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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1960)
0S30 (J) I $Kaaa & 1 gdsqiids ?otCZ"v; 1 asaaaoal yl n DEVICE "FINDS' DISEASE-Dcspite warnings by distinguish ed physicians, reputable medical associations and federal authorities, thousands of persons suffering from cancer and other diseases turn each year to groups and individuals who promise "cures." One such device, a "radonic machirj!," is shown. A state drug inspector underwent anexamination by the "radionics natureopath" who used the device to diagnose that the insDector was suffering from "canrpr nf thp liviv- with 91 degrees of mftignancy." The same machine selected' the correct drug for a complete cure." The inspector, how ever, previous;'.' had been pronounced in perfect health by a group of reputable physicians. (UPI Telephoto) Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins A Recipe for Curing Boils , , , Bird Shot and Biscuit? 1 Inquiry revealed the star tling fact that home remedies and attempted prevention of the painful occurrence of boils on the human epidermis were many and varied a few years ago. Back then the curner drug store didn't exist. The nearest doctor was many miles away find the only way to get him was by horseback or buggy. So people used home, reme dies and they came up with some dandies. They mixed various materials with super ttition. The supposed cure for the common boil took some odd turns. In the light of piusent day knowledge some of those old cures seem ridiculous. Some rural families used egg-shells. The shells were roasted in an oven, then pul verized fine with a rolling pin. The resultant' gritty brown powder was supposed 1,0 be held in the patient's mouth until it dissolved or became a swallowable po,te. Some pioneers mixed the eggshells with molasses. 'Pulling Materials' Others waited until the boil developed, then attempt ed to "draw it out" with vari ous "pulling materials" of which there were a great many. Some desperate inuivi duals, suffering as long as they could, stand it, placed 'the open end of a heated glass bottle over the boil. As the bottle .cooled a terrific suc tion was exerted which, if the person playing host to the boil coulfj stand still long enough, could pull the core out and into the bottle. It hurt but so did the boil. In the list of "cures" or pre ventives, there were bound to be some that bordered on the fantastic. Here of course was where superstition came in and it came In strong. One of these, that could well have been called the "shot treat ment," strains our belief in home remedies to the break ing point. The gentleman, who told me about it, claimed he has never beer, bothered with boils since he treated himself and that was, he said, "a good many years ago." The recipe was simple. He said the treatment consisted of eating a "biscuit that had half a dozen bird-shot buried in it." He could not tell me just why the shot had to be placed in a biscuit to be ef fective, bu ,that was the pro per procedure. "The patient," he added, "was usually free of boils by the following day." Having half a dozen lead pellets in one's system cer tainly boded no good for the patient, but perhaps those less hardy souls who blindly accepted any measure to cure themselves, were the ones that sucwimbed, and their un timely demise probably was attribtued to other causes rather than the "remedy." And it could have been that the so-called "lead-poisoning," which was said to have killed so many of the "bad-men -of the old VV'est," was adminis tered by placing half dozen lead bird-shot in a biscuit. And all the time I always sup posed it was done with a six- gun. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Porter Inlroduces Flag Legislation Washington -flIPD- Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) has introduced legislation to make abuse of the U. S. flag a misdemeanor, punishable by a $100 fine or 30 days in jail or both. Porter drafted the bill after learning no federal law appeared to have been brok en in the recent sale of sur plus 48-star and 49-Gar flags in Haiti for use as dress goods, window curtains, and scrub rags. The existing flag code sug gests proper handling of the ensign but does not make this mandatory. Porter's bill would make it Illegal to mutilate, deface, de file, defy, trample on, or "cast contempt" on the flag, by word 'or act. It also would ban the manufacture, sale of or gift of flags for purposes of such misuse. Unorthodoxy Whips Some m m In Line Aqainst Medical Men Editor'! note: Thli If the final ot three dlipalrhet written by Helena FrOit of the Amerlran Cancer So city reportlnf on cancer quackery. By HELENA FROST Written for United Press International "Doctors are people." Dr. Louis M. Orr, president of the American Medical As3 sociation, voiced the thought and added: They have wives, children and grandchildren, sisters and brothers parents and grandparents . . . How many will cancer strike?" The answer is one in four. Those are the oddsJor all of us. Doctors aren't immune, nor do they have a secret cure. , Somrrjpeople don't like doc tors "on principle." They are entitled to their independent view, but it ceases to be inde pendent when it is whipped into the "party line" of un orthodoxy. For example by something UKe tills: "America s composed of the sickest people in the world. Doctors . . . intention ally keep their patients sick, so as to continue deriving profits and income from them . . ," The statement was made in a speech by Fred J. Hart at a meeting in the National Health Federation (NHF) in RivprsiHp Pnlif Thp fprlprn. ion, a "health freedoiUl movement" of conflicting cults and "cures," attacks "orga nized medicine," the "drug trust and "their goveiment tools," in speeches, leasts, publications and other media of organized selling. NHF members have accept ed Hart as their prudent and spokesman. At the Riverside meeting he likened the American Medical Association