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THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. 1962
MtDKOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MLDrORD. OREGON
The Medkal Roundup
opiTTO SEAFOOD & POULTRY 0
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Consultant In Mcdirln
Mavo clinic
Pmleiftur of Mediant
Mayo Clinic
and Trthun SyndlciU,
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Alvarea
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Duodenal Ulcer
Many men write asking me
whether they should have an
operation for a duodenal
ulcer. Often 1
cannot say be
cause I don't
know whether
the ulcer is
bothering the
man at all, or
whether h e
can control
his symptoms
well enough
by taking
two or three
hnnrs or whether he can
avoid pain by calming down,
and perhaps getting free from
some annoyance.
11 is many years since I
ordered an operation for a
person with a duodenal ulcer.
In the first place, our opera
tions for ulcer have never
been entirely safe or satis
factory. Years ago surgeons
used to make a gastroenter
sotomy, with a new opening
between the stomach and the
bowel. Sometimes it worked
perfectly, but there was so
large a percentage of persons
who promptly developed an
even worse ulcer just outside
of the new opening, that near
ly all surgeons gave up the
operation. The operation con
tinued to be used for people
with an ulcer of the stomach,
or a cancer of the stomach,
or for an ulcer in older peo
ple, or for people with a per
forating ulcer, or an obstruct
ed ulcer. In their cases, the
operation usually worked
well.
The surgeons then tried to
help people with a duodenal
ulcer by removing two-thirds
or three-fourths of the stom
ach. This operation was in
some ways better than thai of
gastroenterostomy, but still
stomach specialists much dis
liked it. Many people who
lost their stomachs never had
strength enough to work
again, or they never could
gain back the large amount of
weight they lost. Some of
them after every meal suf
fered greatly from what is
called a "dumping syndrome ';
ns soon as they ate they felt
nauseated, dizzy, sick, sweaty,
somewhat shocked, with per
haps a feeling as If they were
going to have a diarrheic
bowel movement. Still there
were some who got a new
ulcer.
Oporalion Worked Badly
Because surgeons soon saw
that this operation was not en
tirely satisfactory, for a while
they tried cutting the two big
vagus nerves that come down
from the brain to the
stomach. Theoretically this
operation should keep harm
ful influences from coming
down Irom a worried brain to
the ulcer, but actually the op
eration often worked so very
badly lhal perhaps most sur
geons soon quit performing it.
Sometimes it left a man with
n badly dilated stomnch,
which caused him to keep
belching foul gases all Ihe
time, or ca' ed him to suffer
constantly with a diarrhea, or
great abdominal misery. 1
certainly would never permit
anyone to perform Ihe opera
tion on me. It might work all
right, but if it did not, my life
might become almost unbear
able. In my experience, few men
have a duodenal ulcer so pain
ful that it MUST' BE operated
on. What is sad is that if a
man has a very bad ulcer and
is operated on. he is likely to
be Ihe one who gets a new
ulcer because in him the
tendency to get an ulcer is so
slrong. The older I gel and the
more patients with ulcers 1
sec. the less interest 1 have In
giving them either a diet or
medicine or an operation.
My first question always Lf
"When this ulcer came, what
had just happened to you to
upset you terribly?" My im
pression is that in the last ten
years almost every time I
have asked this question, the
man has said. "My hemorr
hage (or my abdominal pain)
came the day after 1 had to
f.icc a great sorrow, or a dis
aster in my business (or im
personal lifei." One man hhd
a big hemorrhage from his
stomach the day after he dis
covered that, (or years, his
partner had been stealing
from him; another man bird
heavily the niornini; aftrr he
had a violent argument with
his boss: another got an acute
ulcer when he was fired: an
other got a severe ulcer when
gangsters tried to muscle in
on Ins business; another got
an ulcer when a big shipment
of Christmas merchandise was
lost, and he was threatened
with great financial loss An
other got an ulcer when he
learned that his adored wife
had cancer of the breast; an
other got his ulcer when his
important invention was re
jected: another got a bad Hi
rer when he was surd; an
other got an ulcer when his
company went bankrupt, an
other when he overworked In
tlie advertising business, and
another when he got a "dry
hole" in a wild-cat oil drilling
venture. I could tell dozens of
stories like that.
