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VOL. No. 4 JANUARY-1943

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Pathology of Cerebral Anoxia with Illustrative Cases...... W . B. Dublin

Plague— Clinical Aspects...... C. G. Trimble

The Local Problem...... L. E. Powers

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Tacoma, Washington IUII.UTIN .1/ iiw I’n-Kcn County M idkai- Socihty

Happy New Year... more or less !

D uring 19-4 5, we arc going to have .1 lighten­ of light conversation W f still have a numbo ing of many war efforts However, thru is no of things which might easily be rationed or cvet 11ml of getting jittery over flu* nutlnok Ka- eliminated altogether, to the advantage of tlM 1 Mining of foods has bun in (lit it tor sonic nmc aiul wc have notiml no gre.n imonven- lentc to any one yet, beyond m aking a subject ( n m i, In 1 Some years ago, some of the minoi players in Hollywood appeared in public with all their make tip on, lor tear no one would Pierce County Medical Society know thcv were at tresses From this, the fid ( i n n i :iis IDIMIM'I of using lip sink spread throughout the COUn< P ll Ml|( III < li.li M.11:11J try, abetted by the sheepmmds of women. We I’H'.htinl I'll if S I I |« i 1 ii 1.11111 can understand the use ol artificial coloring by Vim- I'ic M.lcnf It II M i. It.u- Si < m m i \ I w m r. mi.. the odaliv|u< kept in die liarein for strictly im­ irii*ln < i moral purposes and whose usefulness ended I I MiN'*r:hnc-. s M M, tm < I 1 nfills 1 K |t w 1. when her i harms rm longer stimulated the endo­ < V l.ui;J\uk < lv M.,» ,11 I \\ JjfltN s | M > I I II I 1 I I crine luiktimis ol the lord and master, but to I \\ (,.j|l.k-i.n H | I M i, |( m see young guls, with what looks like a slash of It I) Wfi«ht \\ |l ......

lll 'll 'H I I Il'N raw heel where a pretty mouth should be, and S M 1 |{ m .i [irt particularly to sec them smearing on successive I W I .UK s s | 11< 1 rm 11x 1 cats while .it a table ill a public place, does not S’ m f 1 t t ' M \ ! j I ' I I .... \ . r« n f I \\ ?a'.t U l« 'A .... . add m ull to .>nc s iniowiit m of .1 meal. When • Mm r,, ... ji J .K,.r < V I ., K : I this all h.ippins.ir briaklasi and the damsel adds Ah. ... 1 Jfir I |( Mill 'II lliisiit«‘ss lliiiriiu I 1 11 »t .1 pre-breakfast iigarcttt, and another during the * M ...n | A 11,1'" K I) M.u R.ic- \\ p K ,,,! meal, leaving die red -smeared stubs in the C Iv.lr M.n-ill saucer, we think it is tune lo protest. The pub­ (inniiinis lic spend c 11 ■ Hiuli t..r m an, ins and tobacco to 1. u ..f k rebuild tin \t\\ o o i w.it So vve offer this > F H * ...... • ‘ , ■■■ K < s • , . as one pl.u t to rt trc m h 1 :1 li i « •. W I) K< ,1 « ...... v 11 ,'1" I v 1 h i, A v k w n| the iimbs lined up in the I'ustu cnliiii («• I lilirii O mii M K II. -n I In.M. 11, State hi|uoi stoics makes one wonder if anyone L T Mi N. iilut. \ is going to have mom \ lift to buy w ar bonds. I’llhlii- l( <■ I (i I Iiiiih A \ \ I ! < 1...... -And a:Min v\ 1 ii.,u whim; ruls, making more .11,.. I’ul.lir Ilfnltll .Mill S;i||ll;i(|»l. montv tli.m t\ * *...... I M...... , I.1I.1111 » liLjuorat rim, ,li ill.u s t n niort a tjuart. This, of I K I-. ■■■ 1. tourse, IS w.H tlint hvsnria l ast w ar we had 1-i-UtsliiOi v « I I nr, I . 1 ...... fifteen dollar silk shins ( enainly, this is tin 1 1 "■ 1 , 1 , 1 h m i. argument fm i.iscs .it tin soune. which we w ill have this \ ( ,u

I A lltel I ii I ii mm 11 ( Shortage ,.| man powti I .Mu Rickenbacher I Ii Mi,.| U if,.,,. recently said. ,mt ihe ih.it if we could get the bins limn ( madali anal in the industries, I W 1.nil.I MM they Would double the piodutiioti, meaning, of « K-li M l, III >1«llll..| S || | || lourse. that tin pit sent t it vv s in our production

1 uni •■ml 1 l.il.l ||, plants w e r e ,,1|( t>t,|v as m uch WOfk a' they might M.my ol us have been unable to unucrstand tin system use,I in the shipyards it II I III III S(M|| 11 a,rl'l'," t I’1'""', "i «liuh seven men stand I .In.., I'll.Ill, .1 M.I,Ml,, | (< omuiued on pagt. 17 ) BULLETIN of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y 3

Medical History . . . As You Like It!

The Origin of the Caduceus. From as far back posed to the military. A somewhat similar form as Greek antiquity, and even in Biblical times, of this caduceus was also used as the staff of the snake has been used as a symbol of medicine Hermes, who was god of many things, such as and health. Presumably it was because the prin­ the wind and air, as well as robbers, thieves ciple of life was represented by the serpent with and traitors, and guide of souls to Hades. Some its ability periodically to cast off its skin and have facetiously suggested that from this latter apparently renew its youth. Accordingly, tamed duty of Hermes the caduceus came to symbolize snakes were used in the temple of Aesculapius the medical profession.

for the psychic effect and also to lick wounds Just exactly how the winged caduceus, which of the patients. Aesculapius, the Grecian god has no legendary association with medicine, of medicine, is always represented as carrying a came to represent the profession is not known. heavy, rough staff with a single serpent en­ It is thought, however, that certain medical twined about it— the staff for walking and the printers used it as a part of their frontpieces serpent as a symbol of medical knowledge or to show the unity between medicine and letters healing powers. as indicated by the two entwined snakes. From this it was probably misrepresented as being an The winged caduceus used today as the em­ emblem of medicine and later incorporated on blem of the medical profession is a light wand the insignia of the U. S. Army Medical Corps— with a pair of wings at the top and having two its misuse being practically assured from then on snakes entwined about the wand. It was orig­ inally the wand of Mercury, messenger of the No matter how widespread its use, however, the winged caduceus with two entwined snakes Gods, and later symbolized the peaceful conduc­ is actually not a symbol of the medical profes­ tion of business—the mercantile world as op- sion. The only true emblem is the rough staff with a single serpent, the staff of Aesculapius, god of medicine. "I he B etierW a y” REFERENCES Arnold, H. L., Serpent-Emblems of Medicine, TACOMA MAUSOLEUM Mich. M. Soc. 36:157, March, ’37. South 53rd & Alder St. GA. 7562 The Jour, of the La. State Univ. School of Crematory MAUSOLEUM Columbarium Medicine, Vol. Ill, No. 2, Aug. ’42. — From the Connecticut State Medical Journal.

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of Pierce County Medical Society An act passed by the state legislature in 1942 OF DECEMBER 8, 1942 requires every physician attending a pregnant woman to obtain a sample of blood for a serological test for syphilis at the patient's first The regular meeting of the Pierce County visit. On several occasion recently it has come Medical Society was held on December 8, 1942, to the attention of the health department this with President Magill in the chair. Minutes procedure has been neglected entirely. Should of the last meeting were read and approved. a syphilitic baby be born because of a physician’s A case report on traumatic hemothorax was neglect to take a blood sample someone may be given by Dr. John F. Steele. This was a very in distress. interesting case of a man who had received a Blood samples may be sent to the State De­ crushing injury of the chest, with marked partment of Health Laboratory, Smith Tower, hemothorax. After about ten days the fluid Seattle, Wash., where the test will be performed was gradually removed. Dr. Steele stressed the free of charge for the physician. importance of caution in the removal of blood in the pleura for traumatism. The case was dis­ —C i t y H e a l t h D e p a r t m e n t . cussed by Drs. Herrmann and Schaeffer.

The paper of the evening was given by Dr. C. F. Engels, entitled "Urogenital Crossroads.” DAMMEIER This paper was written in Dr. Engels’ usual entertaining and thought-producing style. He Printing Co. stated that the crossroads of the urogenital tract M A IN 1 0 6 5 is the prostate. He called particular attention to the function of the prostate as a guard against 811 Pacific Ave. Tacoma infections of the upper urinary tract. He pre­ sented several clear and interesting slides show­ ing the pathology as revealed by the X-ray study and autopsy. He particularly called attention to the use of stilbestrol and castration for relief of the symptoms in cancer of the prostate. The Oakland Drug Store paper was discussed by Dr. Magill, who re­ ported cases which he had seen which were Complete Prescription Stock relieved of the pain and discomfort of cancer of the prostate by stilbestrol. ☆ The society acted on a recommendation pre­ Pharmacist in charge has had 17 years' sented by the Trustees that for the duration one monthly meeting of the society only be held, experience in Prescription Work. that to be held on the second Tuesday of the month, with the exception of June, July and ☆ August. We always co-operate fully with the

