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PAGE TWO Fight On Undulant Fever Shows Gains Many New Methods of Treatment Introduced During Past Year, Dr. Clendening Reports EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the second of a series of four articles by Dr. Clendening on the advances made by medical science during 1935. By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. DURING THE past year a great deal of progress has been made in combating the disease of undulant fever. Perhaps the man in the street has no idea of the seriousness of this situation in North America. When a member of the family is stricken, he begins to wonder about the nature of this malady, of which he has been totally ignorant. Every once in a while an epidemic strikes a small community, and then they learn that this has happened often during the last 15 years in our country. The infection was described a good many years ago when an epi demic started on the island of Malta. Goat’s milk is thei’e the reg ular brand and the goats were in fected with this germ. It got into their milk and when humans drank it, they were liable to come down with the fever. It was a slow, low', prolonged fever. It had its active periods, for weeks the patient run ning a temperature, then was nor mal for weeks, and then shot up again. It went on sometimes for a year or more. Seemed Far Away It all seemed very far away to us j —goats and Malta. And then it was I found that North American herds of cattle were infected. And human cases cropped up. They increased until now there is never a time when it is not present in our population. I get letters at least twice a week asking for information about undu lant fever. It is difficult to know how it gets into a herd. And it spreads rapidly. Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. Many studies in the last 15 years have made the diagnosis easy. Bac teriological studies have been most complete. Obviously, the only thing the dairyman can do when the disease is discovered in his herd is to isolate the infected animals and stop milk ing them. It is a very serious eco nomic loss, and, naturally, he would like a method of protecting them. During the last year, perhaps the greatest advance has been in the announcement that calves can be vaccinated against the disease, and that renders them free for life. This, it must be plain, is a tremendous advance in prevention. In the treatment of an established case in a human being, many new Judge Returned Him to Family Frank Rczwillis is pictured at home in New York City with his 8-year-old daughter, Teresa. Seventeen years ago he broke out of jail. Arrested a short time ago for it, he went to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to serve sentence. Judge suspended sentence, paroled him. Leans to Fascism Wm'' Under Hungary’s new foreign min, ister, Count Gzaky (above), the na tion is increasingly leaning toward fascism, as indicated by sweeping anti-Semitic measures approved by the government. (Central Press) methods have boon introduced. At first vaccines using the killed germ were employed, with varying suc cess. An improved form of vaccine is a liver broth filtrate of a culture of the germ, given hypodermically into the muscle. The preparation is known as Brucellin. Several other vaccine-like prod ucts have been used, one of them made from goat serum and another from horse serum. Besides that, the new' drug, sul fanilimide, has been brought into use with most encouraging results. Also, there is the now familiar form of treatment of all chronic in fections —the heat treatment—in ducing an artificial temperature of 105 or 106 and keeping it up for an hour or more. This seems to produce a bodily environment which is un comfortable to the germ of undulant fever. May Be Routed With aR ndvarces it seems fair to ...at this contagion, which really has produced a most serious condition in America, may bid fair to be routed or at least kept within limits. The comparative promptness w’ith which this result has been achieved is a triumph for modc-n methods of dealing with epidemics. A hundred years ago all the doctors could have done would have been to sit by and try to stem the tide by palliative measures—all the time working in the dark as to what the nature of the condition was. