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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 17. 1S63 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON The Medical Roundup Changing of the Guard, Walk In Subway Among Experiences Emeritus Consultant In Medlctn mayo Clinic Emeritus Professur of Meduine Mayo Clinic (Register and Trlbuna syndicate. (Ml) Bleeping Plllt When people write to ask mc If they should take a sleeping medicine when they much need one, I answer, "Yes." If a person has any good sense at all, he will never get a habit, and If he should get to taking several pills a night, quit taking vares can easily he them In all my 57 years of prac tice, I have seen only a few persons who wound up taking overdoses of barbituates. And, for every person I have seen taking big doses of barbitu ates, there arc hundreds who should be taking a sleeping medicine, but are too afraid to take it. Because of this reluctance to take a sleeping pill many people unwisely wait until one or two o'clock in the morning, and then take either too strong a barbltuatc or one with a long action. As result, when the alarm goes off at seven, the person has a hangover. When I get back to my hotel after having given an address before a large audi ence, I am so kpyed up that without the help of a seda tive I would be unable to sleep until perhaps 2 a.m. I take a sleeping capsule right away - perhaps at 10 o'clock. Then, when 1 wake at 7, I have no hangover. If I were to take the favor ite barbiturate of most people - phcnobarbltal - I might feel some dullness in the morning, because this is one of the longest - acting of all the several barbiturates. There arc others with much shorter action. Sometimes, if I tike a short-acting drug, and wake fully rested and wide-awake at 3 a.m., then I will have to take cither another short- acting drug or a half-dose of the drug I took to got to sleep. Often, at 3 a.m. 1 must take another capsule if I am to sleep until seven. Under Heavy Strain Recently, 1 saw a very able man who for a long time has been under such heavy busi ness strain that he has lost all power of sleeping, and lies awake nearly all night. His wife said to mc, "If he docs over to a phychiatrist who would have put him for a few weeks into a sanatorium where the nurses would have seen to it that he did get his sleep, the fellow would not have "gone over the edge," and would not then have had to spend months in a mental hospital. Some of my doctor friends brag that they have never given a patient a sleep-maker, and some say that barbitur ates are as bad as morphine. but I am sure they arc wrong. Rarely in my long life have I seen a bad addiction to bar biturates, and then it was not at all like an addiction to morphine or heroin. When I asked the person to quit tak ing the barbiturate, he did so easily, but asked, "How am I going to sleep?" The important thing many of us physicians fail to note is that when we find a person taking half a dozen capsules of some sleeping medicine every night, the person is very often a heavy drinker, or has very little self-disci pline; often he is also a chain smoker or a chain coffee I drinker and the sort of man who never cares to go to bed until 2 a.m. Explaini Much If you ask such a person how many martinis he has to take in order to get feeling merry, he may say, "six or seven." Tills explains much: just as alchohol has lost its effect on him, so have barbit urates and other medicines. To get to sleep lie has to take a half-dozen capsules. In the worst cases of this tyrio, the action of barbitu rates is reversed so that they stimulate the brain instead of quieting it. Then the per son may have to be hospital ized and given paraldehyde or chloral or possibly one of the antihistamine drugs that make some persons sleepy. Many drug-resistant peo ple, and especially old peo ple, will go to sleep on a quart or two of beer, or a big glass of port wine. (Editor's Note: Charles (Chuck) A. Moore, Jr.. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Moore, 1239 Watson dr.. Grants Pais, it in London, Eng land, in connection with the Experiment in Interna tional Living and Lewis and Clark college. Port land. This is another in a series of dispatches from Moore while he is in Eng land and Europe.) By CHARLES A. MOORE Feb. 17: London- Well, so far England is perfect. It is just as cold as the experiment promised, and the people do all they can to remind mc of that fact. After breakfast the Seldons and I climbed in the little ma roon car. Some of the streets are so narrow, cars choose to zoom right down the mid dle. We called for Douglas, and then sped into town over the Westminster bridge in full view of the Parliament build ings. Somewhere near Trafal gar Square the car stopped and all got out (back into the cold with wind added this time). To ComirJtlee Meeting Miss Scldon went to a com- M Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hell Syndicate, Inc. Over