WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1963
B 5
The Medical Roundup
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Emcriou Coniulunt tn Mcdlclnt
Mayo rllnie
Emtntai Profeiiar of Medtelne
Mayo clinic
(Beflster aad Trlbunt Syndicate.
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
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ENGLARGED PROSTATE
GLAND
Many men write, asking if
there isn't some medicine they
can take to shrink their large
papaMa prosiaie giana.
I A , A I Dr. Edward N
V-.i
Mm.
Cook, a urolo
gist of the Ma
yo Clinic, says
a synthetic fe
male hormone,
has been given
to men for this
purpose, but
it is seldom of
Alvarez value.
At the Mayo Clinic, between
1953 and 1957, inclusive, tran
surethral operations (performed
through the tube which carries
urine from the bladder to tne
outside) were performed on
23,938 men. The mortality after
this operation was only 1.04 per
cent, which is mucn lower tnan
that of any other prostatic oper
ation. Usually, with this opera
tion the patient is up and walk
ing around within a tew hours.
The suprapubic (the public re
eion is the front part of the pel
vis) operation is performed for
the removal of very large pros
tate elands, such as those that
weigh more than three ounces.
Another operation is the retro
pubic (behind the public region)
and another is the p e r i n e a 1
(through the crotch). In all
these three operations a big cut
has to be made through tne SKin.
The Mayo urologists feel that
with adequate training and ex
perience a man should be able
to remove the obstructing part
of a large prostate gland
throueh the urethra in more
than 90 per cent of the patients.
Florlne Earn
I recently read an article by
Drs. Richard B. MarK ana ua
vid E. Saunder, who emphasize
what I have long been saying
that children with flaring ears
should have the detect cor-
rertixt nuicklv. before their per
sonality is iniured by the teasing
that they will get at school. Ac
cording to ine nruisn uutiuia.
the defect can be inherited.
onnrt nlastic sureeon can quick
ly put the ears back where they
Vwlnne close to the skull.
Tf th Barents of the child
have no money, they still ought
to get in touch with a local plas
tic sureeon. because many of
these men will help children
from the eoodness of their
Reclamed Sewer
Water Useable
SF.ATLE (UPI) Waters re
claimed from sewage plants can
be treated and used safely for
recreation purposes, even swim
mina and flshine. a San Diego
rminiv Calif., health official
cairt Tuesdav.
Roderick F. Botts told the Wa
ter Pollution Control Federation
mootine here that water re
claimed from sewage plants at
Kantoo Calif., was being used
for recreation purposes and that
the public was willing 10 use
these lakes even though they
lrnmv the source of the water,
He said a cooperative study
tw the U.S. Public Health Serv
ice, the California Department
of Public Health, the San Diego
County Department of Public
vtoalth and the Santee County
Water District was made to de
termine the degree of treatment
necessary to make reclaimed
water suitable for recreational
use.
"Our work so far shows that
viruses have not been found in
the recreational waters and the
nutrients have been removed to
levels where fish can propa
gate," Botts explained.
Botts was speaker at a special
research session along with 90
other engineers, control officials
and research and disposal ex
perts. About 2.000 delegates are at
tending the federation conven
tion which continues through
Thursday.
hearts. I know a plastic surgeon
who spends his Sundays oper
ating on children and ouiers wno
cannot pay him anything. In
some places there is a Shriner s
hospital in which children of
poor families can have the work
done.
Myasthenia Graves
Because quite a few anxious
people ask me if there is any
thing new in the treatment of
myasthenia gravis, I will say
that in the New England Jour
nal of Medicine for March 28,
1963, Dr. Robert S. Schwab, of
the Myasthenia Gravis Clinic in
the Massachusetts General hos
pital in Boston, spoke favorably
of the use of Mestinon Time
span, which can give a sustain
ed effect for from six to eight
hoursJSphedrine may help, also
Protopan and Tensilon; ACTH
appears to be of doubtful value.
All drugs must be used with
care because an overdose can
throw the person into a crisis.
The dose has to vary with the
needs and degree of sensitive
ness of the individual patient.
Recently, Drs. Kermit E. Os-
serman and Gabriel Genkins of
New York, discussed 47 crises
(flare-ups) which they have had
to treat in 35 patients with "lis
rare disease in which the per
son's muscles become very
weak. Up until some years ago,
such crises commonly caused
death, perhaps because the pa
tient would become too weak to
breathe. Today there are sev-l
eral drugs commonly used to
help drugs such as neostig
mine bromide, neostigmine
methylsulfate, pyridostigmi n e
bromide, and ambenonium chlo
ride. With medicines, many pa
tients can now be saved.
More Dangerous
The small thymus gland in
the chest is abnormal is about
85 per cent of all those cases in
which it can be examined.
Sometimes there is a tumor in it
(called a thyoma), and this may
make the disease more danger
ous. Dr. Schwab teels tnat all
the tumors of the thymus gland
should be removed surgically,
if the patient is strong enough
to stand the procedure. Other
surgeons believe in removing
them only in certain cases.
X-ray treatment before removal
of the tumor increases the
chances of success in helping
the patient.
About half of the 60 patients
who, according to Dr Schwab's
report, had this treatment were
helped, women under i years
of age, who have had the dis
ease for less than five or six
years, who have had the thymus
gland removed, and wno aid noi
have a tumor in it, have a 35 per
cent shance of becoming ap-
oarenty well. The operation
worked better for women than
for men. A person who does not
have such surgery performed
has only a five per cent chance
of going into what is called a
remission (like a cure), unce a
complete remission sets in, it
lasts indefinitely.
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