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V ULL MONDAY. MAY 13, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO, OREGON The Medical Roundup OP tfmtmas CantulUtit In Mtdlclnt Mayo Clinic Bmrltuf ProfeMtir of Madlcln Mayo Clinic (RcgliMr and Tribune Syndicate. 1963) IS I The Pain Of ShingUi I have become much inter ested in the unhappy people past middle age who write lo leu me that one more years after having had shingles (little blisters In a row around their chest), they arc still suf fering with a aiwii severe pain In the region that was Involv ed. I am so anxious to help these people that I have read everything I could on the sub ject, and I am convinced that usually in these cases, the pain is arising not in the skin that was scarred by the little blisters, but up in the spinal cord or perhaps even up in the brain; this means that it is useless for a surgeon to cut all the nerves under the skin. I recently read an article by Drs. G. T. Tindall. O. L Odom, and R. G. Victh. They say, as other physicians have said, that even the removal of all of the skin that seems to be the seat of so much pain may not do any good. One patient got his pain back, with all of its original inten sity, four days after the oper ation, and another patient un derwent a second operation for a recurrence of the pain. I am sorry to say that as yet we physicians have had no success In trying to get rid of these miserable pains. About all a physician can do is to keep giving sedatives un til the pain subsides. With antibiotics, quickly clearing up the acute forms of sinusitis, the chronic form Is now much rarer than it used to be, as Dr. George F. Reed, Assistant Clinical Professor of diseases of the ear, nose and throat at Harvard Medi cal, School, wrote In a recent article. The maxillary sinuses (over the upper jaw and commonly called antrums) are the two cavities under the cheek bones on each side of the nose and above the palate bone (of the roof of the mouth). If an infection in one of these cavi ties is very severe, it can usually be cleared up by mak ing a little "window" between the antrum and the, mouth, just above a canine tooth. The diseased lining of the antrum can then be scraped out, and later a small permanent win dow can be made from the antrum into the nose. With the good drainage this gives to the cavity, and perhaps with the use of antibiotics, a chronic antral sinusitis should clear up. If necessary, for a while, the sinus can be wash ed out each day through the little window. This usually soon brings healing, Sometimes the disease of one anthrum spreads up from infected roots of the upper molar teeth on that side. The infection can get through be cause all that seperates the roots of the teeth from the anthrum is a thin plate of bone. In the case of chronic sphe noidltis, or inflammation of the sphenoid sinuses (deep in under the base of the brain), an allergy may start the trou ble. Usually, with a chronic sphenoidltis, there goes a chronic inflammation in the ethmoid sinuses, which are next to the sphenoids. Eth moid disease is also likely to be associated with a nasal al lergy. Sometimes, with the dripping of secretion into the nose, a chronic ethmoiditis re sults in the formation of pol yps (little soft white tumors, about as big as peanuts) in the nose. These should be re moved so that the person can breathe comfortably. They can easily be removed under local anesthesia. $ometimes a small operation bas to be performed which will enable the ethmoid sinuses to drain better. .The frontal sinuses He un der the forehead, just above the root of the nose, and just above the bony orbits in which the eyes are located. When possible, the nosi and throat man avoids operating on these sinuses, because they work best when not opened up wide. However, wnen chronically inflamed sinus must be drained, this can be done. Dr. Reed believes that usu lly expert treatment can clear up a chronic sinusitis. Other nasal symptoms also may Indicate probable aller gies. If you would like Dr. Alvarez's booklet, Allergy, Hay Fever and Asthma, send 23 cents and a self-addressed stamped envelope with your request for it to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box 9ST, Des Moines 4, Iowa. House Action May Have Killed Funds For Rogue Board Salem -flJPH- The future of the Rogue River Coordination board looked dim Saturday after the House tabled and thus probably killed its budg et. The board was created in 1959 to regulate muddiness in the river caused by placer miners and opposed by fisher men. The board is composed of a miner, a fisherman, and a neutral member, currently from Grants Pass. House Speaker Clarence Barton, in an unusual speech on a bill, told the House the board has been "absolutely valueless" to sport and tourist interests at the mouth of the Rogue in the Gold Beach area. Mining Interests "The cards are completely stacked" in favor of upriver mining interests, he said. Rep. Richard