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MONDAY. MAY 13, 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO, OREGON
The Medical Roundup
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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
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Register and Tribune
Syndicate. '.9631
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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!"
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Overheard at a college prom: "She reminds me of BardoL"
Brigitte?" "No.GuyLom"
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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.
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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.
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