to a "la ta o r organization under rOffa." In his San Francisco office he said: "They are fighting for their lives against sup pression by the American Medical Association," retCrr ing to other proponents of un orthodox "cures." And again: "This is the thing :tW Albert Abrams bled and died for." In 1916, Dr. Albert Abrams "invented" a number of ma chines, ar.Ti a theory of diag nosis and treatment called "radionics." He also organized the College of Electronic Medicine, which later became the electronic Medical Foun dation. Hart is president of theQElectronic Medical Foun dation. Renegades Found Dr. Abrams had the right to call himself M.D. a graduate of Heidelberg at 19. and pro fessor of pathology by the time he was 30. What side tracked such a brilliant man, and others like him? For other renegade medical men have been lounQ in the ranks of the cancer quacks. "In my opinion," said Dr. Orr, "thejiuack who has rea son to know better is the most detestable of all. He may have scientific and human knowledge of cOicer and yet he is ready to capitalize on human misery." According to the California Medical Association, the state's new anti-quack law is "also a mechanism for clean ing our own backyard." A doctor convicted under the law would lose his license for unprofessional conduct. Abrams, for example, said he could diagnose disease from a spot of blood sent through the mail. His diagnos tic device was supposed to "tune in" to different dis eases, I n c 1 u,d 1 n g cancer. Another machine, the "oscil loclast," could be rented by the patient's practitioner for $250, plus $5 monthiy - on condition that it wasn't opened. A'orams threw in a "prescription" for the wave length to be used in treat ment. He died a rich man in 1924. Years later, FDA investiga tors took apart the "boxes" duplicates of the prototypes in the Electronic Medical Foun dations San Francisco office. One type produced a magnet, ic field, as in a vacuum clean- er or doorbell. Another was a low-powered transmitter, generating radio waveson the short wave band used' by police or taxicabs. Other FDA investigators sent three spots blood to the foundation's diagnostic service in San Francisco, with these reported A rooster suffered from sinusitis. An amputee had arthritis in the lost foot and ankle. A corpse had colitis. In 1954 a federal court in junction prohibited the foun-sald, "we were saving one out dation, and Hart as its presi dent, from snipping any of the "misbranded devices" across state lines. An "in junction by consent" wts re corded. But the fact that many of these machines are scattered in offices in vari ous parts of the country still remains. How can people be so gul lible? Dr. Orr replied: "Unfortunately too many people are seekivE short-cuts to health. They We to think they can buy Instant health like instant coffee especial ly when the salesman wears a white coat and calls himself a doctor." Can Look Ahead And what is the outlook of groups as the AMA. the Amer-Cj ican Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute for dissovering a proven cure for cancer? "We can begin to look ahead to that wonderful day when we can go out of busi ness the day when cancer is finally conquered," said Dr. Harold S. Diehl, senior vice president for research and medical affairs of the Ameri can Cancer Society. Sober Hope "Twenty years ago," he of seven cancer patients. To day we are saving one in three. And we should be able to cut that down to one in two by Instructing the public and the medical profession In ear lv detection and even earlier prevention. "We know people need to hope that the conquest of can cer is somewhere in sight on the horizon We can give them a sober hope. "Some 85,000 people die MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, 1, 160 needlessly every year. We don't know how many are victims of oncer quacks, but all ore victims of 'too late:' of fear, apathy and despair all, of which spring from ignor ance. A very good reason why the society allocates 31 per cent of funds raised annually to public and professional" education." GRADUATION Gifts & Cards 0 LARGE SELECTION See Our Graduation Gift Table -, for Ideas Socialist Party Leader Proposes Peace Program Washington -rtlPD - Socialist Party Leader Norman Thom as has proposed a four-point nroeram for the United States which he said would establish a "life-line to peace." Tbe veteran figure of the American political scene urg ed disarmament down to a police level, a strong United Nations, progressive d i s e n- gagement in the Far East, Middle East and along the Iron Curtain in Europe, and an international effort to con quer world poverty. Thomas, who ran six times as the Socialist candidate for president, spoke at a final convention banquet of the So cialist Party-Social Democra tic federation. Tn his rtrpnarrtd address, he said: "War in the nuclear age has become impossible it our civilization, perhaps even our human race, is to live. He told the convention del egates that they must decide whether the Socialist cause can best be served by nomi nating their own candidate fof president or by working toward "a meaningful realign ment of the major parties." Thomas noted that "the Democrats cheerfully and the Republicans reluctantly" now enrkirse many proposals which once were called so cialistic, o Russia Requests Flight Statement Bonn (UPB The Soviet TTninn has asked Bonn for a statement on reports the Uni ted States is carrying out spy flights over the Soviet Union from it air base at Frankfurt, the Foreign Ministry has an nounced. The demand was made by Knvipl Ambassador Andrei Smirnov In a meeting with Foreign Ministry Secretary of State Hilger van scnerpen hprir thp sDokesman said. "The subject was d'.scussed the spokesman said, in con firming earlier reports from the Soviet Embassy. Van Scherpenberg, how ever, did not make any com mitments to Smirnov, he said. V- , . - -M. 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