The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 26, 1946, Page 6

— RN CO oe ae PAGE SIX a , Brain and Spine Surgery Aids Puzzling Palsy and Paralysis By ALTON L, BLAKESLEE AP Newsfedtures Writér YORK.—Surgery on the brain and spinal nerve chan- | N nels is bringing relief to some victims of two painful, crip- pling diseases—shaking palsy @iid @ pafalysis that twists mus- cles; sometimes turning the hettd over the slioulder. The new methods were described by Dr. Tracy J. Putnam, director of the Neurological In- stitute of New York, before the 2 yecent Inter-American Medical Number Of Dental Congress in Rio de Janeiro. The two diseases are more dis- EE Ie Re Ae OG ANN ae ES Fashion | By DOROTHY ROE | MAY be difficult this win- | * ter to tell or lady from a. bird, jon high-style hats. Laddie Northridge draws on | practically the entire winged kingdom for his collection of ‘heaped with everything from if _ Feathers Go Associated Press Fashion Editor | so lavish is the use of feathers; {gala holiday hats, which are} ij tressing. and apparently more common than infantile paralysis, Dr, Putnam said. Shaking palsy, or paralysis agi- tans, brings uncontrollable shak- ing of the hands, arms, or head, | with some rigidity. The second | disease—called dystonia or athe- tosis—makes muscles of the arms, legs, neck or trunk contract in- voluntarily and almost continu- ously. The rigid muscles may twitch. The surgery tries to stop ab- normal nerve signals producing these effects; Dr. Putnam ex-| plained. It has enabled a few per- sons to return to work.: One is ‘using a typewriter with hands that once could not be kept still: In about 75 per cent of cases, operations can bring relief of the trembling or contractions, and often of pain, but they are not a cure, he said. They seldom relieve the rigidity, and may leave the tremor-affected arm or leg wak- ened Medicines sometimes help some- what in both ailments. What causes the abnormal nerve signals is not known, Dr. Putnam said, but operations are helping to ex- plain their mechanism. The first operation tried, for dystonia, removes part of the metor cortex from the top of the brain. First performed in Eng- land in 1909, it was developed comsiderably in recent years by Dr. Paul Bucy of Chicago and by Dr. Roland Kiemme of St. Louis: It works well for spasms of the arm, but less well for those ba the leg, face, or neck, and achieves! extremely good results in select- ed cases, Dr. Putnam said. A second operation, also for dystonia, was developed by Dr. Patnam and his associates. It is dome in the neck on a nerve channel in the spinal cord. The reasoning was that the abnormal signals from the brain might be stopped before they reached the nerves going to the body extremi- ties But here a strange fact in man’s evolution had to be considered. Man has two sets of nerve chan- nels or tracts in the spinal cord. One is found in lower animals, even in fishes, and still is retain- ed in man. The other set, the pyramidal tract, is well-develop- ed only in man and monkeys. There was evidencé that the old nerve channel was respon- sible for the muscle contractions im dystonia, and an operation of cutting into this old pathway was first tried on a girl who was in great pain. It worked successfully. It has had about the same pro- portion of success as the opera- tion on the brain motor center, and can be used when paralysis affects both sides of the body, Dr. Putnam said. But this method had no effect on shaking palsy. Apparently the nerve impulses causing the trem- or were transmitted along the py- ramidal tract, not the old motor channel. But would cutting into man’s main nerve tract produce severe paralysis? Tests with monkeys indicated it would not. The oper- ation was first carried out on a patient who had been completely incapacitated for 16 years. It brought marked relief and has been used successfully with nu- merous patients, Dr. Putnam said. One puzzle, he continued, is why a given operation works in one case but not another. Dr. Putnam also is professor of neuroolgy and neurological sur- gery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- sity leave. and now is on sabbatical APPLIES TO AIRLINE PERRY, Fla., Nov. 26 (FNS)— The Taylor County Chamber of Commerce has put in a bid for airline service with Florida Air- ways, Inc, President Joe H. Seales, Jr., said today. “We feel that the volume of air traffic which would originate here would justify this move from the start,” Scales said, not- ing that Florida Airways oper- ates planes over Perry now, from