MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
MONDAY. MAY 28. 1962
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Kmerltut Consultant 1b Ucdielnt
Mayo clinic
Emerttni Professor of Medlclnt
Mayo clinic
IResliter and Trlbuna Syndic at,
1962)
Disease Due To Lack
Oi Vitamins
During my long life in the
practice of medicine, I have
been impressed with the fact
that although
I have been
on the watch
for them, I
have never
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lack of vita
mins). I have
Aivre seen children
who probably should have
been getting more Vitamin D
than they were getting, and
who had mild symptoms of
rickets.
Pellagra is a disease which
used to be found mainly in
our southern states where peo
ple lived to a large extent on
corn. Beriberi :d to be a
common disease in the Orient
where people got most of
their calories out of polished
rice, which contained no Vi
tamin Bl. Scurvy, in the old
days, was a terrible disease,
afflicting and killing thous
ands of sailors who lived
largely on salted meat and
had no fresh food. Eventual
ly, it was found that if they
took each day a small amount
of lime juice they didn't get
the scurvy. In Mexico the peo
ple avoid scurvy by eating
dried peppers which contain
vitamin C.
What has fascinated me,
however, as I uad the story
of many of the old voyages in
which sailors were months at
sea without getting much
fresh food, is that a certain
percentage of the crew would
come down with a severe
form of scurvy and some
would die of it, but others
of the sailors, and often the
officers would not have any
trouble, and would stay well
throughout the long voyage.
Evidently, some persons are
practically immune to a lack
of vitamin C.
Found in Most Foods
Anyone who knows any
thing about diet knows that
vitamin B is to be found in
most of our foods so that
none of us are likely ever
to get beriberi. Most of us
take some fresh food every
day, and many of us for break
fast take a glass of orange
juice, which gives us plenty
of vitamin C. A point which
interested me much was that
according to the extensive re
ports I have read of physi
cians who have studied the
inmates of stockades in which
men and women were starved
terribly during World War
II both in Germany and
in the East the persons
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who went down to skin Snd
bones did not suffer so much
from lack of vitamins as from
lack of food in general, and
lack of protein (meat, poul
try, fish, eggs and milk).
Always through the years
when I have remarked to
some enthusiastic taker of vi
tamins, or enthusiastic dis
penser of vitamins, that I
never saw a patient who had
symptoms typical of any
known disease due to lack of
vitamins, my friend would
say, "But you re missing the
sub-clinical cases." By this,
he meant that people could
be tired and feeling below
par due to lack of vitamins,
but they would be without
any of the symptoms which
would enable anyone definite
ly to make the diagnosis of
an avitaminosis (disease due
to lack of vitamins).
Always, of course, I have
had to say to my friends who
thought this way, "When you
go off into that realm of the
ory, I can't follow you; I can't
say you are right and I can't
say you are wrong." Today,
am pleased to find in s
splendid official report of the
Council on Foods and Nutri
tion of the American Medical
Association that Dr. William
N. Pearson says that a phy
sician "should think twice be
fore treating a 'sub-clinical'
deficiency disease." Before
making this diagnosis, he cer
tainly should talk to the pa
tient a while to find out how
he or she actually lives and
eats. For instance, if I ask a
patient if he takes any fresh
fruit or fruit juice or salad
during the day and he tells
me, "yes," that he always
takes a big glass of orange
juice in the morning, and he
always takes a salad with at
least one of his meals,. -and
he always eats same fruit,
can't worry about his lacking
vitamin C. Also, if he tells
me he takes an egg or two
for breakfast I know he is
getting many important chem
icals he needs. Perhaps he
tells me he east liver a couple
of times a week, and this
gives him many essential
chemicals.
Difficulty in Absorbiion
. Even if he tells me that he
drinks a glass of milk a day,
and that he eats meats and
vegetables in the usual
amounts, I can't believe that
he is suffering from an avit
aminosis. About the only peo
ple who might suffer from a
mild avitaminosis are those
who have some disease which
interferes with the absorption
from their small bowel. For
instance, there are some pco.
pie who have difficulty in ab
sorbing vitamin A (in butler)
taken by mouth. Others with
pernicious anemia may have
difficulty in absorbing vita
min B12 from the bowel.
Others have so-called cystic
fibrosis of the pancreas, or
they have a mild form of a
disease called sprue in which
intestinal absorption is poor,
Or a man might have trouble
because he has a badly dam
aged liver, but even then, 1
have known for years people
with a terribly damaged liver
who had no difficulty in main
taining a good nutritional sta
tus, and who had no signs of
disease whatsover.
The most important point
that I think is made by Dr.
Pearson is that today there
are methods of estimating
some of the vitamins in the
blood or in the urine, and
hence one can test to see if
the patient is absorbing his
vitamins properly. It would
seem that those persons who
are fanatics in the prescription
of vitamins ought more often
to be using these tests.
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CENTRAL BANKERS AMONG WORLD'S
MOST POWERFUL MEN
In the ancient Altieri Palace in Rome for four days
recently, about 120 of the globe's most powerful men con
ferred behind closed doors on ways to stem the outflow of
gold from the United States, erase this peril to our currency's
stability and thereby maintain the U.S. dollar as the pivot
for the currencies of the free world.
