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WEDNESDAY. JULY 18. 1962
MEDFOPD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
3 A.M. THE PATIENT TAKES A TURN
FOR THE WORSEO NURSE PENICI1XA
FRANTICALLY SUMMONS MIS MEDICO--
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..Y. voo should come r?T lW-'J aue vou doin' up r
Ovl AT ONCE .'.' HE'S AT THIS TIME IN ) fH '"""!
iVO.i 6A5PING FOR BREATH.' f'.V'Sj l"l I TME MORNINU? SAV- III tU
vVtWl NO(UE.'NONCiN7,';'St'- I DlDJ A ME AR THE ONE I II JI
" fllCOM IMMEDIATELV.VY f-Vy ABOUT TME MIDGET Jsefcl
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3:45 A.M. doc rushes over and the
CASE IS SITTING UP FEELING FINE -(RS.NURSEY
FEELS LIKE SUE SHOULD RESIGN)
The Medkal Roundup
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Cnnmltatit In
Mayo cllim
I'liilnkftur nf
.Mayo clinic
and Trlhuna 1
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It There a Curt For
Brighi'i Duoase?
Hundreds of people write
to ask if there is a cure for
Bright's disease of the kid
neys and I
have to say
that today we
physicians do
not use that
name it is
used, I think,
almost entire
ly by laymen
who includj
under that
term all of
forms of kidney
C . 1
AlvarM
the many
disease.
rmes-lncysuthe qfo
There are, I fear, many doc
tors who, when the labora
tory girl reports some albu
min in a person s urine, mane
a diagnosis of kidney disease.
Oftentimes, if the doctor
were to examine the urine
the next morning, before the
patient gets up out of bed, he
would find no albumin. La
ter, if he made another ex
amination after the man had
walked to work, he would
find it.
Then he could know that
the man had a "postural" al
buminuria, not worth worry
ing about. In other cases he
might find with the "blood
creatinine" and "blood urea"
and "non-protein nitrogen'
tests that the man's kidneys
were doing an adequate job.
lie might note that the man.
who had come In perhaps for
an insurance examination,
was never ill, and yet he had
a little albumin in his urine.
A thousand times In these
cases it would never occur to
me to worry the man about
his little "albuminuria." I
would have much preferred
not to say anything about it,
but always I have had to face
the possibility mat in a tew urine
weeks or months he would
have his urine checked
again, and this time an
alarmist might scare him
badly. I like to protect such
a man from being frightened
later by a pessimist.
Left by Early Illneu
Often in these cases I get
a history of scarlet fever or
an acute kidney disease in
childhood, and evidently
what I saw in my patient of
45 was the leakage of a little
albumin through the old scar
left in the kidney by that
early illness. In many ta.-es,
the person who has a ten
dency to high blood pressure
will leak a little albumin
from the blood into the urine.
The point I want to insist
on is that the wise physician,
when told that his apparent
ly healthy patient has albu
min in his urine, does not got
excited, and docs not immedi
ately diagnose "Bright's dis
ease." He will do some think
ing and some more observing.
1 imagine that a hundred
times during my Mayo Clinic
days I have saved an essen
tially healthy man from being
branded as having serious
kidney disease by finding
that his "albuminuria" was
transient and due to fatigue.
1 did what not enough young
physicians think to do - I
ordered two repeat tests of
the man's urine, and they
were perfectly normal. The
one sample of urine that had
contained albumin had been
passed early in the morning
after the man's arrival al the
clinic.
When I naked. "Were you
very tired that morning'.'" the
man said, "Doctor, I seldom
have been so all in. In order
to be here early that morning,
as you told me to be, the day
before I drove some 500
miles. Then, that night, I was
so tense I could not sleep."
There, evidently, was the rea
son for the man's having al
bumin In his first sample of
study of the inside of the kid
neys made after the injection
of a certain dye. Occasional
ly, in the case of an aging
man, an artery expert will x
ray the arteries to the kid
neys to see if one of them is
so badly narrowed that the
kidney is suffering from lack
of blood, and is producing a
high blood pressure.