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS L. S.: “Please publish a list of foods containing iron.” Answer—Beef, egg yolk, oatmeal, wholewheat bread, beans, peas, spin ach, prunes, almonds, peanuts, wal nuts. L. T. P.: “Please tell me some thing about a rash called urticaria. It is classed by the doctors with hayfever and asthma. Answer: Urticaria is commonly called hives. It is due to sensitiza tion usually by foods, but can be caused by cosmetics or anything that touches the skin. Treatment is by eliminating the offending sub stance and by catharsis. It is classi fied with asthma and hayfever as an allergic disease, or disease of hypersensitiveness. EDITOR’S NOTE: Seven pamphlets by Dr. Clendening can now be obtained by sending 10 cents in coin, for each, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clenden ing, in care of this paper. The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks' Reducing Diet”, “In digestion and Constipation”, “Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feeding”, "In structions for the Treatment‘of Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and “The Care of the Hair and Skin.” Palestine Pioneer Joseph Baratz, pioneer Palestine colony bailder (above), will attend, the National Conference for Pal estine, in Washington. D. C. Baratz, who founded Dagaala, oldest co operative colony in Palestine, be lieves tens of thousands of refugees could bo settled in the Holy Land. HENDERSON, (N. 0.) DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28, 1938 1938's Milestones In Medical Science Reviewing Year, Clendening Hails New Microscope as Great Aid to Fight Against Disease EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the first of a series of four articles by Dr. Clendening on the advances made in medical science dur ing 1938. By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. AS WE go into a new year we pause to take stock, and in science, as in business, we try to find out how much farther along we are this year than last. In looking over the year’s prog ress in medical science, I have the advantage of the Year Books, pub lished annually at this time, which gather together all the significant advances in medicine, surgery, ob stetrics and the basic sciences. There are 12 of these (including one on dentistry), each of about 800 pages, so it is plain that I cannot hope to recount all the advances in the space at my disposal. Anyway, most of them are so technical and of such minor technical importance that it would be impossible to make them understandable to a lay audi ence. So I will recount only a few of the more important triumphs. We have been startled in the last six months of this year by the in vention of a new microscope. This puts all previous ones in the shade. Our present ones seemed pretty good, but their magnification is only 6,000 times, while this new micro scope magnifies 20,000 times. On New Principle At the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, President Milliken showed me last year the enormous lens they were grinding for what is to be the world’s largest telescope. I asked him how much better it will be than the largest now existing, and he replied, “It will penetrate 27,000 times further into space than the telescope on the Mount Wilson observatory”. Such an instrument is our new mi croscope. It was designed by three Germans, Doctors von Borries, E. Ruska and H. Ruska. It is con structed on an entirely new prin ciple in microscopy. Our present in struments magnify an object which is illuminated by sunlight or its equivalent. In the ultra-microscope, the object is illuminated by elec trons passing over a magnetic field. As they do so they are deflected by a body, such as a germ, and delineate it clearly. What It Can Do As to what can be seen with it, the most exciting thing is that it is able to see the organisms which cause such diseases as the common cold and infantile paralysis. These | Sides with Soviet * . :• •• •• • ***** ’ ‘ An inveterate foe of the Bolshevist regime and leader of the White armies which fought the revolu-i tion, Gen. Anton Denikin (above) ' tonguelashed a Paris audience of Russian exiles for plans to side with Germany. “White or red, our father land remains our fatherland,” he cried, and intimated he would fight under the red flag in event of war with Germany or Japan. (Central Press) To Be Passed Over? Aubrey Williams (above), deputy WPA administrator, will not suc ceed Harry L. Hopkins as WPA ad ministrator if Hopkins is chosen secretary of commerce, according to Washington minors. It was said he wpuld devote his full time to duties of director of the National Youth Administration, and that Colonel F. C. Harrington, chief engineer of the WPA, would succeed Hopkins. (Central Press) have been so small as not to be visi ble with an ordinary microscope at all, and even pass through fine por celain filters. In fact, many bacteri ologists working with them did not believe that they had any structural entity at all and called them viruses —the filterable viruses. Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. 