Became Ulcerated
Years ago Dr. Harold Wolff
showed, in the case of a man
who lived with a big hole in
his stomach, that when the
fellow was happy the lining
of his stomach was thin and
pink and healthy-looking, but
when he got angry or worried,
it became purplish-red and
slightly ulcerated.
The most remarkable thing
I know about patients with an
ulcer is that when a man who
for mouths has been walking
the floor at night with ulcer
pain closes his desk and takes
a plane to see a doctor half
way across the country, he is
likely that day to lose all of
his pain. So 1 say to such a
man, "Why have a big dan
gerous operation, and one that
may leave you worse off than
you were before, when you
can so easily relieve your
pain by taking a rest and
finding peace of mind?"
Dr. Alvarez goes into great
er detail about ulcers in his
booklet, "Ulcers of the
Stomach and Duodenum." To
obtain your copy, send 25
cents and a stamped, self-addressed
envelope with your
request to Dr. Waller C. Al
varez, Dept. MMT, The Reg
ister and Tribune Syndicate,
Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa.
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ATTEND MEETING Among officers and directors of
Pacific Northwest Bell, which held a board meeting here
last week, were Miss Myrta Otterdale, chief operator here;
Jack Crcagcr, manager of the local office; Walter W. Stra
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Oregon; Sid Shaw, wire chief here; Frank McCaslin, Port
land, and Marion Weatherford, Arlington, directors; Nor-
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rectors. While in the valley the group visited Medford
Corporation's new plywood plant, packing operations at
Bear Creek Orchards, and Retcr Fruit company, as well
as the Pacific Northwest Bell offices. Creager said lhal
the directors and officers gained a new understanding of
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Rogue Saddle-lilei
The executive meeting of
the Rogue Sadcllc-lites 4-H
Horse club was held al the
home of the leader, Gail Ham
mond.
Gail Hammond handed nut
Ihe records to new officers.
Kathi Kula is president; Donni
Jones, vice president; Mar
lene Campbell, secretary;
Marty Steeck, reporter, and
Courtney O'Dell, song leader.
We also planned our 4-H
program for the next year.
Our club is going to have
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ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT
-President Kennedy an
nounced Wednesday the re
tirement of Supreme Court
Justice Felix Frankfurter
(shown here in 1055) and the
selection of Labor Secretary
Arthur J. Goldberg to replace
him. -(UPI)
TO RECEIVE VACCINE
Washington - HW - Mem
bers of Ihe National Guard
will be given oral polio vac
cine, probably beginning in
early autumn. United Press
International learned Wed
nesday Hint the National
Guard wi!l allot money to Ihe
states to buy the vaccine for
470,(100 guardsmen.
NUMBERS DECLINED
Washington - UIPli - The
number of persons on public
assistance rolls dropped by
more than 100.000 during
June, the government said
Wednesday. The Bureau of
Family Services said season
al job increases were believed
responsible for the drop.
Grange News
Central Point Grange
Colored slides of a study
tour of Europe werp shown
members of Central Point
Grange preceding a recent
meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wenrit.
attended a conference and
tour with county commission
ers from other states. The
meeting was held in July pri
or to the tour of Europe which
many of the commissioners
and wives took. They met gov
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overseas countries and saw
much that the usual tourist
never sees.
Articles brought from sev
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were exhibited on the dis
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Standing committee reporls
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Gebhard. Mrs. Walter Ricks
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absence of the chairman Mrs.
Morris Frink.
Smith reported on prepar
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following a report of the
house committee hv Fred
Kuest, chairman, members
voted to rcroof the woodshed
and entrance roots, and to do
other minor repairs.
Guests for the evening were
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pfnis-
ter of Roxy Ann Grange, who
recently returned from a two
month tour of Europe and
11. Arnold, of Griffin Creek
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