The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 November 1965 — Page 7

Science Today

By DELOS SMITH NEW YORK UPI — Medical science has long known that two commonly used tools of our high-pressure living — alcohol and barbiturates — mix dangerously in human body chemistry. For a long time it has tried to impress this knowledge on people in general. But with indifferent success, since many energetic, hardworking “high-achievers,’* to use a technical term for spectacularly successful persons, mix them and some sooner or

! later pay with their lives for either ignoring or not knowing about the chemical phenomenon j of synergism. That's a word to remember and to respect. When two j medicinal “agents” cooperate in : body chemistry to bring about an effect which neither could bring about alone, you have synergism, and synergism killed Dorothy Kilgallen. television personality and newspaperwoman extraordinaire. A drink before bedtime is one of the more pleasant and least

dangerous relaxing "agents” known to medicine. People think of alcohol as a stimulant but after powering a short burst of energy it has the opposite result. It depresses the central nervous system.

if intangibles in the body chemistry happen to be evilly aligned, (and there is no way of | telling how they’re aligned) synergism takes place. The one drink greatly multiplies the relaxing impact of the

A sleeping pill from the bar- one sleeping pill on the central

biturate family of drugs at bedtime is one of the surer and safer ways of assuring a restful sleep. The barbiturates bring about this marvel of “agent”induced relaxation by depressing the central nervous system, just as alcohol does. One drink or one sleeping pill is incapable of depressing the system to anything even approaching a dangerous low. But

nervous system, and vice versa. From that system comes the nervous impetus which, among other things, keeps the heart beating. Depress it enough and

the impetus ceases.

This then was how synergism killed the high-achiever Miss Kilgallen. It’s true that the more the alcohol and the barbiturates put into body chemistry the greater the chance of

synergism, but the medlcai examiner found only small amounts of them in her chemistry. Medical scientists hope the accidental tragedy which befell Miss Kilgallen will be a warning to other high-achievers who may now and then find it hard to fit periods of restful sleep into their extremely busy lives.

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Monday, November 22, 1965

SMILING THROUGH—Princess Margaret smiles through a rain-spattered car window during her Washington visit

Excitement fills the air as these needy Filipinos gather around to see the latest bundle of joy. It is not the proverbial bundle of joy—but it brings life in another way—in the form of life-giving supplies such as food, clothing and medicine. Here, clothing is being distributed by a social worker from Catholic Relief Services, overseas aid agency of American bishops, which operates relief and welfare programs for the needy, regardless of race, n eed or color, in more than 70 countries. You, too, can bring joy to those in need by donating your serviceable used clothing, shoes and bed linen to the annual Thanksgiving Clothing Campaign. Bring or send a bundle to the nearest Catholic church during November.

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