Friday, July 23. 1971
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Page Five
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Buds
AND
Blossoms
By
MAMIE MILLER
“Now therefore keep thy
sorrow to thyself, and bear with
a good courage that which hath
befallen thee.”
^^'hen you visit beach areas
this summer, take a closer look
at the seat oats, or southern
dune-grass growing there.
Examine the gracefully arched
panicles of numerous large
spikelets.
The sea oat has ac^cepted the ‘
stem challenge of life by the
sea, and exhibits remarkable
fortitude against the salt spray
cast upon it by ocean breezes.
You’ll find sea oats along the
coast from Florida to Texas,
and they range as far north as
southeastern Virginia. There’s
an inland sea oat too, that grows
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along stream banks in the
Piedmont section of our state.
The scientific name for sea
oats in Uniola paniculata, but
you don’t have to know that to
appreciate the lovely dried
arrangements you can fashion
from these plants. Cut the stems
soon after the panicles are fully
expanded.
Although there are prettier
trees in more protected spots,
the weather beaten trees near
beaches are intriguing. You
have to admire the way they
have stood up to hurricanes for
many years.
Silent sentinels, battered by
vicious winds, they can teach us
the meaning of courage. Maybe,
when we’re despondent, we
should seek them.
This week’s Buds and
Blossoms poem, by John
Masefield, is titled “Sea
Fever.”
I must down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and
a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the
wind’s song and the white
sail’s shaking.
And a gray mist on the sea’s
face and a gray dawn
breaking.
I must down to the seas again,
for the call of the nmning
tide
Is a wild call and a clear call
that may not be denied; '
And all I ask is a windy day with
the white clouds Hying,
And the flung spray and the
blown spume, and the
seagulls crying.
I must down to the seas again to
the vagrant gypsy life.
To the gull’s way and the
whale’s way where the
winds like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a meery yam
from a laughing fellow-
rover.
And quiet sleep and a sweet
dream when the long trick’s
over.
Brain Waves
Popularly known as the
"brain wave machine,” the
electroencephalograph is a mys
tifying piece of apparatus to
most people with its strange-
looking wires attached to a
person's skull and running to a
coniplex machine where jig
gling pens scribble mysterious,
wavy lines across a vast ex
panse of seemingly, unending,
rolling paper.
‘‘Let’s do an EEG", a phy
sician or scientist will say on
TV; and then we see the ma
chine, its use with the patient,
and the grave heads of the med
ical team huddling over the
rolling paper, nodding or shak
ing as they examine the trac
ings.
The rolling paper is the rec
ord, or electroencephalogram,
from the electroencephalograph,
or machine, and is used in re
search studies and in diagnosis.
Actually, in a sense, the
“brain wave machine” is not
terribly complex. It merely is
an instrument for recording
graphically the electrical ac
tivity of the brain.' This elec
trical activity fluctuates or
changes, making up and down
patterns, hence the “waves” on
the paper record, which come
via wires usually attached by
easily removable means to a
person’s skull and, despite their
grim look, not damaging or
painful.
As an American Psychiatric
Association deflnition says, the
EEG is a graphic recording
of minute electrical impulses
arising from the activity of cells
in the bruin. It is used in neu
rologic and psychiatric diagno
sis and research."
The instrument and its re
cording arc remindful of the
electrocardiograph, or ECG,
which is another machine for
recording electrical activity—
this time of the heart. The
ECG, with electrodes (end con
nections of the wires from the
machine) attached to the chest,
writes down tracings that de
pict the electrical impulses of
the heart.
The electrocardiograph has
been in use for many, many
years and is valuable both to
the research scientist and the
physician looking for heart
disease. It is a useful diagnos
tic tool, but it does not diagnose
heart disease in all of the people
on whom it is used.
Somewhat the same thing
may be said of the EEG. The
electroencephalograph is useful
in studying mental illness.
Brain wave patterns brain's
electrical activities are helpful
to the neurologist looking for
organic damage or to the psy
chiatrist seeking for subtle
manifestations of mental illness;
and the instrument is growing
in usefulness both to research
and diagnosis.
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