Gainesville to Tallahassee. Florida Airways, with head- quarters in Orlando, has regular flights daily to and from Gaines- ville, Tallahassee, Jacksonville | and Orlando. Benjamin Franklin forecast the! use of parachute troops. Py Students In Twenty Years (Speciat to Tie Citizen) CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—Dental schools in the United States grad- ! uated 2,666 néw dentists during | the 1945-46 school year, the Council on Dental Education of } the American Dental Association | reported here today. | This total of new dental} graduates is the second largest | in recent history of the profes-| sion and reflects the accelerated | training program adopted by} ° |the rare goura feather to the Highest j famous for fabulous headgear, more plentiful turkey quill. Believing that ladies of fashion should emulate birds of plumage, Mr. Northridge, | uses the following feathers in various hats of his collection: cassowary (an airy, floating} feather something like un-}, curled ostrich), goura (the most expensive feather in the} world—a hat trimmed with it costs about $1,000), ostrich (everybody knows this one), dental colleges during the war years, | The war-time peak of dental) graduates was reached in 1944-45 when 3,212 dentists received | diplomas. { During. the five years prior to! the war, the Council reported, | the average number of dental} graduates was only 1,712 per) year. { Although the number of grad uates increased during war) years, enrollments of beginning | students dropped sharply due to) manpower demands of the armed | forces. This decline in enroll-| ment will result in smaller grad: | uating classes during the next! two or three years, the Council | reported. | Present freshman enrollment at| the nation’s 40 dental schools, | howéver, is in excess of 3,000; students, the highest in twenty} years. Approximately 90 per cent | of the beginning dental students are veterans of World War I. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Tom Wallace of Louisville, Ky.,| noted newspaper editor, born at) Hurricane, Ky., 72 years ago. Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, technical deputy com- | mander of the joint Army-Nayy atom bomb tests, born. in; Ghi- cago, 45 years ago. Charles Brackett, author of) “The Lost Weekend”, born at} Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 54 years | ago. | Dr. Ernest M. Best, president of | the Springfield (international | Y.M.C.A.) College, M: born in Canada, 66 years ago. Josiah Marvel, Jr., of Wilming- ton, Del., Minister to Denmark, born in Wilmington, 42 yea ago. i Angelo Patri of New York,| noted writer-journalist on child; training, born in Italy, 69 years} ago. ! Prof. Helen C. White of the! University of Wisconsin, teacher of English, author, born in New Haven, Conn., 50 years ago. } i ) { i i Today’s Anniversaries (Know America) | 1727—Artemas Ward, _ store-| keeper, judge, provincial soldier. second in command, under Wash-! ington, in first days of the Revo-! lution, born at Shrewsburg, Mass. Died there, Oct. 28, 1800. 1792—Sara Moore Grimke, one of the two famed sister anti-slav- | ery and women’s rights workers of her generation, born in Charles- ton, S.C. Died in Boston, Dec. 23, 1873. 1828—William H. Sylvis, iron moulder, Philadelphia labor, un- ion official, best known labor leader of his day, born in In-} diana Co., Pa. Died at height of his career, at only 40, July 27, 1869 1832—Mary E. Walker, Union surgeon, suffragette, much-talked | about Washington, D. C., physi-j cian, born at Oswego, N. Y. Died! Feb. 21, 1919. 1899—Maurice Rose, major- general, born in Denver. Shot: by a German, while lowering) hand to give up his gun, March! 30, 1945. | Suspected Griffiths was the father of 12 children, and he decided to take them all to the seaside. They set off, reached the sta- tion, got their tickets, and were about to enter the train, when the proud parent was touched on the shoulder by a policeman “What have you been doing?” ! the “cop” demanded. “Me? Why. nothing,” stammer- ed the surprised man. The policeman waved his hand towards the family. | “Then why,” he asked, “is this crowd following you?” — i | the offic | $7,500 to $9,000 a vear pose coq, turkey and) GOLD STANDARD...A dy Amherst, a sleek, boldly} marked bird breast. IT’S A BIRD! Three dozen small white birds in full flight trim this new crown- t less white felt for festive wear. phire, for TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY tet tte Immediately following the No-} will remain in the comptroller’s vember