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Plague is a disease primarily of small animals, S y m p t o m s a n d S i g n s : particularly rodents, which is communicable to The incubation period is from two to ten man and usually transmitted by fleas. It is gen­ days. In the pneumonic form it is shorter, erally characterized in man by the production occasionally only three days. The portal of of a severe septic process with an involvement entry is either through skin or lungs. The dis­ of the lymphatic system, high mortality and a ease is characterized by a sudden onset of chills rapid course. and fever ranging from 102° to 105°, with E t i o l o g y : violent headache and vertigo. Prostration is Plague is caused by a pleomorphic coccobacil- marked and out of all proportion to the dura­ lus which exhibits bipolar staining. Rodents tion of the illness. There is an expression of are the primary reservoir of the disease and man great weariness, the face is flushed and con- is infected by the rat flea. The flea acts merely junctivae are injected. The tongue is swollen as a mechanical transmitter. There are two main and furred and occasionally there is vomiting clinical forms of the disease, bubonic and pneu­ and diarrhea at the onset. Spleen and liver are monic. The disease manifests itself in the bu­ palpable and leucocytosis varies from fiteen to bonic form in man when the flea is the vector. fifty thousand. The bubonic form is not usually contagious Bubonic Form: Within twenty-four hours from man to man unless a secondary pneumonia the lymph glands become painful and swollen. develops. When the disease spreads from man The lymph glands nearest the portal of entry to man the pneumonic form results. show the earliest and most marked involvement. Abdominal tenderness is often present as a re­ sult of the involvement of the mesenteric glands. The buboes may suppurate. Lowe's Pneumonic Form : The general features are similar but there is a marked cough with hemor­ Rest Home rhagic watery sputum. Signs of bronchopneu­ monia soon develop and patches coalesce to for form massive areas of consolidation. The in­ cubation period is shorter than in the bubonic Elderly People type and there are no buboes present. The pneu­ The beautiful Wallace Estate monia is not a secondary pneumonia. This form 10 lovely bedrooms is highly contagious from man to man and extremely fatal. 5 bathrooms Large Yard and Flowers Septicemic For??i: This form may result from either bubonic or the pneumonic type. It merely ☆ indicates an overwhelming blood infection. The patient usually dies before buboes or pneumonia All guests have private rooms; a develops. A mild form sometimes develops home in which your parents known as Pestis Minor which is extremely receive the personal care we dangerous from the standpoint of the spread gave our own. We pride our­ of the disease. selves upon the food served— all tray service. D i a g n o s i s : The clinical diagnosis of bubonic plague is ☆ made by finding the buboe, the extreme pros­ tration and constitutional symptoms. Bubonic 402 North J Street form must be differentiated from tularemia, MAin 4432 various forms of acute lymphadenitis, syphilis, (Continued on page 11) 10 BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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PLAGUE PRIMER results with anti-plague serum if given at the (Continued from page 9) time the infected dose was used. More recently acute mononeucleosis. The organisms may be sulphapyradine and sulphathiazole have been recovered in about 17 percent of the cases from used experimentally. Sulphathiazole gave better the blood and quite readily by aspirated mate­ results than sulphapyradine. Eighty percent of rial from a buboe on direct smear and culture. cures resulted in rats with the use of sulpha­ Pneumonic plague should be suspected when a thiazole. profuse, pink watery or frothy sputum is noted, During a recent epidemic in Nairobi, Africa, with extreme prostration and few physical find­ with 547 cases and 354 deaths, sulphapyradine ings. Sputum from pneumonic cases is loaded was used. Sulphapyradine was relatively ineffec­ with the organisms. tive in the pneumonic or septicemic form. Out T r e a t m e n t : of 131 cases of pneumonic or septicemic plague, Prophylaxis: Elimination of the infected ro­ 129 died. It was demonstrated sulphapyradine dents, proper sanitation and ratproofing of all had to be used early to be of any value. Of 33 structures form the basis of prevention. Haff- cases with illness of one day, 4 died; of 72 kine’s vaccine, prepared from the killed or­ cases with illness of two days, 16 died; of 17 ganisms, is used with varying degrees of suc­ cases with illness of three days, 6 died; of 40 cess. Partial immunity is established for short cases with an illness of four or more days, periods. Passive immunity has been attempted 35 died. by the use of Yersin’s anti-plague serum. Prognosis: The average mortality of plague Treatment of the Case: Yersin’s anti-plague before the use of the sulphonamides was 75 per­ serum seems to be of some value in the bubonic cent. It is almost 100 percent in the septicecmic form if given early and in large doses. Recently form and nearly as bad in the pneumonic type. the sulphonamide drugs have been used. Schultz It is more severe in adults and those who are has shown experimentally with rats that M & B depleted or undernourished. No. 693, which he calls "Sulphone,” gave equal — L . E. P o w e r s .

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Qun, QoyA, in the School of Aviation Medicine. Classes start at 6:30 A.M. and last until 5 P.M. leaving the Les Baskin and A1 Ehrlich both left Seattle evenings free for study. However, Walter is just before Christmas and are now somewhere enjoying it and is sold on the efficiency of the in Alaska where the thermometer registers Army Medical Services. His wife and son are many degrees below zero. Les writes they dress at Balboa Beach, California, near Walter's next like Eskimos and look like overstuffed polar stop, which will undoubtedly be Santa Ana Air bears when they go out. Their address is APO Field. No. 942, c/o Postmaster, Seattle. From the looks of the printed menu, they had some feast Glenn McBride at home on a visit from Car­ Christmas day, certainly reads better than the lisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, where he has been menu at any of our hotels. The one thing they getting some more training but will return to crave is letters from home, so let's write them Camp Luna, New Mexico, part of the Air Trans­ often. port Command, shortly after the first of the year. He is having a good time in the Army but Charlie Larson has been training with his still likes Tacoma best. unit at Camp Carson, Colorado, and now is on a visit here, before his outfit leaves for some un­ Homer Humiston is still at Letterman Gen­ known destination. Charlie has a crew of 20 eral in San Francisco, in a replacement pool laboratory workers. He expects his group will awaiting orders to a permanent assignment, receive travel orders about the middle of Janu­ ary. after a course of Army indoctrination, which, we think, is making a military gent out of a Walter Cameron is going through the strenu­ civilian. We had that in the last war. Can you ous training course at Randolph Field, Texas, do a snappy "About Face” Homer?

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dropping eggs on a target and having other O u k & G y l u tl/n ijjO Su H , fun. Those of us who spent the winter of 1917 training in Kansas can sympathize with Don, Now comes the sailor, George Moosey, who as far as weather goes. This lad has gained ten has already experienced the relief from private pounds so we can guess how tough Army life practice, collections, 24 hour duty, etc. George is for him. is apparently taking courses in marksmanship, with rifle, pistol, machine gun and automatic F. W. Hennings is at Pacific Beach, Wash­ rifle and is having a fine time. He says the ington, a fine place to summer. He’s having Navy is great and don’t take too much stock training too, but little medicine. Probably look­ in what the commentators tell you, to the con­ ing out over the Pacific Ocean for approaching trary. H e’s still at Sand Point air field. Japs. He also expects to be moved in the near future. Bill Norton, at Santa Monica, California, has really got the tough assignment. Every day the Another of our former internes, Lt. McCand- poor guy has to walk a whole half block from less, U.S.N. is cruising off the Florida Coast on his apartment to his office in a deluxe hotel a destroyer. Certainly lucky, some people pay and see some patients. Every night there is the out a great deal of money for that same sport. weary trudge of half a block home again. Our Glad to hear from you, Mac. heart bleeds so for you, Bill, that we are send­ ing you a billiard table by air mail. Just wait Fordyce Johnson finally got his orders and till they ship you to Africa, feller. has reported at Barnes General Hospital, Van­ couver, Washington, where the veteran, Bill Don Willard is still at Topeka, Kansas, with Kay and the baby, who has cut a tooth and is Goering and Forrest Monzingo are still hold­ learning to walk. Don has been up in a bomber, ing the fort.

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as it could be made. Cmdy&Allen Co.,Funeral Directors Dale Forkenbrock, Manager 1224 So. Eye Street M A in 5801 16 BULLETIN o/ the Pierce County M edical Society % Q w i& 64fl in ldaljoA sft c/o Postmaster, New York. We hope the Bul­ let in reaches you Jess w ith all our best wishes. ~ Jerry Kohl seems to be stuck at Fort Lewis all these last months and doesn't know whether J. W. Bowen, now known as Bill, is Squadron he is on the home front or in the Army. Surgeon with the 10th Observation Squadron, Army Air Base, Abilene, Texas. Let us hear Hillis Griffin is also at Lewis, enjoying the from you Bill, with details. new experience, the new acquaintances but Scott Jones is still at Fort Worden, regimental misses the "bull'' sessions at the T.G.H. surgeon for the 248th Coast Artillery, surgeon for the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound, ob­ Cliff Whitaker is in charge of a 750 bed hos­ stetrician for 10 or 12 soldier's wives a month pital somewhere in the South Pacific, probably and doing some gyn besides. That, we would where the wounded from Guadalcanal are evac­ say, should keep him busy. uated by air. Although few Japs are likely to read the Bulletin, we can not say more about Frank James is at the Station Hospital, this now. Kearns, Utah. I

