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MEDFOgD ftI "SitBLV. ftEORD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1962
Physicians Warn
Against 'Magic'
Use of Hypnosis
By JOHN BARNETT
United Press International
San Francisco -(1JPD- In the
yellow pages of the telephone
directory, you are likely to
find an advertisement like
this:
"Hypnosis. All personal
problems and undesirable hab
its. Weight control. Marital
problems."
Carefully, the practitioners
who place such ads avoid
specific claims that their hyp
notic ministrations can cure
anything. But the intimation
is there and it draws untold
thousands into their "clinics,"
"foundations," "schools" and
"centers."
The results may well be
beneficial. But, according to
the California Medical associa
tion, (CMA), they also may
be disastrous.
Hypnosis has tremendous
appeal. It seems almost magi
cal in its effect on all sorts
of problems from nail-biting to
sexual maladjustment.
Entertainment
Indeed, hypnosis has been
popular for centuries as a sort
of magic performed by enter
tainers who put subjects to
sleep, make them stiff as
boards or induce them to
crow like roosters or bark
like dogs.
Recognizing this appeal, the
California Medical association
Is campaigning to educate the
public about what hypnosis
can and cannot do. It wants
laws to back up the known
facts about hypnosis.
These, the CMA says,
amount to this: Hypnosis is
an apparently useful tool, but
one that should be handled
with extreme care. K can
be emotional dynamite.
The California campaign is
part of a national effort by
responsible therapists to drive
charlatans from the practice
of hypnosis.
Dr. Alfred Auerback, a San
Francisco psychiatrist and a
member of the CMA mental
health committee, is among
those urging legal control of
hypnotism.
"Hypnosis," as he describes
it, "seems to be a useful tech
nique about which we know
too little."
When used for such prob
lems as overeating, smoking,
drinking and bed -wetting.
Auerback said, it often ap
pears to be successful.
Not True Cure
"But hypnotism does not
remove tne problem, he said.
"It merely removes the symp
tom. The individual remains
essentially the same. His trou
ble is likely to break out in
some other form."
Thus, he said, there have
been cases where a hypnotism
patient stopped overeating and
took up nail-biting, where a
woman cured of hysterical
blindness stabbed her boy
friend.
In one case, described by
Dr. Harold Rosen of Baltimore
in the American Medical as
sociation Journal, a woman
was "cured" of compulsive
chain-smoking through hyp
nosis.
But she began overeating,
and gained 40 pounds.
"Cured" of this by the same
method, she became a heavy
drinker.
It is as an anesthetic that
hypnosis presently appears to
be most useful, Auerback said.
"There's no doubt of its
value in relieving pain when
used, for instance, by den
tists," he said. "It has also
been used in open heart sur
gery, in delivery of babies
and in setting fractures."
Portland School
Budget Approved
Portland - WD - The Port
land School District's pro
posed S37, 161.300 budget for
1A62-63 has been approved
at a hearing before the
Multnomah County Tax Su
pervising and Conservation
commission.
The main source of in
creased revenue will be the 6
per cent allowable annual hike
in the tax levy. The school
board will seek another tax
levy to replace the two-year
levy after 1962-63.
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FIRST DRINK Two-year-old Devra West, Miami, Fla.,
recently got her first real taste of that dark watery liquid
which adults seem to drink by the gallon. Pictured here,
from left to right, are her reactions to this new (and quick
ly forgotten) experience: (1) Please Mommie? I'll be good.
(2) Do you really drink this stuff? (3) And to think, I was
so anxious . . . what a letdown. (4) Well , , , even little
people can get their faces dirty sometimes . . . even if I
was just drinking coffee. (UPI)
The Medical Roundup
Etnerltm Consultant In Medlrlnt
Mayo Clinic
Emerltut Pmfessor of Medicine
Mayo clinic
(Register and Trlhun Syndicate.
1962)
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Varicose Veins.
Hundreds of women write
asking what to do for their
varicose veins, and usually I
cannot an
swer, if only
because I
don't know
how severe
their trouble
is, or in what
stage it is. I
don't know if,
in the past,
they have had
Alvare. a p'llebius (an
inflammatioh of the inside of
the vein) which perhaps caus
ed it to be largely plugged
up with a clot of blood.
Later, such a plug is likely
to have channels formed
through it, something like the
holes in a Swiss cheese, and
through these channels the
blood goes. Thousands of
women get by for years with
varicose veins which do not
boiher them - except perhaps
cosmetically. The woman
hates the sight of them.
Especially if, by evening,
she gets swelling of the an
kles, or if she gets some pain
in the leg on walking, she
would do well to try to find a
vein expert in some big medi
cal center. He can tell how
much damage has been done
to her veins; he can see if the
valves which normally help
the blood to keep going up the
leg are breaking down; and
he can decide whether an op
eration is advisable right then,
or if it will be necessary soon
er or later. The expert often
says, "You had better have
your veins operated on now
before you get into more ser
ious trouble with them."
