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MKDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDKORD, OREGON MONDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1963 The. Medical Roundup By Emeritus consultant In Medicine Mayo Clinic mertttu Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Reriiter and Tribune Syndicate, 1963). Death From 'Old Age. Is Rare Back through probably thou sands of years, doctors have felt that certain o 1 d people died a natural death; perhaps be cause their bodies seemed just to have become worn out, or seemed to have ended up like the "one-hoss shay." But in the last 100 years, since we have been making autopsies on more and more people, we have found that it is not easy to find a per son who appears to have died of simple old age. Occasionally, I have seen an able pathologist look up after having performed an autopsy and say, "I haven't the remot est idea why this man died." Dr. H. E. Robertson of the Mayo Clinic used to say sometines, especially after an autopsy on a woman who for years had suffered from a severe exoph thalmic goiter, "1 think this woman died a chemical death; something went so far wrong with her body chemistry that she could no longer live." We know that the poison coming from a highly toxic goiter can seriously injure the heart mus cle and also the liver. Doubtless it injures other organs also. In many cases, when the path ologist would say, "I don't know what this man died of," I would remark, "I wonder what you would have found if you had had permission from the patient's relatives to remove ms brain and examine it." Many a m a n who dies silently during the night has had a stroke, and the big injury to his brain would have been found if the autopsy had been a complete one. Uiv fortunately, many persons re fuse to give the pathologist per mission to examine the brain of a relative who has died. Surprised at Finding In many cases, at an autopsy on an elderly patient one who appeared to have died of "old age" I have been surprised to find perhaps a cancer or two, plus perhaps a flare-up of an old tuberculosis of the lungs, Unidentified Body May Be KF Airman BROOKINGS, Ore (UPI)-A body believed to be that of an Air Force man stationed in Klamath Falls has washed up on the beach here. S. Sgt. James Morelock, 30, drowned a week ago after a 14-foot boat overturned off the mouth of the Chetco River. ' U .Vt " '1 How to end that empty feeling on payday Lump your bills together and pay them off with cash. We lend cash for any worthwhile need. Your monthly payment can be about half what you are now paying out. Stop in soon and see. which had healed over when the person was young. I got to thinking of all this when I read in the journal "MD" how the great German pathologist, Dr. Aschoff, once reported that when a colleague of his died suddenly at the age of 97, he (Aschoff) felt that at last he had found a case of "natural death from old age." But an autopsy revealed an acute lobar pneumonia; also a cancer of the thyroid gland (in the front of the neck) with nu merous metastases (daughter growths) which had scattered out through the body and also had remained "silent." Many people may say, "But why didn't the man feel some pain with his pneumonia, or why didn't he cough, or w h y didn't he have a high fever, or why didn't he have to go to bed?" and the answer is that there is such a thing as a "walkine pneumonia." just as 75 ! years ago there was a common disease called w a l K l n g ty phoid." In 1932, for 10 days I traveled several thousand miles on trains from Mexicao City to New York City, and then to my home in Rochester, Minn., with a patch of pneumonia in my lungs. I was able to keep attend ing medical meetings every day, in spite of a little fever and an occasional spell in which I felt decidedly weak in - the - knees. When I reached home, in spite of the pneumonia, I went right to work seeing patients. The lesson taught me that if one wants to avoid death from cancer one must have a yearly examination with x-ray films made of the lungs and stomach and bowel; also a sigmoidoscop ic examination of the lower end of the large bowel with an electrically lighted tube. $25 to $1500 CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phone: 482-2431, Ashland Life insurance available on all loans at low group rates There are several types of goiter about which readers fre quently ask. To provide help, Dr. Alvarez has prepared a booklet called, "Thyroid Trou bles and Goiters." You may ob tain a copy of it by sending 25 cents and a self - addressed, stamped envelope with your re quest to Dr. Walter C. Alvaerz, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines, Iowa 50304. