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10 A WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDF0R9. OREGON The Medical Roundup Cmirimi Consultant la Medlclnt Mayo Clinic Cm aril us Professor of Medicine) Mayo Clinic (Hegtsur and Tribune lyndlcata, 13) Dennis the Menace Low Blood Sugar On my desk is a letter luch at many I see, from a man who says that for five yean net been on a "hypoglyce mia diet" - auppoi e d 1 y del igned to cure a "func tional hyper- 1 n ju linism." He read in one of my newi paper columns that at a great clinic a few thou aand patients with this sup posed disease were examined and in none could the diagno sis be confirmed. To those of us physicians who have been hunting for years to find a real case of "functional" hypoglye e m I a, the fashionable diagnosis of this disease has always seem ed to be a silly fad. The man I has a breast removed for can who just wrote me has sent cer, she does not need x-ray lfr A)VltM . particularly good and kindly care from their obstetrician. A Swollan Arm Recently in this column 1 told of a study made by prominent surgeons in Cleve land who concluded that the swelling of an arm, which occurs occasionally after the "radical removal" of the break i for cancer, could not be due always to x-ray treat ment, because in many of their cases, the woman with a swollen arm had not had any x-ray treatment. The Cleveland s u r geons felt satisfied that the trouble was due usually to infection and hence they treated largely with penicillin. They claimed good results. Now, Or. John Sonncland of Spokane says that he thinks that the main cause x-ray treatment. He argues logically that when a woman me his blood sugar curve, which is normal. His fasting blood surge was 118 mg. ' which Is at the top of normal How any one with a thimble ful of brains could diagnose a low blood sugar on the basis of these findings is beyond me The fact that the man says he has been able to live only by sticking to the irrational diet that is prescribed for this supposed disease, doesn't prove anything. Many people are cured by being convinced that at last their puzzling disease has been given the right name. Pregnancy in Young Girls I was much interested in an article by Dr. Thomas J. Musio, of the St. Louis Uni versity School of Medicine, in which he states that be tween 1951 and I960, of the 87,000 o b s t e t ric patients cared for in four local hos pitals, there were 80 girls under 14 years of age. Forty six girls were 13 years old, and four were 12 years old. Most of these young girls had an ordinary pregnancy and labor without unusual dllll-culty. Some of the girls were dl- ircssea by tne social, eco nomic and psychological dif ficultics which soon stared them In the face. They needed treatment. I was convinced of this when Dr. Stuart Har rington studied the records of 8,028 women with cancer of the breast, operated on at the Mayo Clinic. What he found was that the woman who had had no x-ray treatment lived as long as those who had had it. Dr. Sonncland says that this was true also of 1,461 women studied In Manchester, England. In both of these studies, the investigator con cluded that x-ray treatment did not add anything to the life-spans of the women who had had their breast removed for Cancer. Treatment Expected Why then do most women still get x-ray treatment after a breast operation? Some sur geons tell me that they order such treatment because peo ple expect It, or they want everything done that, can pos sibly be done to insure a cure. If anything should go wrong with a woman who did not have x-ray treatments, her family might feel that such treatment, if given, could have saved her life. In the cases of women with a big swollen arm. Dr. Son ncland uses a special custom made elastic arm stocking to control tho swelling. Also, he uses surgery to remove some of the excess tissue. Also, the Alff.WMOfi SURE IIKESME. H 6AlD'j WISH MX) IrVEKE M UTW ecr KX JUST FlVg MINUTES" Crater Lake Discovered by Prospector 110 Years Ago John Wesley Hillman, mem ber of a prospecting party searching for the "Lost Cabin" gold mine, encountered Crater lake on June 12, 1883, reports Superintendent W. Ward Yea- gcr. One hundred ten years ago today, young Hlllman-only 21 years old-was riding a mule up the western slope of the volcano now Known as Ml. Mazama, when his mount halted abruptly at the brink of the steep walls surrounding the lake. Inspired by the intense col or of the water, tne party doctor operates In an effort to establish new channels for the passage of lymph (a milky fluid) from the arm up into the chest. It is this lymph which so distends the tissues of the affected arm. Many persons would like to understand more about cancer and the need for early recognition of it. . Dr. Al varez' booklet about cancer will provide many answers. You may get your copy by sending 28 cents and a self addressed, stamped envelope with your request for it to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. christened their find Deep Blue lake-discarding an al ternative proposal of Myster ious lake. It remained until 1869 for a group of local res idents from Jacksonville, Ore to bestow the present name of Crater lake, following their visit in August of that year. Hillman was born in Al bany, N. Y., on March 29, 1832, and died in Hope Villa, La., on March 19, 1915. Today a bronze plaque at Discovery Point, in the approximate lo cation of Hillman's arrival, commemorates his find. Hill man peak, highest point on the lake's rim honors the first pioneer to view this incom parable blue lake. i -..kT.ii Your Money' Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Cyrikt, HD Syaelksr. Inc. Tax Collections Increase in State Salem - IUPI) - Tax collec tions through May 31 were up 9.B per cent this fiscal year over the first 11 months of last fiscal year, the State Tax Commission said Tuesday. Collections for the past 11 months totaled 122,983,309, compared with, $111,948,122 for the previous fiscal year s first 11 months. Personal Income tax pay ments were up 12 per cent while corporate taxes were down .7 per cent, the commis sion noted. At last! A latex house paint that needs no primer F ucica piuui uu piiuici iiccucu uii repaint work! Save time, work, money! 