The Brussels Post, 1958-04-30, Page 3ROCK-A-BYE PATIENT — It's out Of the nursery and into the
hospital for the "rock-a-bye". At least that's true for some
stomach ulcer patients who will receive a gentle rocking on
this X-ray examination table designed by General Electric.
For some examinations of this disorder the patient is rolled
and tilted'in a variety of positions. This allows the radiologist
to see the barium, swallowed by the patient, as it flows from
one part of the stomach to the other.
Discoveries For
Sounder Hearts
In the long fight against the
biggest health" villain, heart die,
ease, American medicine reveal-
ed some significant discoveries
recently.
A mold extract which,
after injection into the blood
stream, searches out and breaks
pp blood clots was announced by
the Massachusetts Heart ,Assn-
elation, Drawn from the .mold
• that grows on bread, it can be
used safely in the severest heart
and stroke cases to the preven-
tion of much long-term damage.
In ten years of experimenting
with animals and finally with
25 humans, Dr. Mario Stefanini
discovered that the extract dis-
solves proteins, which make up,
bloodclots. Its precise nature is
not yet known, however, and it
will probably not be available
for use by general practitiOners
!or another two years.
For victims of congestive heart
failure — the most common
cause of death from heart mala-
dies — Drs. Lous Leiter and
Jacob Grossman of New York's
efontefiore Hospital have uncov-
ered a new treatment which may
after a way to normal life ex-
pectancy. The afflicted person's
heart fails to pump enough blood
lo meet the body's oxygen re-
natements. To ycompensate, large
tuantities of fluids collect in the
)ody tissues and are not carried
)ff to the kidneys. The lungs and
liver• may become congested.
Instead of "drowning in their
awn fluid," Drs. Grossman and.
Leiter said, congestive heart-
failure patients now can be
"dried out" by this therapy: (1)
A low-salt diet (salt contributes
to the "backing up" of fluid in
the tissues); (2) the use of drugs
called "diuretics," which in-
crease the flow of urine and
draw excess fluids — the most
effective being chlorothiazide
(trade name, Diuril), and (3)
placing an elastic bandage on the
patient's swollen legs and ele-
vating them so that the fluid is
squeezed from the limbs and car-
ried to his kidneys.
The first chemical analysis of
the patehes on the inside of the
arteries of patients with athero-
sclerosis was described by Drs.
Charles J. Umberger and Leo A.
Dal Cortivo, biochemists in the.
New York City Medical Exam-
iner's office.. Their intricate tests
of hardened material taken from
the arteries of 55 men (between
26 arid 50 years old) who had
died of acute heart disease may
upset current theories as to how
fats . in the diet contribute to
hardening of the arteries and to
eventual heart attacks.
Contrary to their expectations,
the scientists found that the ar-
tery deposits they studied con-
tained no fats at all, although it
looked and felt like fat. More
than half of the artery patches
was cholesterol, but in a differ-
ent form than the ordinary
cholesterol found 'in the blood
stream. From these findings,
Drs. Umberger and Dal Cortivo
assume that changes so far un-
known may take place in body
cholesterol before it reaches the
arteries. Their analyses also
suggested that diets of unsatur-
ated fats (such as vegetable oils)
recommended to heart patients
by many physicians may have no
effect in preventing artery hard-
ening. —From NEWSWEEK.
WAS HIS DIAL RED!
Unnoticed by the shop assist-
ants in a jeweller's shop hi
Milan, Italy, James Lorenzi
slipped an alarm clock beneath
his coat and edged towards the
&or. He had almost made his
getaway when the alarm went
off and he was nabbed• by an
alerted customer.
prints'' and says the Sherpas,
when shown pictures of a gorilla,
burst into excited shouts of
"Yeti! Yeti!"
How the hunters planned to
capture whatever it is they ant,*
after — if they find it — remains
an expedition secret. The 1051
expedition came equipped with
nets, lassos,, trip ropes, running
POWs, and e South Arnerjoan
slingshot, The Nepalese Govern-
ment,. has allowed this year's
group to carry a big game tlfle
and a shotgun in ease the crea-
ture should attack, and
warned the party to stay at least
1.0 miles away from the border
of Communist Tibet.
Most anthropologists theorize
that the "Old. Abominable" prob.•
ably' is a high-living bear, a
langur monkey, or possibly one
of the Lung-goal-pa ("holy run-
ners"), a cult Within a sect of
monks who• wander the hige
mountains and take snow baths,
either to mortify the flesh or to
rid the flesh of its visual coatine'
of yak butter,
But against these comparative-
ly reasonable explanations, there
are the Sherpa reports and an
,increasing amount of. Yeti lore,
emanating for the most part
from Buddhist monasteries. By
now the "Abominable Snowman"
not only has an "Unspeakable
Spouse" but "Awful Offspring"
as well. —From Newsweek,
Nice Maggots
Nineteenth century surgeons
used to view favorably the ar-
rival of "benign maggots" in the
wound ofee patient. Apparently
they, were right.
