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Scarlet Fever Also
Often Overlooked
Bp LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
I SPOKE yesterday of the cases
§t whooping cough which are over
looked in adults. In discussing this
■latter with a health offioer of a
large city, I was made aware of the
fact that we also have a fairly wide
spread epidemic of scarlet fever and
here, too, it is quite possible that
especially in adults the disease may
be overlooked and a contagious
carrier allowed to go abroad spread
ing the disease.
I remember a fellow medical of
ficer of mine, during the World War,
was commanded by the surgeon
general’s office to go up to a small
encampment where it was reported
they had an epidemic of sore throat.
When he arrived there, the doctor in
charge of the camp said that he had
■ very peculiar condition which he
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
thought was due to r. .He had a
great many cases of sore throat with
a reddish eruption on the body. As
soon as my friend had seen a few of
the cases he took the doctor aside
and said, “Doctor, you have an epi
demic pf scarlet fever.”
Has Been Rare
Scarlet fever has been so rare
within the last ten years that a great
many people have grown to maturity
without being exposed to it. This
does not mean, however, that they
■re immune. Quite on the contrary,
they are as liable to get it as a small
child who has never been exposed.
They may catch the disease in a mild
form and feel well enough to walk
around, and by this means they in
dubitably will infect a certain num
ber of the people they meet.
The streptococcic milk-borne sore
throat does, indeed, look a great deal
like scarlet fever. Adults for some
reason are more likely to get strep- j
tococcic sore throat than children.
In an epidemic reported in lowa last
year there were 135 adults affected
and 60 children. The symptoms oc
cur about three days following the
drinking of milk or c * 3am contain
ing an infecting streptococcus. The
onset, particularly in adults, is sud
den. There is diarrhea, vomiting,
chills and backache of short dura
tion. These last about one day. The
sore throat is more extreme than
scarlet fever and in adults swallow
ing is almost impossible. Saliva ar.d
other secretions drool from the
corners of the mouth. About four
days after the initial symptoms
there is ■ rash all over the body;
House Stands
By Devotion
To Local Unit
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Human,
RY HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 25.—1 n a legislative
body with 113 Democrats and a scant
seven Republicans, it would be ex
pecting the impossible to look for the
minority to win any scrap involving
a uestion of party principle; and so
Friday’s action of the North Caro
lina House in voting 70 to 20 to • us
tain the plea of Madison Republican
J. M. Ealey, Jr., in killing a local
measure aimed at his county by Jack
son Democrat Dan Tompkins cannot
by any stretch of imagination be
termed a Republican victory.
As a matter of fact it proved two
things: First. Democrats of the House
are still devoted to the principle of
local self-government, anti, second,
that they still'cling to the traditional
principle that every member should
be allowed his own way in bundling
the purely local affairs ol' the county
he represents.
Here’s what happened. Baley in
*. troduced a local meat setting up
a health unit tor Madi: .ounty. He
* followed the usual lon. for such a
unit, a form approved and endorsed
4 by the State Board of Health and
. . under which every county that has a
* health unit operates.
When the bill went to committee
Tompkins saw that the bill gave Re
* publicans control of the health unit
* just as they have control of the
county by reason of their heavy ma
jority there. He conceived the bright
* idea of changing the bill so as to leg
* islate into office a health board con
** trolled by Democrats—the modus
..operandi being the name the county
welfare superintendent and the coun
~>ty school superintendent, both Dem
ocrats who have already been s;;cl
dletf on Republican Madison by the
Democratic legislature.
The committee took a partisan
view of the matter and reported the
_ Tompkins substitute favorably the
Baley original unfavorably. When
* the bill got to the floor Friday, the
made an eloquent and
Lpowerful appeal to the House to kill
the substitute. Dyed-in-the - wool
Democrats like Pete Murphy and
Pitt’s J. S. Moore aided him.
A roll call vote showed only 2(5
legislators willing to vote to deny
Madison’s right to be Republican if
,it wants to.
FDR Angers Women
Group by Meddling
’J (Continued From Page One)
i about all it could stand from Uncle
"Samuel when he evicted them from
the quarters it used to occupy just
*east of the park in front ol' the Cap
-itol Building.
This historic old edifice had plenty
■"of first class associations. Congress
')met in it for a while after the Brit
ish burned its regular assembly halls.
Later, it was a federal prison during
War days. Major Wirz, who
reddish, more intense on the back
and the abdomen, gradually cover
ing, in most cases, the entire skin.
Much Like It
Scarlet fever is so much like thia
that it is quite impossible to differ
entiate the conditions by appearance
alone. Scarlet fever starts sudden
ly, usually with vomiting, followed
by a sore throat and a general rasa
over the body.
