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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12. 1963
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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COLD FLOWS ABROAD 'FIVE SHORT BLOCKS'
(This is the second in a series of two articles.)
As a youngster in the early 1930s. I vividly recall spend
ing hours sitting on bench at the tip of Manhattan Island
and watching the world's great ships pull out of New York
harbor laden with gold drained by our foreign creditors
from the U.S. gold reserve. 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.
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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.
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mend repeal of the 10 per cent
excise tax on telegrams. If the
rate increase is approved and
the tax is repealed, the public
would pay no more for tele
grams, the company said. The
excise tax dates from World
War It.
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revenue to complete a mod
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