A couple" of researchers at the
London (Eng.) St. Mary's Hos-
pital Medical School recently
reported finding a new antibi-
otic in maggot washings. It
seems you wash a maggot by
spraying him with distilled wa-
ter every ten minutes for three
hours. The washings showed
killing power against the bugs.
causing pneumonia and strep in-
fections. The essential element
has not yet been concentrated.
JET JOCKEY — "Get a horse",
might be a fitting phrase to
hurl at Col. J. H. Bulkley, a jet
pilot modeling his supersonic
"spurs" at Hamilton Air Force
Base, Calif. The heel attach-
ments actually fit into the ejec-
tion seat of the Lockheed F -104A
Starfighter, a twice-the-speed-of
sound interceptor.
Secret Hoards
Thieves recently stole a quan-
etity of money in notes, but the
police were hot' On their track
and they did not have much
time to hide it, so they stuffed
it into some beer bottles which
they hid under the front porch
Many and various are the
hiding, places chosen by thieves
— in the stuffin of a sofa, the
bottom of a bird cage, and even
in the shank of an old key.
In one crook's house the police
found a pot of soup simmering.
on the fire. It was a 'very rich
soup — there were e number of
gold coins in it!
A similar method led to the
dest`filetiOri Of some documents
whieh were never found. They
were pulped and boiled up with
the cattle feed.
The other day a man was ar-
rested in Wisconsin when a
woman accused him of having
Stolen twenty dollars from her.
He strenuously denied it, to the
police took him to the station
arid searched him, but there was
no sign of the money and he
could not have got rid of it.
He was kept in custody while
further- iticitaties Were 'blade.
While he Was waiting he was
allowed to go to sleep, and tiers'
itig his gembete his Metall, 'fell
open; displaying to the interested
detectives truttipled, sodden;
twenty-dollar hotel
QME
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ISSUE 12 -- 1958
SCIE'JTIFIC FARMING
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It is far more difficult to de-
sign a formal .garden with its
Straight rows and paths than it
is to create one -with curves
and clump's and a general in-
formal layout, Anyone with a
string, of course, can plant per-
fectly straight rows of petunias
or roses or tulips but it takes
an expert to make a garden like
that look really attractive.
The average person with
average skill and an average lot
is far better advised to stick to
the simple, end •in most cases,
more interesting informal lay-
out. In this, of course, along
the straight walls of our house
or the boundary fences, there
will be no dhance for weaving
at the back, but by planting in
clumps and beds of various
widths and curving edges ,, we
get an informal appearance at
the front. As a rule the bigger
flowers and taller shrubbery go
at the back but just to break
the monotony we occasionally
bring something forward. - We
also plant in groups of two or
three to a dozen of each species
depending upon size, rather
than as single individual speci-
mens,
In the centre of almost any
garden layout, no matter how
small, will be a piece of lawn
and around that we group
flowers and shrubbery. Rather
than hide all the foundation
line of the house, or all of an
attractive wall or fence, we
leave irregular spaces here and
there between clumps of shrub-
bery or beds of flowers. If the
garden is a fair size, too, it is
an excellent plan to arrange
trees, shrubbery and taller
flowers so that part of the lay-
out is hidden and only revealed
when the visitor moves• along.
If nossible have a curving path
than a straight one but make
sure there is some reason for
the curve even if you have to
make one by planting tree or
a clump of shrubs,
CULTIVATION
Killing weeds is only one of
the reasons for cultivation. The
big gain is the improvement in
the texture of the soil, Cultiva-
tion lets in air, breaks up the
clay lumps, makes the soil more
open so that it will absorb and
hold more moisture. Even where
there are no weeds, regular
cultivation, say once a week, is
advisable in most gardens up
to the early part of July and
longer if the weather turns un-
usually dry because this work-
ing of the top soil-conserves the
moisture.
NO RUSH
It is probably some age-old
instinct which gives us the urge
to get out and dig just as soon
as the first spring day arrives.
There is no harm in going ahead
if we live in some very warm
corner of Canada, but as a rule
one should restrain the impulse
until the weather really turn
warm and the soil is fairly dry.
Nothing is gained by rushing
either cultivation or seeding and
much can be lost. If the ground
is the least bit muddy then all
we do is mess up ourselves and
implements and leave the
ground in bad shape for any
real working later on. And if
we are so foolish as to plant
tender things far ahead of time,
then the frost will surely get
them.