The special way to differentiate,
which should be required in all sus
picious cases nowadays, is what is
called the Dick test. This consists
of injecting a minute amount of
scarlet fever toxine into the skin. If
the red skin blanches around the
area of injection, it can be said
quite definitely that it is scarlet
fever.
Treatment and, especially, quar
antine in the two conditions are
quite different. A patient with scar
let fever should properly be quaran
tined for six weeks because the con
tagion is liable to be spread for that
period of time. In no other disease,
except mumps, is so long a period of
quarantine required. In streptococ
cic sore throat no quarantine what
ever is r
In tile .eiit for scarlet fever
convalescent serum—in other words,
blood serum from a patient who has
recently recovered from scarlet
fever—is probably our best treat
ment. In streptococcic sore throat
the use of the new drug, sulfanila
mide, is advocated.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Reader: “What causes partial
blindness where there is a zig-zag
bright line before the eyes on on®
side and you can see only part of an
object? These spells last about
thirty minutes and are followed by
a severe headache and a feeling of
exhaustion.”
Answer—You are describing very
accurately an attack of migraine,
or sick headache.
Reader: “When testing urine, can
you tell if there is tuberculosis in
the lungs?”
Answer—Not so far as I know.
There are so many good ways to
test for tuberculosis of the lungs
that I do not see why this should be
employed.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Seven pamphlets by
Dr. Clendening can now be obtained fay
sending 1U 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 oamphlets
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.”
had been Confederate commandant
at Andersonville, subsequently was
hanged in its dooryard. It was a place
the Woman’s Party was extremely
proud of.
But the government wanted the
ground that the structure stood on
as part of its rite for the present U.
S. Supreme Court Building. Conse
quently, it surrepiiucu-iy bought up
that piece of real estate and notified
the Woman’s Party to move out, as
the roof was to be yanked off right
over its head.
The deal was legislatively sneaked
Ihrough so cleverly that the Woman’s
Party hadn’t any option. It had to
move, and it did move a few blocks
away into another historic old
domicile.
Then, a year or two afterward,
more trouble developed. J. R. Mc-
Carl, at that time U. S. comptroller
general, took a fancy to that newer
location, as a stance for the general
accounting office, which would have
meant another Woman’s Party trans
fer. Only, McCarl wasn’t secretive
enough. The party got an advance tip
that a. fresh plot was afoot to oust it.
A Woman’s Party delegation called
on the .Senate and House Commit-
on Public Buildings and Grounds
said these delegates, in effect, to
the committeemen, “you fellows
make us move again, heaven help
you on next election day.”
And did those legislators hunt their
holes!
Well, the general accounting office
hasn’t transfei -ad.
A Rclligc nt Organization.
I mean to : ,iy that the Woman’s
Party is a belligerent organization.
Some feminist set-ups demand
easy hours and other concessions in
lavor of women. The Woman’s Party
contends that this is all bunk.
Now, Mrs. Roosevelt avowedly
supports a program of feministic
protection. Hence the Woman's Partv
lights her.
I he President, according to Wom
an Party publicity, supports Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Which Is Which?
lo get buck to the original discus
cron:
Ihe Pan-American Union (a semi
ollicial hook-up of the 21 new world
lopuoTies) includes what’s known as
tae Inter-American Commission of
Women. In this collection the Wom
an s Party heretofore has been dom
inant. Its chairman has been Miss
Dorrs Stevens, a Pan-American of
ncial. She’s held the job for a de
cade. Yet just now President Roose
velt has designated Miss Mary Win
slow to succeed Miss Stevens.
Well, in the first place, Miss Win
slow is of the anti-Woman’s Party
action.
I resident Roosevelt hasn’t any
1 rght to name those chairmanships
anyway. They’re not official. Miss
Stevens simply won’t surrender her
desk to Miss Winslow, the President’s
appointee. And she doesn’t have to;
sire isn t a presidential appointee
anyway.
It’s an international row between
President Roosevelt and the National
Woman’s Party.
International? Intersexunl, I’d say.
foreign critics are missing a good
, - .'I 1 not revealing the miserable
plight of the American baseball
slaves, concentrated in the squalor
i nap ]? y resort hotels and forced
1 eathe the noxious atmosphere
Florida zephyrs.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 193?
Medico! Progress
Since Washington
Not Much Difteronce in Practices of His Time and
Those of Lincoln Era, Says Clendening
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
TEN DAYS ago we noted the
medical practices of Lincoln’s life
time in memory of his birthday on
February 12. Today, on Washing
ton’s birthday, we can go back
nearly another century and observe
the medical practices of that time.
In comparing the two lives, and
the manners and customs of medical
men and of medical science, it is
astonishing that thci’e is so little
difference. In the hundred years
since Lincoln’s experience, medicine
has progressed more than it did in
the two thousand years of which we
have record before.