Today, the operation of var
icose veins is not a serious
one. The surged makes a lit
tle cut over one end of a vein;
he takes an instrument which
consists of a ring on the end
of a long strong wire. He fits
the ring around the cut end of
the dilr.ted vein, and then
pushes it along the vein, strip
ping it from its surrounding
tissues. When the metal ring
has gone as far a, it can go,
the surgeon makes another
little cut, through which he
lifts out the stripped vein.
Often, it is necessary to tie
the large vein in the groin.
This operation forces the
Accumulator Said
Indecisive Person
But Not Collector
Hemorrhoids Cured Painlessly
By Non-Surgical Method
"The non-surgical, elec
tronic method for treatment
of Hemorrhoids (Piles) de
veloped by doctors of the
Beji-Oiicr Sandy Blvd.
Clinic has been so success
ful and permanen in nature
that the following policy is
offered their patients:"After
11 symptoms of Hemor
rhoids . . . have subsided
and the patient has been die
charged, if he should ever
have a recurrence, all further
treatments will be given ab
solutely free."
Patients experience little,
if any pain. Their treatment
requires no hospitalization
and does not employ drugs
or injections.
VC'rite today for a free,
descriptive booklet, yours
without obligation: The
Bcal-Oliver Sandy Blvd.
Clinic, Chiropractic Physi
cians, 2026 N. E. Sandy
Blvd., Portland 12, Oregon.
(Advertttttntel)
blood to go up the thigh in
the deep veins, rather than in
those that were just under the
skin. The advantage of this is
that the deep veins are sur
rounded by muscles which on
contracting - as they do in
walking - tend to push the
blood up the leg and thigh.
The person whose ankle (or
ankles) swells badly after a
day on his feet can take the
swelling down at night by
sleeping with his legs slight
ly raised. He should take a
cushion off the davenport,
and should put it under the
lower end of his mattress.
This causes the blood to flow
more easily from t ie ankle to
the groin, and as a result, in
the morning the ankles are
generally normal in size.
Trouble with one's veins is
naturally much worse in the
case of a person whose occu
pation causes him or her to
stand all day, like a clerk be
hind a counter, or traffic po
liceman on his corner. The
disease is less dangerous for
the man or woman who sits
for much of the day.
Curiously, however, many
people with bad veins get into
a little trouble when they
have to sit for a few hours in
the seat of an airplane or a
sports car. The edge of the
seat presses on the tissues of
the back of the leg, and this
pressure interferes with the
return of the blood from the
thigh into the body. Many
people with bad veins get by
for years by wearing one of
the elastic stockings. Others,
in the morning, apply an cl
astic bandage beginning at
the foot and winding it up
wards almost to the knee.
Many people write to ask
if they should have their
veins injected with some irri
tant drug that will cause these
veins to plug up. I have asked
experts about this and they
advise against it. The opera
tion is much better and safer
and the results are far more
likely to be lasting.
Ichthyosis, or 'Fish Skin'
Many people write to ask
for a treatment for a dry,
scaly skin, called by doctors,
ichthyosis. Unfortunately,
this is a condition that the
person was born with. A
friend of mine had it, as did
two of his brothers. What is
sad is that so many of the dis
tressing troubles that people
tell me about are inherited -and
hence not likely to be
changed by any medicine.
If a person is born without
the normal little fat-forming
glands in his skin, there is no
way in which a physician can
put any in. About all he can
do is to advise the person to
keep rubbing into his skin an
oily lotion or ointment. This
can make him more comfort
table. For some, the hay fever sea
son is coming up: for others,
it s already here. If you would
like the leaflet, "Asthma, Al
lergy and Hay Fever," by Dr.
Alvarez, send 25 cents and a
stamped, self-addressed envel
ope with your request to Dr,
WaltPr C. Alvarez, Dipt
MMT, The Register and Tri
bune Syndicate, Box 957, Dcs
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York-ilPD-The person
who merely accumulates pos
sessions is a type unto him-
sell, said Dr.
ftlH? Richard
--1 H. Phillips,
J whose scien-
' f tific field is
people. He is
not a saver.
Thrift has
' nothing to do
J with it Vtrt ie
htr j not a hoarder.
Deiot smith Hoarders
ward off fears with posses
sions. Nor is he a collector.
Collections bolster the minds
of collectors.
The accumlulator, said
Phillips, is basically an inde
cisive person. He won't com
mit himself to a clear, real
istic understanding for his
special attitude toward pos
sessions. Accumulators are common
among people; hence the sci
entific interest in Phillip's ef
forts to say what makes them
tick. He was adding a new
term to the scientific vocab
ulary, by the way. Thereto
fore science has not distin
guished accumulators from
collectors.