Eymann (D Marcola) said the regulation should be placed under the State Sanitary authority, and noted a bill in the House Nat- u r a 1 Resources committee would do this. Rep. Sidney Bazett (R Grants Pass) said the board had been doing a good job and a "real service." The budget has been cut from $1,290 to $700, with $500 to have gone to the board the first year and $250 the second year In a phase out operation. The reduced budg et was tabled by voice vote. OST 6 Becomes Law Sans Signatura Salem - (UPD - Oregon's sum mer daylight saving time will run to the last day in Oc tober instead of the last Sat urday in September. Gov. Mark Hatfield filed bill extending the period Friday with the secretary of state. Hatfield let the meas ure become law without his signature. From Mouths of Babes Caroline Kennedy's Contemporaries Scribble Requests To Congressmen '.. ... ... ., . , . i-i-iu ! if Gilbert continues to re fuse to be influenced by facts, he probably will be elected to Congress nimseii some aay, . By DICK WEST Washington - OJPli - If I told you that a book had Just been published under the title "Mow to Kun a C o u n try," who would you guess to Leo Durocher? David S u s kind? Liz Tay lor? Wrong. r. lllll DUOK IS a compilation Wmi of views on statcscraft by a group of Caro line Kennedy's contemporar ies. It was put together by Harold Dunn, a school teach er, from letters that children have written to members of Congress. Now let me say at the out set that when anyone men tions bright sayings by chil dren, my inclination is to run, not walk, to the nearest exit. I hold with the old adage that "out of the mouths of babes oftentimes comes Pab- lum." But I find thai when kids an writing to their con gressman thay display far mora erudition and per spicuity than whan ihay ara talking to their parents, or Art Linklettsr. For Instance, no one who has ever engaged in a sibling rivalry could help but admire the little girl who wrote to Rep. Paul A. Fino (R-N. Y.) asking him to "send me the form to disinherit sisters." This shows that civiliza tion has made real progress in the last few decades. In my day, we would have asked for rat poison. It is also reassuring to note that tattle - telling has be come a great deal more so phisticated than it was when I was a boy. The kids apparently no longer squeel on each other Dennis the Menace IK Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate. '.9631 I SURE oonV understand MaM.SHf SAYS IVHEN 1 6IT HERE IM HOPING HER , THIS fVEEK The ...in Fla9 Honor Flies of... Veteran H i KINT 4 ' I smith fj 'Just off Jacksonville Highway" MEMORIAL PARK WEDDING CHAPEL COLUMBARIUM 1395 Arnold lan FUNERAL HOME MAUSOLEUM CREMATIONS Phone 773-7338 ' Brando In Hospital; Illness Not Serious Santa Monica, Calif - (WD - Marlon Brando was hospital ized Friday when he was taken suddenly 111 on the movie set of "King of the Mountain." Attendants at St. John's hospital said tests will be made to determine the nature of the illness. They indicated it was not of a serious nature and that the actor probably would be released "In a few days." Paleosoic Animals Still With Us As - Scorpions It would seem that It should be quite a distinction being the very oldest and earliest of the known fossils. That was the era in the geological past that dates back a mere mil Hon years, in the time we now call the Paleozoic, when the ancient seas were populated with the trilobites. They had a little company, for there were some varieties of sponges, as well as various members of the protozoans, along with some shelled crea tures. As near as we can ascertain now, the climate back there was mild and humid. The tril obites swam about all of the North American continent, tor those ancient seas cover ed nearly all the earth. They are all gone now - the trilo bites - but their remains in stratas of Paleozoic rock tes tify to their presence. Some how or other they have left some near relatives, still alive today - the spiders and the scorpions. Both the primitive scorpion, and the others lived in the sea. Leave Water There was a brief interval of a couple hundred million years until the scorpions and the spiders moved out of the water and became air-breathing. For some obscure and un known reason f-e scorpions stayed on, in fact they are still abundantly plentiful to day In all the warmer parts of the world. ' Between the time the scor pion became land-dwelling and air breathing and the now known appearance of Aeronautics Board Budget Approved Salem - HOT - A trimmed budget for the State Board of Aeronautics, designed to cut down on state ownership of airports, passed the House Saturday 35 23. It Involves two budgets. The governor's proposed bud get of $202,359 for services and administration was cut to $136,371. The governor's proposed $230,398 for airport construc tion was not cut, but $79,347 was shifted from outright con struction to grants-in-aid. MEN DROWN The Dalles - (UPD - Two men drowned when their small rowboat capsized in the Co lumbia River about 10 miles west of here Friday. