YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD NEXT time you go to your doctor for treatment of some skin trouble, he may examine your skin under "black light." This "black light," so called because it...
...It makes the black pupils of the eyes glow aquamarine in white persons and' yellowish-green in Negroes...
...The light that comes through the filter has fluorescent-exciting properties...
...Hope for freeing the intelligence from this inner domination of thought is seen by Prof...
...It is the over-50 group of doctors which now runs medical societies and tries to shape medical opinion, Dr...
...Lips become purplish-blue, fingernails pearly white, and the non-weight-bearing surface of the feet light blue...
...It is useful in checking to see whether treatment for various skin diseases has resulted in complete recovery or whether the patient still has spots invisible to the naked eye that may flare up into fresh trouble if treatment is not continued...
...The light can help detect syphilis in its early stages...
...30, 1943...
...Roberts contends...
...Little Danger Of Malaria Epidemic WASHINGTON—Little danger exists of any serious epidemic of malaria starting here from soldiers returning from malarious theaters of the war, according to a statement from the War Department here...
...Gardner Murphy, of the College of the City of New York, told his colleagues in his address as president of the American Psychological Association...
...Not only the wish, but fear may be father to the thought...
...Roberts in his own report on the poll which appears in.Medical Care, a journal concerned with present and postwar problems in medical-social economics...
...However, they do mean that the official leaders of medicine must now utilize a more realistic guide as to where they should lead...
...The officers were selected by pulling every 15th name from an alphabetical record list of all medical officers on duty with the Army, Navy, Public Health Service, and Veterans Administration as of Sept...
...This "black light," so called because it is almost invisible, is the same that you have read about being used to detect counterfeit money and ration tokens...
...The returns do not mean," Dr...
...The curiosity impulse is one of the most powerful, one of the most difficult to assuage, that man possesses," Prof...
...He can develop such a craving for contact with reality as will sweep away petty personal prejudices and smug sense of cultural Tightness...
...In anxiety, a person recalls that which has brought on the greatest distress...
...Scientists call il the Wood light, after the American physicist, Robert William Wood, who devised a filter to absorb all but these special wavelengths of ultraviolet...
...The fear that once a soldier has had malaria, he will have it all his life was also debunked in the War Department statement...
...Maurice J. Costello and Dr...
...Roberts states, "that solo practice is going out by 1950 or that government practice is sweeping in...
...A majority of all physicians answer 'Yes' to the question of whether or not they, would like to become 'associated in private practice' with an organized group of physicians," states Dr...
...Young Doctors Want Group Practice NEW YORK—Signs that the young doctors now in the armed services favor group practice of medicine are seen by Dr...
...He questions whether "these elderly minds" will try to give the under-40 physicians what the younger men and many forward-looking older men want for the future...
...He needs contact with reality even more than he needs escape from it...
...The AMA poll consisted of a questionnaire mailed to 3,000 medical officers on duty, with the armed forces...
...And a pattern of thinking derived from fear may be repeated and fixated...
...No Such Thing As Pure Thought CLEVELAND—There is no such thing as pure, unmotivated thought, Prof...
...Murphy in man's natural curiosity...
...The • statement is based on a review of the situation by Maj...
...The infected, individual hairs take on a bright, luminous, pale green color...
...Murphy declared...
...Louis V. Luttenberger, of New York University College of Medicine, report to the New York Journal of Medicine...
...The most important use of the Wood light in diagnosing skin conditions is in detecting fungus infections, such as ringworm of the scalp and barber's itch, Dr...
...The most common type of malaria rarely lasts for more than one to two years, and three years is the maximum time with proper treatment...
...In thinking, he said, a person is always influenced, not only by external facts but by his own needs, desires, fears, and tensions...
...When there is an epidemic of ringworm in a school, large numbers can be examined quickly and accurately with the Wood light...
...If the family cat or other pet is suspected of being the source of fungous infection, examination under the Wood light will settle the matter...
...Infection can be detected even when there is little other sign of the disease...
...Kingsley Roberts, director of Medical Administration Service, Inc., here, in a recent Ameri-' can Medical Association poll...
...O. R. McCoy, chief of the tropical disease control division in the preventive medicine service of the Office of the Surgeon General...
...Actually it is ultraviolet light of a special wave length...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 40