the course of perhaps several years, many middle aged or elderly persons are pulled down and aged by lit tle dizzy or woozy spells, Each of these "little strokes," as these spells are called, is due to (he plugging-up of a small artery In the brain. You may obtain a copy of Dr. Alvarez' booklet on "Little Strokes" by sending 25 cents not soon get some sleep, I and a stamped, self-addressed fear for his reason." And she was right. I was Imprsscd, after study ing the autobiographies of many persons who had" crack ed up nervously, (autobio graphies which I wrote up in my recently published book, "Minds That Came Back"), by the fact that in several of those cases the mental upset came utter six months or more of severe insomnia. If, during this period of sleep lessness, the person could only have gotten his doctor to see tthe possible danger In volved, and it the doctor had been strongly apposed to giv ing h Bleep-maker, or if the doctor had turned the man envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept, MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Animals Also Have Individual Traits Washington - IUPI) - Individ uality is not exclusively a hu man trait, reports the Phar maceutical Manufacturers as sociation. One proof: Texas scientists found teetotalers, occasional Imbibers and fulllinic drunks among chickens offered beer. Also found: gluttons, finnicky eaters, athletic types and lazy softies among rats In similar tests. NEW SI BILL The SI bill in your pocket will be redesigned in its first major overhaul in more than a quarter-century if this Con gress passes legislation to cut the link between silver and our paper currency and insiders believe the prospects for the law are bright since the House Banking Committee voted 18 to 1 for the move early this month. Only twice in this century have there been significant changes In our currency: in 1029, when the size of our paper currency was reduced and in 1935 when the SI bill was redesigned to carry the eye-topped pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal along with Latin inscriptions from Virgil's Aeneid. (The addition of "In God We Trust" to the $1 bill in 1957 was a minor thing.) Now would come the third important changea switch from $1 silver certificates to gold-backed Federal Reserve notes. Here's the story and the background for it. First, take out a $1 bill from your pocket, look at the inscription "silver certificate'' at the top, the words "one dollar in .silver payable to the bearer on demand" at the bottom. These words means you can redeem your bill at the Treasury for silver and today over SI. 5 billion of our outstanding $1 bills are silver certificates. Under the proposed law, these notations would be struck from all SI bills and other "distinguishing features" to identify the new notes would be added. The portrait of George Washington would not be changed nor would the size, shape or color of the SI bill. But there would be a new design the Treasury has prepared four hand-tooled models to give Treasury Secretary Dillon a choice and over the next 10 years, all the SI bills now in circulation would be retired and replaced with the new Federal Re serve notes. Why this switch? The answer is that the Treasury's sup ply of silver has been shrinking at a fast rate, as it has needed increasing amounts of the metal to make coins dimes, quarters, half-dollars and an acute shortage of silver is on the horizon. The Treasury has on hand today less than $1.6 billion of silver to back the SI. 5 billion of SI bill silver certificates in circulation enough for now but not for later. At the same time, the market price of silver has been soaring, has gone above SI. 27 an ounce under pressure of mounting demands. If the silver price rose above the established monetary price of S1.29 an ounce less than 2 cents over the current market price it actually might be come profitable to melt down coins for their silver content. "We simply cannot allow such a situation to develop," Dillon warned the House Banking Committee before it voted to permit the Treasury to switch from silver certificates to Federal Reserve notes. "Obviously the public must have an adequate supply of dollar bills which is not subject to being constantly diminished as bills arc turned in for their silver value. And it must have a supply of subsidiary coins which are not apt constantly to be melted down for their silver value." Already, coins are in seriously short supply in several areas, according to a recent survey for the Treasury by Boston's Arthur D. Little Co. The shortage at Christmas shopping lime was widespread and it is re-occurring be cause businessmon are hoarding coins to protect themselves against shortage, suburband shopping enters are slowing down the rapid circulation of coins, vending machines tie up large quantities for long periods, coin collectors these days are collecting rolls, not just individual coins. To cover these