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MKDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MUDFORD, OREGON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1963 The Medical Roundup Emerltui Consultant in Medicine 7 Emerihii ProlM.or of Medicine (Reenter and Tribune Syndicate. 1963). ' SEVERE PAIN IN FACE Because I get so many letters from people asking what they can do for a severe pain in the face, I was much interested in an article on such pain by N. P. Goldstein, M. D., J. A. Gibi lisco, D.D.S., and J. G. Rush ton, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic. These doctors classified 61 pa tients under two diagnoses; one, neuropathy, and the other, neuritis. They used the terms trigeminal neuropathy and neur itis because pain in the face is felt .through the fifth, or trigem inal, nerve. It is called trigem inal becuase on each side of the face, it has three branches: one, that comes out just above the orbit of the eye, one just below the orbit of the eye, and the other near the chin. By neuropathy, the doctors mean a condition in which there is more or less prolonged dis order of sensation, such as a steady pain or ache. It may be confined to one side or is may be on both sides. Neuritis is a form of neuropathy in which there is probably an inflamma tory reaction in the nerve. Commonly, the word used is neuralgia (pain in a nerve). The syndrome (group of symptoms) of trigeminal neur algia is characterized by brief attacks of a sharp, knife-like or needle-like pain. Often the pa tient says she feels as if a hot or electrified needle were be ing driven into her face every minute or so. In contrast with these brief paroxysmal attacks of severe stabbing pain, the pain of neuropathy is more like an ache or a burning, boring, pulling, drawing, or even at times a feeling of pressure. This may remain for hours or days or weeks. Causes, Treatments Different It is important to differentiate neuropathy from neuralgia, be cause, the causes are different, and the treatments are differ ent. The usual treatment for trigeminal r.euralgia is an in jection of alcohol into the nerve, or some operation on the gan glion (nodule at the root of the nerve up under the base of the brain). The treatment for the neuro pathy varies with the causes of the. disorder. Some of these causes are fairly minor, while others are very serious. The doctors separated their 61 pa tients into six groups, each one with distress based on a pre sumed cause. In 21 cases the trouble had followed dental sur gery: in eight cases the cause appeared to be the pressure of a denture (plate) on a nerve; in eight the cause seemed to be an injury to a nerve sustain ed during a surgical operation not on the teeth; in seven cases, the person's facial misery fol lowed the taking of a drug call ed hydroxystilbamidine (used in some places but not at the Mayo Cllnci to treat trigeminal neur algia); in 10 cases there were a number of different causes; and in seven cases the cause was unknown. Among the 21 patients who had trouble after a dental proce dure, in 17, the pain followed the removal of a tooth, and in four more it was due to injury to a nerve when it was punctur ed with a hypodermic needle (as the dentist was injecting procaine). Twelve of these patients had distress only in the region of the lower jaw on one side. In nine cases in this dental group, the pain followed removal of an im pacted third molar from the lower jaw. It is a wonder that during the oi -ration,- injury to the nerve does not happen more often because so commonly the roots of the third molar appear j to have grown into the canal through which passes the lowest . branch of the fifth nerve. In many of these cases there was pain, but in some there were iust tineline, crawling sensa tions, or pins and needles. Grinding Worked Cure Among the eight patients In whom the distress was due to pressure of a denture on a branch of the nerve, there were four who experienced pain. In some, the diagnosis was easy because, o.i removing t'.ie den ture, the pain disappeared. In these cases, grinding off some of the denture worked a cure. Among the persons whose fifth nerve had been lacerated, one man had had his face badly torn in an automobile accident; another man had been kicked in the face during a football game; one woman had been hit In the right eye and forehead, and another woman had been struck on the upper lip. In seven of these eight patients, the dis tress was constant. The patients who were suffer ing the unfortunate effects of stilLamidine tended to suffer also from distress in the neck, and the upper half of the body. They had a distressing numb ness Of the invnlvoH rairinnc. with a wooden or dead feeling; aiso sensations ot crawling, tin gling.' huminrr chnnttner electric - stimuli. These symp toms tended to last for months or years. Nn nnro ic oc i.nt known for this drug - induced misery. I have seen cases in which a Dain in the far urns nf nevnh,. origin. One woman was mental ly oisiurDea; another got her Dain when a fnrmor hoan ith gre t cruelty, flung an insulting oiusauun in ner lace. Head noises mn ho annnuinn and upsetting. Dr. Alvarez tells you what to do about them in his booklet, "Head Noises and Dizziness." To obtain your copy send 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your reauest to Dr Walter r ai varez. Dept. MMT, Box' 957, ues moines, lowa 50304. Goldwaler Brass Claims 500 Votes WASHINGTON MTPT1' nl- O'Donnell, chief of the National Draft - finlriwalpr estimated Saturday that Sen! carry ooiowater already could count on the support of 500 del egates fn thp 'QRi Ramiklinnn National Convention. A total of 655 is needed to win the GOP, presidential nomina tion. O'Donnpll Tpvac Pan,,ki;..n chairman and chairman of the National Draft - Goldwater com mittee. nrpsiHpH Saint-Haw closed session attended by rep resentatives oi uie Dratt-Uold-water movement in an statoo The meeting was called tn dis cuss campaign organization and nnancing. There was disagreement among those Dresent. O'Dnnnpll reported, about whether the anzona senator snould wait un til January, as he plans to do, before announcing whether he is a candidate. But they recog nized, tne cnairman said, that Goldwater must fix his own timetable. "Our objective is to convince him that he has sufficient sup port to win the nomination and election," O'Donnell said. 