Jess Read has finally been located, in Africa. Dr. Lash, late superintendent of the School With Jess and Ike Eisenhower on the job, this for Feeble - minded Children at Buckley, has North Africa mess will soon be cleaned up. We been called into military service. Too bad for have no details but the address is Capt. Jess the school, as Dr. Lash was a very efficient and Read, 11th Evacuation Hospital Mtg. APO 668, capable superintendent.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR . . . more or less! bureaus was what ruined France. May we es­ cape that. (Continued from page 2) In spite of all the above, our military forces around doing nothing, while one man goes for seem to be doing a good job, may they finish some essential piece of material. Some of it it soon and completely. seems to be the fault of management, some can be charged to labor unionism. Obviously, if they all could be inspired to do all they could, The LARRABEE NURSING HOME man-power would be doubled in industry. IS NOW PREPARED TO CARE FOR Government. The amazing increase in gov­ POST OPERATIVE and CONVALESCENT ernment employes has been startling. There Good Pood CASES Good Care are undoubtedly a million men in government 3710 Thompson Ave. GArland 3732 service who could be released to the military forces or industries, with tremendous improve­ ment in the service. Pools of idle employes, be­ STANDARD BURNER OIL ing kept for fear they may be needed at some THE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME future time. Other Bureaus full of men draw­ Distributed by ing pretty pictures to be printed at government expense, to be sent to us to let us know we are Fuel Oil Service Corp. at war. Questionnaires sent out by the ton, re­ MAin 3171 questing information that no one on earth can supply and being filed away in some store-room 816 A STREET TACOMA when they are again received. Government by

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A Message To The Doctor in The War

Our participation in the struggle for the sur­ I like to consider military medical service in vival of Democracy and human decency was two categories, "in line of duty" and "not in the signal for the active mobilization of the line of duty." The first is a fine thing, safe­ medical personnel of the nation. The response, guarding the health of soldiers; ministering to as anticipated, has been magnificent. In times them when they are sick; repairing their wounds. of national crises our doctors have always will­ The second, "not in line of duty" is even finer. ingly made personal sacrifices, subscribing to It is the giving of something more than that the ideals of Democracy and fulfilling again the which is required. ancient oath of the Healing Guild. The doctor who wishes to give not only a full The medical profession has a very large stake measure but also to the overflowing, will think in the issue of this war. The continuation of the not only of the routine protection of the health growth and development of medical science de­ of troops, but will have in mind constantly the pends upon personal freedom of thought and approaching "test by fire." He will be ever unhampered investigation. These rights are as vigilant to discover those soldiers who would much in jeopardy from dictatorial lust for be dangerously vulnerable to the considerable power, as is free speech or the right to worship strain and stress of active combat. These men God according to the dictates of one’s con­ are potentially "breakable” human material; science. sometimes because of masked physical weak­ nesses; more often for underlying neuro-psy­ Thousands of American physicians are serv­ chiatric reasons. Unless too greatly outnumbered, ing with the armed forces, not only here but on the victorious armies will be those with the distant battle fronts. Soon many more thou­ soundest morale. More than any other officer, sands will be serving. They will find themselves the medical officer can contribute to the attain­ in new and strange surroundings. Discomforts ment of sound morale, by weeding out the unfit. iand hardship will be experienced. Unaccus­ tomed discipline will be irksome, but soon these Modern physicians have in civil life busied and other dissatisfactions will be forgotten in themselves with raising to the highest possible the face of numerous opportunities for service. level, the health of the communities in which they practice. In the larger fields of the armed services, the failure or success in the attainment of this objective will be read in terms of defeat Karen Rvnning or ultimate victory. PHYSIOTHERAPY An important "not-in-line-of-duty” oppor­ Member of tunity will be found in the close relationship American Physiotherapy Association between medical officer and soldier. The ma­ REFERRED WORK ONLY jority of doctors who enter the armed services are recruited from the ranks of general practi­ 507 Medical Arts Building tioners, the backbone of American medicine. BRoadway 2862 (Continued on page 21) 20 B U L L E T I N of the Pierce County M edical Society

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A Message to the Doctor O ak BotfA Ut in the War At this point, we wish to express thanks to (Continued from page 21) Mr. W. O. Jeffrey, of the Aetna Insurance Com­ how this or that weapon of offense, submarines, pany, the lad who sells us our malpractice in­ tanks, aeroplanes, battleships, cruisers, infantry, surance. Jeff has been sending home newspapers artillery, the army, the navy, etc., gained the and other contributions to many of our boys victory. Thousands of doctors, who have given and a number of the foregoing items have been a full measure of medical service will know gleaned from their replies to him. They all like without egotism, that if the unified, patriotic to get the Bulletin with news of the profession devotion of American medicine has been lack­ and the local newspapers, with general news of ing, the cause of Democracy would have been Tacoma. We suggest more of us do likewise. lost. Without exception, all our boys in service EDWARD A. STRECKER, M.D. write cheerful, happy letters. They are well con­ Professor of Psychiatry, tent with the jobs they are doing and find the University of Pennsylvania, new kind of life interesting. As a matter of Medical School, fact, they are having all the fun and the rest of Philadelphia, Pa. us are just slogging along, working a bit harder, Reprinted—"Digest of Treatm ent May, 1942. hoping we may pay our taxes and have some­ thing left to buy war bonds. So, congratulations Lest we forget . . . to you lads in uniform and condolences to us BUY BONDS left at home.

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Mrs. Jean Hawley, technician in Dr. Sander­ Pek&Q4t&l&. .. son’s office, has a son on Guadalcanal, with the Marines. Let’s give the little girl a big hand. George Kunz, Junior, has graduated from Temple University Medical School and is now We have a juicy bit of scandal coming up in interning in the King County Hospital. He the life of one of our intellectual big shots. will probably be grabbed by the military author­ Can’t say more on account of the libel laws. It ities as soon as he finishes. will come up in the Divorce Court soon. Read your Bulletin, girls and keep two jumps ahead Arch Heaton also has a son in Denver. Med­ of WincheU. ical College, now in his third year.

Millard Nelsen has been recuperating in COM M UNICABLE DISEASES California from his late pneumonia and is now back on the job, considerably less in weight, November much to the improvement of his "figger.” Chickenpox ...... 79 Fred Scheyer has the bug to breed trotting Diphtheria ...... - 1 horses. Well, that will bring down the amount of his income tax. German measles...... 5 M easles...... 262 County Health Officer Magnusson is back Mumps ...... - ...... 136 from learning all about the Sister Kenney treat­ ment for polio, at Minneapolis. With him, Bur­ Scarlet fever...... 5 ton Brown and Lee Powers as experts, this Whooping cough...... 2 should leaven up the local profession adequately. Tuberculosis ...... -...... 2

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VOL. xm ■ No. 2 FEBRUARY -1943

Medical Arts Auditorium 8:15 P. M.

FEBRUARY 9

Case report: Non-surgical treatment of mutiple osteomyelitis B. N. Ootkin

Symposium on poliomyelitis

Concept of the Kenny treatment - - - - L. E. Powers Pathologic physiology and treatment - - N. E. Magnussen Hot pack demonstration - - Mrs. Fletcher, R.N., P.H.N. Discussion...... B. A. Brown Election of Nominating Committees

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o f f i c e r s 1042-I043 P r e s id e n t ...... Clyde M agill Due to the flood of mail to service men, President Elect ...... S. F. Herrmann the government has ruled that publications may Vice President ...... R. D. MacRac Secretary-Treasurer ...... W . B. Penney be sent from the publisher direct to the sub­ scriber, but re-mailing of newspapers and Trustees magazines will not be permitted. This allows L. T. McNerthney S. M. MacLean C. F. Engels T. K. Bowles the Bulletin to go through as usual. So if you C. V. Lundvick Clyde Magill E. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann have messages to the boys in uniform, give J. \V. Gullikson R. D. MacRac R. D. Wright \V. B. Penney them to us and we will attempt to get them to their destination. Bettter, write the lads D e l e g a l ^ direct. What they crave is letters. We hope to S. M. MacLcao C. R. McCreery F. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann keep our address files up to date and will be

Alternates glad to furnish information. Alternate for S. M. MacLean ...... C. F. Engels Alternate for E. W . janes ...... R. D. W right Alternate at Large ...... C V. Lundvick Alternate at Large ...... F. R. Maddiscm Business Bureau Trustees The military forces will need ten thousand W. B. McCrccry L. A. Hopkins R. D. MacRac W. D. Read more doctors this year, leaving eighty' thousand Clyde M agill in civilian life. Looks as if some of us would

COHIMITTRES have to get out the old uniform from the last Scientific AVovk war. Well, we did it before and we can do S. F. Herrmann, Chairman R. C. Schaeffer it aErain.

Klliies W . D. Read, Chairman A. H. Buis E. W. Janes You fellows in military7 service may think Postgraduate Induration M. R. Hosie, Chairman you have the tough part but it must be relatively L. T. M cNerthney easy compared to civilian practice these days. Pul>1ic Relations What with a shortage of nurses, our hospitals A. W . Howe, Chairman s- E- L'Sht S. M. MacLcan seem at times to be mad-houses. The writer

Public Health and Sanitation put in a seventeen-hour day recently, which is E. W . Janes. Chairman all right if not made the regular thing. Supplies L. E. Powers 3SJ. E. Magnussen go to the military first, we take what is left, Library W . W . Mattson, Chairman it any. The shipyards draw off our stenographers T. K. Bowles and office help, the boys in the garage go the T^cnislative same place or into the Army, even our lunch F. Engels, Chairman rooms are hard pressed to give us lunch. On top of which, we have been having the biggest House S F. Herrmann, Chairman snowfall since Adam was a pup, can’t get into W. A. N.flhammcr C. V. Lundvick- the garage, can't get up the hills and Hell to Kiitcrtaininent T- B. Murphy, Chairman pay, generally. Give us the Army every time. A. H. Johnson K D MacRac Military J. R. Turner, Chairman l i 1, V',,lmacre J. W. Gullikson Incidentally, a word of tribute is due our W - B - ’■tn n c > Clyde Mngill Membership nurses in these times. They may not have to 1 K' Ul,wlc' A. L. Schultz undeigo bombing and shell-fire but otherwise Maternal and Child Health W J Whitacre. Chairman they are doing as grand a job as was done on r » m ; V ■’ Cll;urman Dr. Whiiacre’s absence • 1* D.iytOII /"'i l > r *it Bataan. More power to them and to the un­ N. H. Arwnu«c Col.^flu K Clark selfish women who are acting as Nurses’ Aides. ,. „ ^ II u Net In Stall’ I'. Engels...... v We sincerely hope they will all stick it out \v/ W Milium Editor ...... Business Manager for the duration. B U L L E T I N of the P ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y 3