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JULY 22nd
ISSUE
Family
weekly
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wife Worth" bv Krlwarrl
B. Rood.
"Mr. Facts Takes Wash
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Mitchell.
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MEDFORD
MAIL TRIBUNE
A point Unit many persons
should know is thai there arc
several fnnctioninR parts to
the kidneys and all of them
at times eim suiter disease.
Also, there are acute and
chronic, mild and severe and
recurrent forms of the dis
east. There is a nlomcrulo
nephritis in which the glome
rulus (little tuft of tiny arte
ries nut of which comes the
urine) is principally affected.
If a man has a poorly con
trolled diabetes and gels his
glomeruli diseased in a cer
tain way, lie can have what
is called Kimmelstiel Wil
son's Disease perhaps with
spells of what looks like ne
phrosis ta disease with much
albunuo in the unne )
Rar Kidney Disease
A child whose tissues tend
to swell up all over with
water may have this rare kid
ney disease called nrphi om.v
Many a per.son's ktdnevs can
fail laic in life hccativ of
disease in his arteries, and
especially in the arlerv that
supplies n kidney Or his
heart may he failing, or his
blood pressure may be
climbing too high
Or the man can have an in
infection of the tubules in his
kidneys, or a serums infection
in the pehis of n kidney the
pelvis is the central cavity
into which the unne drains
before it goes down to the
bladder. Sometimes there are
a few small .stones m this
"pelvis" stones the presence
of which makes it hard for
the patient to yet permanent
ly rid of an mteclion
1 could l'o on and on. hut
I hope this is enough to show
that albumin in the urine irin
mean any one of several con
ditions some harmlrs nnd
some bad The patient will bp
fortunate if he finds a wise
clinician who will check to
see if lie r- teallv ill and
needs to worry Sometimes
i the doctor will send the pa
tient to a urologist who will
( get a ' uiogram" an x r y
"Parkinson's Disease or
'Shaking Palsy'." is a new
booklet by Dr. Alvarez which
thoroughly explains this dis
ease and lists treatments To
obtain it, send 25 cents and a
stamped, self-addressed enve
lope with your request to Dr.
Waller C. Advarez, Dept.
MMT, The Register and Trib
une Syndicate, Box 957, Des
Moines 4, Iowa.
lake Oswego Council
Gives Budget Approval
Lake Oswego tUPH Lake
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bers have given final appro
val to a 1962-63 municipal
budget of $1,530,584, up near
ly half a millipn dollars from
last year.
Salaries were boosted about
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amount of the increase.
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Quotas on Imports of Canadian
Lumber Getting Cool Response
From White House, Reports Say
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribunt Washington
Correspondent
Washington -(Spccial)-The
Kennedy Administration re
portedly has rejected the idea
of slapping a
quota on lum
ber i m p orts
from Canada
which have
created d i s
tress in the
North west
lumber indus
t r y. "The
White H o use
smiu isn t even con
sidcring a quota." an inform
ed source reported.
The administration's policy
of expanding foreign trade
with reduced tariff barriers,
plus concern for the precari
ous state of the Canadian fi
nancial situation, are appar
ent reasons for the anti-quota
attitude.
Thus far the administration
has been silent on what to do
about this cause of economic
distress to a major domestic
industry, except for the prom
ises of Agriculture Secretary
Orville Freeman to see that
the Forest Service improves
its effectiveness in marketing
timber. He noted a few days
ago that more national forest
timber was sold between
April 1 and June 30 than in
any quarter in history.
"The increase in sales dur
ing the last three months is
largely the result of great ef
fort on the part of the Forest
Service to help national for
est timber purchasers and
counteract the depressed con
ditions' of the industry," Free
man said.
