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PNEUMONIA MAY NOW
BE CONTROLLED DUR-
ING WINTER MONTHS
Pittsburgh — For the first time in
history pneumonia may be brought
under control during the coming win-
ter.
The disease is the third leading “pub-
lic helath enemy” in the United Sta-
tes, but, according to reports before
the American Public Health Associa-
tion meeting last week in Pittsburgh,
science has a promise of conquering it
more effectively than with any pre-
vious known methode.
Serums and oxygen tents, along with
adequate nursing care, have until re-
cently been the principal methods of
treating pneumonia. These will still
be used in this winter's campaign.
However, Dr. Lloyd D. Felton of the
National Institute of Health, Washing-
ton, D. C., told the association that
“great promise’ exists in the use of
viccination against the disease. The
new vaccination lasts only for about
one year, but appears in preliminary
experiments to be quite effective in
preventing the disease.
The third method of combatting the
disease, which kills more than 100,000
persons each year, is the use of sul-
fapyridine. the drug which stops the
pneumococcus germs from growing un-
til the defensive white blood cells of
the body can overcome, them.
And last week, the Mellon Institute
of Pittsburgh announced, the develop-
ment of another new, anti-pneumonia
drug, known by the technical name of
“hydroxyethylapocupreine,’ a deriva-
tive of ordinary quinine, which in 500
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weather, it is very important that you put the correct
grade of good motor oil in the crankcase. Seo if you
haven’t yet prepared your car for winter driving, be sare
to stop at the big red Atlantic sign right away and ask
the attendant to drain and refill your crankcase with the
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differential. Better check up
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tests on pneumonia appeared to be
more effective than sulfapyrindine ana
did not cause the nausea, vomiting and
other upsetting effects of sulfapyridine.
In the past one of the major diffi-
culties in treating pneumonia has been
the fact that 32 of 33 different “types”
of the germ exist and each type had
to be treated with specific esrum. The
new drugs, however, have a “shotgun”
they are effective in
growth of all types or
effect because
stopping the
the germ.
WEEKLY HEALTH TALK
STATE MEDICAL ASSN.
There was one a fellow named Snah,
Whose father was sick and felt blah;
The son read an ad,
Then said to his dad:
“Pah; you'll go to a spah, nez pah?”
Spas are good for some kinds of ail-
ments.
There are many spas in America.
European spas have been famous for
centuries.
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The Old Romans, coursing through
France in the First Century, B. C,, dis-
covered the helpful waters of Vichy,
Aiz-les-Bains and Royat.
Bath, Buxton and Harrogate have
long been gathering places for the gou-
ty and rheumatic in England.
One of the half dozen large spas in
the United States treats as many as
50,000 patients a year.
The mineral waters, and more es-
pecially, the treatment that goes with
the waters, is of some value in chronic
disabling conditions. |
Some such diseases are those affec-
ting the heart and cisculation, rheuma-
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tic disorders, ailments of the stomach,
intestinal tract, gall bladder, liver and
others.
Every patient with such conditions
is not, obviously, a patient to go to a
spa.
The most promising patient for a
spa is one who does not require bed
care.
Such a patient is an ambulatory pa-
tient, that is, one who 1s able to walk
| about.
He .can. take advantage of the many-
sided program which is available at a
| wel-equipped spa.
In other words, the regimen, the rou-
| tine of diet and habit, is more impor-
tant than the composition of the water.
There lies the chief value of a spa
| — whether European or American —
for the treatment with mineral water
has the same effect, here or abroad.
It is the cooperation of the medical
management of each patient, the wa-
ters of the spa, the drugs, dietary reg-
ulation and phicical measures, all com-
bined, that aids the spa patient.
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Thursday, October 26th, 1939.
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M.C. Chervenak Jr.
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HEALTH COURSE PLAN-
NED BY PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Twenty-five of Penn-
sylvania’s most promising “young doc-
tors and health officers will be retur-
ned to college for a term of graduate
training at public expense to groom
them for administration of permanent
health centers being established throu-
ghout the commonwealth, Dr. John J.
Shaw, state secretary of health said
last week.
“We’re paying tuition for them at
the University of Pennsylvania Medical
School, besides $125 a month to single
men and $200 a month to married men
for living expenses,” Dr. Shaw said.
The special course is from October
23 to June 10.
Dr. Shaw hopes to have the trained
health officers manning the 255 per-
health centers within two
years. Four of the centers are already
in operation, eight are under construc-
tion and four more should be comple- |
ted in the next four months, he said.
In addition to cataloging every can-
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cer case in Pennsylvania to fight that
disease, the health secretary said 170
pneumonia control stations are being
among the state’s 25000 pneumonia pa-
tients each year.
With the occupation of additions to
the sanatoriums at Hamburg and Mt
Alto by January 1, the state expects
to have absorbed a waiting list of 600
tubercular patients, and have a leeway
of 250 beds, he said.
Opening of the Butler sanatorium
within a year will add another 550
beds, and Pennsylvania then “for the
first time will have facilities for com-
plete control of tuberculosis, Dr. Shaw
added.
He urged support of legislation being
drafted to place practically all non-
policy-forming medical officials of
state departments under civil service.
Legislation will be sought to make
mandatory inoculation of every school
child against diptheria, he said. The
State Health Department also plans
to X-Ray school children and teach-
ers as part of its program against tu-
berculosis.
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Traffic laws and regulations are the
terms included in the conversation of
every senior P. O. D. student, at Bar-
nesboro High School, since the safety
program was begun last week. The
students are working on the art of dri-
ving. They are learning driving faults,
their remedies and how to form good
driving habits. They will also try to
encourage the pedestrian to observe
his traffic laws as well as the motorist.
Since Barnesboro was the first school
in the state to adopt a permanent sa-
fety course, they have established quite
a well-planned program.
The project next to be undertakea
will be first-aid practice. Several ex-
perienced first-aid men will speak to
the classes and give first aid demon-
strations.
The faculty adviser of this safety
program is W. R. Whited, the founder
of the safety course in Barnesbore
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