The Physicians & Dentists Business Bureau M y r t l e C hristoferson , Manager Fourteen Ways To Beat A Bill We admii there are more

I.—DEATH: By dying without leaving any which exempts you from garnishment or attach­ estate out of which your debts can be settled. ment proceedings. 2.—BANKRUPTCY: The Scourge of Allah! 13—By being incarcerated in a penal in­ More deadly than the German Blitzkrieg. stitution for life* 3.—By pleading minority for the purchase 14—By being strictly a commission sales­ of anything except a necessity. man on your own. By that we mean where a 4.—By keeping one’s self execution-proof, bakery goods salesman takes out $30.00 worth which means that all property, real and personal, of merchandise today from X Bakery and, at that is purchased, is purchased in the name of the end of the day, pays the X Bakery for said the wife, in-law or friend. merchandise less his 30% commission. In such 5.—The case of a gambling debt by setting a case the X Bakery is not liable in garnishment proceedings since the salesman actually pays up the statutory defense— B Y A D M IT T IN G them instead of the X Bakery paying the I'M A WELCHER. salesman. 6.—Mr. J., an individual, can owe thousands of dollars as such individual, and incorporate * —This reminds us of the case of the ------and place his holdings in the corporation’s name Hotel which placed their account against Joe and we defy you to touch M R. J. A N O R D E R Doalc for collection. Upon sending No. 1 col­ IN AID PROCEEDING WILL PROVE that lection letter to Joe Doak: at his last known Mr. J. owns but two shares of stock in said address we received, some weeks later, a reply corporation and draws no weekly or monthly from the Warden of the Minnesota State Pen­ salary. itentiary which, in brief, stated: "We beg to 7.—By leaving (and we wish you would) advise that said Joe Doak has been incarcerated the country. in this institution until 1943, at which time he 8.—By leaving the state and seeking the will be turned over to the authorities of Atlanta, protection of a state wherein the laws pertain­ Georgia, to serve an unexpired term of 7 years. ing to debts are most lenient. For example, the Regretting that we cannot be of further assist­ State of Indiana does not have a garnishment ance to you in this matter, I beg to remain, sin­ law. The State of Indiana furthermore declares cerely yours, ------Warden, Minne­ a cognovit note illegal. In Florida personal sota State Penitentiary.” earnings are not subject to garnishment or P.S.— We have dated our files ahead but, being attachment. In Texas a cognovit note is illegal collectors at heart, we’ll still keep Joe Doak in and a criminal action will lie for use of same. the inactive file and not return the account as 9.—By being employed (God forbid) on uncollectible simply because W HERE THERE’S a WPA project for life. LIFE THERE'S HOPE. 10.—By being the recipient of a pension (Old Age, World War, Spanish War, etc.) for life. II.—By purchasing merchandise such as *7 he BetterWay” :oal or gasoline from a filling station without signing the delivery or acceptance slips for TACOMA MAUSOLEUM same. South 5 3rd & Alder St. GA. 7562 12.—By being a federal or state employee Crematory MAUSOLEUM Columbarium ind taking advantage of your legal exemption BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

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m in u t e s o f r e g u l a r m e e t in g STAFF MEETING of Pierce County Medical Society ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL Monday, February 15 th JANUARY 12, 1943 Diagnosis and Medical Therapy of Peptic Ulcer The regular meeting of the Pierce County Dr. E. W. Janes Medical Society was held in the Medical Arts Roentgenologic Diagnosis of Ulcer Auditorium on December 12, 1943, with the Dr. R. D. MacRae President, Dr. Clyde Magill, in the chair. Surgical Treatment of Ulcer Minutes of the previous meeting were read Dr. L. J. Hunt Essential Pathology of Ulcer and approved. Dr. C. R. McColl Dr. W. E. Dublin gave a paper on "The Come and hear a good meeting and have a Pathology of Cerebral Anoxia.” Dr. Dublin bit of refreshment afterward. gave several case reports and showed lantern J. V. Schwind, Chairman slides illustrating his paper. The second paper of the evening was given COMMUNICABLE DISEASES by Dr. C. G. Trimble, who discussed "The DECEMBER Clinical Aspects of Plague.” He was followed Chickenpox ...... 24 by Dr. L. E. Powers, who spoke of "The German Measles ...... 4 Local Problem as Regards Plague.” Measles ...... 326 Dr. Magill announced that there will be only M u m p s ...... 113 one meeting per month for the duration and Scarlet fever ...... 2 that the Nominating Committees would be Whooping cough ...... 5 elected at the February meeting. Tuberculosis...... 2

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OFFICERS President—Mrs. James H. Egan, 3722 North Washington Street, PRoctor 1133. The February meeting will be at the Dalhem President-Elect-^-Mcs. C. G. Trimble, 620 South Union, Street, Tearoom on Thursday, the 11th. Luncheon PRoctor 4811. will be at one o’clock and an interesting pro­ First Vice President— Mrs. Miles Parrott, 9997 Park Avenue, GRanite 8541. gram will follow. Second Vice President— Mrs. Lawreoce T. McNerthney, 3215 North Alder, PRoctor 4661. Mrs. J. H. Egan is calling a Board Meeting Third Vice President— Mrs. Glenn M. Steele, 3622 North 29th. PRoctor 6212. at 12:30. Fourth Vice President— Mrs. Benjamin T. Terry, 1001 North Yakima. BRoadway 1843. Treasurer—Mrs. L. E. C. Joers, 4026 Pacific Avenue, GAr­ land 4242. Recording Secretary— Mrs. L. S. Baskin, 906 North Tacoma Avenue, MAin 2333 Harold E. Dahl Co. Corresponding Secretary— Mrs. Chris C. Reynolds, 47 Orchard Road. PRoctor 5333. OFFICE FURNITURE CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES Program—Mrs. Lawrence T. McNerthney, 3215 North Alder, AN D SUPPLIES PRoctor 4661. Hygeia—Mrs. M. R. Hosie, 3320 South 8th, PRoctor 1517. • Membership— Mrs. Forrest Monzingo, 4045 South D Street. GArland 4973. 1015 Pacific Ave. MA. 6161 Community Service— Mrs. George J. Vandenberg, 3109 North 30th, PRoctor 3776. Social—Mrs. George A. Moosey, 1418 North 10th, BRoad­ way 2863. Reservations—Mrs. Benjamin T. Terry, 1001 North Yakima, BRoadway 1843. Publicity—Mrs. Glenn M. Steele, 3622 North 29th, PRoctor 6212. JORDAN’S Legislation— Mrs. Sydney M. MacLean, 1001 N orth Yakima, MAin 68S6. The Fresh-As-A-Daisy Bread Cancer Control— Mrs. Clifford Halvorsen, Steilacoom, LAke- wood 2048. — now enriched with— National Bulletin—Mrs. Lewis Hopkins, 3718 North Mason, PRoctor 6340. Vitamin B-l Historian—Mrs. Don G. Willard. 1001 North Eye, MAin 2014. 450 International Units per pound— the Telephone—Mrs. Frank H. James, Steilacoom Lake, LAke- equivalent of natural whole wheat grain. wood 2436. Exhibits—Mrs. Karl Staatz, 3408 North 29th, PRoctor 1550.

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The Collector Chats with the Bookkeeper

Miss Bookkeeper: so, next time you will open your account in Your most important duty, without doubt, the name of Mr. Smith—or better, in the is to protect your employer’s biggest single asset names of both Smith and his wife. —the accounts receivable. Perhaps, however, you really did open the But watch your step! His Honor, the judge, account in Smith’s name in the first place, is apt to be cranky about your bookkeeping. If something like this: In account with C. Smith, you don’t believe it, read some of the opinions 8th Avenue, City. When the poor collector in the court records. tries to find C. Smith on Eighth Avenue, he The Collector has been through the mill. will find him there from two to a half-dozen Permit him to make a few suggestions. times, but not once will he admit that he is Let us assume that you keep books for Dr. the one who owes your doctor money. Yes, Jones, the obstetrician. When the doctor says indeed, his name is Charles Smith, but have he is going to deliver Mrs. Smith, do you im­ you tried Chester Smith who lives up on the mediately proceed to open up a ledger page next block? Next time you will find out the in her name? Of course you do, and you make patient's first name and initials and his wife’s all the charges to her, too. But some day the first name and his street number and his doctor may want to enforce collection of that telephone number and his place of employ­ account, and so you will send the collector ment and a reference or two. At least you around to see Mrs. Smith’s husband. Maybe ought to, for your employer's protection. Smith will pay. And then again maybe he will But suppose, again, that you did charge be a smart guy and say, there isn’t any account Smith by his right name and his right address, on your books against ME. You will think that and under his name you write, "Delivery, baby is an awful dumb answer until you read what Marie— $50.00.” Three years go by and Smith the Supreme Court said in 177 Cal. 605. And fails to pay; so you tell the collector to sue him. When the case comes to trial you will be sur­ prised when the judge says: "Only one item, and that one a contract." "No book account, DAMMEIER hence barred. Judgment for defendant." After Printing Co. that you will promise yourself to itemize charges and services. A few wise book­ M A IN 1 0 6 5 keepers do. 811 Pacific Ave. Tacoma Once more: Let’s suppose you did every­ thing just right when you entered up Smith’s account. You knew Smith was a good citizen, but just temporarily short of funds. He belongs to the same club the doctor does and you just can’t think of being too hard on him. When Karen Rvnning the collector tells you this account is outlawed PHYSIOTHERAPY and that he won't even bother about listing it