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W orld njnU Tri-County Meeting Slated by Society A special tri-county meeting for volunteers from Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath County American Cancer Society Units will be held at the Rogue Valley Country Club Tuesday, Nov. 19. A no-host luncheon will be at noon followed by the Jackson County Executive Board meet ing with Dr. Abner Clark, presi dent presiding, at which time summary will be given by com mittee chairmen of the Cancer Control Program being carried out in the county. R. D. Ford, county crusade chairman, will moderate the panel for the Crusade workshop at 1:15 p.m. with Ed Bergstrom, Assistant Crusade Director from the National Society in New York as the guest speaker. Others participating will be Mrs. Wilber J. Falloon, execu tive director for Oregon, Frank Mangelsdorf, Crusade director, and Bus Leonard, field repre sentative for Oregon. It will be an open meeting for anyone interested in learning more about the three-fold pro gram of research, education, and service which is being car ried out by more than 3,000 units in the United States. Res ervations may be made by tele phoning the Medford office, 773- 5856. 0? Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (f Mtr tmi TrikuM) Sytulkatt PAPERS STRUCK TOLEDO, Ohio (UPI) The American Newspaper Guild lo cal went on strike Saturday at the Blade Publishing Co., pub lishers of the afternoon and Sunday Toledo Blade and the morning Toledo Times. Panthers on Loose "n San Fernando SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (UPI) A search for two black panthers reported running loose in the brush-covered Stone Can yon area near this San Fernan do Valley community was ex pected to be resumed early to-dav. The hunt was called off at nightfall Sunday with no sign of tne Deasts. ronce ana city ani mal regulation officers had looked all day through the brush for the panthers after excited telephone calls from residents of the heavily populated area. Here's One Sport With A Future Not So Ducky There is mystery and excite ment in the arrival or departure of the far-flying wildfowl. Wild ducks or geese, high overhead in the darkness of night or in the mist of a foggy dawn, bring a tingle of excitement to the most staid of earthbound hu mans, whether the watcher hides in a blind with a gun or listens to the wild cry in the comfort of his own fireside. From out of the mists of morning, the flocks come hur tling in to land with a skidding splash in the cold water of the quiet pond or salt marsh. Once water-bound they shake their respective tails and gabble nois ily with one another. Thousands of generations of ducks have preceded them; all have fol lowed the same, unmarked path through the sky over the estab lished flyways. No one who has had any ex perience with wild ducks can deny the fact that these birds display something very near in telligence or reasoning. Ducks, both wild and tame, do many things for which there is no ready explanation. The hunters who feel the warm glow of excitement at the prospect of duck hunting are legion. Come late fall thousands undergo cold, frosty mornings, icy water, and the discomforts of early rising to spend the day in a swamp or duck blind. A great many of these folks are content, when the day is done, to return home with empty game bags, because they have enjoyed the sights and sounds that are present when the ducks are flying. They have enjoyed the thrill of seeing hurtling forms through the eerie mists of early morning Morse Threatens to Block Senate Approval Of Report A 5 By YVONNE FRANKLIN Alall Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON (Special) -Sen. Wayne Morse has threat ened to block Senate approval of the conference report on the $1.2 billion college classroom construction bill until House conferees agree to come to terms of the Vocational Educa tion bill. Administration sources say there are enough Senate votes to pass the bill if only Morse would agree to allow it to come up for a vote. The House passed the final bill last week and it needs Senate approval to go to the White House. The Senate is currently tied up on the foreign aid bill. However a conference report is "privileged" and can be brought up at any time dur ing the debate. Morse is chariman of the Senate-House conference on the Vo cational Education Bill, but af ter serving his ultimatum last admit, reluctantly, that the time has just about arrived when something must be done if this great sport is to be preserved. There are, of course, many agencies controlling the number of wildfowl that will wing over the shooting grounds this year or next. Some of these prob lems seem uncontrollable. One is the extensive and wholesale draining of the wetlands. Lakes, ponds, creeks, swamps and marshes are being filled in at an alarming rate. Many of us seem to think that a marsh or pond is a disgraceful thing. Some of our informed citizens seem to think these areas are breeding grounds for snakes, or act as wet places where mos quitoes can lay their eggs. Ponds and