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.
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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.
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