Evening star. [volume], April 10, 1938, Page B-3, Image 19

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NEW TEST CHECKS
MUSCLES OF EVE
Unexplained Troubles Are
Cleared Up if Blind Is
Worn a Week.
Ty the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 9.—A new
eye test that clears up unexplained
headaches, indigestion, insomnia and
even loss of memory "was described
here today in an ophthalmological
paper.
The test discloses muscular defects 1
in the eyes which escape detection in
usual examinations.
It has been used on several thou
sand persons by F. W. Marlow, M. D..
and is reported in the archives of
* ophthalmology of the American Medi- |
cal Association. r
Dr. Marlow covers one eye of a pa
tient, and observes whether the other
turns slightly, like a searchlight
changing its direction. This much of
the test is routine and known as oc
-culsion.
The new part is to keep one eye
covered for a week, instead of for a
moment or a few minutes.
During the week the other eye has
to do all the seeing.
The result is that the single eye
frequently makes a change in direc-.
tion of looking which is not detectable
in a short examination.
Take Natural Position.
This change in direction. Dr. Mar
low explains, m'-ans that the muscles
of that eye have assumed their natu
ral position.
It means also that when both eyes
were used, those muscles were under
strain to keep the eye "pointed" par
allel to the direction of seeing in the
, other eye.
About 97 persons out of every 100
have this eve conflict. Dr. Marlow
finds. Yet thev seldom know it. even
when the muscular strain seriously
affects their comfort or health.
Evidence that, acute poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis) can be treated
by injection of a hypotonic salt solu
tion into the blood stream has been
found in a series of experiments, first
on monkeys and later on humans, bv
Dr. George M. Retan. of the College
of Medicine. Syracuse University.
These experiments, started in 1935,
cover a three-year span.
“This hypotonic salt solution (low
♦alt content) has been used success
fully in the treatment of acute polio
myelitis. acute encephalitis, (sleeping
sickness) and syphillis of the central
nervous system. Future experience
may also show that it may be of ad
vantage for treatment of streptococcus
and meiningococcus meningitis,” Dr.
,,Retan said in reviewing the results
of his experiments.
As a result of his long-range study,
Dr. Rot an published the following
conclusions:
All Cases Recovered.
1. Ten cases of respiratory paralysis
were treated, all of which recovered.
Improvement in respiratory function
occurred during actual treatment pe
riod, The behavior of this group
shows that the use of the respirator
may become unnecessary in the fu
ture management of this type of
paralysis.
2. Six cases of paralysis of the
throat recovered promptly. All cases
so treated were able to drink fluids
following the first treatment.
3. Both of the above groups carry
a mortality rate of around 50 per cent.
While the group treated (57) is
scarcely large enough for statistical
evaluation, it included 16 cases with
recovery in each instance. The pre
paralytic group included in the re
port were all cases in which the
disease was sufficiently severe that
paralysis might be a reasonable ex
pectancy.
4. This treatment will not in every
Instance prevent the development of
paralysis. Respiratory paralysis will
yield to the treatment, however.
Muscle Weakness Checked.
5. Weakness of the muscles of the
extremities, without actual paralysis.
1ms promptly improved and reflexes
often return following treatment,
which have not responded to stimuli
before treatment was given.
6. Actual paralysis of the muscles
of the extremities does not improve.
However, treatment of this group is
advised if the case is active, with hope
of preventing further loss of function.
7. Prevention of paralysis and
death in rhesus monkeys infected
with many times the lethal dose of
Virus was possible.
The treatment used by Dr. Retan
Held by Soviet
NEBRASKAN IS IMPRISONED
IN LATEST PURGE.
ALBERT MELVILLE TROYER.
MRS. ELVA DEMPSTER
TROYER.
Mr. Troyer, 71. former resi
I dent of Dorchester, Nebr.,
| went to Russia as a research
scientist and remained to be
, come a victim of a Soviet
sabotage purge. He is serving
a 10-year sentence in a Rus
sian prison on a charge of
"counter-revolution.” a charge
which Mrs. Troyer. member of
one of Nebraska's most prom
inent families, denies. She
is leading a fight for his re
lease. complicated by the fact
Mr. Troyer, a graduate of the
University of Nebraska and
an expert on citrus fruits,
gave up his American citizen
ship when he became a Soviet
citizen. —Wide World Photos.
DRY STRENGTH SEEN
Sheppard Says Senate Vote Favors
Prohibition Forces.
