great size and
then, without any treatment,
turn on their heels and de
part. When this happens, it
is called "spontaneous remis
sion of cancer."
Cancer has many faces. It
can look like a small or a
large cluster of grapes. Some
tumors are smaller than a
walnut; others, big as a lem
on,, grapefruit or basketball.
Some may be long like a
dog's hind leg. Some look
like a mixture of all these
things.
Leukemia, cancer of the
blood, is so small that it can
be seen best through a micro
scope. It gets into the blood
cell factory' in bone marrow
and mixes up the production
schedule.
One out of two cancers
will yield to surgery and radi
ation. Through these tools,
the cancer is apprehended
somewhat like a criminal
who is caught and jailed.
All-out victory in the war
on cancer binges on answers
to such Questions as these:
"What is cancer? What
causes it? How can ail canc
ers be cured? How can they
be prevented? Why will one
in four contract the disease,
why will three in four, es
cape?" Questions Unanswered
These bi-r Questions in
cancer are yet to be answered:
Cells Result of
Dr. Michael B. Shimkin. of
the National Cancer Institute,
Bethesda, Md., says it can be
"considered established" that
cancer is a disease of the cell
and that this disease is trans
ferred to descendants of the
cell.
He continued: "Preocupa
tion with cause usually
means that the event is ill
understood. And in cancer
this is, indeed, so."
But Dr. James R. Heller,
director of the - National
Cancer Institute, sees science
on the verge of major break
throughs." To which, Dr. Lo
well T. Coggeshall, president
of the American Cancer Soci
ety, comments: "I cannot tell
you that this is so but neither
can I dispute, it. The blue
print is beginning to evolve."
Dr. C. P. Rhoads, director
of the Sloan-Kettering Insti
tute, New York, summarizes
one big gain during the last
decade by saying:
'The most basic and beauti
ful scientific work has been
done in defining the details
of the dynamic, constant and
specific construction of the
chemicals which control in
herited traits, thus life itself,
and necessarily, cancer as
well, since it (cancer) is a
mutated and abnormal life."
This new knowledge, ; ac
cording to Dr. Rhoads, "will
bring cancer palliation and
cure in the future if given a
chance to do so."
More Than One Route
At Children's Hospital in
Boston, Dr. Sidney Farber,
a Harvard Medical School
professor and member of the
National Advisory Cancer
Council, said:
"It is quite probable that
the goals to be achieved in
the problem of cancer will be
reached eventually by more
than one route
. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley,
Nobel-prize winning scientist,
has long believed that viruses
have much to do with human
cancer since viruses have
been found to cause cancer in
all other forms of life, with
few exceptions
In France, Belgium and the
United States recently,, specks
of virus have been spotted in
microscopic slices of cells
from human leukemia
victims. Virus particles also
have been found in specks of
tissue from patients with
cancer of the colon.
. Said Dr. Stanley: "I believe
we are now in a very excit
ing era where it is almost
impossible to foretell the fu
ture." Dr. Heller takes this view:
"If and When we establish
the virus as a causative agent
in cancer, then we are around
the corner from a vaccine."
(Next: Drugs Against Cancer)
Pacific Northwest Co.
Elects Two Officers
Seattle The Pacific North
west company board of direct
or have announced the elec
tion of Robert E. Daniel as
president and Lyle F. Wilson
as chairman of the board.
Edmund E. Hass, a vice
president of the company, is
manager of the firm's Med
ford branch.
Daniel has been with the
company for 27 years and has
been executive vice president
for the past four years.
Wilson started his business
career in 1923 with the invest
ment house of Ferris & Hard
grove which became affiliated
with Pacific Northwest Com
pany in 1929. For the past
four years Wilson has been
president. "
The greatest single cause of
mortality among infants at or
about the time of forth even
at sea level, is fetal anoxia
insufficient supply of oxygen
to the fetus.
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Oregon men today , faced
charges that they tried to
pass an altered $1 bill to a
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The men were also booked
for possession of two slot ma
chines, which are illegal in
California.
Police said Robert M. Por
ter, 25, Bandon, and John
Franklin Wilson, 25, no home
town given, tried to pass the
dollar bill, which had been
cut and repasted to look like
a $10 note.
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