Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1943 — Page 4

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By Sciehce Service - CHICAGO, May 7.—Success in the first trials of a new method of testing goiter by medicines instead of by surgical operation is reported by Dr. E. B. Astwood, of Harvard Medical school, in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical association.

The medicines used are thiourea and thiouracil. ‘They have the unique property of inhibiting the function of the thyroid gland, actually, it is believed, preventing pro-

duction of its powerful hormone.

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Patients with the kind of goiter in which popping eyes, extreme nerve ousness and thinness are symptoms suffer from too much thyroid hormone. This excess hormone drives the life processes ut too fast a pace and even acts as a poison in its effects on the heart.

Operation to remove part of the gland and thus reduce the amount of hormone produced has so far been the chief method of treating the condition. The results reported by Dr. Astwood suggest that pa-

tients in future may not need to

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have this operation but can have their too-active thyroid glands kept under control by taking daily doses of thiourea or thiouracil. Further studies, Dr. Astwood points out, will be needed to determine the best and safest methéds of using these new medicines for long term treatment.

CHURCH GROUP TO MEET The sisterhood organization of Lawrence Methodist church will meet at 8 p. m. Monday. Election of officers will be held.

ELECTS DIRECTORS

' The Indiana Telephone associa-

tion,

for three-year terms. Frank E. Bohn, Ft. Wayne; R.

F. Lucier,

Warsaw,

meeting yesterday at the Claypool hotel, elected five directors

They are: George E.

Perry, Terre Haute; Roscoe D. Pontius, Rochester, and G. J. Wellborn,

Princeton.

SPONSOR BENEFIT PARTY Gold Mound council 445 will spon-

sor a benefit card party at 8 p. m, tomorrow in the Red Men's hall

North st. and Capitol ave.

AN ADVANCED U. 8 BASE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, April 22 (Delayed) (U. P.).—Navy medical corpsmen erected a 24-bed frame hospital in 24 hours while Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and his companions were en route to this base after spending 21 days in liferafts on the open seas. Lt. Cmdr. James T. Fuller of Mayfield, Ky. the navy doctor who first attended the exhausted Rickenbacker party, cited this construc tion record today as typical exam-

ple of how American doctors and

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their aids are prepared to mest any wartime emergency—even at an isolated front-line base. “We had only one small frame building for operating purposes when word came Rickenbacker and his party had been sighted,” Fuller said. “Our tent facilities were ine adequate to hospitalize’ such a group of patients, so we set about building a frame hospital.” By working steadily all day and night, the corpsmen, under Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Roy Winnie of

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the building completed, even to screening, when the survivors were brought ashore. Only paint was lacking. y Fuller, a graduate of Long Island college hospital in Brooklyn, said that except for regular hospital beds and food for special diets, his jungle hospital is as well equipped as any in metropolitan centers. “Just as methods of (fighting have improved, so have methods of caring for the sick and wounded,” he explained. “We now have 12 buildings in our hospital unit aside

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from an underground operating room for use during air raids.” ‘Despite the geographical loca~ tion of the tropical island, the marine and naval personnel of this garrison has maintained a sickness record of less than 1 per cent.

0. E. 8. GROUP TO MEET

Indianapolis chapter 393, O, E. 8,, will meet at 8 p. m. Tuesday at the temple, 1522 W. Morris st. Mrs, Sarah Mills is worthy matron and Lyonel Sweet worthy patron.

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