Allowable Cuts Reviewed
Bui he acknowledged (hat
the Northwest mills "need
more timber than is available
for sale." He said allowable
cuts are being reviewed and
"the maximum justifiable tim
ber volume will be offered
for sale on these national for
ests where timber supply-demand
relationships are criti
cal." Beyond congressional de
mands for changes in Forest
Service timber management,
most Northwest members of
Congress have joined in sup
porting the idea of an import
quota that would limit Cana
dian producers to a small por
tion of the American market.
The National Lumber Manu
facturers association, which
first advanced this idea be
fore the House Ways and
McHns committee, suggested
10 per cent. Canada last year
obtained about 14 per cent
of the market.
The administration last
month created a so-called task
force to study the problem.
Last week it presented mem
bers of Congress with a tenta
tive report which Northwest
lawmakers felt was so inade
quate that they rejected it.
Last week Northwest Demo
cratic senators met in the
offices of Sen. Warren G.
Magnuson (D-Wash.) to dis
cuss future strategy in deal
ing with the whole matter.
One thing discussed was the
possibility of meeting with
President Kennedy in the
near future to enlist his sup
port for more direct action.
But the administration's chil
ly attitude toward an import
quota has given some senators
apprehension about the politi
cal risk of marching down to
the White House and coming
back empty handed.
Testimony Scheduled
Mean while, Magnuson's
committee, which held field
hearings in Olympia, Portland
and Lewiston, as well as
three days of hearings here
last month, has scheduled fur
ther testimony on maritime
shipping bills affecting lum
ber. In the earlier hearings
this issue was all but brushed
aside by Magnuson, who has
wanted to avoid arousing mar
itime interests over the pro
posals to repeal or change the
Jones act the 1920 statute
which still requires domestic
green lumber to be shipped
in American ships, thereby
placing U. S. mills at a dis-
McNamara Reveals Dollar Drain Cut
advantage with Canadian
mills which use cheaper for
eign ships.
Sen. Maurine Neuberger ID
Ore.), sponsor of the bill to
open the inlcr-coastal trade
to foreign ships, is suddenly
more optimistic about getting
some action. The Washington
Post, the capital's largest
newspaper, last week edito
rially advocated repealing the
Jones act to help the softwood
lumber industry.
Also before the Magnuson
committee is his own bill to
offer a subsidy to U. S. mer
chant ship operators who car
ry lumber at reduced prices
competitive with those avail
able to Canadian mills which
use foreign ships.
View Not Known
The resistance of the ad
ministration to import quotas
apparently has forced Magnu
son to attempt to gain approv
al of this subsidy bill. The
administration's view of this
measure is not known. But if
it reaches the Senate floor,
Mrs. Neuberger wjll likely
try to attach her own bill as
an amendment.
In any event, after s i x
months of congressional hear
ings, conferences with gov
ernment officials and closed
door strategy talks, no one in
Washington seems to have dis
covered a painless way to help
the Northwest lumber indus
try. But the fast approaching
congressional elections will
stimulate the lawmakers to
greater efforts, and possibly
even painful ways, to help
their region's No. 1 industrial
payroll.
Washington (Ull pefense
Secretary Robert S. McNa
mara has announced a long
range pian to cut almost in
half the drain on U.S. dollars
caused by servicemen and
their dependents ove- eas.
McNamara said a) a news
conference Monday that the
$900 million cut would be
achieved by trimming mili
tary purchases abroau, large
ly in Europe, and by stimulat
ing foreign purchases here.
Study projects have been
launched, he said, aimed at
reducing U.S. support troops
in Europe, eliminating some
military headquarters over
seas, cutting the U.S. share of
payments for NATO joint fa
cilities and expanding Ameri
can credit sales abroad.
Other possibilities being
studied, McNamara said, in
clude rotating small Army
units abroad for short tours
without their families, ex.
panning purchase of U.S.
goods in post exchanges over
seas, reducing the number of
foreign nations on ihe payroll
and cutting construction out
lavs 66 per cent by such
means as shipping prefabri
cated housing units overseas.
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