shortages, the mint must hike production from 3.5 billion coins last year to 4.1 billion this year and eventually to 9.6 billion by 1980, according to the A.D. Little survey. And to get the silver for the dimes, quarters, half-dollars, says Dilliun, il is "vitally important" that the mint be able to use the metal now required to back the silver certificates. This silver would supply the mint's needs for about 15 years. The odds arc excellent that the legislation will go through and that means a ncwly-dcsigncd, gold-backed SI bill in your pocket. miltec meeting. The rest of us proceeded to walk through Trafalgar Square to St. James Palace to view the changing of the guard. This ancient and honorable ritual of the protectors of the throne has undergone little change since the days of the ancients. There is one thing that has changed. For in stance, in the days of old the guard protected the throne and changed ceremoniously at Buckingham Palace only when the Royalty were in residence. Today the Royal ty are half way around the world while their guard changed here at St. James Palace. The ceremony is interesting and impressive. I hope to see it later in the spring at Buck ingham when the guards are not wearing their long, dark coats. One more note on the ' guards. Doug has lived in London 15 years but had never before seen the ceremony. Warmer in Subway Freezing in the wind, we yielded to the sign, "It's warmer in the subway," and BR KNOCK DANDELIONS OUTof your lawn! Dandelions and other broad-leaved weeds can be eliminated from your lawn. With GOLF BRAND TRIPLE TONIC you not only kill these lawn pesls . . , you feed your lawn the nutrients it needs for greener growth at the same time. And now GOLF BRAND TRIPLE. TONIC con tains iron to prevent unsightly iron chlorosis! Easy-to-apply GOLF BRAND TRIPLE TONIC also kills the bugs that infest your lawn, but not helpful earthworms. Get a bag and start three-way lawn improve ment this week! UCE BAUER LUMBER COMPANY descended. Subways, of course, are for walking. La tor we reached the under ground (subway for riding.) The tube took us to New Gate Station( which is just at the bottom of Jcrmingham road, and the bottom is no fig ure of speech. This hill is high. When evening arrived, I gladly received two warm hotwater bottles (to which I will later become addicted) and two warm goodnights as I ascended the stairs. Feb. 18: Jcrmingham road, as I discovered yesterday, as cends a fairly steel hill. All houses on the road are of a three floor, Victorian style. Those on the lower half are separated with two houses to a building. The upper half contains more housing. The row houses are identi cal except for small items such as the color or trimming around doors. Thank World War II for one thing. A bomb dropped in next door and lev eled several houses. This caused modern flats, large apartment style buildings, to be built next door to my new house. So, to find my house. all I have to do is walk up, up up until the identical row housing is interrupted by flats. Flight of Stairs The main entrance is up a short flight of stairs and through a door whose top half is stained glass. We even have stained windows of courtiers in the dining room door. The main entrance is not used due to the rearrangement of the house. We enter into the kitchen on the ground floor. No door knobs are found on most outside doors here. Turn the key, push the door open and you are in. There are three rooms and a hall on the first floor. Ac cording to their present uses they are kitchen, breakfast room, and dining room. The hall parallels the stairs. My bedroom on the second floor is immense. It was originally the drawing room. From the third floor we have a ter rific view of London. Normally the Seldons heal two rooms, dining and break fast rooms. Kitchen and bath receive some heat considera tion. I have been told that the average room is 60 de- New Tube Tester Has Built-in Conscience I grccs. As a result, it is not I Louisvme, r.y. - 'im - -i uncommon to find whole fam- j $400,000 tube tester built here ilies huddled about the fire place. Front Yard Landscapped The front garden yard, is very small but well landscap ed with shrubs and flowers. The back garden plot, 20 feet by 90 feet, is in lawn with flower beds bordering on three sides. Right now the en tire garden is covered with snow. About the Seldons: They arc middle-aged, but young in outlook. They are being sweet to me and trying to make me feel at home. One of Miss Sel don's best traits is that she evidently hates tins but likes to cook. Did someone say the English food is bad? It is great. You'll hear no com plaints from me. Mr. Seldon, her brother, comes home about 5:30 from his work at the office of Delta Motel. We have our evening meal at that time. After the meal comes the ritual of washing up. Three is the mag- for a Connecticut electronics plant has a built-in conscience. 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