MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. ORECiON
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1962
The Medical Roundup
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F.mrntui Consultant In Mfdlcl.it
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Kmfrtlus Profrs.nr of Mcdktna
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(Rrtlstrr and Trthun Syndicate,
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Hurler's Syndrome in the heart. He may have
' Several people have been ' stiffness in some points and
iikinR me what is Hurler's ! perhaps saddest of all. he
tyuclruini-. They say that their ! usually has some mental re-
IF
child
said
to have this '
1 ;j disease, and
- M ' itidi they wonder
5f "fan." O'ing
- i an done
V cure him.
""77? 'l Unfortunately
? II have to say
rl don't know
1 f ,
Alliir ' . III'.
Jn a typical case the child
iff dwarfed and lias some de
formity of the skeleton. Some-
imies he has an unpleasant
tardation.
The diagnosis can usually
be made by studying a speci
men of skin taken from the
fingers or from the back of
the chest. These bits of skin
will show chronic inflamma
tory changes that are char
acteristic of the disease.
Unfortunately, there are
dozens of strange diseases
like those, most of which are
hereditary in nature, and
produce such marked abnor
malities that no physician can
hope to make the child over
qoKing face; he may be deaf; ! into a normal youngster. Per-
np may have clouding of the j haps because the disease 1
cornea ifront window of the tends to skin two or three cen
eve): he may have a largo
liver and spleen, and he usual
ly lias some congenital defects
cralions, it is hard in a given
case to say just why it showed
up in the child of two people
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who appear to be normal.
But Teit of a Heart
1 recently received a letter
from a woman who says that
the other day her doctor made
an electrocardiogram and was
horrified over the changes he
found in it. He was so dis
turbed that he wanted her to
go right to bed and slay there
for weeks. But. as she says
very wisely, she doubts the
need for this because she is
still playing a good game of
tennis. 1 greatly respect her
wisdom. If today I could still
play a fast game of tennis. I
wouldn't care what my elec
trocardiogram looked like,
and nobody could scare me
about it.
Often I have been amazed
at the way in which a col
league got frightened when
he found a child with a heart
murmur. 1 can remember,
some 45 years ago, seeing a
boy w ith a loud heart mur
mur. It was so loud that one
of the best children's special
ists in the city wanted to keep
the child in bed for a year.
He did keep him in bed for
months until I insisted that
the boy was not ill. He was
never listless or short of
breath, and many a time
when I came into his room I
found him bouncing tip and
down on his bed, or wres-
i tling with his brother. And so
I said, "Lets forget me
murmur."
That was 45 years ago, and
today that boy has grown into
a big powerful athletic man
of 50 who, in his college days,
was a crack athlete. I ima
gine he still has his murmur.
1 suppose that a thousand
limes during my medical life
time, 1 have mused over the
fact that a little common
sense is worth a hundred elec
trocardiograms or laboratory
tests.
I can still remember the
man of 75 whom I saw years
ago in San Francisco; he
came to consult me about a
little arthritis in his hand. On
checking him over and listen
ing to his chest, I heard a
very loud murmur, due appar
ently to some congenital pe- j
culiarity in his heart. When
1 asked him about it, he said,
"Oh yes, that was discovered
when 1 was 20 and three or
four consultants assured my
father I would be dead with
ing six months. I said then,
'If I have only six months to
live, I want to live richly and
with excitement,' and so I
went to Paris and had a fling.
But after some two months I
got fed up with idleness and
so I went back to work. That
was 55 years ago, and never
have 1 been seriously ill."
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Hereford Association Program Is Planned
Nat Etzcl, vocational agricul
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High school, will show slides
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Tuesday, Nov. 2(1, at North's
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Etzel's talk will be on his
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