•' Senator Sheppard. Democrat, of
Texas, legislative father of prohibi
tion, said yesterday increasing strength
j cf dry forces was demonstrated by a
53-to-16 Senate vote Friday to impose
new restrictions on liquor shipments
; into dry States.
rests upon the physiologic principle
of the osmotic pressure of the blood
: stream.
After experimenting at length with
monkeys. Dr. Retan used the treat
; ment. in 5 cases of acute poliomyelitis.
These patients were treated in Bing
hamton. Louisville. Ky.. and Syra
cuse. He was assisted by Dr. George
Lape of Binghamton and Dr. Hugh
Leavell of Louisville.
Commenting further, Dr. Retan
: said:
"Although we recognize the futility
; of anv attempt to regenerate a nerve
I cell after it has been destroyed, I be
! lieve that our evidence tends to sub
stantiate the theory that the severity
of the inflammatory reaction in the
j central nervous system can b? reduced
by the use of these hypotonic salt
j solutions.”
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SIX CONVENTIONS SET
FOR DISTRICT THIS WEEK
Seventh One Will Conclude Its
Sessions—Meeting Place of
Each Is Listed.
Six conventions will be held In Wash
ington this week and a seventh will
conclude sessions which began last
week, according to the Greater Na
tional Capital Committee of the Board
of Trade.
The Conference of State and Pro
vincial Health Authorities of North
America, which got under way at the
Harrington Hotel Friday, will be in
session through Tuesday. The other
organizations planning to meet togeth
er, with the time and place, are:
American Automobile Association
Membership Development Committee,
Monday and Tuesday, Willard Hotel:
Conference of State and Territorial
Health Officers, Monday and Tuesday,
Public Health Service auditorium;
North Atlantic Regional Conference,
Federal Board of Vocational Educa
tion, Tuesday through Thursday,
Wardman Park Hotel; Daughters of
Founders and Patriots of America,
Wednesday and Thursday, Washing
ton Hotel; Dames of the Loyal Legion
I of the United States, Friday and Sat
urday, Mayflower Hotel; National So
ciety, Daughters of Colonial Wars,
Saturday and Sunday, Mayflower Ho
tel.
DOCTORS WILL MEET
Pan-American Group Will Hear
Three Speakers Tonight.
The Washington Chapter of the
Pan-American Medical Association
will meet at 8 o’clock tonight at the
Legation of Panama, 1535 New Hamp
shire avenue NW.
Speakers will be Dr. Edgard V.
Allen of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn.; Dr. Oswald S. Lowsley of Ntw
York and Dr. Hugh H. Young of
Baltimore.
-» ■-.—
Absentee Voters Warned.
The Democratic Absentee Voters
Bureau of the .Democratic National
Committee issued a warning yesterday
to absentee voters from West Palm
Beach and Pensacola that the regis
tration periods in these districts will
close 20 days before the election on
May 3. This means that absentee
voters must register in person there
by Tuesday of this week.
CITIZENS LAUNCH
CLEAN-UP DRIVE
Mount Pleasant Association Asks
Co-operation of School Children
and Residents.
Convinced that its success requires
full co-operation of residents and
school children the Mount Pleasant
Citizens’ Association last night oftl
cially launched its “clean-up cam
paign” for that section.
With the double purpose of further
ing the campaign and cultivating civic
pride among future citizens handbills
will be distributed among students *of
Bancroft School and Powell Junior
High School. The committee in
charge includes Miss Virginia O'Neil,
chairman of the School Committee,
Miss Elizabeth Andrews, principal, of
Bancroft School, and Lester T. Wal
ter, principal of Powell Junior High.
The association adopted two reso
lutions, one opposing horse racing in
the District and the other urging a
curb on the Issuance of liquor li
censes in the section.
Lack of school housing facilities in
the vicinity was emphasized in a talk
by Miss O'Neil.
A talk on cancer and methods ol
preventing it was made by Dr. Eugene
Whitmore, professor of Pathology
at Georgetown University Medical
School.
MERRIAM TO SPEAK
Co-Author of Reorganization Bill
Report to Address League.
Charles E. Merriam. co-author of
the report on which the administra
tion’s reorganization bill was based,
will open and close the annual con
vention of the National League of
Women Voters April 25 to 29, it was
announced here today. The conven
tion will be held in St. Louis.
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the
publisher of the Washington Post, will
talk on the cultural aspects of de
mocracy. 1
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