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8 A TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OREGON . -r.v 7" V '-"r3 MAKES ADJuSTmEnT - Sicpnen B. Gray, engineering spec ialist at Sylvania's Applied Research Laboratory at Walt ham, Mass., makes an adjustment on a high-speed electronic print "reader" which has been developed to recognize many styles of printed and typed material and automatically con verts what it "sees" Into punched cards or tapes. The ma chine, which performs without error at the rate of 700 characters per second has been tested. at speeds up to 20,000 characters per second. (UP1) The Medical Roundup 1 1 lift Fmerltiu Tor nnftnllant In Mrdlcfna Mnyo C'linlr Kmarltua Prnfeunr nt Medlclna Mnyo Clinic (Regliter and Trlhunt Syndlcatt, 1962) Apparently many people are still interested In know ing about anemias, even after Ur"" 1 mv recent ar ticle, because many are now a s k I ng me how they can tell what type 1 of anemia they have, and what they can do about it. The impor- Alvaici lani point to know about anemia is that there are two main types; the primary and the secondary. The old name for the princi pal primary anemia was per nicious anemia. It was perni cious, because In the days be fore we knew about liver ex tract and vitamin B 1 2, all of the patients eventually peter ed out and died. Some persons afflicted wilh the pernicious form of anemia suffer wilh numbness and tingling and (if not properly treated) eventual weakness In their legs. Quite a few know of near relatives who appar ently or definitely died of the disease. Some patients started lo get gray when they were In high school, Oflen In these cases a neurologist, after rhecking the nerves, in the legs, can say that the disease Is a primary anemia. Often, also, a good labora tory man wilh one glance at a stained smear of the blood ran say "This Is pernicious anemia, because so ninny of the red blood cells are extra large and unusually red," In the cells, there is an abnor mal amount of hemoglobin llhr red coloring matter of the blood). Thp percentage of hemoglobin is hither than the pcrecnlatc of red cells left In the blood. Would Pump Stomachs Many a mnlhrr who has suffered with pernicious ane mia writes lo sav, "I am now worrying myself sick wonder ing which of my four children will get the family disease. Please help me to fell how 1 can find out which ones 1 do not have lo worry about " If I were to see these rhil- Those three children I would feel hopeful about; I would the tendency to a primary anemia. But the one child who perhaps had an almost dry stomach, wilh almost no gastric juice in it, is the one who some day may get a per nicious anemia. If lie were my child, I certainly would have his blood examined once each year, and at the first sign of a hyperchromic (ex cessive coloration) anemia, or tingling in his legs, 1 would give him each, month a pill containing a very tiny dose of the very Important vitamin B12. The commoner form of ane mia is the secondary one which is due to the frequent loss of blood, such as from bleeding piles, or a cancer of the cecum the large right side of the colon (large bow el), or a cancer of the upper end of the stomach. Itvthe ease of many women, a secondary anemia is pro duced by an excessive men slrunl flow each month. So much blood Is then lost that the woman cannot build it all , back in the next 23 days. : Some of these women have a ; knob of muscle (fibroid) on Iheir womb which is keeping up this heavy How and hen.'e it may have to be removed by a surgeon. In (he case of a secondary anemia, the red hlood cells have less hemoglobin (red coloring matter) than they should have, and the red cells tend lo he smaller than nor mal. To help the patient with a secondary anemia, the phy sician should give iron and not Ft I 2. Hlood specialists keep lellini! us this, but for some curious reason most of us doctors keep giving HI 2. Moth inm and HI 2 can usu ally be given by mouth; they do not have to be given by lioiteioiically. In rases of mild anemia, transfusion., should never be given because there is the small chance that even one transfusion mold cause a serious serum hepatitis or inflammation of the liver. This ran cause months of ill ness and occasionally death. dren, I would have their III- Enctphalitli tie stomachs pumped mil, and perhaps In three 1 would find a normally arid gastric juice. 4-H NEWS Reti Creek Rinagadri The meeting of the Itcese Creek Renegades 4 II club was was held Dec. 11 at tin home of Mr. and Mis C.eorg" Allen. There were 13 mem bers, nine parents, and three visitors present Visitors were Louis Schoaf and sons. Kuhv and Toby. We had a report on our ; r"n suggest allergies. You rommunity project. We dis I '""V find it easier to deter cussed livestock judging and mine Ihe cause of such aller were lold to study for a test I if you read 111 Alvarez' next meeting j booklet on Ihe subject. You We exchanged Chi islmus j may obtain it by sending 2S guts and played games. Mrs. Allen served refreshments. The next meeling will be held Jan. R, at the fiardener home. TVhhie Phillips, Reporter. It saddens me when a moth er writes lo ask if something can he done for her child who pel Imps after a bad attack of measles had an attack of en cephalitis (brain fever) and is now mentally slow. 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