All this does not mean, how-
ever, that we should not risk
a few things reasonably early
prcusided the soil is fit to work.
To determine that we can, if we
want to be scientific, select a
handful ,of soil" squeeze lightly -
and then take off the pressure.
If the soil crumbles, it is ready
to work, If, when we squeeze
it into at ball it stays that way,
or if it leaves our fingers all
muddy, then we should forget
about gardening' for that after-
noon at least and go inside and
read a book or seed catalogue.
How Can I?
By Anne Ashley
Q. How can I keep my potted
palnis glossy?
A: Sponge the leaves of the
palms Once every week with a
solution of milk and water, and
they will keep their nice glossy
appearance.
(1. now can I thieken the.juice
Of a frnit tart, and also prevent
it from boiling over hi the Oren?
A. Both objects can be accom-
plished by mixing a little corn-
starch With the sugars.
(4, Bow can I make the floors
warmer?
A. The floors Will be Men
warmer and less' draughty if
newspaper is spread under the
tug or carpet. The pepet also
acts es a preventive for thOth§.
Bali cal{ I add more outti-
iite Value mashed potatoes?
A. By boiling the potatoes in
their jackets, then removing
the skins, and Mashing the pow
tatbea Until fluffy.
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Sobering Facts
About Fallout
testing continues at the same
rate as the last few years, the'
average for the entire population
of the Northeastern U.S. will
gradually climb to about 20% of
the MPC by the year 2000. -
Not all people get the same
amount. Some children had
three times the average, and the
variation in adults is seven times.
Most of these figures are about
city dwellers, and the scientists
think that the variation in rural
areas will ,be greater still. It
is thus likely that if weapons
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Into a Columbia University
laboratory regularly stream ship-
ments of one of science's grim-
mest raw materials for study:
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the rscently dead bodies of men,
worniea and children all over the,
non-Communist world, including
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the U.S. Atomic Energy Com-
m; they go under the scrut-
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the hones for strontium 90. Res,
cen'ly the project's three scien-
tise Drs. Walter R. Eekelmann,
J. -Saurence Kulp and Arthur R.
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neal report. The bones told a
ring story of increasing
an' unts of radioactive fallout
ere 1 nuclear-weapons tests.
e'rontium 90 is the most fear-
e.' of all the fallout isotopes, It
ha - a long half-life (28 years),
aH1 the human body tends to
neeeake it for calcium, which it ,
rc - -Moles chemically, and to
b:-:l3 it into bone. As it disin-
tre-ates over the years, it .may
cae -e cancer by the effect of its
rr -ation on tender living cells.
!"ace their last year's report,
sa:1 the scientists, the world-
avc age content of strontium 90
in human bone has increased by
about 30%. The increase in
yoer g children, whose bones are
growing actively, was 50%. The
e.est values were found in
Ncrth America, the lowest in the
So" them Hemisphere,
Young children have, propor-
tienately, ten times more stron-
tium 90 in their bones than
adults, but so 'far the average is
only about 1/150 . of the MPC
(lVfaximuit Permissible Concen-
tration) that was recommended
by the National Academy of Sci-
ences. The amount will surely
grow, say the scientists. Even if
no more weapons are tested,
there may be enough strontium
90 in "the stratospheric reser-
voir" to raise the strontium 90
in the bones of children in the
Northeastern U.S. to as much as
4.3% of the MPC, If weapons
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Man Or Monster
Or Both ?
In the Nepal,,border village
of Biratnagar, there was a bustle
of excitement and activity as 75
porters and fifteen sturdy little
Sherpas hoisted high their bur-
dens of food and supplies. Then,
et the command "Let's go" the
latest expedition moved out to-
ward the wildest of the far
Himalayan fastnesses in search
of the "Abominable Snowman."
The target area covered 150
square miles of peaks and little-
known valleys. Ever since the
first attempt to climb Mount
Everest in 1921, Sherpa guides
have pointed toward the area
and told eager listeners from
"the outside" that there dwells
the "Yeti", which, the ''' legend
says, is an evil-smelling ape-like
link between man and monkey.
How did they know? Many
had seen its huge footprints in
the snow; some Sherpas claimed
actually to have seen t h
creature.
The new expedition is financed
by two Texas oilmen, It is led
by the American naturalist
Gerald Russell, a veteran of the
Yeti hunting' expedition spon-
sored by The London Daily Mail
in 1954.
This year's group also includes
two photographers, a doctor en
Indian zoologist, and three pro.
fessional hunters. One of these,
Peter Byrne,. an Irish journalist,
has taken photographs of "foot-
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