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MONDAY. JULY 9. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON The Medical Roundup Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Rcaist.i nJ Tribune Syndics 1962) S' S a vs. .J -i. ii ' . , "SarfP tei'" hiss' by fc ) Kmarltut t Consultant In Hedleln. Medlclnt TO MAKE Myo clinic Prnfettur of Bmarltui Mayo Cllnlo CSediler and Trlhum lyndlcaU, 19 b,:) 8 B I "in i , ,ll i .- Jt f m Diarrhea of TravtUrt As many a person has found out, a few daya alter reaching a tourists' Mecca-like city, he has spent a ." i I dav or two suffering from a violent 2 JP5-'" fl form of diar- rhca. The last time TK. I fit 4 was ,n nlex- lt?SJr 1 s P e n t all of L J the first night Alvrj in this way. I imagine I received the infec tion on the train. My impres sion was that the diarrhea I had was of an epidemic type which I have experienced three times, and which is probably due to a virus be cause, in one day, it can lay low every otner nurse in a hospital. It always has seem ed to me that this virus prob ably affects the nervous sys tem of the bowel, and not the bowel itself. Why? Because when it has hit me I have had not the least soreness of the bowel or abdomen, as I should have had if I had suffered from an enteritis (in flammation of the inner lining of the bowel). Also, I always recovered immediately which could hardly have happened if the diarrhea had been due to a dysentery-producing germ. It was nothing like the dysen tery or cholera which attacks millions of people in the Or ient and not infrequently kills them. Ameba Assumed Cause For many years, it was as sumed that the cause of the diarrhea which attacks so many visitors to Mexico was an ameba (a microscopic single-celled organism), but my long experience with persons carrying amebas in their bow el has convince'" me that rare ly does even an acute amebia sis produce the violent and h o r t-lived diarrhea which visitors to tropical countries commonly get. Also, in many of the cases, careful studies of the excreta of the patients fail to show any amebas, and anti- amebic drugs do not protect the tourists. Amebiasis would tend to go on causing the per son some intestinal discomfort or diarrhea, and it should stop the day the patient takes a large dose of a drug like Car barzone. Also, I know from much experience with people who live in a tropical country that thousands of them have a bowel swarming with amebas which cause them no symp toms. The most important point about many of the diarrheas that attack tourists is that, without any treatment, the pa ticnt is well again next day I, myself, once walked around for years with a tremendous intestinal infestation with am ebas and never had any dis tress from them that I could identify. And, I was no health ier when I got rid of them. Recently, studies have been made in Mexico by a team consisting of Dr. B. H. Kean, William Schaffner, B.S., Rob ert W. Brennan, A.B., and Somerset R. Waters, B.E., of New York City. They worked In cooperation with leading Mexican health authorities. In the study, 473 American col lege students who had gone to Mexico City were studied. There was some evidence that they could pick up the infec tion, whatever it was, from a roommate, Because 87 per cents of the students who got diarrhea had a roommate who had it. Only 34 per cent of the students who remained well had a diarrheic roommate during the two-week lest pe riod. The diarrhea suffered by the students usually lasted a day or so, just as mine did. In order to see if diarrhea could be avoided, the stu dents, on arrival, were divid ed into three groups. In one, the young people received a sugar placebo which could not help in any way. Another group received an antibiotic called neomycin and another got an antibiotic called phthal- ylsulfathiazole. The diarrhea FAMILY GOES HOME-English actress Diana Dors receives a kiss from her husband, comedian Richard Dawson, as she leaves Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Hollywood with her son, Gary, born June 27. The Dawsons have one other child, Mark, 2'2. (UPI) occurred In 24 per cent of those who got the sugar; in 16 per tent of those who got neo mycin, and in 12 per cent of those who got the phthalyl- sulfathiazolc. The facv that the two drugs protected a few of the students suggested that the infecting agent was a germ and not a virus. Didn't Avoid Infection One of the things I obscrv cd during my last trip to Mex ico was that, in their efforts to avoid getting a diarrhea, many tourists drank only bot tled water. But they did not notice that the bus-boy or the waiter had opened the bottle and had poured it over ice cubes which, I suspected, were put into the glass with unwashed hands. Also, I sus pect many tourists eat salads which are put together by hand. Having been, in my youth, an expert on tropical medicine, I thought, as I went down on the train, that I had avoided all possible sources of infection, but obviously I fail ed, because that first night in Mexico City I was very ill. An interesting point is that travelers have learned that it is as easy to get a violent di arrhea in Europe or Asia as it is in Mexico. In some cases, a severe diarrhea contracted by a traveler hangs on, and then we physicians suspect that a dysentery-producing germ is present, but it is very difficult for a bacteriologisi to identify it. The pavement, under the blow-torch rays of the sun, felt like a hot stove lid. Peo ple crossing the street seem ed to dance; the heat pene trated the thickest shoe soles. It was only natural that some wise guy should show up with a raw egg. A crowd gather ed, forgetting for a moment how uncomfortable they were, in hopes of seeing an egg actually fry on the pavement. The egg was broken, the contents poured onto the hot concrete. It sizzled and sput tered, turned quickly from a liquid to a solid; turned slow ly from white to brown as the edges became overcooked. Someone came with a strip of bacon and dropped it be side the egg. The perspiring crowd laughed and watched the ba con sizzle and hiss, then twist and turn on itself as if in pain. For a few moments they watched the significant act of proving that the pavement was, indeed, hot enough to fry an egg on-with bacon on the side. Then, by the time the bacon and eggs were well done, they remembered their discomfort in the heat and scurried to the shade of their homes. All except one man. He had an idea. From a nearby mar ket he secured a small piece of fresh meat. Close to the curb, away from the traffic in the street but on the red hot pavement, he dropped the meat. It began to fry. However, the man was not watching the meat, he was watching a small ant leisure-1 Iy sauntering across the hot concrete. The insect smelled the meat, turned and ap proached it. Carefully, and from all sides the ant sup veyed this treasure. He walk' ed around the meat several times, figuring its weight and size, evidently making up his mind how many worker ants would be necessary to trans port the meat to the home hive. Obviously the ant didn't know the pavement was ' hot as a stove lid." Satisfied with his find, the ant scur ried away. The man noticed the ant had stood perfectly still sev eral times, but at no time did it seem the least bit bothered by the hot pavement. A steady stream of them were coming and going. None seemed uncomfortable. Some even stopped to tap its an tenna with another ant it hap pened to meet. Soon the meat was all gone, carried away bit by bit. But not a one had flinched; evi dently not a one had noticed the pavement was "hot enough to fry an egg." 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