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12 A THURSDAY. DI'XE.MIIKK l. I'M MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Dennis the Menace The Medical Roundup MR. KRIS SAYS: By V ,'i. MrHHl I'.HHISIMON" .BHVaaMfl AIIRIAVIII All 1 c?, "13 l.mrrilus I'nnsiilUiU In Mertirine Mawi i hnjc l; merlins I'rofrssor of Medicine Mm vii ("linir (Hrgiftcr and Tribune Syndicate, I96J). ' '. . .AN' I'll LEAVE A PIATE 0' SAMWWES CW THE KITCHEN 1ABIE, 'CAUSE I CWSKWRtAaSWTW. TRY ACME FIRST... Your LOWEST PRICES BEST QUALITY OPEN TONIGHT Until 9 P.M. Gift Wrapping Widest Selections for all the family QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES n ii II it viiiiiiui SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARES I TENTH AND CENTRAL PHONE 772-5201 DIVERTICULITIS OF THE COLON Hardly a day passes thai somcune doesn't ask me anx iuusly aboul Die treatment (or diverticulitis. A little reading ol the persuns's letter and I lind that what he has is the harm less diverticulitis, which per haps 40 per cent uf us men and women have alter we are 50. Until a lew years ago, no one paid any attention to it. At the Mayo Clinic, where I worked fur 25 years, our X-ray men did not bother to report it, any more than they would bother to re port thai the person had gray hair. 1 have had diverticula (little pea-sized pouches on the side ol my colon) for 40 years; they have never bothered me, and it would never occur to me to change my diet or my way I of living because of them, j Unlortunolely, in recent years ' "diverticulitis" has become a fashionable disease. Hundreds of us physicians started diag nosing it; treating it, and even operating for it. Thank good ness, I can see from my huge pile of mail that the fad is beginning to pass. I wonder what will come next. I can head many people ask ing, "But why should you doc tors always have a 'fashionable disease'.'' " The answer is that sometimes it is much needed lo get a highly neurotic and very lussy woman out of the office quickly, and satisfied. To illus Irale: une .Saturday noon I spenl a whole hour trying to get a young woman who was close to a nervous breakdown lo see thai all her aches and pains, head aches, indigestion, and diarrhea, were due to her inherited frail body and very (ussy and irri table nervous system. Every thing annoyed her and caused her to complain. Twice sur geons had operated, and re moved her appendix and later an ovary, and still her life was one long misery. Most of this was due to her inability to live sensibly. As I talked to the woman, 1 could sec I was not getting any where; 1 was only getting her I angry with me, but 1 kept on trying lo help, because 1 lelt so I sorry tor her nice young Hus band; 1 so wanted to get him lo understand what the basic trouble with her was. Finally, the woman said angrily. "But you say that I haven't any sign of a true colitis, and that all of my trou bles are due to my constant fussing at everything; why, then did my doctor say that I have colitis?" And I said sadly that obviously he had more sense than I did, because with a little stratagem he had gotten her out of his office in a few minutes, pleased and satisfied; I had spent an hour, and all 1 had done was lo earn her dis like and distrust. I hadn't got ten anywhere. Her next doctor might tell her in 10 minutes that she had a 'hiatus hernia" (an other fashionable diagnosis). He could operate for it and make her happy for a few weeks. Dozens of times, my dear friend Dr. H. E. Robertson, the pathologist at the Mayo Clinic, at autopsies would point out lo me the perfectly normal lining of the little pouches, and would marvel that Ihcy practically never became inflamed. In his enormous experience there was practically no such disease as diverticulitis ("itis" meaning in flammation). Very rarely would he find one pouch that had perforated, and caused an acute and dangerous peritonitis. Pa tients with the peritonitis often had lo be operated on. Dr. Robertson never found any evi dence to indicate that cancer starts in one of the little pouches on the colon. Dr. Alvarez discusses sonic of the causes of shortness of breath and suggests some help ful ideas in his booklet. "Pul monary Emphysema." To ob tain your copy send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request (or the booklet lo Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box 057, Des Moines, Iowa 50:104. Subscribers To report improper nr non delivery ol the Mail Tribune In Metilord. phone i;2-bL4l; Ajh Innrl call at 4 IB Hnrice l , or phone 482-(102; Yreka. phone ' Vtrtory 2-2RH8 before 6:4 p.m. I daily und 1 0:.in a m. Stmd.tv. If regular dehverv iri'iven i ihortl.f utter you cnM please ' notify office, thua eliminating apecial meuenger service rj5hf&':' a. i 1 r':'(rfJ&y7Vlm! es SJNIA IN PERSON! ra3 llcfm , ,:, . I JEEP PUMPER JEEP SURREY rccj. 3.98 3.44 rcg. 3 50 2.88 r3 TON K A CAMPER NSS IJEP recj. 4.V8 4.44 ""fc. 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