Washington, like Lincoln, never
heard of a surgical operation except
as an emergency when a man had
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
broken or crushed his leg or arm.
Washington, like Lincoln, never
dreamed or an anaesthetic to deaden
pain during a surgical operation.
Washington, like Lincoln, never
heard of anybody’s fever. There was
no thermometer to take a person’s
temperature either in the time of
Washington or Lincoln.
Strong, Vigorous
George Washington was a strong
and vigorous man all his life and
had little need for doctors. Since he
lived before the days of vaccination
against smallpox, it is not surpris
ing that he had this disease.
His fatal illness was of only 48
hours’ duration, and the physicians
who attended him have been severe
ly criticised for the management of
the case. This is probably unjust as
they treated him according ato the
best standards of that day, but it is
interesting to speculate on the im
provement which modern methods
of medicine would have made in the
outcome of his disease.
The record which has come down
to us in great detail shows that on
Stokes to Pay Tuition
Coal-Heaving Co-ed
Fired with determination to gain a higher education, Marie Louise Meeks,
18-year-old honor student at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., is even
willing to shovei coal for a higher education. She has job o J finnj furneee
at the girl?’ dorm’*'*-/.
A Truer Friend Hath No Man
ylspkspis wsgrow.....
Aged and bruised, but unfaltering in his devotion, Fritz stands over his
maimed master, Chester Brooks, near their wrecked car at Old Weather,
L. I. It was necessary to blindfold the dog to keep him from following the
ambulance in which Brooks was removed to hospital. i
December 12,1799, Washington rode
about his farm at Mount Vernon
from ten in the morning until three
in the afternoon. The weather was
very bad, a combination of rain,
sleet, snow and cold wind, and when
he came in the house the clothing
about his neck was wet, and snow
was hanging from his hair. Being
late, he did not wait to change but
sat down immediately to dinner in
his wet clothes. He began to have
some hoarseness in the evening, but
made light of it, going to bed early.
Had a Chill
At three in the morning he
awakened his wife because he was
having a chill. His throat was ex
tremely painful and swollen and his
voice very hoarse. The overseer of
the farm was sent for, ar.d, at
Washington’s request, bled him of a
pint of blood. A little later he was
bled again but this did not improve
his swallowing. Two physicians
were summoned, who again bled
him, and it was noted that the
blood came slow and thick. Blisters,
ho£ flannel and counter-irritants
were applied to his throat, but none
of them gave him any relief. He was
convinced that he was going to die
and nearly his final request was that
he be allowed to die in peace.
According to modern standards, it
appears strange that no examina
tion was made of the inside of the
throat. The chest was perfunctorily
examined, but as there were no ste
thoscopes in those days the examina
tion cannot have been very fruitful.
The attending physician’s first
diagnosis was quinsy. Later this
was changed to cynanche trachaea
tis. This latter, in modern termi
nology, would be called diphtheria.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Seven pamphlets by
Dr. Clendening ean 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.”
Heckles Nazis
Dorothy Thompson
Outspoken foe 6f Naziism, Dorothy
Thompson, newspaper columnist,
heckles a speaker at the German-
American Bund rally at Madison
Square Garden, in New York.
Shortly after picture was taken.
Miss Thompson, wife of Sinclair
Lewis, departed, flanked by police.
Inter ior decor ators advise us never 1 to
use candlesticks for decoration without
candles being in them. Also never to use
candlelight before sundown without*
drawing the shades.
Family Benediction as Fourth Son Joins Ministry
The Rev. Justus P. Kretzmar.n (back to camera) receives blessing of his family as the fourth son of
the Rev. Karl Kretzmann, of Orange, N. J., was ord*”'ned to the Lutheran ministry, in Chicago, in
accord with a tradition of 108 years. Left to right: The Rev. Adalbert R. Kretzmann, the elder Kretz
niann, the Rev. Otto P. Kretzmann and the Rev. Martin L. Kretzmann, stationed in India. Justus was
commissioned as a missionary to Nieeria, Afrit;,
First Pictures in Nazi People’s Court
left, young GermaTlawttudlnts\%dly hSterfto n?osej?t Ge . r hT 5 " } f ° r the first tune:: Upper,
experience, an army officer, an aviation commander a Storm Tiwm J £i°- W ’ judges— two of legal
hears cases against the state and has power “order beheadtae T ? is court > “‘ublished in 1934.
of judges there are only 12 who have had “gal experience%ivS also £ re tha J"*- Os the panel
manders, five Storm Troop captains, and five Nazi partv officer. Thera , army offlccrs . five aviation com
mere is no appeal from their decisions,
Coming Out Party
The perisphere and trylon, theme center of the New York World’s Fair,
are shown as they will appear to the millions of visitors who will journey
to the fair after it opens to the public. This photo was made immediately
following the removal -of the scaffolding.