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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JULY 10. 1813 The Medical Roundup by lf. V . ! BmttiUM ConralUBt la Medicine Mayo runle Ementui Pro(eitr of Medlctaa Mayo CUnie (Rattiur u Trihune lyDdlcau, 1M1) a.WjJ The Vacation Diarrhea Every summer physicians we travelers who sav nhnrtlv after they reached a foreign land, or per haps just one of our national parks, they were seized with a violent diarrhea. For tunately, i n most cases the spell lasted for only 12 or Alvarx 24 hours. For many years, we in the United States thought of such travel diarrhea as attacking mainly persons who were visiting in the republics south of the Rio Grande. Also, for years, prac tically everyone assumed that the cause of such upsets is in festation with an ameba, a ingle cell microscope para site, which grows in the large bowel. ! The last time I visited our sister republic to the south, I realized that the cause of my violent intestinal upset could hardly be due to amebiasis be cause it hit me on the night of my arrival, and it lasted only 10 hours. Later, micro scopic studies showed that I had no amebiasis. The attack was exactly like many others I have had, when at home, or in New York, or when travel ing in the western Rockies. That such brief gastrointestin al upsets are probably due to a special virus is shown by the fact that sometimes a third of the nurses in a hospi tal will be stricken at one time. Often, in such epidem ics, the disease is called in testinal flu. Discharges Studied : Recently, a big study was made of hundreds of ex change students, some of whom went to Mexico, others to, Europe. Wherever they went, perhaps a third of them quickly came down with a a brief attack of severe diar rhea. Their discharges were immediately frozen and ship ped to university laboratories in the United States where they were well studied by ex perts. As I remember, no def inite cause was found for the trouble. Students who went to countries on the Mediterran ean Coast had a little more in testinal trouble than did the students who went to the northern countries, such as Norway and Sweden. Even some tourists who went to Hawaii had trouble in spite of the fact Hawaii is usually salubrious and has a good clean water supply. What seems probable is that when a person travels he comes in contact with viruses to which he is unaccustomed and hence not immune. Then, wherever he is,, he can get into trouble. Bacteriologists have point ed out that each summer per haps SO million of our people stream out from their cities to resorts, and to national parks, where they put much strain on the local facilities for eating. I know that in some parks I have had to wait for the second or third sitting in the huge dining halls. Un der such circumstances, dish es and knives and forks may escape sterilization. Also, some of the employees may well be carriers of virus es, amebas, and germs that can cause dysentery. Whenever there is any doubt about the medical in spection of the water supplies and water sheds, the wise per son will drink only bottled water or boiling hot tea. One important point is commonly missed by the traveler. He may order a bottle of spring water, but when it comes to his table the water may be in a glass, into which a bus boy, perhaps with dirty hands, has put ice cubes. Many a time when traveling in a foreign land I have found it difficult to get a waiter to understand that I must have the bottle of spring water opened at my table and not with ice cubes. As many people know, in some foreign countries it is not safe to eat salads. Then only freshly cooked foods should be eaten. Dangerous Food When traveling in a hot summer, would never think of eating hamburger because in some places bacteriologists from the State Board of Health have found ground Yankee Ingenuity - U. S. Patent Office Runs Almost 200,000 Applications Behind By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - Accord ing to a magazine article pub lished this week, the United States is expe riencing an in vention explo sion of even greater magni tude than the population ex plosion. Our old Yankee in g e n u i t y is wen sparking new ideas so fast that the U. S. Pat ent Office can't keep up with them. At last count, it was al most 200,000 applications be hind. To realize how really big the backlog is, one must con sider a statement made by Patent Commissioner David L. Ladd in an interview with U. S. News & World Report. Ladd said the problem could not be solved by hiring more employees. I never thought I'd live to see the day when a bureaucrat would make a statement like that. It shook me up so much that I stopped by tha Patent Office and picked up a copy of Us weekly list of new in ventions. I could immediate ly understand why Ladd meat swarming with billions of disease producing germs. The only hamburger that is safe to eat has been recently ground, and made from good beef, just taken out of a re frigerator. Hamburger made from scraps thrown by a butcher into a basket behind his counter is a dangerous food, particularly in a hot summer. Another dangerous food in the summer is the cream that is put into chocolate eclairs and cream puffs and other such pastries. I have known persons who had a stormy night after eating a cream which had become heavily in fected with some bacteria producing organism. If you are a sensitive, al lergic person, you'll want to read Dr. Alvarez' booklet "Asthma, Allergy and Hay Fever." To obtain your copy, send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. was faaling deiperate During that one week alone, his office issued more than 900 patents, the scope and var iety of which would make your head spin except for a few inventions that apparent ly were designed to make your head stop spinning. Here