M em b er o f for collection, then you will surely hate to break American Physiotherapy Association the bad news to the boss. But when you DO tell him how Smith’s account has gone sour, REFERRED WORK ONLY put a little bug in his ear, something like this: "Doctor, why not invite Mr. Collector up to 507 Medical Arts Building the office some evening and get him to give BRoadway 2862 us a few suggestions on puncture-proof book­ keeping?" There are tricks in all trades, and your collector probably has a whole bag full. 10 BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

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Chris Reynolds is having interesting ex­ O uk& cufb U tfynifjQ Sun periences too. He has been Acting Surgeon for a Combat Training Squadron and has oppor­ Cape. Frank Maddison has been transferred tunities to fly with the aviators in B17s and to Hammond General Hospital at Modesto, B24s, which is considerably different from flying California, capacity 1600 beds, probably to take in passenger ships. Looks like Chris will have a the overflow from Letterman General. Frank lot to tell, when he returns. is chief of section of the department of Inter­ * * * nal Medicine, which embraces cardio-vascular, A1 Ehrlich writes from somewhere in renal and arthritis, besides caring for all the Alaska, where he and Les Baskin are doing diabetics, doing all the consultant medical ser­ their stuff. They enjoyed the Rose Bowl Game on New Years Day, so they are evidently in vice and reading the electro-cardiograms. Out­ radio touch, at least, with the outside world. side of that, his time is his own, if any. Just What they crave, as do most of the boys, is the kind of job for this lad and just the lad letters. for the job. He sleeps in the hospital barracks * * # and eats in the hospital mess, so he’s close to Homer Humiston is back in Tacoma on his job at all times. H e wants some one to leave, shooting the breeze and a few billiards drive his car to him so if any of you are with us, and very impressive, indeed, in his contemplating a trip to California, please get uniform. Homer is due to report back to in touch with Mrs. Maddison. W e suspect the San Francisco in the near future, for embark­ bright lights of San Francisco are alluring and ation. We are having him take our greetings a car is a necessity. W e'll try to fix it for to Cliff Whitaker, just on the chance they may you, Frank. meet. It’s summer there, now, Homer.

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Carl Scheyer has sailed from Bremerton for O u t B o y d * parts unknown. Carl says, in the Navy, you have clean sheets every night, anyway. Best of A card from Forrest Monzingo, now officially luck, Carl, wherever you are. Assistant Chief of Orthopedic Section at Barnes # # * Hospital, Vancouver, Washington, who has been having Joe Benson as a patient lately. Ed Warren, Guy Griffith and Stefan Thor- Also reports Carlisle Dietrich visited Barnes darson are in Los Angeles, attending some with some patients. Bill Goering has been on EENT meeting. With seven inches of snow leave to attend the Orthopedic meeting in here, they picked a good time to be away.

Chicago, during the last month. Fordyce John­ * son is in the pool at Barnes also and does Jess Read’s family has finally had a letter not know just what his future will be. In the from him. In Africa, as we surmised, in the meantime, the Army is teaching him to fill out middle of the big show and going strong. What records as never before, so we may expect him a meeting we’re going to have, when all our to model charts for the rest of us, when he boys come home. returns. He reports that Dr. Petroni, formerly * * * on the staff of the Veterans Hospital at Amer­ ican Lake is in the pool with him. Nice letter, Lieut. K. H. Sturtevant is stationed at Ford, come again. Caspar, Wyoming, at an air base.

* # * * * * Lieut. Frank H. James has been transferred Lieut. Miles Parrott has been ordered to to same place in California. Mrs. James has Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, for training. resumed the practice of ursing. Good girl! Apparently the training there is for field duty. How we need nurses these days.

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(D a n , R o d f l i n 'l/ftU jp 'u n fate ruled otherwise. Last year, Dr. Johnson passed away. This year, Captain Harold John­ son is in the military service of his country, in Over a thousand years ago, Iceland adopted the land of his father's fathers, Iceland. a parliamentary form of government, tailed the Althing, which has persisted practically un­ * # * changed, to the present. In 1877, a boy was Bill M attson is another doctor w'ith a son born in Iceland, who, at the age of six, was studying medicine, Bill, Jr. is now a fresh­ brought to this country by his parents. He man at the University of Pennsylvania School of grew up in the Dakotas, graduated in medicine Medicine, where Bill, Senior graduated. and came to Tacoma to practice his profession. A kindly, quiet-spoken and unassuming man, * # * we knew' him as ]ohn Arnason Johnson. In Woody Niethammer was back at the old 1930, he took his family on a trip to the land town, Ann Arbor, last month, attending the of his birth, to witness the one-thousandth golden wedding anniversary of his parents. assembly of the Althing, a momentous occasion Probably looking over the old school too, with a which received world-wide publicity. Dr. John­ view of some day supplying a freshman in son had continued his interest in the Icelandic medicine also. language and literaaire as a hobby and had * * *- even taught his son to speak and read the same. He was proud of the fact that he could Dr. F. C. Willson, of Buckley is now' at­ trace his ancestry for a thousand years too, back tending physician to the School for Feeble­ to the original Norse settlers of Iceland. Dr. minded at Buckley, since Dr. Lash left. It is Johnson had hoped his son w'ould also follow' now Major Frederick M. Lash, of Lowney Field, his own career in the practice of medicine, but Denver. Colorado, an air training school.

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Warren Penney has been on the sick list 6 a n I n but as he couldn’t get his car from his home up the hill during the big snow, he escaped some We have a nice letter from Bernie Harring­ ton on the stationary of the Air Force Gunnery troubles, anyway. We are glad to hear he is School, Las Vegas, Nevada. W onder why this getting better. lad has to study gunnery, always thought he was an X-ray man. Its slightly reminiscent of the victory in the Gona area, in the Solomons. The LARRABEE NURSING HOME Somewhat of a urological tings, as it were. IS NOW PREPARED TO CARE FOR Bernie writes, "My letter would be incomplete POST-OPERATIVE and CONVALESCENT if I failed to acknowledge the kindness and Good Pood CASES Good Care thoughtfulness of you men prior to the entry 3710 Thompson Av<\ ' GArland 3732 of many of us into the armed forces. I am certain few societies were as considerate.” 'S all right, old-timer, we expect to look after our own. # # # STANDARD BURNER OIL THE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME Cecil Hurst is the proud parent of a baby Distributed by boy, and the Glen McBrides are also celebrating the arrival of a new baby. The first for Hurst, Fuel Oil Service Corp. the second for McBride. * * * MAin 3171 Ensign Joseph F. Smeall, son of Dr. Smeall, graduated from the Naval Training School in 816 A STREET TACOMA Tucson, Arizona, January 11th.

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correction, his foot, playing basket-ball. Now O u s t B o y i t i t f y n ijjO J im in a cast. Jim ’s family has been with him and all is well. Sends regards to all the bunch, here. Lieut. John R. Flynn is with the Marine Air­ Thanks, Jim, let us know when you move. craft Wings, Naval Air Station, San Diego, # * * California. He expected to go to the Mojave S. Russ Denzler, formerly of Gig Harbor, Desert Marine Base about the middle of Jan­ has finally succumbed to asthma and moved to uary for training leading to Flight Surgeon, Houston, Texas for the duration, at least. after which, he hopes to acquire enough exper­ * # # ience to entertain us when he returns to Bill Norton received his certification from Tacoma. God luck, Johnny, we know you can the American Board of Pediatrics in Novem­ do it. ber. Well, Bill, you can put that on ice for * # # the duration^what? Joe Turner has taken the family and him­ * * * self to Palm Springs for a rest and vacation. We hear the Tom Murphy’s have gone to Better go back in the Army, Joe, its lots easier California for a rest, the entire trip planned to these days. take eight days. Gosh, they must like train * # # travel, as over half of the time will be spent going and coming. Jim Fairbourn writes from Camp Carson, # # * Colorado, where his unit is now all trained Clarence J. Cummings, formerly superin­ and ready to go. They had a hurricane there in tendent of Tacoma General Hospital, died January, trees and portions of houses sailing January 28th in a Portland hospital. through the air made it exciting. He writes that Charlie Larson broke a bone in his head, Lowe's Oakland Drug Store Rest Home for Complete Prescription Stock Elderly People ☆ The beautiful Wallace Estate 10 lovely bedrooms Pharmacist in charge has had 17 years’ 5 bathrooms experience in Prescription Work. Large Yard and Flowers ☆ ☆ All guests have private rooms; a We always co-operate fully with the home in which your parents Physician and Patient receive the personal care we gave our own. We pride our­ selves upon the food served— ☆ all tray service.

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Fidelity Building, Tacoma, Wash. Telephone BRoadway 3255 BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society 21 KEEPING FIT of the increased work that is already beginning With probably forty per cent of our medical to come? men in the Armed Services now, or to be called Have you had any kind of a physical exam­ within the next year, it is an accepted fact that ination in the last year or two? the burden of caring for the sick and injured Have you had your blood pressure taken, a at home will be a heavy one for those of us metabolism done, a blood chemistry run or who are not called. other examinations? Fortunately much is being done to maintain If you have not, you may be surprised. good living conditions and to reduce sickness and accidents in civil life. Also, we are beginning Let us all do the things we recommend for to educate the public not to expect too much our patients for "keeping fit." medical attention during these critical times. —Bulletin of Jackson County Nevertheless there is another very important Medical Society. factor for physicians who remain at home to consider, i. e.; are you physically fit to take care THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT And then there’s the one about the big he- SMALL TOWN DEFENSE man who went to his doctor for an examin­ "There isn't much to be seen in a little town, ation: When it was all over he went home in but what you hear makes up for it.” a great state of exhilaration. Greeting his wife * * * at the door he said: "Whad’ye think, the Doc RATION TRAINING says I’m a great big hunk of 185 pounds of dynamite.” Freshwed: "My wife like tea for breakfast, while I like coffee.” "And," replied the patient wife, "what did he Oldwed: "You’ll soon get used to tea.” say about the two inch fuse?”