Among the 120 were the top Central Bankers of Europe
and the United States. Heading our delegation to this Inter
national Monetary Conference were Chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board Martin, Secretary of the Treasury Dillon,
Under Secretary of the Treasury and world-respected authori
ty on central banking, Robert V. Roosa. Heading Britain's
delegation was the Earl of Comer, Governor of the famed
Bank of fcngland. Heading Germany's were Hermann J. Abs,
chairman and Karl Blessing, president of the Deutsche
Bundesbank. Also there were Per Jacobsson, managing direc
tor of the International Monetary Fund, and Guillaume
Guindey, general manager of the Bank for International
Settlements at Basle. This suggests the calibre of the men
at this conference only the number one and two financiers
of eah nation were invited, even number three men were
barred as not up to the level of this meeting.
What they agreed or disagreed on in their private,
meetings will profoundly affect your financial life and the
lives of hundreds of millions around the globe in coming
months. The problem of safeguarding the mighty U.S.
dollar has become of paramount importance in view of
the fact that we are continually spending far more abroad
than we are earning abroad and our foreign creditors have
built up enormous claims against our dwindling gold re
serve. The problem must be solved if the financial struc
tures of the entire free world are not to topple.
But the purpose of this report is not to give you additional
details on the defenses being created for the dollar. Suffice
it to say here that the defenses are being devised and so far,
crisis has been successfully averted. Rather, the purpose of
this column and tomorrow's is to tell you what these men
at the Rome meeting represent, why they are so influential,
where they get their awesome power,
Without hesitation, I'll wager that not one in 100,000 of
you could properly explain what a Central Bank is. As the
f ederal Reserve Bank of Richmond put it in a most timely
discussion of this just last month, while "In every major
country of the world the central bank is the central arch of
the monetary and financial system," and its activities are
"indispensible", the "Central Bank is usually taken for
granted.
"Even among those who frequently come into contact
with its operations, only a very small minority has a full
understanding of what a Central Bank is, what it does, and
why." The Richmond Federal Reserve Bank is a part of the
U.S. central banking organization formally known as the
Federal Reserve system. If it feels it necessary to explain to
its sophisticated group readers what a Central Bank is, you
need not apologize for your confusion, misunderstandings or
scanty knowledge.
Before going any farther, here's capsule definition:
A Central Bank It tint, a bankers' bank. It performs for
the commercial bank on your corner the same basic func
tions which that corner bank performs for you. For in
stance, it holds your bank's reserves, collects its checks
makes loans to your bank under certain conditions.
A Central Bank is second, the banker for the Government.
For instance, as the fiscal agent for the U.S. Government, our
Federal Reserve System receives and pays out the funds of
the Federal Government.
A Central Bank is third and most important, the manager
of a country's money and credit system and there, of course,
is the heart of its awesome power. Our Federal Reserve Sys
tem can and does create money, pour it into the economic
stream to finance all business activities. It can, and does at
times, withdraw money from the economic stream to put a
brake on business activities.
The men who were at Rome to discuss our dollar's future
were the world's leading Central Bankers. They could, if
they so decided, stage a run on our dollar, bring about a
worldwide financial crash. Or they could agree to cooperate
to an unprecedented degree to rescue our dollar from the
trap dug by our own generosity over the years. This is power
indeed.
Next: A primer on what a Central Bank is.
Salesmen To Attend
firm's Convention
Three members of the Med
ford sales force of Waddell
and Reed, Inc., distributor of
the United Funds group of
mutual funds, will attend the
company s national conven
tion in Kansas City, Mo., June
1 and June 2.
Attending from this area
are: Robert Brown and Oliver
Gustafson, Medford, and Mar
tin Webb, Yreka, Calif.
Approximately 2,500 of the
company s registered repre
sentatives throughout the na
tion are expected to attend
the two-day meeting.
Farm Interest0
Costs Fxpecled
To Show Increase
Washington - Oil - Agricul
ture department economists
report farm interest costs this j
year likely will be about 6
per cent higher than in 1961
because of an increase in farm
debt. 1
The increased interest costs
would reflect an estimated in
crease of $1 billion in the
amount of debt outstanding,
the economists said. Farm
debts o'n Jan. 1 1961, totaled
$25.4 billion, up $1.3 billion
from the previous year.
Interest rates charged on
farm loans have changed little
during the last year, and prob
ably will continue around
present levels through the re
mainder of 1962, the econo
mists said. Rates in the cen
tral money markets have been
generally stable since mid
1960, except for some increase
in short-term rates in 1961.
Farmer and farm landlords
paid an estimated $1,390,000
000 in interest charges on
their farm debts during the
calendar year.
Total interest payments
were about 5 per cent of all
farm production expenses. In
terest payments in 1961 were
50 per cent higher than five
years earlier, and double
those of 10 years before.
These increases reflected some
increase in interest rates, but
chiefly the expansion of farm
debt.
The economists said the av
erage interest rate undoubted
ly will increase in the future,
because the new loans being
added to the aggregate mort
gage debt carry higher inter
est rates than the old loans
being paid off or renewed.
OCOACHES IN DEMAND
Washington (I'PD Peace
Corps Director R. Sargent
Shriver has urged athletic di
rectors, particularly basket-. Ostertag (R-N.Y.) said S
Dan coacnes, to join tne corps.
Shriver, appearing on a radio
program with Rep. Harold C.
nday
athletic directors are "in
great demand" around the
world.
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