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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1962 Tio Medical Roundup t ( . V Emeritus C( 0 Emerltui ContulUnt In Medic Int Mayo tunic Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Rexlster nd Tribune Syndic He, 196:!) WW n:W i ? ; i ak-JJ Alvarca A NEPHROSIS Many anxious mothers write to ask about nephrosis and what can be done for the child who has it. In a fine article recent ly, Drs. C. W. Dacschner, M. E. Hag gard and A. A. Gold man of Galveston said that when ne phosis starts in a child, us ually a remarkably large amount of albumin appears in the urine, and with this there appears a marked "dropsy" which causes the child to be bloated and swollen all over. The marked loss of pro tein from the blood plasma (liquid part) upsets a certain balance, and this permits an adnormal amount of fluid to leave the blood and to go out into the tissues (causing the dropsy). For reasons yet un known, much fat goes into the blood. In adults a nephosis can be due to back-pressure in the big vein that carries blood Into the right side of the heart. In treating the disease, the drugs most often used are the cortisone-iike ones. If used early, these drugs may give great relief. The treatment should be continued until all the albumin is out of the urine. The physician may do well then to keep giving a small dose of steroids for 6 months or a year, to prevent a recurrence. Trouble with Finger Nails And Toenails Many years ago, we phys icians used to deny proteins to patients with nephrosis and then the late Dr. Thomas Ad dis, of Stanford, showed that the children with the disease lose each day so large an amount of protein in their urine that they must constant ly be given a generous re placement amount in their diet in the form of meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and milk. Many people write asking what' they can do for an in fected nail on either a finger or a toe a nail is chronically inflamed and causing pain and distress. The average doc tor like me doesn't know what to do with it, but Dr. Cleve land J. White of Oak Park, 111., has for years been study ing such diseased nails; and recently he, together with Dr. Thomas C. Laipply, had a fino exhibit on diseased nails at the meeting of the A.M. A. in Chicago. The two doctors have stu died some 1,252 cases, using the microscope to find out what type of organism was re sponsible. In 589 cases they found a type of mold that causes ringworms. In 181 cases they, found a yeast call ed Candida albicans. In 176 cases they found that the trouble with the nail was part of the person's psoriasis, a chronic skin disease which is not always easy to clear up. In 72 cases, certain bacteria were at fault. In other cases the trouble was due to some irritant that the patient kept getting his hands into while he was work ing in his shop or factory or store. There were 34 cases in which fungi, molds, and bac teria all combined to injure the nail. In 161 cases the doc tors could not determine what the cause was. This was un fortunate because if treatment is to be successful, it should be one designed to get rid of the cause of the disease. Fortunately, in many cases, the treatment designed to eradicate the mold or a germ quickly cleared up the infec tion, but in other cases the cure was a slow business. Persons who get inflamed "nail beds" would do well to consult a good skin specialist who is interested in this par ticular problem. ARBITRATION BEGINS Washington - WPD - An ar bitration board began its de liberations Tuesday toward settling remaining differences between the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Order of Railroad Teleg raphers. The one-month strike of the line ended last Friday. Coal Shovelers Feel Effects of Change in Times New York - (UPD - Among the men who have felt the ef fects of progress is a special group, dwindling today, found among older homeowners, building superintendents, lo comotive firemen, and a few others. They are those who remem ber what a coal shovel looked like, how to "heft" it, how common it was as a tool of home and industry. Tells What Happened The recently-issued biennial handbook of the National Coal Association entitled "Bitu minous Coal Facts 1962" tells what has happened to the shovel as the essential for moving coal from where it was stored to the spot where it was burned. The disappearance of hand firing is not a new story, but the handbook tells how far automation has gone in put ting coal to work as a pro ducer of heat and energy, at home and in industry. "Automation," says the NCA, "is a dominant charac teristic of modern coal use. The pushbutton and complete ly automatic pl.-.nt operation developed first In large in dustrial and electric utility plants where both sheer size and the need for economy dic tated better-than-human con trol." Available in Package Many of the automatic fir ing contrivances, the NCA said, are available in a pack age, a single unit consisting of stoker, boiler, combustion con trols, coal conveyor and ash removal system. These are us able by large and small in dustries, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings. A research affiliate of the Coal Association, Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., pioneered in bringing out a completely automatic coal-fired steam or hot water generator that is assembled at a factory, ship ped to a plant and put on line after service connections. Dennis the Menace The Family Council Kdltnr's note: The Fimtly Council eonilftl of a Judt-e, a pliyrhutrtsi, tltrea clereymrn, lliree edltori and a women'! editor. t:arh arUrlr Is a nummary of a family disagreement presented to tha t'ounnl. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyrlcnt by General features Corp.) PRICE OF PROGRESS Los Angeles - GOT - The electronic age is affecting emergency requests for am bulances. A woman called Central Receiving hospital for an ambulance Tuesday be cause: "I can't get up and I want someone to come over to turn off my television set." ' HE tOESN'r 100K LIKE he could upset A WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD, DOES Y&V Russia Gaining In Power Field Portland - (UPR - Federal Power Commissioner Howard Morgan said here Tuesday Russia is catching up with the United States at an "alarming rate" in tht? power field. Morgan spoke at the West ern States Water and Power conference, where the del egates also heard one speak er after another urge election of candidates that support public power projects. Morgan, former Oregon public utility commissioner, warned that the power race with Russia is serious, since power forms the basis for electrical capacity. His warning was followed by a challenge from Assist ant Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Holum for the dele gales to work hard to elect members of Congress who arc friends of power growth. Holum said work in the power field "is not -done rather it is just well begun." His, list of needed projects in cluded thrj Rogue River proj ect ot Southwest Oregon. BANDITS KILL SEVEN Tunja, Colombia - H?D -Masked bandits killed five women and two men Monday in an attack on two homes in the rural village of Saboya, it was reported today. Theodor A.-Suddenly she gets religious and wants a church wedding . Mabel S.-It makes a marri age something to stand out and remember. Theodora A. -1 have known my fiancee and her family for many years and have never known any of them to attend a church service. In fact, they avoid any religious commitments and consider themselves agnostics. I'm not particularly devout myself, and Mabel's views on religion are quite acceptable to nie. What amazes me, however, is hor insistence that we have a church wedding. I'd be will ing to go through a religious ceremony if it meant her family had suddenly "got" re ligion. But I don't want to be party to something that's merely a show. I don't want to be outright disrespectful toward the church. It would be all right if Mabel really believed in the prayers and wanted to raise our childr.-n as churchgoers. But I know she won't step into a church again, except' for someone else's wedding. Mabel S.-No matter how far a person strays from the church, it's the place in which she wants her marriage solemnized. I'm not the only one who clings to it for the big moments. I know many people who don't go near it after the day they were brought there for baptism. Yet, on their wedding day, there they arc, marching down the church aisle. A wedding ceremony held outside the church just does not scein impressive. And it's never so dignified and pic turesque as when it takes place before an altHr. I'm sure Ted will be glad we had a church wedding, and it will provide a beautiful memory for both of us, as well as for the bridemaids and atten dants As to the future, I'm open minded. Maybe I'll become a true believer. But right now I believe in being married in a church. Th Council: Unfortunately for the churches, many peo ple view them as docs Mabel. They're great as a place to be married in, baptized in. buried from. And in between, they're grcav as a place to stay away from. Those who maintain the churches and who attend them regularly may well feel like the parent who "keeps up" the ancestral homestead with its many "guest rooms," just for the blessed day when a chuu may leci like paying a visit. The child, in turn, is quite content knowing some one else is keeping the sanc tuary going so that it's there whenever he needs it. But the church, like the parent, is long suffering and is ac customed to being "put upon." It acknowledges its tenuous hold upon the general public. Recently, a high church official in England, Canon G. A. K. Hervcy comr,ented that "the great bulk of the pop ulation are very glad indeed that the church is in the back ground," and he added that, while they like to be married there, it "practically makes no impact at all on them as a way of life." Theodore is fighting the church's battle in his effort to have a holy place mean more to Grace than a fancy stage set for their nuptials. We adjure Mabel to respect his stand. While he enters no demurrer against her and her family's personal convictions, which he apparently shares to some extent, he wants no toying with a sacred rite. Being married in church be speaks some loyalty to the church which has opened its welcoming and sheltering arms to the couple. Okay, says B Kennedy Signs Bill Halting 'Junk Mail' Washington UPD President Kennedy Tuesday signed into law a bill cutting off a con gressman's privilege of send ing free "junk mail." Con gress voted this year to dis continue the practice of al lowing the legislators to use their franking, or free mail, privilege on unaudressed or "occupant" letters, pamphlets or other mail. Oregon Senators Split on Aid Bill Washington fliPD Oregon's Democratic Senators split Tuesday as the Senate passed its $4.4 billion foreign aid bill 57-24. Sen. Wayne Morse voted against the bill. Sen. Maurina Neubcrger voted on the win ning side for the measure. 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