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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1960)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. D 7 GIANT LIQUID I ' M-J-B I jtAJ-Sy -fcs, -' V" ' iki Spokane Man First To Have Mitral Valve Portland -OIPD- Physicians disclosed Wednesday that a Spokane man is the first per on to, have an artificial mitral valve placed in his heart and that he is recovering satisfac torily, .f '. ;. - Philip Amundson, Sji, was reported convalescing with out complications at the Uni versity of Oregon Medioal School Hospital after open heart surgery Sept. 21. Doctors said a ball-type mitral valve, developed in the medical school's department of surgery during the past 2V . years, , was :. inserted into Amundson's heart in the deli cate operation. The report on the valve and Its successful application was presented today to the Ameri can College of Surgeons In San Francisco by Dr. Albert Starr, assistant professor of surgery. Valve Described '' Dr. Stair and M. Lowell Edwards of the Edwards De velopment Laboratory here developed the artificial valve. It consists of a ball of silicon rubber, about 3A of an inch in diameter, enclosed in a cage of plastic material, about 1 VS inches high. The outer margin of the cage is of a cloth ma terial used in other heart sur gery. Doctors said, mitral valve disease was so common that it has been estimated the numbeE.of persons in Oregon alone who would require com plete removal of the mitral valve would fall into the thou sands. : . .; Placed on Machine Amundson was: placed on the heart-lung machine during surgery in 5 which doctors found his mitral valve could no longer function and there was no possibility ' of repair by any known method. Test ing is still going on to predict the wearing ability of the ar tificial valves. Amundson v and his . wife have two married daughters and five grandchildren, all of Spokane. Loss of Enzyme Reason Man Can't Create Vitamin C New York (Science Serv- ice)-Somewhere along me path of evolution between rabbits and man, a particular liver enzyme disappeared. Loss of this enzyme is the reason man is unable to manu facture vitamin C within his own body, a team of research ers from India reported here today. Drs. I. B. Chatterjee, N. C. Kar, N. C. Ghosh and B. C. Guha of the University Col lege of Science and Technol ogy, Calcutta, reported here at a New York Academy of Sciences conference that the chemical conversion of sugar to vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) in animals is completed only when the . enzyme L-gulono-oxidase is present. -Imbedded in Kidney Cells In amphibians, reptiles and a number of birds, this ezyme is found within the minute particles (microsomes) embed ded in kidney cells. But in other birds and in those mam mals capable of manufactur ing vitamin C, the enzyme has moved to the liver cells. Finally, in the higher mam mals, and in at least one bird, the enzyme disappears corn- All this indicates, the re searchers state, that "in tne evolutionary ascent," the en zyme originally residing in the kidney gradually passes into the liver and finally by genetic defect, disappears from the liver also.' T mifp . rats, rabbits, rji- geons and chickens, but not in goats, a natural substance cuts down on the amount of vitamin: C produced. This substance can be overcome by vitamin K, and by the chlorides of .lithium, sodium, potassium and cesium. Dad's Club Supports Ballot Measure 6( ! Ashland -SOC fathers, through the Dad's club jt Southern Oregon college, have given Measure No. 6 their sup port by contributing $100 to help with campaign expenses. President of the organiza tion, Easton Humphrey of Medford, sadi that "dormito ries could be provided at the institutions of higher educa tion in Oregon if this measure were passed. Certainly,' one can sec the need for housing - facilities at SOC where the new dormitory is already fill ed and temporary housing ar rangements had to be pro vided." - Other officers ol this club are Jack Sutton, vice presi dent, Grants Pass; and Dr. Lo ren Messenger, secretary treasurer, Talent. '. 2 r 9 1 VEIL 3c WIN! WIN! WIN! CARS! CARS! CARS! ENTER THE SPECTACULAR f:nl D 1 UN HE WORLD o MART fil AMOROUS 1961 CARS ! yyyyteyom! L Jooo i Cameras' mSmA TrastoradiQS, I Ntt - j J CARNATION EVAPORATED MILK Tall Can 6 s 79' CARNATION 8qt size INSTANT fat DRY MILK CARNATION INSTANT CHOCOLATE FLAVORED DRINK 10-Ol. Pkg. ... Shop & Save At Central Point's Most Complete Shopping Center! PAULSEN & GATES IMF? MAiKET CENTRAL POINT, OREGON Prices Effective Thursday, Friday and Saturday Limit Rights Reserved Lots of FREE PARKING Behind the Store! OFFORD'S RANCH AA LARGE EGGS JELLO Pudding and Pie Filling !5CEa. L HI Chopped SWIFT'S 12-OZ. 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