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Mom decides to hit "the mav earlier thaw, the rest of the family but first she leaves THE KITCHENl SHIPSHAPE-" So SHE'S FIRST UP NEXT MORN), OF COURSE, AND SAID KITCHENl LOOKS LIKE HURRICANE HANKiAH HAD HIT- The Family Council Ldltor's no'e: The Family Council consists or a Judge. phyuMatrist, three clergymen, three edltori and a women's editor. Earh article Is a summary of a family disagreement presented to the Council. Tive Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyright b Oeneral features1 orp.) Mr. B. U. He looks down his nose at my line of work. Gerald U. 1 just have no interest in curlers and hairnets. Mr. B. U. I run a small notions shop on Broadway. When my son was unable to get a job he liked, I took him on as a salesman but I'm losing customers on account of him. He's always chewing gum, guz zling soda pop, or blowing cig arette smoke around while an swering questions, making change, or wrapping packages. And he lets everyone know he's only there "temporarily" to help me out. Help who out? Gerald U. That's no job for me. I'm a clarinetist and as soon as a friend of mine rounds up one more player, I'll be sign ed up for a dance band and go on tour. Surely Dad doesn't ex pect me to go all-out over hair spray, picture hooks, and safe ty pins. I'd go out of my mind there if I didn't have the radio going and my friends dropping in to keep me in touch with the world I belong in. . The Council: How myopic can you get, Gerald? Maybe a few lines here will add up to verbal "spectacles" to correct your vision . . . Many's the stage - struck actor who got his break doing work far removed from a theatre. A talented dia lectician on TV reports that he perfected his art while working in a dry-cleaning shop on the Lower East Side of New York . . . Your best bet is to plunge into your present stint with all your heart, not half of it. Curl ers may be what you start with, but friends may be what you end with. You're making con tacts every day. Why not keep your best foot forward, make a good impression, no matter how unglamouous you feel? Look at things this way: You're filling a real need . . . You're perform ing a useful service . . . You're making an honest living . . . You may not be doing what you like but start liking what you're doing. With common sense, it should get easier and easier. New York City's annual budg et is larger than that of most of the states. Bishop Appeals for Fertile Swan Eggs WELLS, England (UPD-The bishop of Wells issued an ap peal Sunday for fertile swans eggs to bolster his flock of bell- ringing birds. For centuries, a flock of white swans has inhabited the moat around the walled bish op's palace in this historic cathedral town. But the flock, which rings a bell at feeding time, is in dan ger of dying out, Bishop Ed ward Henderson said. "Unfortunately, the palace swans haven't laid any fertile eggs in recent years. I feel re sponsible for the continuation of the tradition so I hope some one will be able to help by sending me some eggs," he said. Former U2 Pilot Bride Plan Visit POUND, Va. (UPO-Francis Gary Powers, the former spy pilot whose high-flying U2 was brought down deep in Russia in 1960, planned to bring his bride of two days to this mountain village today for a visit with his parents. The former Central Intelli gence Agency pilot, who be came a central figure in a ma jor cold war crisis, was mar ried in Catlett, Va., Saturday to Mrs. Claudie Edwards Don ney, 28, who also worked for the CIA. It was the second marriage for both. Their earlier mar riages ended in divorce. Powers' parents did not at tend the ceremony Saturday. His father, Oliver Powers, said they were not invited, but then added: "It was too far for me to drive." "I've met the girl," the elder Powers said. "She's real nice and I'm very glad." Powers was brought down May, 1960, 1,200 miles inside Russia. He was sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison but was released after 20 months in exchange for convicted Russian spy Rudolph Abel. Powers, a test pilot with the Lockheed Aviation Corp. at Bur bank, Calif., is expected to re turn to work next week, accord ing to his father. A 3 Klamath Falls Man Is Electrocuted PINE BLUFF, Wyo. (UPI) - launch base near here. A Morrison - Knudsen company A company spokesman identi employe was electrocuted late fied the victim as Michael E. Saturday while working at the Nolan, 20, of Klamath Falls, construction site of a missile Ore. PIGEON SHADES INDIO, Calif. (UPI) - There was a storm of protests from ruffled bird lovers last week when they learned that city employes were trapping pigeons in cages atop downtown build ings. After they claimed it was cruel to keep the birds penned up where the sun shone direct ly on them, shades were or dered put over the cages. Killer Gives Up To Florence Police FLORENCE, Ore. (UPI) -William Worth, 49, of Olympia, Wash., got in touch with police here Sunday and informed them he had killed his wife. Olympia police went to the family home and found Mirabel Worth, 49, dead with a rifle bul let wound in her chest. She had been shot from a distance of about four feet. Worth told Olympia officers who arrived here that the couple had argued as she was getting ready to go out early Saturday. He said he didn't know where she was going. He waived extradition and was returned to Olympia later in the day. After the shooting, Worth said he got dressed and drove out of Olympia. WATCH! 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