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I recall spending more hours standing near the Federal Reserve Bank of New York watch ing men form long lines an they waited to exchange dollars into gold for immediate shipment abroad, i recall me panic which finally forced us to devalue the gold value of our dollar by raising the price of gold behind the dollar from $20.67 to $33 an ounce. I remember . . . And thus, the contrast between the great gold outflow of the early 1930s and the great outflow of the early 1960s is particularly dramatic to me. Since the start of 1962, $1.1 billion of gold has flowed out of the U.S. Our reserve is now below $15.8 billion, lowest since 1939. With our foreign creditors still building up immense claims against our dollar which they can trans fer into gold at any time, we're certain to lose considerably more of our hoard. How is this gold flowing out of the U.S. now? It is flowing out via armored trucks which move the gold bars from one set oi cages in the U.S. Assay Office in downtown Manhattan to another set of cages in the New York Federal Reserve Bank, also in downtown Man hattan. ' The entire route is five short New York City blocks, less than IS minutes' walking distance. It's a little-known, fascinating tale, so here goes. About 70 foreien countries are keeping gold in num bered cages in the New York Federal Reserve's vault 85 feet below street level, 55 feet below sea level. Let's say France Is among them (the Federal Reserv dos not identify the countries having cages, but of course she Is one) and France decides to transfer $100 million of her dollar claims into gold in order to bolster her precious metal reserve. A French official calls a New York Reserve official and notifies him that France plans to exchange $100 million for gold at the U.S. standard price of $35 a troy ounce. , The New York Reserve official calls a counterpart at the U.S. Assay Office and tells him of the $100 million demand for gold. On the agreed-upon day, armored trucks draw up at the Assay Office on Old Slip at the East river, load the gold bars, drive them five blocks to the Federal Reserve at 33 Liberty st. Guards take the gold bars down to the subterranean vault I described yesterday, trundle them, 60 to 100 at a time, through the massive 90-ton steel vault door and into a room where the bars are weighed on a huge scale so sensitive it weighs to the nearest 1100 of a trop ounce. Then the custodians who wear heavy aluminum shoe guards so their toes won't be crushed If one- of the 27-pound bars is dropped move the bars into a gray cage whose secret number belongs to France. The cage is locked and sealed. The aold bars each worth $13,434.79 have been moved only five blocks and rtmiin in downtown Man- j hattan. But the United States has $100 million less of gold in reserve while France has $100 million more of gold in reterve. The gold has "flowed out." It would work the other way too. If France sold $100 million of gold to us, the armored trucks would simply re trace their route pick up this amount of gold bars at the New York Federal Reserve, deliver the bars to the U.S. Assay Office. Or If France sold gold to Italy, the bars in volved would Just be shifted from France's numbered cage to Italy's numbered cage which could be a matter of a few feet. It may seem a game of musical chairs, but It Is deadly serious. Nations rise and fall on the total of gold they own and the world".' confidence in the stability of their currencies. The grimmest financial problem facing the U.S. today is the persistent deficit in our balance of payments and the relentless threat this poses to our gold reserve and dollar. The Family Council Fdltor'i note: Thi r.mlly Council eoniliU of a Judfe, a nhyrhl.trlst, three clergymen, three edliori mno a. women's editor, lath arUcle li a luminary of a family dlsacreement presented to the Council. The Council dealt with problems, major and minor, encountered bv guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by airs. Alma Denny, tcopyrisnt uj snerai ...sure, worp.j Florence C I'm trying to talk her into nursing the new baby. Ceil T. I'd rather not be so old-fashioned, so domesticated. i Florence C. I've just had my third child and this Is the first time I've succeeded with nursing. The satisfactions are absolutely indescribable. You feel 100 per cent a mother. Since Cell expects her second in September, I've offered to help her get started. That part isn't easy. But she plans to stick to formulas again. e Ceil T. I tried nursing the first baby and lost my milk a few days after I got home from the hospital. The infant lost weight and I had a hard time getting him fed right. I don't deny that mother's milk is probably best, and there's no bottle and formula job. But the difference isn't worth so much sacrifice and risk. The Council: High but ton shoes haven't come back, Ceil, and they're still old fashioned. But breast-feeding isn't and never will be. It's unpopular, misunderstood, a nuisance perhaps but it's as current and up-to-date as to morrow's newborns. Nature pours every argument in its favor into the pregnant wom an's ear. If she but listens: Nurse your baby. It's part of the childbearing cycle. It keeps your infant closer to you. Both you and he need this exchange. . . . Why then Is bottle-feeding almost "the rule" in the U.S.A.? Why will Florence's scling-Job probably fail? The answers lie'tn the attitudes of doctors, the excellence of substitute methods, and the reluctance of young mothers like Ceil to be "tied down" to such com plete feminity. We'll rein force Florence's crusade by underlining for Ceil the fact that there are definite, prov able physical and emotional benefits to at least six months' worth of breast-feeding. And the greatest aid to succeed comes from girls like Florence who can "point with pride" to their own experi ence. Some of these pool their know-how and offer it to would-be nursers via La Leche League Intl., Inc., 3332 Rose St., Franklin Park, 111. feffM "asm oooo mm wm Western Union Asks Rate Boost New York - (UPD - A 10 per cent increase In telegraph rates has been requested by Western Union, the company has announced. Western Union said it had I asked the Federal Communi cations Commission to recom mend repeal of the 10 per cent excise tax on telegrams. 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