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C orrect support is necessary before and im­ mediately after childbirth in order to secure comfort for the mother and guard her health and that of the child. Laura Churchill carries a complete line of surgical garments for all the doctor's needs. Belts fitte d by experts and rechecked every two weeks.

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the normal histologic characteristics of -- B U L L E T I N o f the Pierce County M edical Society 23 ATTENDANCE AT MEETING mittee has the selfish right to ask and expect your indulgence and attendance when their Fall and winter brings again the return of program efforts are presented. Continued and regular meetings of our Society. The purpose persistent lack of interest on your part will of these meetings is the opportunity to present only react to lower the standard of the pro­ scientific programs for the benefit of the mem ­ grams which have been on an exceptionally high bership at large. It is important that during level the past year. such strenuous times of war we take an active President’s message, Bulletin of Tulsa interest in the scientific and professional aspect County Medical Society of our society activities. We anticipate a reduction in the number of meetings because MILITARY SUCCESS of increased difficulty in procuring out-of-town "Just fancy that,’ exclaimed the proud mother. speakers. The program committee will "They've promoted our Herbert for hitting a make every effort possible to present the best sergeant. They’s made him a court martial.” material available. I believe it is your moral and professional SCOTTS LUNCH obligation to attend these meetings and take part in the program. It is somewhat disappoint­ The Place Where All The ing and a little discouraging to prepare and Doctors Eat present a good program to a handful of listeners. I have never attended any scientific presenta­ * tion where I did not pick up a few valuable FIRST FLOOR aids and thoughts which I could use to ad­ MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING Tacoma, Washington vantage in my practice. I feel the program com­

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The label is easily remuvej by the phar* macist nnH your prescription directions affixed. BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society 25 KEEP IT THAT WAY mind the fact that they are a part of the system of private medicine that has doubled the span More members of the medical profession of life for the ordinary citizen in a comparative­ are going into military service every day. Young ly few years. The doctors in the armed forces, doctors just out of medical school, doctors who just as the ones staying at home, spent years in have barely established themselves in the com­ training and more years interning because com­ munity, and long-established men who would petence and efficiency are the very foundation soon begin fo shift the burden of their practice stones of our medical system. There is no taint to new partners, are donning uniforms. For of "ism" or politics in their blood. The worst the medical men remaining at home, the task disservice we could do them in their absence will become gigantic. But one and all they are would be to lend ear to crackpot schemes to grimly determined that essential medical care injecr political control of any form whatsoever will be provided to civilians. into the medical profession. As it stands today, There are many ways in which the layman American medicine gives us the best care in <:an help in this medical crisis. He can guard the world. Let’s keep it that way.— Industrial his own physical well being by keeping regular News Review. hours and eating and sleeping properly. He can be tolerant if he is kept waiting for an appointment. And he should follow stringently IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE the advice of his physician in order to return "She turned off the lamps ’cept one funny himself to full usefulness as soon as possible. little green table light.” These are the tangible ways in which the layman can help the doctor. "Then what happened?" In addition, there is a vast intangible aid that "Well . . . haven’t you driven automobiles we can give our medical men. We can keep in long enough to know what a green light means?’-

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Medical Arts Auditorium 8:15 P .M .

MARCH 9

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Reports of Nominating Committees

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Tacoma, Washington BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society Pierce County Medical Society Your Practice - After the War oi-’F icrcu s We have heard some comments from men 1 0 - 1 2 - 1 0 4 3 in the services, asking what would be thejr P r e s i d e n t ...... Clyde Magill prospects of again picking up where they left President Elect...... S. F. Herrmann Vice President ...... R. D. MacRae off, when they return home. In order to ease Secretary-Treasurer ...... W . B. Penney their minds on this subject, we wish to call

T r « . s ( o t ' s their attention to a few facts.

L. T. McNerthney S. M. Mac Lean C F. Fngels T. K. Bowles From this city, we have sent more than our 0. V. Lundvick Clyde Magill E. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann quota of doctors to supply military requests. We 1. W . G u l l i k s o n R . D . M a c R a e R. D. Wright \\\ B. Penney are assured now, that if the military needs will be ten thousand more doctors during 1943, the D e l e g a t e s S. M. MacLean C. R. McCrecry State of Washington will not be expected to E. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann send any more, at least until other States have A l t e r n a t e s filled their quotas, so it is rather unlikely that any Alternate for S. M. MacLean ...... C. F. Engels Alternate for E. W Janes ...... R. D. Wright more physicians will be drawn from our city. Alternate at Large ...... C. V. Lundvick A lt e r n a t e a t L a r g e ...... F. R . M a d d i s o n Until the war is over, most of the recent Business llttreau Trustees W . 13. M cO c

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K n t c r t a i m n e i i t crease suddenly, after hostilities cease. For that ’ I'. B . M u r p h y , C h a ir m a n reason, Tacom a will need many more doctors I . A. H. Johnson R. D. MacRae

M i l i t a r y than we have now and there seems to be no J. R. Turner, Chairman II. J. Whiracre J. \V. Gullikson reason why the men, now in service, can not W. IV Penney (;|yt|c Magill come home and have all the practice they wish, l>It‘ llll>l‘ l'Slli|» T K. Bi.wles A. I.. Schultz immediately. They will have a certain prestige

.M aternal am i Child H ealth from having served in the military forces, they II. J. Whitacre, Chairman P. C, Kyle, Chairman in Dr. W hitacre’s absence will have a fresh enthusiasm to give adequate I). M. Dayton Clyde Magill N . b. Magnussen Col. A. P. Clark attention to patients who may have been having 13ii l l c l l u S I a IV quite a time to get medical service at all during C. F. Engels ...... E d it o r \v /. W . M a t r s o r ...... Business Manager Con tinned on Page 17 BULLETIN of the Piercb County M edical Society 3

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of The Pierce County Medical Society

Febraury 9, 1943

The regular meeting of the Pierce County emphasis on further details of treatment. Dr. Medical Society was held in the Medical Arts Allison voiced a note of caution about too much Auditorium on February 9, 1943, with Dr. enthusiasm for a treatment which had been em­ Magill in the chair. Minutes of the previous ployed for such a short time. He stated that meeting were read and approved. several leading orthopedic men were not im­ A case report on the non-surgical treatment pressed with the value of the treatment. of multiple osteomyelitis treated with sulfa The applications of Dr. Gerhard A. Druck- drugs was given by Dr. B. N. Ootkin. Dr. Oot- er and Dr. E. D. McCarty for membership in kin stated that the diagnosis was made and the society were read. treatment begun early. Sulfanilamide was given The following resolution was passed, as for three days, then sulfathiazole was substituted, presented by the Trustees: 140 grams being given in the next five weeks. Five transfusions were also given. The patient, Resolved that Hospital Fund moneys now, a year and a half afterward, is apparently in the hands of the Treasurer be trans­ well. ferred to Dr. L. A. Hopkins, Dr. Hopkins The following symposium on poliomyelitis and Dr. Murphy to report to the Trustees was given: Concept of the Kenny treatment, L. each month as to the status of this fund E. Powers; Pathologic physiology and treatment, and keep a record of all members paying N. E. Magnussen; Hot pack demonstration, Mrs. and the amount paid in, this record to be Fletcher, R. N.; Discussion, B. A. Brown. This incorporated in the records of the society symposium was very interesting and enlighten­ at the termination of need for this fund. ing. It is impossible to give a resume of the Election of Nominating Committees for conclusions. Suffice it to say that all three next year resulted as follows: Ticket No. 1— doctors are very enthusiastic over what they T. K. Bowles, chairman, V. E. Crowe and B. saw and the information they received while A. Brown; Ticket No. 2—J. F. Steele, chairman, at the University of Minnesota taking the spec­ Fay Nace and W. W. Mattson. ial course under Sister Kenny and the profes­ sors of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Pow­ ers described the concept of the Kenny treat­ F o r S ale! ment as given by Sister Kenny. Dr. Magnussen Physician's microscope for sale. Inquire at gave a talk on the history of the development Medical Library. of the treatment and the present conception of the physiology and reasons for treatment. Dr. B. A. Brown then opened the discussion, with STANDARD BURNER OIL THE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME Distributed by I he B eiierW a y” Fuel Oil Service Corp. TACOMA MAUSOLEUM MAin 3171 South 53rd & Alder St. GA. 7562

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OFFICERS At 2:00 p. m. on March 11th, at Weyer­ P r e s id e n t— Mrs. James H. Egan, 3722 North Washington Street, PRoctor 1133. haeuser Hall, Dr. B. A. Brown will speak to President-Elect— Mrs. C. G. Trimble, 620 South Union, Street, the Auxiliary and to the Health Department of PRoctor 4S11.

First Vice President— Mrs. Miles Parrott, 9997 Park Avenue, the Y. W. C. A. on "The Kenny Treatment GRanite 8541. of Poliomyelitis.” Second Vice President^hUs. Lawrence T, McNerthney, 3215 North Alder, PRoctor 4661.