lakes are filled in by real estate developments, hot dog stands, oil stations or billboards. wild ducks cannot land on a pavement; they cannot feed in a parking lot. They must have water. When ponds lakes become nonexistent, the ducks naturally congregate in greater numbers on available waters. By their very numbers they foul the water expecially in shallow lakes, and fall prey to disease and sickness. At times thousands of birds die from this pollution. "Duck disease" someone call ed this sickness ... a direct re sult of accelerated bacterial growth from decaying animal matter. Over areas where ex tensive shooting has occurr-i, many birds will die from swal lowing quantities of lead pellets the shooters have fired after flying birds. Regardless of how optimistic the yearly reports happen to be, the honest sportsman must ad mit that all is not "loo ducky" Inter-American Plan Approved SAO PAULO, Brazil (UPD A U.S.-backed plan for the cre ation of an inter-American com mission headed by a Latin American to coordinate the Al liance for Progress aid pro gram had the approval Thurs day of five nations at the Inter American Economic and Social Conference. At least two expressed quali fied approval while two others were opposed. Delegation chief Averell Har riman told the delegates Wednesday that the United States "supports enthusiastical ly" the creation of such a com mission to "Latinize" the aid program and make it more ef fective. Most serious duck hunters as to the future of this sport. Election Costs To Be Reimbursed The Jackson County Court Friday signed an order direct ing that the county elections de partment be reimbursed SB,- 366.22 for cost of the special election held in October. I County Clerk Marvin Madden said the county will be reim- nnrt btu id by the state since money for the tax referendum election was voted by the state legisla ture earlier this year. A copy of an itemized state ment sent to Jack F. Thompson, Salem, director of elections, was sent to the County Court last week by the county clerk. This was to explain the reason for the present status of the elec tions department fund for pay ment of personnel. In an earlier statement County Judge Earl M. Miller noted the department had overdrawn $202.88 for personnel. FACES UPSURGE PORTLAND (UPI)-The Met- ropolit Youth Commission has been warned that the Portland area faces an upsurge of juve nile gang activity with racial undertones. week he postponed another con ference meeting until next week. A Major Breakthrough The Vocational Education Bill is a major breakthrough to up date such education to prepare young people for the changing job market in business and in dustry, looking toward new methods of training to meet the challenge of automation. Since its inception in 1917 the program has been geared to an agrarian culture and the federal-state funds have been spent primarily for education in agri culture and home economics. Both versions of the bill allow for a shift to meet the change to an urban society, yet allows for continued study in agricul tural subjects, broadening the base to Include food processing and occupations related to agri culture. It is estimated that only 10 per cent of youth now on farms will make their living in agriculture in the future. Morse and his committee chairman, Lister Hill of Ala bama, are in conflict with Rep. Edith Green and other House conferees from urban areas, ov er the method of allocation of funds. The House bill contains a new formula, allocating money based on the student population in the States. Contains Allocation The Senate bill contains the traditional allocation of money based on the per capita income formula, which has been used in all previous education bills and which favors the poorer Southern States. For instance, the Senate bill would give Alabama $2,369,000, the House version $500,000 less. Mrs. Green contends that Ore gon would lose money using the benate tormula, as would west ern and northern states with heavy urban growth. Oregon would receive $868,318 under the House formula, $845,300 under the Senate, or $23,016 less using the Ssenate method. The House bill calls for spend ing $450 million per year for four years and $180 million a year thereafter, and the Senate would spend $702 million per year for four years and $243 mil lion a year thereafter The House conferees maintain that the Southern States such as Alabama are losing popula tion to the west and the largi urban centers of the North due to the migration of poorly edu cated and unskilled Negro and1 white rural people. They say this Is a major cause of school troubles in these large cities, such as Chicago which has over 50 per cent Ne gro enrollment, and Washington D.C., whose Negro enrollment in the last decade has risen from 33 per cent to 85 per cent. Mounting Discontent They say that the overcrowd- ced northern schools with para lleling rising joblessness for voung people and the popula tion explosion Itself are causing mounting discontent nationwide in the cititcs. Mrs. Green pointed to Negro discontent in Portland over al leged inferior schools and rising juvenile delinquency as exam ples of accelerating frustrations in the big cities over unsolved problems, many of them center ed in the schools. She said her position on changing the formu la was based on this growing need of the cities. Morse's refusal to meet with House conferees until the bitter end of Congress last year con tributed to the defeat of the 1962 higher education bill according to other conference spokesmen. This could jeopardize the fate of this year s bill if the lack of agreement over the Vocational Education Bill drags into the holiday season. 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