1 do not mean to say that the germ of the common cold or of in fantile paralysis has yet been seen with this ultra-microscope, but sim ilar bodies have, including the virus of smallpox vaccine, and we may feel certain that others will be in the near future. Germs that look like mere specks under an ordinary microscope are seen at gigantic magnifications so that their internal structures are visible. The instrument will probably not replace our present microscopes for average routine work, but will re main for some time an instrument of research. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Miss B.: “Please explain the ef fect of X-ray on acne. Do you think it is advisable for a stubborn case which does not respond to diet or lotions? Is there any other treat ment?” Answer: Roentgen ray treatment of acne is valuable at times, but re quires experience and great caution. L. S.: “Please publish again the diet for colitis.” Answer: Beverages: buttermilk, weak tea or coffee, fruit juices, milk. Soups: strained, pureed or cream soups of any kind. Bread: toasted only. Eggs: any form except raw. Fats: butter, cream, oleomargarine, olive oil. Cereals: any kind. Vege tables: cooked asparagus, beans, carrots, spinach, peas, squash, sweet and white potatoes. Meats: broiled steak, roast beef, lamb, mutton or chicken (no fried meats). Fish: any kind, broiled, baked or boiled. Cheese: cottage and cream cheese. EDITOR’S NOTE: Seven pamphlets by Dr. Clendening can now be obtained by sending 10 cents in coin, for each, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clenden ing, in care of this paper. The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reducing Diet”, “In digestion and Constipation”, "Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feeding”, “In structions for the Treatment of Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and “The. Care of the Hair and Skin.” Baby Solon Jg£g|gl J|&|i Lindley G. Beckworth, 25-year-old ( Texan, is shown in Washington preparing for the January opening of Congress, in which he will be the youngest House member in, recent years. A former school teacher, he defeated Morgan G. Sanders, a House veteran of 18 years. Killed in Crash ** ' . " 1M .v.,y ; .,.,v ; .. ;X , ;;^ Ijto 4fp» ' tenant G ?i e thi liS (above >- 2nd liau ' Fh-st ft.?* £ rmy air cor P s » and Downer wei S * suit re , * ed when their pur miig in fl ames three miles outside Norfolk, Va. Called Un-Americatt Cancellation of the naturalization certificate of Herman Max Schwinn (above). West Coast director of the German-American Bund, is asked in a complaint filed in Los Angeles Federal Court. The American Le gion charges Schwinn with “pri mary loyalty” to his native Ger many. (Central Frees) Short Story London stylists predict it won’t be long till all England’s Beau Brum mels will be wearing the new short coat introduced by Cyril Mills (above). He was pictured at a re cent public ceremony. (Central Press) In McKesson Probe John O. Jenkins is shown leaving the State Building, New York City, after questioning in the probe of the McKesson & Robbins drug firm. A brother-in-law of F. Donald Cos ter, head of the company, Jenkins was asked about accounts in the name of “John J. Jenkins” as au thorities tried to trace $18,000,000 in vanished assets. (Central Press) "Coster’s” Widow Here is a new portrait of Mrs. “F. Donald Coster,” former Carrie Jen kins Hubbard, whose husband killed himself in Fairfield, Conn., after be ing unmasked as Philip Musica, of the notorious Musica family. King Gustav Honors Mrs. Buck King Gustav of Sweden is shown as he presented the 1938 Nobel prize for literature to Mrs. Pearl Buck, American writer, at Stockholm. She received a certificate bound in leather, a medal and check for $37,975. U. S. Bride for Clemenceau Pierre Clemenceau of Paris, grandson of Georges (The Tiger) Clemen ceau, wartime premier of France, is shown with his American bride, the former Jane Louise Grunewald of New Orleans, La. They were married at the bride’s home. They will honeymoon in France. (Central Press) Two Fortunes Are Merged o Henry J. (Bob) Topping. $10,000,000 tin-plate heir, and his bride, Gloria Bpker, last year’s No. 1 glamor girl, and heiress to another large fortune, aye shown after their wedding at Palm Beach, Fla. Topping was divorced week before ceremony from first wife, the former Jayne Shadduck. Senator-Elect Meets the Boss mmmm mmmm ~ — : I Jjjjjjr' ! Senator-elect James Mead, of New York (left), and Vice President John „^ C ? G w rne u’ W ?° is also the Presiding officer of the Senate, talk things r, n Washington, as Congress opening nears. Mead was a member of the House before election to the upper chamber.
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