Third Vice President— Mrs. Glenn M. Steele, 3622 North 29ch, PRoctor 6212. Buy War Bonds and Stamps Fourth Vice President — Mrs. Benjamin T. Terry, 1001 North Yakima. BRoadway 1843.

T r e a s u r e r — Mrs. L. E. C. Joers, 4026 Pacific Avenue, GAr­ la n d 4 2 4 2 .

Recording Secretary — M r s . I . S. Baskin, 906 North Tacoma Avenue, M Ain 2333

Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. Chris C. Reynolds. 47 Orchard Road. PRoctor 5333. Harold E. Dahl Co.

CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES OFFICE FURNITURE P r o g r a m — Mrs. Lawrence T. McNerthney, 3215 North Alder, PRoctor 4661. A N D SUPPLIES H y g e i a — Mrs. M. R. Hosie, 3320 South 8th, PRoctor 1517.

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Reservations — Mrs. Benjamin T. Terry, 1001 North Yakima, BRoadway 1843.

P u b lic ity — Mrs. Glenn M. Steele, 3622 North 29th, PRoctor 6 2 1 2 . JORDAN’S Legislation — Mrs. Sydney M. MacLean, 1001 North Yakima, M A in 6 8 8 6 .

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w Ye Editor Speaks ary members, to which we replied that we had never had any evidence that the women read There were once four men who went on an the Bulletin, anyway. extended hunting trip. They chose, by lot, one Many years ago, William Gillette, talented of their number, to be cook. He was to con­ ’H im ! actor, appeared in a famous play, "Secret Ser­ tinue as cook as long as he proved satisfactory. vice,” dealing with Union spies in the Civil When one of the others complained of the cook­ War. In one scene, there was a telegrapher, ing the complainant was to be installed as cook : pure sending out messages. To give realism to these himself. Getting tired of the job, the cook one clickings of the sending instrument, a real 1,HI : pure day mixed some kerosene with the breakfast telegrapher was hired. Thinking no one in the lire, in fMi cereal. The first man to take a mouthful, spit audience understood the Morse code, the tele­ it out, exclaiming "W hat blankety-blank so- 11 farbon it grapher used to amuse himself by sending all and-so put this stuff in the mush?” Recollecting !|,a% hmrni- sorts of messages and was finally fired when the penalty for complaints, however, he quickly some other telegrapher in the audience trans­ ' teller u||. added, "But Gosh, its good and I like it.” lated the message. He was sending out, "Is there For the time being, we are the cook on this e—reduced any bum out there that wants this job. Its Bulletin job. Recently, we have had a few lousy and you can have it.” criticisms of some of our publications. In our We are now sending out the telegrapher’s own defense, we can say that the jokes in the message in English, instead of Morse, so no one last issue, the best ones, were lifted bodily from may fail to understand our meaning. the Lake County Medical News, of Lake County, COMPANY Indiana, one of the brightest and best of our Important Notice! contemporary medical society monthlies. We The Medical Bureau, which collects our herewith give Lake County due credit for the accounts for work we do for the Old Age Assist­ items we used, which we thought gave a dash ance program, is sending out a notice to all of spice to what might otherwise have been a participants to have their bills for work done, rather stodgy issue. Our critic mentioned speci­ up to and including the last of March, sent in fically that it might give offense to the Auxili- to the Bureau by April 1st, otherwise payment may be deferred for two years. This to comply j with a ruling by the State Auditor, who has to DAMMEIER close his books for the biennium by April 30th. - fj.c ,7ic c:nipct:nt Printing Co. Better read the Bureau’s letter and comply. • • -- O' these (Tea i’.i i-sj ;; n'i,’!IiiL7- MAIN 1065 G E N EA LO G Y She: "Sir, do you realize to whom you are 811 Pacific Ave. Tacoma - - r - -.'Ktipn'.n speaking? I am the daughter of an English peer."

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Duties of U. S. Citizens Defense fication of the agent, the collection of samples, the prevention of casualties, the delimiting of Corps in G as Defense gassed areas, and for cooperation with the A program for civilian protection against Emergency Medical Service, the Health Depart­ gas is being rapidly developed by the Medical ment and other agencies concerned in protec­ Division of the Office of Civilian Defense. tion against gas. Courses have been presented for physicians Instructions to members of the U. S. Citizens selected from the faculties of medical schools Defense Corps on their duties in gas defense to be trained as instructors in the medical have been issued by the U. S. Office of Civilian aspects of chemical warfare. Arrangements are Defense in Operations Letter No. 104 (Supple­ now being made for the presentation of courses ment 3 to Operations Letter No. 42), dated by these instructors in their own medical schools. January 11. Training for non-medical personnel is pro­ The duties to be performed before, during vided in Gas Specialist Courses which since and after gas attacks afe outlined for the follow­ early December have been presented monthly ing individuals an groups: State Gas Consultant, at War Department Civilian Protection Schools. Senior Gas Officer, Assistant Gas Officers, Gas These schools are located at Amherst College, Reconnaissance Agents, Laundry Officer, Com­ ■Amherst, Massachusetts; Purdue University, mander of the Citizens Defense Corps, Incident Lafayette, Indiana; Loyola University, New Or­ Officer, Air Raid Wardens, Police Services, Fire leans; Occidental College, Los Angeles, Califor­ Services, Emergency Medical Service, local nia; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Health Department, Public Works, Public Util­ and the University of W ashington, Seattle, ities, Transportation Services and Emergency Washington. Welfare Services. For the Emergency Medical Service the The Gas Protection Service of the U. S. duties are set forth as follows: Citizens Defense Corps has been organized as Duties before gas attack-. follows: The Medical Division of the Office of 1. Plan with assistance of Senior Gas Officer Civilian Defense has a Gas Protection Section for the establishment of gas cleansing stations responsible for organization and training for for cleansing gassed patients with other injuries gas defense. This section functions through the and for cleansing of civilian protection person­ nine Civilian Defense Regions, which are coter­ nel. Each hospital of 150 beds or more should minous with the Service Commands of the U. be provided with a cleansing station. Cleansing S. Army. Regional Gas Officers have been desig­ stations should be available in the ratio of one nated for several of the coastal Regions to per 50,000 population and should be located at supervise and assist the State Gas Consultants smaller hospitals or casualty stations where and the Senior Gas Officers of defense councils 150-bed hospitals are not available in this ratio. in the organization of State and local programs. 2. Recruit, train, and assign personnel to gas The Senior Gas Officer trains Gas Reconnais­ cleansing stations for cleansing services. sance Agents who serve in each zone of the 3. Provide instruction, in cooperation with city. These men are responsible for the indenti- the Senior Gas Officer, for general public and civilian protection personnel in self-protection and self-cleansing (Operations Letter 46). RIGGS OPTICAL CO. 4. Provide for instruction of physicions in Rx Rx Rx Rx Rx diagnosis and treatment of chemical casualties. Optical Prescriptions 5. Assist hospitals in planning for handling of gas casualties. Established in 54 Cities 6. Assure adequate distribution of protective ☆ clothing and gas masks and other protective equipment to members of mobile medical teams MEDICAL ARTS BLDG. TACOMA and train personnel in their use. Continued on page 13 B U L L E T I N of the Pierce County M edical Society

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DUTIES OF U. S. CITIZENS DEFENSE 2. Provide follow-up treatment of patients. CORPS IN GAS DEFENSE 3. Prepare inventory of protective equip­ Continued from page 11 ment available for use in future attacks and ob­ 7. Make provision for training drivers of tain additional equipment as necessary. ambulances and sitting case cars in protection 4. Cleanse bodies of the dead to facilitate of their equipment against liquid-gas contam­ identification. ination; inform them of arrangements for Important functions assigned to the health vehicle decontamination by Emergency Public department in the local program of gas defense Works Service. are as follows: 8. Arrange for the protection from cantam- D uties before gas attack'. ination of the equipment used to transport con­ 1. Provide for analyses for was gases in taminated casualties insofar as it is possible. samples of food and water. These tests may be Duties during gas attack'. performed in a local health department if labor­ 1. Upon advice of the Senior Gas Officer and atory facilities are adequate. In such case it is under the orders of the Commander, man the desirable to utilize the same laboratory facilities gas cleansing stations. for the analysis for war gases of air and other 2. Advise other services of the U. S. Citizens materials. Where laboratory facilities other Defense Corps in regard to first-aid cleansing of than those of the local health department are their personnel. more suitable for use in the analysis of war 3. Assign a mobile medical team to gas gases, arrangements should be made by the local cleansing stations for first aid. health department for the analysis of samples Duties after gas attack'. of water and food. 1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the cleansing 2. Advise the Senior Gas Officer regarding procedures which have been used. Continued on page 15

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O l e u m percomorphum 50% is now known as Oleum Percomorphum 50% w ith Viosterol. This product consists of the liver oils of percomorph fishes, viosterol, and fish liver oils, a source of vitamins A and D in

which not less than 50% of the time, capsules of Mead’s Oleum Per­ vitamin content is derived from the comorphum 50% With Viosterol liver oils of percomorph fishes (prin­ now contain 83 mg. of oil, equiva­ cipally Xiphias gladius, Pneumato- lent to 5,000 vitamin A units and phorus diego, Thunnus thynnus, 700 vitamin D units per capsule. Stereolepis gigas and closely allied The new size capsule is now sup­ species). plied in boxes containing 48 and 192 In compliance with War Pro­ capsules—about twice the number duction Board Order L-40, to con­ of capsules without increase in price serve vitamin A supplies during war­ to the patient.

