Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1933, Page 7

HAY FEVER REMEDY "ARTIFICIAL" AR Asthma Study Society Given Results of Tests by Dr. Gay of Johns Hopkins. Discoveries of & method promising relief to thousands of hay fever suf- ferers and of a probable cause and cure of a dreaded and almost invariably fatal malady were reported before the an- nual meeting of the Society for the Study of Asthma at the Washington Hotel yesterday. Dr. Leslie N. Gay of Johns Hopkins University reported that the symptoms of asthma and hay fever largely dis- appeared when the victims were placed in “man-made atmospheres” duplicat- ing those of the North and the mountains. Dr. J. Harkavy of New York City reported experiments which placed at the door of tobacco smoking the con- dition known as Burger's disease, which the veins and blood vessels of the feet become contracted so that the flow of blood is insufficient and fatal gangrene develops. In extreme cases the feet, or even the hands, may drop off. It is a quite common condition, especially in certain races. The cause has never been known and the only treatment has been by surgery. “Sensitive” Percentage High. Dr. Harkavy found that a high per- centage of a large group of patients he examined were “sensitive” to tobacco, just as hundreds of thousands of people are sensitive to the various dusts and pollens which cause hay fever. Only in this case the sensitivity seems to be expressed by effect on the sympathetic nervous system which controls the con- striction of the blood vessels instead of in watery eyes and nose. He also found some other substances which had much the same effect. A total of 86 per cent of the patients showed this sensitivity, most of them to tobacco. He used the ordinary skin test such as is used to find what is responsible in hay fever as asthma cases. ‘The cure. Dr. Harkavy found, was simply to stop smoking and stay away from tobacco. Most of the cases which abstained from tobacco were greatly improved. Most people can smoke with impun- ity, so far as Burger's disease goes, 4 just as most people can go through & blossoming rose garden in safety. But to some, possibly with an inherited tendency, the rose pollen is highly pois- onous. It is the same with tobacco. But those whom skin tests show sensi- tive to tobacco, Dr. Harkavy pointea out, should not use it. High Altitude Relief. Dr. Gay's experiment was inspired | by the fact that victims of hay fever | and asthma obtain relief by going to | higher altitudes and that instant re- lief comes with the first cool weather of Autumn. So air conditioning equip- ment was installed in the protein clinic at Johns Hopkins, to duplicate as near- Iy as possible the atmosphere of the Rocky Mountain and Great Lakes States, to which victims flee each year to obtain relief. The temperature of the room was | kept 10 degrees below prevailing out- | door temperatures and kept free of dust and pollens. Groups of 10 patients were sent to this room and observed to determine the effect on their symp- | toms. “In individuals suffering from lymp<! ‘oms of hay fever uncomplicated by ‘thma,” said Dr. Gay, “a striking hange was noted in from 10 to 15 rinutes. Within an hour the symptoms 2d entirely subsided and after two ours the individuals, who previously < been most miserable, showed no ptoms of hay fever. They were | n sent back to the rooms of the ic_without artificially conditioned "osphere. Within an hour they were | miserable as when they first went ) the room. Improvement in Hour. “Patients who were suffering with both hay fever and pollen asthma showed a striking improvement in gen- | eral condition within an hour. The' patients who had ragweed hay fever improved rapidly on admission to the room and within one hour were free from symptoms. One could cause a | return of the symptoms at will by s;ndmg the patients into the outside air.” The relief of patients with man-made atmosphere, according to Dr. Gay, de- pends primarily on the cleansing of the air and secondarily on the chillea air that is inhaled. Chilled air with pollen, he pointed out, will produce as severe discomfort as warm air, sat- | urated with pollen. Patients suffering from the so-called “bacterial asthma,” not only could not be helped by the man-made atmosphere, but were finaly discharged more uncomfortable than ! when they were admitted. WIFE SUES R. TURNER ‘ Mrs. Martha Turner, 2311 E street, uit in District Supreme Court ay for an absolute divorce from her husband, Richard Turner, 2721 Adams Mill road. She named a co-' respondent. Mrs. Turner. mother of four children, said her husband is em- ploved at the Veerhoff Galleries, 1512 Connecticut avenue. The suit was filed through Attorney Morris Abrams. | Whooping Cough Reported Subdued By New Vaccine Pediatrics’ Research Soci- ety Hears Paper on Ex-: periments by Dr. Frawley. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 6—Development of a new vaccine designed to immunize children against whooping cough was described by Dr. F. M. Frawley today in & paper read at the annual meeting of the American Pediatrics’ Research Society. 