Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1937, Page 20

A—20 »* THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1937. NEW AID RESTORES HIPBREAK VICTIN Range-Finder for Bones En- ables Operation and Early Recovery. By THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—A new type of bone surgery in which fractured hips are nailed in place was described be- fore the American College of Surgeons meeting here today. The broken hip, it was explained, is one of the most frequent forms of injury to the aged. The hip bone is placed at such an angle that, once it begins ta get brittle, a relatively slight wrench is enough to fracture it. In the past such an injury has forced the victim to spend three or four months almost motionless in bed. Only about 40 per cent, set and placed in casts in the old-fashioned manner, have knit. In another 40 per cent the fractures have failed to mend, leaving the pati- ent a permanent cripple. In 20 per cent of cases the injury was followed by death. Under the new method, demonstrat- ed at several clinics here, no cast is used. A small incision is made in the flesh just over the fractured bone. Through this, when the bone is put back in place, three nails are driven. One means of doing this is with a *di- rection finder,” demonstrated by Dr. | G. C. Engel of Philadelphia, by means | of which the nails can be directed at the proper angles. Leg Can Be Moved. In making the incision under which | the nails are driven care is taken to | cut no As a result the in- Jured leg be moved within four | hours after the operation. The pa- tient can be placed in a wheel chair in 48 hours. Within three or four weeks it is possible for the victim to | walk on crutches without bearing any | G weight on the injured limb, and in a ||} couple of months one can walk naz-" urally. | The broken hip, it was stressed, long | has been a bugbear to the bone doc- | tor because of the awkward position | and the frailty of the victims. It is| especially likely to happen to an old | person who slips over a rug on a| waxed floor or on the slippery surface || of a bath tub. The condition is not often encountered in the young. The nails usually are withdrawn after about & month. In most cases| stainless steel nails are used, but a new alloy of cobalt, chromium and and makes it impossible for the hip SULFANILAMIDE DEATHS SPUR NEW LAW MOVE Head of Women Voters Demands Further Regulation of Food, Drugs and Cosmetics. By thu Assoclated Press. ! Recent deaths attributed to an elixir of sulfanilamide prompted the head of the National League of Women Voters to demand today new Federal legislation regulating food, drug and cosmetic products. Miss Marguerite M. Wells, presi- dent, wrote league members that the incident, however innocent the pro- ducers and distributors, “points trag- ically to the need for a governmental check on such products before they are distributed to a helpless public.” Heretofore, she said, opposition of “special interests” has prevented ade- quate regulation, UNION PARTY TONIGHT Hotel and Restaurant Employes Plan Entertainment. The Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance will hold a party tonight at alliance headquarters, 429 Eleventh street, to which every elevator boy, doorman and porter in the city is in- vited. In order that hours of work will not interfere with attendance, the party is to be continuous CIVIC FORUM SET “Superstitions” Will Be Topic Sunday Night. The Civic National Forum will hold its next public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the Whitelaw Hotel, Thir- teenth and T streets N-W. The topic for discussion will be “Superstitions,” according to Martin L. Jackson, presi- dent of the United Progressive Asso- ciation, who will act as chairman of the meeting. Bear Kills Trainer. As Edvard Rosenhagen, an animal trainer, entered a cage at a circus in Roskilde, Denmark, he was killed by a bear, the efforts of his daughter and two sons to beat off the animal with an iron bar failing. Every M;nth Is Moth Month MOTH PROOF STORAGE LOYITD TRANSFER e STORAGE (1 6900 920 E ST NW. ONE-PROFIT SPECIAL “QUIET OIL BURNER WITH THE NEW, MORE EFFICIENT, INSULATED SCHUNDLER COMBUSTION I CHAMBER ZONOLITE MIEA INSULATION | The Dual-Control Insulation That Endures : MICA HOME INSULATION CO. 437 Star Bldg. Heat Saving Specialists HEET” REpublic 0292 RALEIGH molybdnum now has been introduced . ® : which does not set up any electric cur- y rents in the bone. Use of the nails ’Z l ot obviates the use of a cast of any kind I | to be thrown out by any slight twist. When hips were placed in casts it was impossible for patients to lie in | bed in a natural position and this in | turn increased the chances of death Aid for Loose Jaws. The injection of a salt made from psillium as a cure for “clunk- ing jaws as described at another bone clinic. Loose jaw j it was explained, constitute a f y common and em- barrassing ailment. The jaws go | “clunk, clunk, clunk” while the pel'<i son is talking or eating. It is quite| easy to throw them out of joint. The psillium salt injection produces a low- grade inflammation around the jaw joints which succeeds in tightening them up without any surgical proced- ure. In the past there has been no adequate treatment for the condition. There are now 111,600 fatal acci- dents in the United States annually, according to a statement issued by the College of Surgeons in connec- | tion with its s on industrial medicine. Con neral belief, the automob: nd most serious offer in the| home account for 38,000 deaths, against 37,000 traffic fatalities. Mis- cellaneous accidents account for about 26,000 lives and industrial mis- haps for about 18,000 Remarkable success in treating ad- vanced cases of dementia praecox with & little-known drug which produces artificial epileptic convulsions of great severity has been achieved at the Uni- versity of Illinois Psychiatric Institute. The drug is metrazol, a hydro- carbon compound first discovered in Germany about 10 years ago and | since used with indifferent succe as a heart stimulant following opera- tions. The convulsions caused by overdoses led a Hungarian physician about #wo years ago to experiment with its use in cases of schizophrenia, or personality splits, which now con- stitute the most prevalent form of insanity and for which in the past there has been almost no successful treatment. It had been observed that dementia praecox victims seldom showed any symptoms of epilepsy, and this observation has recently been strikingly confirmed by the brain wave patterns found in the two types of insanity. Used With Other Treatments. ‘The metrazol treatment comes close on the heels of the so-called insulin shock treatment of schizophrenia, which has proved the most successful tried up to the present. In the Uni- versity of Illinois experiment it is found that a combination of the two » treatments, sometimes with still other treatments, produces far better results than either of them alone. This “ro- tation” has resulted in the discharge as “cured”—with a very strict cri- terion of cure—of nearly 60 per cent of the subjects representing demen- tia praecox in both early and ad- vanced stages. The insulin shock, introduced from Furope early this year, has proved invaluable in the early stages of the strange mental disease. 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