MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. JULY 10. 1813
The Medical Roundup
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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."
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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.
Mark Hatfield has announced.
den, an Astor Monument, the
Cafe Astoria, and the Astor
House, a home for old people
built with a $50,000 donation
from Johann Astor.
Family Nam' Ramains
Martin Astor runs a leather
goods store in Walldorf, Her
mann Astor is an upholsterer.
Dr. Karl Astor is the village
physician, and there is an
Astor on the Astoria-Walldort
soccer team. .
A picture of Astoria, Ore.,
decorates the dining room of
the tiny Walldorf hotel, and
another room contains a rep
lica of a cabin in Johann As
tor's flagship Tonquin that
sailed past Cape Horn in 1810,
En t h us iastic Walldorfera
also changed the name of their
main - road from "Nusslocher
Strasse" to "Johann Jakob As
tor Strasse," and put up huge
posters at the outskirts of tha
village advertising the birth
day party.
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