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- "TV'OW," SAID a psychiatrist to his new patient, "we're -L going to find out just what makes you tick." "That won't be enough," mourned the patient. "I also want to know what makes me chime every quarter of an hour." When the lata Gertrude 8teln and her lifelong com panion, Alice Toklaa, were visiting Chicago In the 1930a, they prevailed upon the head of the police de partment to take them for a midnight round in a police quad car. Earlier in the evening, Mtsa Stein enter tained Crltlo Fanny Butch er and Chancellor Bob Hutchlna of Chicago Uni versity, at dinner. All of these diatlnguiihed figures were both articulate and aura of their opinion and an argument eniued that grew louder and mora vehement by the moment. At lie height the maid rushed tn, white aa a sheet, and reported, "Mine Stein! The police are here!" e e Overheard at a college prom: "She reminds me of BardoL" Brigitte?" "No.GuyLom" C lass, br Bennett Cert Distributed by Xtaf Feature Syadlcat 1 the higher order of mammals, at least S00 million years went by. Ten million years later, the modern, meat eating animals put in an appearance; an other ten million and the horse and the elephant show ed up, these predated the first known appearance of the cave man by eight or nine million years. Evidences we can find to day indicate the world was pretty swampy, back in the time the dinosaurs were ram paging over the land. Those ungainly creatures occupied a space on this earth for about 30 million years. They lasted pretty well and quit entirely for no reason we actually put our finger on today. Of course, there must have been a great deal about them we have been unable to figure out. Mountains Grew That was the time when the mountains were building. It was about 30 million years later that the Alps attained ' their mountainous stature; I taiwo hum; iu uuiiu b moun tain, but they are worth it. especially if you like scenery. By the time the elephant, horse and the more highly developed meat-eating . ani mals developed, the world's climate showed a definite cooling tendency. None of the living creatures knew It at the time,' but the glaciers were forming. The cave man was there at the time but he didn't know what all the freezing and ice movement was all about. He occupied his time trying to keep warm and hunting the mammoths and other gigantic mammals that were clutter ing up his landscape. The saber-tooth tiger and a great many other equally fearsome creatures were stalking the earth. The cave man had about all he could do getting enough to eat with out bothering his Dointed head about what would hap pen when that ice came creep ing down upon him. It was a time of great change. One Ice mass after another pushed down, pres sed and gouged, and froze inings. came men, or there abouts, the "age of man," roughly 550 million years aft er the relative of today's scorpion, the triloblte was alive and active. We can see today the re mains of the trilobite, in Pale ozoic rock; or their close rela tives, the scorpions - who are still with us. ! POWERFUL PLUNGER CLEARS CLOGGED TOILETS in o Jiffy NEVIt AOAIN Iher lick hellnf wnen your relist everflewi TOILAFLEX Toilet Plunger Unlike ordinary plunger. Toilaflei doce not permit cornpretted air or mtwjr water to (plash back or eerapa. With Tbilaflex the full prteeure plow through the cloifinf mm and twiihea it down. Cant rruul of sun ro to nn t am atrsnr RtCISStD m TfflPl Alt 4 W4TIM CENTtM ItSlir, CAN'T MID atrOUNO Tart ID TAIL OlVtl AID TrOHT fit OMiHna Toilanea $26S at HiiDwtn treats rvitvwMtti to parents or teachers. Now they turn each other in to the Senate internal security subcommittee. A letter received by San. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) of that group reads as fol lows: "... Jan keeps her fingers crossed when sha sings the Star Spangled Banner." A child's world in respect to sex likewise has changed considerably, as witness the letter a schoolgirl addressed to the "birth control section" of Congress. The book doesn't say to whom it. was delivered, but the text of the missive went like this: "For my class proj ect I am to get all the infor mation I can about birth con trol. Can you help me or am I too expectant?" A Juvenile constituent named Gilbert wrote to Rep. Thomas M. Pelly (R-Wash) seeking the congressmen's opinion on China. Gilbert added that he has already formed his own opinion "so don't give any facts." Although their letters are characteristic of the modern generation of the book makes clear that there is one area in which kids haven't changed a bit. They still can't spell worth a dime. Iniatnnis Morrell's Boneless Fully Cooked, Half or Whole If Sir For Cook Outs, Picnics or Eating at home You'll Find Them At Your Friendly MARK'S No Sales To Dealers Great for Quick Lunches, Too! 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