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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22. 1961
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE
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HERO GRATEFUL "I'm mighty grateful," said Sgt.-Alvin
C. York, famed World War I hero, as he learned that the
Internal Revenue Service had agreed to settle his $25,000
tax debt, .and that House, Spakr Sam Rayburn had kickd
off a1 national drive to raise the money by. donating $1,000
himself. Sgt. York is shown taking it easy with his grand
son, Larry Jackson York; in his home at Pall Mall, Tenn.
York is wearing his Congressional Medal of Honor,
; (UPI Telephoto)
The Medical Roundup
by
Emeritus Consultant In Mcdiclnt
Mayo Clinic
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
(Register and Tribune Syndicate,
19(11)
New Pain That Comei ....
After Middle Life
I must keep urging people
to pay great attention to any
pain that appears for the first
TJtl time to a per.
ft' Clsii I son past mid
dle age. Here
on my desk Is
a sad letter
from a fine
woman who
begs me to
keep writing
about this
subject. .She
Alvarez says that if
she had only known two
years ago that a new pain
appearing in. her abdomen
shortly after her sixtieth
birthday, could . mean cancer,
she would not now be sitting
In her room waiting for death
to come for her. . ,
When the little pain came,
she could stand it easily, and
so for many months., she did
nothing about it. Then, one
night, it woke her out of hor
Bleep and for a few minutes
Was severe and cramping. She
changed hor diet and 'when
this then seemed to cure the
pain, she thought she had
solved her problem. The pain
returned but, again, she let
months go by. She kept hoping
the pain would clear away.
5 Only when she began to
Jose weight did she get alarm,
ed enough to see a doctor
Unfortunately, he was so ter
ribly busy he could not give
her more than a few minutes,
When she admitted she was
very nervous and very tired
from taking care of her hus-
band who was 111 at home
with a bad heart, he gave her
a tranquilizer and told her to
come back If the medicine did
not work
Blood Noticed
Because It seemed to help
her, she let another three
months go by. Then she began
to notice some blood In her
bowel movements. The doctor
found she was anemic and gave
her some Iron. Later, when
she was no better, he sent
hor for an x-ray examination
which revealed a cancer of
the bowel. A surgeon remov
ed the growth but he found
that it had scattered through
the abdomen and the liver and
so it was too late.
As the lady says in her
letter, how different It would
be for her today If, when the
distress first came, she had
known that a new pain at 00
commonly means cancer. If
only sho had gone Immediate
ly for an x-ray examination
she could be well and safe
today. Another point she
makes is that she probably
would be well today If she
Unci only known that the time
to get rid of a cancer Is when
you feel strong and well and
look perfectly healthy. If you
Wait until you are thin and
sallow and weak, it Is gener
ally too lato.
Somo years aso' In n num.
bcr of Medical Schools, an
effort was made to gel hun
dreds of apparently healthy
peopic-wiuioiu any minis or
aches or Indlgestion-to come
In and have their stomachs
, and bowels x-rayed. As the
doctors expected, a number of
cancers were found, but what
was heart-breaking was that
most of the persons Involved
refused to do anythlno nhnwi
the terrible threat to their
lives. To them, the unanswer
able argument was, "But I
do not feel sick." Again, I
must emphasize the fact that
If a man wants to avoid death
from cancer he must have
the. growth found and remov
ed when he still feels well
and strong and is the picture
of health.
Anticoagulant Treatments
In the last few years ex
perts on diseases of the ar
teries, heart attacks and
strokes have been giving
many of their patients a drug
of a cumarin type which re
duces the tendency of the
blood to clot in the blood ves
sels. The patient has to take
one or more pills every morn
ing, perhaps for the rest of
his days. It is wise every few
weeks to have his blood tested
to see what the so-called
prothrombin time is. Tills is
a measure of the effect of the
drug on the clotting of the
blood.
A number of papers have
been published giving statis
tics on the comparative inci
dence of recurrences of trou
ble in the persons who look
the drug and those who didn't.
For instance, a recent study
by Drs. P. R. Kuhn, A. Van
Ness; R. J. Jones and Bar
bara J. Helmslctter, of Chi
cago, shows that among 583
persons who had a heart at
tack, and who have now been
watched for periods up to two
years,- the incidence of re
current attacks and of sudden
death has been only halt as
high among the treated per
sons as among the untreated.
The mortality rates of the two
groups were 13 per cent and
26 per cent respectively.
Home Care of Many
Psychotic Patients
In Boston, Dr. Walter E.
Barton, working in the region
of Dorchester where there are
some 100,000 inhabitants, has
found that 50 per cent of mild
ly psychotic persons can be
cared for adequately in homes
Doubtless this enn be done
with the help of visiting psy
chiatric nurses. Most of the
persons who are too danger
ous to be handled In homes
are the paranoid schizophren
ics who get the Idea that peo
ple are persecuting them.
WHEN YOU NEED
BEARINGS
To conquer cancer, It must
be detected early. But what
are Its symptoms? What do
you do when cancel' is discov
ered? In his booklet "Cancer"
Dr. Alvarez lists cancer's dan
ger signals and answers your
questions concerning t hi !
dread disease. It mav be ob
tained by sending 25 cents
and a large, stamped, self-
addressed envelope with your
request to Dr. Walter C. Al
varez, Dept. MMT, The Regis
ter and Tribune Syndicate,
Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa.
JEWELRY MATERIAL .
Providence -.Palladium is
being used in some types of
new jewelry to replace plat
inum. It is said to cost one-
fourth as much and has the
qualities of being strong and
easily workable.
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