'Dr. Frawley, who has been studying whooping cough at the University of lifornia’s department of pediatrics, sdid the new vaccine had been used suc- cessfully on more than 500 children in San Francisco and Fresno clinics. Some of the children later had whooping cough, Dr. Frawley said, but the attacks were extremely mild and lasted only about a week, whereas the usual attack lasts from four to six weeks. Development of the vaccine came about when Dr. Frawley learned of a process employed by Dr. Albert P. Krue- ger, associate professor of bacteriology at the University of California, in pre- paring serum for use in rheumatic con- ditions and glandular infections. “It occurred to me,” Dr. Frawley said, “that this type of vaccine, called an agtigen, would be suitable for use in whooping cough cases.” He conferred with Dr. Kreuger, he said, and together they developed the vaccine for whooping cough. It is pre- pared from organisms grown from fresh cough plates and it differs from other vaccines in that no heat or ch are applied to the cultures. The ap- rlication of heat, Dr. Frawley said, de- natures the organisms that cause the formation of antibodies in the patient's system. Dr. Kreuger previously had used the in|Radio Scientist’s Claim In- WATER COLOR EXHIBIT DEPICTS RUSSIAN LIFE Eliot O’Hara Paintings Will In- clude Works Never Shown in ‘Washingtou. An_exhibit of water color ptlnflnsx by Eliot O'Hara, international land- scape artist, depicting scenes of pres- ent-day Russia will be held this week at 806 I stry eet. Included in the collection will be paintings to be exhibited here for the first time. They will be displayed each day until 10 p.m. Among the paintings are “The Golden Age in the Crimea,” “Mount Ararat,” “The Kremlin,” “Boris Godounov Tower,” “On the Casplan Sea” and “Along the Dneiper.” Mr. O'Hara spent three months in the Soviet Union in 1929, traveling exten- | sively within its borders. FROM OTER PAC terests Experts at Stand- ards Bureau. Yue:—-nie milky way may be broad- casting. There is no inherent impossibility, according to Bureau of Standards radio engineers, to the contention of Dr. Karl G. Jansky of the Bell Telephone Lab- oratories made at a meeting here that radio waves are coming to the earth from outer space. They have ' been caught, Jansky claims, on sets adapted for short-wave | receiving in the form of static which varied in amount with the time of day and which always came from the same direction, indicating that its source was outside the earth and the solar system. The wave length of 14.6 meters with a frequency of 20,000,000 cycles a sec- cnd, according to Dr. S. 8. Kirby of the Bureau of Standards staff, could break through the so-called heavyside layer of the upper atmosphere which stops electro-magnetic waves of the longer wave lengths. Lightning Often Cause. | Most static, Dr. Kirby explained, is| due to local atmospheric conditions. | Usually it comes from lightning pulses within a radius of a few hundred miles, but a good deal can be traced to elec- tro-magnetic waves sent out by light- ning flashes in the great thunder- storm belt along the Equator. These lightning flashes send out all sorts of wave lengths which may have travelled several times around the world before they become noticed as static. But, it was explained. lightning ap- | parently cannot be blamed for the newly found galactic radio waves claimed by Dr. Jansky, because of the peculiar time and direction elements. They are so weak that they would not | be detected by any ordinary radio set. ‘The fact remains that for the first time it has been shown that the earth is | in radio communication with outer space. If there were anybody there who understood radio he might even | cend a message to the earth or pick up one sent out from the earth. Signaling Is Unlikely. It was emphasized, however, that there is no indication of any kind that | these galactic radio waves constitute seme kind of interstellar signaling or that they are the result of some form of intelligence striving for intergalac- tic communication. They are just a meaningless jumble of static, although | further study of them may reveal in- teresting data on their source. For the present, no effort will be made to pick them up at the Bureau of Standards. Special and rather cost- ly apparatus would be required, it was emphasized. and no immediate prac- tical purpose would be served. SPECIAL Genuine Toric Glasses metal frames Pitie “witi el 'or $3.50 FRAMES o3 ists $2 Genuine Toric Kryptok Invisible Bifocal Lenses, first and best quality. One pair to see near and far. Reg. $15. OPTICAL CO. 617 7th St. N.W. EISEMAN’S SEVENTH & F STS. Quality UITS 8 NOTHING DOWN Just Pay $6 IN JUNE $6 IN JULY $6 IN AUGUST Strictly all-wool suits of guaran- teed quality. Splendidly tailored of long-wearing materials in the sea- son’s best shades of grey, tan, blue, brown. All sizes. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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