Collectors Different
Accumulators may confuse
you by calling themselves
collectors but they're entirely
different. "The collector is
disturbed by empty spaces
which ought to be filled,"
Phillips said "the accumu
lator is plagued by full spaces
which ought to be emptied."
Collectors take great pride
in their collections which
have been carefully chosen
and classified, with each item
somehow related to all the
others. An accumulator's ac
cumulation is a hodge podge
which has been "acquired and
retained with a real avoid
ance of any kind of definitive
thinking."
And his "relationship to his
objects is not one of pride
and pleasure but rather one
of displeasure and mild
shame. He rarely exhibits his
objects. Instead he attempts
to hide them In the attic,
cellar, closet or garage."
Meanwhile, he is excusing
himself by trying to believe
that "one day these things
may come in handy."
Accumulator Displeased
The accumulator is dis
pleased with his accumulation
because it is a nuisance, .pnii
lips went on. His sense of
shame comes from the sus
picion that he is being fool
ish or that other people will
think the accumulating of
useless objects is "peculiar."
"There is in the possessions
which any individual acquires
and retains an element of
self-definition," Phillips said
in reporting his work to the
American Medical Associa
tion. "In classifying an ob
ject as 'appropriate -to-me'
'inappropriate-to-me' he
commits himself. Each time a
person throws something
away or actively acquires
something new he is operating
in terms of his self-concept."
And that's the trouble with
accumulators - they have a
shaky self-concept at best, and
so they can't make up their
minds to throw away posses
sions which are ' no longer
useful or refrain from taking
on new possessions for which
they have no use..
He recalled that when Ma-
hatma Ghandi died his pos
sessions amounted only to a
watch, spectacles, sandals,
two books, a pitcher, three
figurines, a knife, two bowls
and two spoons.
'And Ghandi was certainly
one of the most simple, clear
ly and completely self-defined
men in the history of man
kind," said Phillips who is
Canadian Results
ConcernsNeuberger
Washington - IITD - Sen.
Maurine B. Neuberger ID
Ore.) Tuesday voiced con
cern over the Canadian elec
tion result.
She said in a statement "it
is tragic that Canadian lead
ership will be subject to the
dictation of .he irresponsible
Social Credit party which
now holds the balance of pow
er." Mrs. Neuberger said the
elections mean for the "sorely
pressed Northwest lumber in
dustry . . . the end to the
hope that the Canadian gov
ernment will move to lessen
the competitive advantage of
Canadian lumbermen over
their American counterparts."
She also said the election
means there will be no rati
fication of the Columbia riv
er project in the "foresee
able future" and that "we
will be forced to adopt alter
native programs for the de
velopment of Columbia riv
er power."
Four Jets Collide
In Air Over Germany
Bonn -UPD- Four Superstar
jet fighters of the West Ger
man air force collided in
flight Tuesday and crashed
into a mine quarry near Co
logne. All four pilots died
in the crash.
Klamath Dusting
Pilot Killed
Bucyrus, N.D.-IUPO-A 28-year-old
Oregon man died
Tuesday in a crop-spraying
plane accident.
A plane piloted by Ronald
Lee Williams of Klamath
Falls, crashed on the Robert
Stecker farm north of here.
Williams was an employee
of the Hettinger, N.D., flying
service.
a member of the faculty of
the State University of New
York at Syracuse.
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tlie English
possibly mean by
"Gordon's
and splash?"
Splash" is the English way of saying "soda
water." Mixing it with Gordon's Gin is
a popular pastime on the other side of the
Atlantic. Most Americans prefer "tonic and
ice" as a mixer. But on the
choice of gin complete ac
cord. Gordon's. Its distinc
tive dryness and flavour
seem to tip the balance.
You'll find these qualities
wherever you call for
Gordon's by name; for
every bottle is still based
on AlexanderGordon's orig
inal 1769 formula. Could
this be why Gordon's is the
biggest-selling gin in Eng
land, America., the world?
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Agree
Contractors
To One-Year Pacts
Portland-H'PD-The business
agent of the striking Iron
Workers' Union said Tuesday
about 20 independent contrac
tors have agreed to new one
year contracts.
John O'Halloran said terms
call for a wage increase of 33
cents an hour to $4 25 for
structural workers and 38
cents to $4.10 for reinforcing
workers.
The union has a meeting
scheduled today with Associ
ated General Contractors. It
proposed the one-year con
tracts last week. Earlier it
sought a two-year agreement.
Iron Workers' picketing
spread to John Day dam and
to a swimming pool at Pen
dleton. Earlier, work on the
Standard Plaza in Portland
and at state institutions was
affected as well as smaller
projects.
Portland-TOPD - Appointment
of former Congressman
Charles Porter as legal ad
vi.r to the Young Demo
cratic Clubs of Oregon has
been announced by President
Merlyn Gubser, Eugene.
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