YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD Chicago, III. NEW chemicals for fighting tuberculosis, which ranks with typhus, malaria, and dysentery as a pestilence of war, are now being tried as...
...The difference is so marked that caffeine can be used to help diagnose stomach ulcer and to detect ulcer susceptibility...
...J. A. Roth, Dr...
...The diet, like that for diabetics, must be prescribed individually for each patient so far as amounts of rice and the other ingredients are concerned...
...Harry J. Corper and Dr...
...High Blood Pressure, Kidney Disease Much attention is being attracted by the report of a diet that seems to help patients with high blood pressure and kidney disease...
...Comdr...
...Scientific evidence for this was presented by Dr...
...Comparison of its effects with older chemicals on guinea pig tuberculosis was shown by Drs...
...Most promising of the many tested so far is promizole, a distant relative of sulfa drugs...
...It consists solely of rice, fruit juices, sugar, vitamins, and iron...
...Black Coffee And Stomach Ulcers The black coffee which is a favorite early morning eye-opener for many Americans and the popular caffeine-containing carbonated beverages which many more take for between meal pick-ups are bad medicine for the one out of 10 in the population who has stomach ulcers or is ulcer-susceptible...
...The drug is very difficult to prepare and each patient requires about one pound a month...
...Selected patients with early syphilis will receive penicillin in rapid treatment centers, of which there are more than 50 in the United States...
...Other significant reports at the AMA convention include: * * * Warning Against Boric Acid For Burns A warning against the use of boric acid ointment or saturated solution-on burns was given by Lieut...
...R. T. Stormont...
...Coffee taken with cream and sugar or with meals is less harmful because the cream or other food acts as a buffer against it...
...Carl C. Pfeiffer, Ensign Lois F. Hallman, and Lieut...
...Excessive caffeine users, in Dr...
...Enough boric acid to produce poisoning can be absorbed from 10 per cent boric acid ointment, they found...
...Besides promizole, the antibiotics such as penicillin, gramicidin, and other germ-fighting chemicals from molds, fungi, and other microorganisms "have not been overlooked" in the search for a tuberculosis remedy, one of the scientists cautiously admitted...
...Corper believes, would be dangerous for the patient...
...Penicillin Checks Peritonitis Newest triumph for penicillin is over peritonitis, cause of 92 per cent of the deaths of patients admitted to hospitals with acute appendicitis...
...Blood pressures were reduced in about 60 per cent of the patients, he said...
...Less hopeful, at least so far as sulfone chemicals such as diasone and promin are concerned, was the report of Dr...
...Maurice L. Cohn, of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver...
...In ulcer patients and those susceptible to stomach ulcer, the effect is prolonged...
...Although scientists cannot yet tell which chemical this may prove to be, the Mayo Clinic group feels one eventually will be discovered...
...A. J. Atkinson, of Northwestern University Medical School...
...After the Cocoanut Grove disaster in Boston, when boric acid ointment was used under pressure dressings on the victims' burns, the National Research Council issued an official recommendation for its use on burns, but this has since been withdrawn...
...The drug has already been successfully used at these centers for treating gonorrhea cases which did not respond to sulfa drugs...
...Humans, however, are more sensitive to oxygen deficiency than guinea pigs...
...Since boric acid is a weak antiseptic, the Navy officers suggest that other more active and less potentially harmful ones should be used...
...Penicillin is not a substitute for operation for appendicitis by a capable surgeon, the Navy surgeons warned...
...Not all patients benefit from the diet, though no ill effects from it have been seen...
...The rice diet was developed to reduce the amount of protein the kidneys have to handle and thus lower the amount of harmful, abnormal substances which he believes cause the high blood pressure...
...The effect of diasone on tuberculosis in guinea pigs, they find, is due to the drug's ability to deplete the oxygen supply of the guinea pig's blood and tissues...
...Excessive use of caffeine may help to cause ulcers in these susceptible persons...
...Repeated doses result in the acid being deposited in the brain, fat, and liver...
...One nutrition authority listening to the discussion on whether the patients would be getting dangerously little protein from the diet, pointed out that the protein in rice differs from that in other cereals...
...Discovery that penicillin can save these patients comes from studies by three Navy medical officers, Lieut...
...Caffeine, they found, stimulates production of strongly acid stomach juices rich in pepsin...
...I. Gersh, of the U. S. Navy...
...Walter Kempner, of Duke University, developed the diet and reported it to the AMA here...
...This retards the growth of the tuberculosis germs in the animals' bodies...
...As much as 75 per cent may be absorbed when a 5 per cent solution is used to wash out body cavities...
...Promizole has been given to human patients, but scientists are so far unable to tell what the results will be...
...Doses of diasone sufficient to affect tuberculosis germs in human bodies, Dr...
...For treating peritonitis following battle wounds of the abdomen, however, and appendicitis and its complications aboard small ships, submarines, and in isolated shore units where adequate facilities for immediate operation are not available, the Navy doctors believe penicillin should prove an effective aid...
...Patients who are operated on promptly for appendicitis almost never develop peritonitis...
...Kempner's theory is that one of the kidney's functions, that of deaminating the amino acids of protein, is disturbed by lowered oxygen supply and the result is high blood pressure...
...William H. Feldman, H. Corwin Hin-shaw, and Frank C. Mann, of the Mayo Clinic, in an exhibit which won the gold medal at the meeting here of the American Medical Association...
...T. L. Duggan, and Lieut, (j.g...
...NEW chemicals for fighting tuberculosis, which ranks with typhus, malaria, and dysentery as a pestilence of war, are now being tried as fast as they come out of the chemical research laboratories...
...Death results from a shock-like syndrome after large doses and from general inanition after medium doses...
...The test is made with a test meal of caffeine in water equivalent to two cups of coffee...
...Thirty-six centers in 18 states are already participating in the penicillin program...
...This has limited the clinical trials...
...G. B. Fauley, Lieut...
...A. C. Ivy, and Dr...
...Roth's opinion, are those who drink more than five cups of coffee a day and especially those who take coffee or caffeine-containing beverages between meals frequently...
...Large-scale use of penicillin in the treatment of early syphilis is being undertaken by the U. S. Public Health Service and a number of state health departments, Medical Director J. R. Heller, Jr., Chief of the Public Health Service Venereal Disease Division, announced...
...In normal persons this stimulation of stomach acid output is abrupt but transient...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 26