are just a few of the devices that were awarded patents in that period: A disposable paint brush; a machine for skinning fish; an apparatus for measuring the length of trousers; a retract able awning that you can run out over your auto's wind shield when it starts to rain. A self-cleaning ash tray; a hair brush that is grounded so that it removes static elec tricity from hair; a serving spoon that you can eat when you have finished serving. There was even a new, though not necessarily bat ter, mousetrap. If my under standing of tha way U Argentine Winner Mapping Next Step Buenos Aires, Argentina -HJPD - Dr. Arturo Illia, the moderate candidate who out polled his nearest rival by nearly a million votes, Tues day charted his next moves to ward the Argentine presi dency. Illia, candidate of the Peo ple's Radicals party, had 169 electoral votes on the basis of Sunday's peaceful nationwide balloting, but he lacked 70 for an absolute majority in the 476-member Electoral College meeting July 31. He planned to start negotia tions with candidates of other parties within a few days. It was not yet clear whether Illia would receive sufficient backing for his own candidacy or would limit himself to a key role in picking the president. HIS CUP OF TEA Southampton, England OJPD - Hard-drinking Irish play wright Brendan Behan ar rived here Tuesday by ship from New York and an nounced: "Most people don't know I'm an expert on tea.1 His only comment on the United States: "Their tea tasted as if it was made with cigarette butts." Some cars do this on curves.. .but Tempest has Wide-Track. L I IT T TZLT - .. . i -a. f r l Wheels that are farther apart help 3J Keep lempesu irom waning an ut inavt, help them unkink eurres. Tired of wallowing and sloshing about? Try oar brand. W lde-1 rack FOIUiaC I empeSt. SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER FOR A WIDE CHOtCE OF WIDE-TRACKS AND GOOD USED CARS, TOO. DEAN & TAYLOR PONTIAC CO., Inc. 2177 SOUTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY MEDFORD, OREGON works is correct, it lures a mouse into container whare ha eats so much chaeie ht becomes loo tat to get back out again, I assume the mouse stays there until the fatty diet and lack of exercise raises his cholesterol content to the point where he suffers a fa tal heart attack. To my mind, however, noth ing points up to the complex ity of modern life quite so much as a new type of bras siere invented by a lady of Bridgeport, Conn. This device is described as having seven segments, one being "a pair of shoulder straps, each connected at its forward end to said upwardly directed apex of a respective transition member and con nected at its rearward end to the upper edge of said band at a point adapted to be disposed at the back of the wearer." All of that just so some doll can look good in a sweater. No wonder the patent office is swamped. Gaston Woman Meted Four Years Hillsboro UPD Mrs. Evelyn Flett, 34, Gaston, has been sen tenced to four years In the state penitentiary on a charge of assault with a deadly weap on. Mrs. Flett was to have stood trial in Washington County Circuit Court on a charge of manslaughter resulting from the knifing death of her hus band, Gldon, in November, 1961. The state dismissed the the manslaughter charge when Mrs. Flett pleaded guilty to assault. She was convicted of man slaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison in March, 1962, That conviction was later reversed by the State Supreme Court, which said irrelevant testimony had been allowed. FOOD FOR ALGERIA Algiers, Algeria (UPU An agreement was signed here Tuesday between the Ameri can CARE organization and Algeria under which an esti mated $15 million worth of U.S. food will be distributed to 1.4 million Algerians. The year-long program will begin in September. Astoria To Join German Village in Birthday Observance A 7 Walldorf, Germany - tUPIt - This Germany hamlet and As toria, Ore., join together this month in celebrating the 200th birthday of a butcher's son who founded an empire in the new world that still stands. Johann Jakob Astor was born In Walldorf, July 17, 1763, the son of a poor butch er, according to the village chronicle. But young Astor emigrated to North America and made a fortune. He also founded Astoria. His grandson, Wil liam, furthered the family empire by founding the fam ous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in 1866. William henceforth called himself Waldorf-Astoria, but no one knows why he dropped the second "L" in Walldorf. Astor Lett at 18 The highlight of Astor Week In Walldorf July 17-23 is the establishment of a sister-town relationship with the Oregon city. The mayor of As toria is expected to attend tiie festivities. "Nobbele," as butcher's son Johann Astor was known to his friends, left Walldorf at the age of 18 and joined his older brother in London. Then in 1784, he left for the new world and got a job as ap prentice with a New York fur dealer. Within a year he had start ed his own firm, buying furs in the Hudson river hunting grounds and Canada, and sell ing them in London at a good profit. In 1810 he sent an ex pedition to the West Coast and founded Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia river. One reason for the link with Astoria is an attempt to re vive the relationship, Wall dorf Mayor Wllhelm Willlnger said, "but we do not expect a donation from the rich un cles in America." Twenty families named As tor now live in Walldorf, which sports an Astor Gar- CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK - Salem WPU Gov. Mark Hat field has urged Oregonians to observe the period July 14-20 as Captive Nations Week. SWEET CHERRY WEEK Salem -(UPD- This week has been designated as Oregon Sweet - Cherry Week, Gov. 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