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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 25. 1963 QUESTIONS REFUSED-William Gallacher, 81, head of the British Communist Party, is shown as he arrived at Chicago after a flight from London. He refused to answer most ques tions asked by reporters, at left. The U. S. State Department granted him a "compassionate" visa so he could visit his ailing sister, Mrs. Agnes Wilson, 75. (UPI) The Medical Roundup by r ( yj I Emertuu Consultant In Me dicta Mayo rilnle Emeritus Professor of Mediclna Mayo Clinic (Refister and Trlbun Syndicate. 1963) Varicose Veins Only 14 years ago the opera tion for varicose veins was so poorly designed that failures outnumbered successes by at least two to one. Now, an I Hi " 6 an excellent icauu in sume 95 per cent of cases. As some Aivarei people know, there are valves in the veins in the legs which help the blood to keep flowing upward against gravity, until event ually it reaches the right side of the heart. It is probable that some people inherited an incompetence of the valves, or even a lack of valves in their principal leg vein. Often, one can see the same type of large convoluted leg veins in a mother and her daughter. It is recorded that in the second century A. D., Galen, (the great physician whose ideas dominated medical thought for some 1500 years) tore out some of the varicose veins with a blunt hook. I read also that in 1906, Dr. Charles H. Mayo devised what is called the "stripping meth od." In this type of operation, a small cut is made in the skin near the ankle, a stripper, which may be a long rod with a loop at the end, is fitted over the cut vein, and the loop is pushed up around the vein to the groin, where another . nick is made in the skin -through which the vein is re moved. Sometimes this type of operation cannot be per formed because the veins are so corkscrew-like. Such a vein has to be dissected out through a fairly big incision In the skin. Leg Raised To test the efficiency of the valves in the long vein in the leg and thigh, while the pa tient lies on a couch the af fected leg is raised above the level of his heart until the veins are empty. The leg is then quicklv lowered and a tourniquet of soft rubber tub ing is applied in such a way as to compress the upper end of the long vein. Then, when the patient stands, if there is backflow, the sudden taking off of the tourniquet will quickly make the varicosities prominent, all the way down the leg. The vein will fill with blood in a few seconds, and any incompetent valves can quickly be located. There are other such tests that can be made. In some cases, the veins are Injected with a substance which makes them visible with X-rays, while in a few cases, only a surgical explora tion can tell what their condi tion is. The person with bad leg veins can get help by sleeping with the foot of the bed raised a few inches. In many cases, the varices can be controlled well enough by an elastic sup port, such as a knee-length bandaee or stocking. If bad varicose veins are left for a long time, an ulcer may form on the inner side of the ankle-an ulcer that is hard to heal. Varicose veins can show up during a pregnancy, or they can be aggravated by a preg nancy. The varices usually diminish in size after the woman has her child. Usually then she can be greatly helped with one of the new elastic stockings now on the market. When a stout, middle-aged woman comes in with varicose v e i n s, and complaining of pain in her legs, it may be hard to say whether her pain is due to the big veins or to her flat feet, or to her bunions, or some arthritis. The diag nosis will become clearer if the use of elastic stockings or bandages gives relief. Air Conditioning Makes Hay-Fever Milder In a Tecent paper, three Philadelphia physicians re ported that in a home equipped with central air- conditioning, there is a ten fold decrease in pollen con centration in the air, com pared with the non-air condi tioned home next door. More remarkable, there is a hun dred-fold decrease in the amount of pollen in the air conditioned home as compared with the outdoor air. Counts of the bacteria and the molds don't show much difference in the house and outside. What happens, apparently, that much of the pollen falls out with the water which condenses on the cold fins of the air-conditioner. This means, of course, that the people who suffer during the summer months with hay fever should be much more comfortable in an air-condi-t i o n e d home, than in one which is not air-conditioned. Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Hollywood Actress Janet Leigh, commenting on the fall fashions now being introduced in Paris: "The Paris moguls of mode are like little boys playing with ryo. the way they trifle with our skirt lengths; up. down, up, down." London Gallery director Robert Katz, reacting to a city council decision to close the one-man show of Dr. Stephen Ward's paintings: "We will fight. This is bureaucracy gone mad." Chicago The Rock Island Railroad, in a letter to off train employees warning that their jobs would be abolished if operating employees strike in protest to proposed new work rules: "You are notified that your position is abolished effective upon completion of the last tour of duly which can be com pleted before 12:01 a.m. July 30." Social Security Recipients Reminded of Payments "Knowing when to stop so cial security checks can be as important as knowing when to start them," Edward B. Ja cobson, social security district manager in Medford said to day. "Whenever monthly bene fits are being pHid there are events which must be report ed to social security. We de pend on the people who get benefit checks to let us know when such events happen. If they don't, an overpayment can result. Under the law that money must be repaid." Jacobson said that most overpayment of benefit cases involve the retired beneficiary who returns to work but fails to notify the social security of fice; the widow or child ben eficiary who marries; and the widow who gets monthly checks for herself and a child under 18, but fails to tell the social security office when the child leaves her care. He added that there are other cases, too, and that it is very important that anyone who gets social security checks knows just what events do af fect their right to benefit pay ments. Receives Instructions Each person who applies for social security benefits re ceives instructions on what events should be reported to the social security office. The Social Security administration regularly encloses reminder notices with checks that are mailed out Even so, the social security office sometimes finds that a beneficiary has been overpaid because he or she did not report events that stop or temporarily suspend ben efits. Such overpayments must be repaid, or deducted from future benefits. Jacobson urged persons to contact the social security of fice when in doubt about the need to report a return to work, marriage, etc. They can tell immediately and perhaps save unnecessary worry about it. The best way. though. Is to be sure to know beforehand what events affect the bene fits being received and how to report them as they occur. The social security office is at 1017 North Riverside ave., Medford. AIMS TO PLEASE Madison, Wis. OJPft The "dean" of the University of Wisconsin's food service, Beu lah Dahle, had a few tips today upon announcing her retirement. The way to keep students happy, she said, was to serve cold dishes cold, hot dishes hot and give them what they want, if possible. B 3 North Bend Man Held in Arkansas Little Rock, Ark.-flJPD-Her-bert Earl Trest, 35. of North Bend, Ore., was held in Little Rock jail today on $500 bond after being charged with ar son in a fire Monday night at a duplex. Trest, whose case is set for a preliminary hearing in Lit tie Rock Municipal Court July 31, was arrested shortly after the fire, which caused minor damage. Trest allegedly told officers he set the same building on fire Friday night. There are no magic secrets to weight reduction-so none are mentioned in Dr. Alvarez' booklet, "Weight Control." You may like to have a fa mous doctor's comments about ; this important subject. 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