election, Governor Cald-| office for the next two years, but well, in a letter to Senator Ed’ it is a question that the Supreme Fraser, nominee of the State Court will probably be called on Democratic Committee and elect-! to-decide and in view of a pre- ed to fill the unexpired term of! vious opinion in the Wisehart the late J. M. Lee as state com-{ case and the situation with re- troller, stated that it was his: gard to Senator King the ques- opinion tat Fraser could not le-; tion has far reaching possibil- gally be appointed or elected to, ities. because he was a mem- udge W ar ami ber of the 1945 legislature which | eee ee ie tries ee increased the office salary from| increased the salary of raircuit ; judg from $5,000 to $6,000 per year, being appointed to the of- | fice by Governor Holland In view of this fact the Governor said it was his in- tention to declare the office of | state comptroller vacant and he would appbint Clarence Gay to the post on January 7. "Un- der the plain wording of the constitution,” the Governor said, “I am convinced that you cannot legally be appointed or elected to the office of state Taking the same position as the did relative to Senator Fraser, Governor Caldwell questioned the eligibility of Wisehart to hold’ the office and declaring it vacant’ appointed N. Vernon Hawthorne to the post. The court in this! case decided for Wisehart, who 5 still holds the office. | comptroller during your pres- ent term as a member of the Lees the eis of Boren et legislature.” announced as a candidate and Fraser's eligibility }ran for office of State Railroad tioned during the heated cam-| Commissioner at a time when he paign for the nomination when! ¥@S # member of the state sen-/ the State Democratic Ex ate and did not resign as sena-} Gamnmiitice Gee fal tae tor. Senator King was elected and at that time several promi-| 0 the Senate in the Fall of 1944 nent attorneys expressed the be-| Like Judge Wisehart his term as/ lief that Fra could not hold! 2 member of the legislature does the office under the constitutional 2°t expire until 1949. On or about | There others, the last of July, 1945, the salaries was ques- provisions. were however, who contended that he | of the members of the State} could.do so providing he did not! Railroad Commission were, by draw the increase in salary and) budgetary manipulation, increas: so the controversy has raged | ed from $5,000 to $6,000 per yee ever 2 while Senator King held office Pocree Senator Fraser an-| a member voted the usual appro- i priation. { ond man in the r ' ad Commission in Senator | nounced this week that he would be in Tallahassee January 7 to ake over the post of comptrol-| : bates which ihe: was elected and group was Fred Ww. Brown that he would have a public} of Tampa. and many feel that statement when he receives his; he is entitled to hold the office | certificate of election from t because of _the constitutional ; state canvassing board | provision which would seem 10} “ yf the Governor is right in his| make King ineligible. meat position, and most legal authori-; Now that the Caldwell-Gay- ties contend that he is, then Gay 'Fyaser squabble has developed ; ce for CLIPPED OSTRICH . . a large heart-shaped silhouette, dyed sap- ‘ concerned very much one way or | kid hat worth considerably more than its weight in gold—Laddie Northridge’s fabulous top- . Used to encircle a traffic-stopping chapeau. ;and appears to be so backlashed j and bawled up that it will take ‘action of the Supreme Ceurt to straighten it out, interest in the ases of Kine and Wischart is } revived. If Gay remains as comptroller then it would appear that Haw- i thorne and Brown would ;} something to how! about and de- ‘velopments between now and ! January 7 should prove interest-|! | ing Brown has made no claim to date, but in the face of ‘the Fraser-Gay affair he may be tempted to do so. Anyhow, it looks as though we are in for a fight with several juicy jobs hanging in the balance. $6,000 to $9,000 salaries are hard to get and worth fighting for and the con- test should wax warm from now on, To the man on the street, con- cerned with making his own hv- whole thing looks like teacup. He isn’t ing, the tempest in a except that he does feel law should be strictly and the constitution anothe: that the followed adhered to. We have Mr. Fraser's assur- national an item on the ‘ “fines and damages from trai-/ Your Grocer tors.” Next year it will bring the state $10,000,000. Ali members of the late V: kun. 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