Contrary to rumors, the potency remains the same; namely 60,000 vitamin A units and 8,500 vitamin D units per gram*

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DUTIES OF U. S. CITIZENS DEFENSE plies and inform the public regarding contam­ CORPS IN GAS DEFENSE ination of such supplies, and methods of dealing Continued from page 13 with it. the nature of instructions to the public concern­ 4. Obtain reports of analyses of samples of ing precautions to be taken in the event of water or food and take appropriate action. Save water-supply contamination. Such instructions specimens of contaminated water and food for are to be promulgated by the health officer. transmission whenever necessary to a Chemical 3. Cooperate with waterworks officials inWarfare Service or other laboratory, by the planning for the protection and decontamin­ Senior Gas Officer. ation of the water supply. Gas masks are now being distributed to the Duties during gas attack'. personnel of the protective services. As a guide 1. Collect samples of food and water for to local distribution and care of masks ,the U. S. laboratory analysis if contamination is suspected. Office of Civilian Defense issued Operations 2. Inform the public regarding contamin­ Letter No. 106, January 20. ation of food and water supplies, including It is recommended that masks be distributed recommendations in regard to self-protection. among the protective services of the U. S. Citi­ Duties after gas attack'. zens Defense Corps in approximately the follow­ 1. Decontaminate, destroy, or otherwise pro­ ing proportions: Staff, 12:5 per cent; Fire Ser­ vide for the handling and disposal of contam­ vice, 10.5; Police Service 18.5; Air Raid War­ inated food supplies. den Service, 30; Rescue Service, 1.5; Medical 2. Assist the waterworks in the treatment Service, 12.5; Public Works, 9; and Public of contaminated water supplies. Utilities, 5.5. 3. Advise the Senior Gas Officer in regard Masks should be kept at the post where the to the safety of the public water and food sup­ Continued on page 16

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DUTIES OF U. S. CITIZENS DEFENSE instructions for which are given in the OCD CORPS IN GAS DEFENSE publication "Protection Against Gas. Continued from page 15 Repair of masks is not to be attempted local­ protective personnel will assemble during drills ly except in case of extreme necessity, the or enemy action, not carried by them during Operations Letter states. Broken and defective their daily activities, the Operations Letter ad­ masks or those with exhausted canisters should vises. It is recommended also that about 20 be collected by the local Property Officer and per cent of the masks allocated to each service returned to OCD Supply Depots for repair and be stored as a reserve. It is important that the replacement. reserves be decentralized as a safeguard against destruction by fire or bombing and also to per­ mit rapid distribution in case of an emergency. News Items - At Home and Abroad The directive points out that since valuable and critical materials are used in the manufac­ The Joe Turners have returned from a va­ ture of gas masks, the utmost care must be cation at Palm Springs and way points, Joe exercised in the handling, distribution and showing a moderate amount of that expensive storage. No person should receive a mask until tan one acquires there. Now, all he will have he has been trained in its use and care, in­ to do will be to work twice as hard, to catch up. cluding proper storage, it is advised. Storage must be in a cool, dry place and What do you know? The McCreery's are masks should be kept from contact with sun­ also contemplating a California trip, both of light, oils and corrosive liquids and vapors. them at the same time. This will be the first After use, masks should not be worn by an­ time in ages that Tacoma will be without a other individual without proper sterilization, McCreery.

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this shortage and with the high income levels Chickenpox ...... 35 of people generally, will have no difficulty in Diphtheria ...... 4 making collections. So it seems to us that any Measles, German ...... 3 l0i*B Ojf returned service doctor can be very busy right Measles, Red ...... -...... 168 from the start and in a month or two, be as Meningitis ...... 5 firmly established as he was, when he left. Mumps ...... — 84 Those who have gone are the younger men, and Scarlet Fever ...... 1 ^*s Items their return to practice will give a transfusion Chancroid ...... 2 of new life to medical practice, society affairs, Gonorrhea ...... 12 etc., which now tend to lag, due to the press of Syphilis ...... 35 increased work and lack of time. As you have There have been twelve cases of various been informed, the Medical Society has voted to types of meningitis occurring within the City - -~vsu iecat of Et have but one meeting a month for the duration, Limits since January 1st, 1943. Seven of the due to falling off in attendance and lack of ~-"-s -a Sw.ibtt twelve were meningococcus meningitis, with interest. So when your country no longer needs -

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News Items - At Home and Abroad vegetables instead of flowers this year, Bert said he wouldn't even have time to sow any Charlie Pascoe too, has the yen for some wild oats. Tck! Tck! California sunshine and is hoping he can get away to Laguna Beach for a few weeks. N o We have seen a letter from the irrepressible definite time set yet. Chris Reynolds, lamenting the rationing of hardware. It makes a good story but we can't George Moosey has been shifted to the finish it here. Chris is still at Alamogordo. Fleet Marine Force at San Diego. Now it comes out why he has been practicing with all The Seattle Surgical Society and the Puget kinds of shooting-irons. When you’re in the Sound Surgical Society combined their efforts Marines you have to know how to do a lot of to put on a very fine program of papers and things, all of them tough. clinics on Saturday February 27th. Guest speak­ er was Gene Rockey of Portland, who is now Homer Humiston finally sailed from San Clinical Professor of Surgery at University of Francisco for some unknown destination there­ Oregon Medical School. Attendance from Ta­ by missing a dinner engagement with Joe coma was as good as the times would permit. Turner, who was there at the time. Bill Mattson wants all of you to encourage Bob Brooke is still attached to Fort Lewis our Bulletin advertisers by buying something and the golf course, for which he seems to have from them and mentioning seeing their adver­ plenty of time. Patience, Bob, they’ll get you tisements in the Bulletin. Bill will have to somewhere where you can duck bullets instead renew contracts soon and may need some ammu­ of golf-balls yet. nition. Give the lad a hand. Like most of the medics, Bert Hillis is over­ worked. Asked if he was going to plant any Lowe's Oakland Drug Store Rest Home for Complete Prescription Stock Elderly People ☆ The beautiful Wallace Estate 10 lovely bedrooms Pharmacist in charge has had 17 years’ 5 bathrooms experience in Prescription Work. Larqe Yard and Flowers ☆ ☆ All guests have private rooms; a We always co-operate fully with the home in which your parents Physician and Patient receive the personal care we gave our own. We pride our­ selves upon the food served— ☆ all tray service. Pa u l L. M ic k e n s ☆ 3852 Center Street 402 North J Street GArland 8136 M A in 4432 JO BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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News Items - At Home and Abroad air-men and their ground crews. We suspect these two lads are approaching Tokyo, island by You fellows in the military are missing some island. Give our regards to Hirohito, Les, when notable events here at home. The annual police­ you get there. You know, right in the puss. men’s ball will be held on March 10th. If any of us have not been "seen” and sold tickets, Scott Jones has been transferred to Pasadena we don’t know who it might be. This year the and is now Surgeon of the Southern California tickets cost two dollars, so you can’t get out for Sector, with offices in the swanky Hotel Hunt­ any less. March fifteenth, of course, will be in­ ington. He inspects installations from Santa come tax day. In the meantime, the Red Cross Barbara to the Mexican border, naturally being is campaigning for $ 194,000, the Annie Wright on the g o most of the time. He gets to see a Seminary needs $25,000 more to save it from lot of the California scenery but laments that the mortgage-holders and war bonds are on he is getting to be more of a "paper” soldier the "must” list every month. If we have a dollar than a practitioner of medicine. Sends regards left we can buy what our Ration Books say is to all the boys. Thanks, Scott, keep us posted available, perhaps. No wonder everybody is about your part of the war. planting vegetables. Well, we have an extra pair of shoes and are hoarding a case of canned One day in February, there were eighteen salmon in the basement. babies delivered in Tacoma General alone. This crop seems to be on the increase. A1 Ehrlich has been moved away from where Les Baskin is stationed, somewhere in Alaska, January 27th, Lieut. John R. Flynn, U.S. which leaves us as much in the dark about their N.R. was married to Miss Patricia Phillips, of whereabouts as before. Les is enthusiastic about Olympia, in the Joan of Arc Chapel, Las Vegas, the fine bunch of fellows he is with, mostly New Mexico.

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News Items - At Home and Abroad standing up to his job like a good soldier, en­ joying his work and the novel experience, with­ The American College of Surgeons, in lieu out any whining about the conditions under of its annual meeting, has arranged a schedule which he has to live. Thanks for the letter, Jess. of twenty War Sessions, to be held at various Let us hear from you again. Gosh, how we’d like parts of the country, so attendance will not be to be over there, with you. impeded by the gas and rubber shortage. For the western part of the country, the dates will The doctor stood by the bedside, and looked be April 9, at Salt Lake, the 13th at Los Angeles, gravely down at the sick man. the 16th at San Francisco and the 20th at "I can not hide from you the fact that you Seattle. Each session will be an all-day program, are very ill,” he said. "Is there any one you from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m., including luncheon would like to see?” and dinner conferences. The program is heavily "Yes,” said the sufferer faintly. loaded with war medicine and will undoubtedly "W ho it it?” appeal to service men particularly. "Another doctor.” * * * Just as we go to press, here comes a V-mail Two London shop girls ducked into a door­ letter from Jess Read from North Africa. Very way just in time to escape a shower of bomb newsy and cheerful. H e’s living in a tent, doing fragments. surgery in some kind of hospital, glad to get "Ain’t it terrible, Mazie," observed one, some cigarettes, candy and gum occasionally, so "about this bombing? Y' never know when one it is quite likely he is living under rather prim ­ of 'em is going to blow you into maternity!” itive conditions. The country is like California "And in this blackout,” agreed the other, and Jess finds that his high-school French is "you'd never know who done it!"— Bull. Des standing him in good stead. He is apparently Moines Acad, of Med.

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FEBRUARY LOVE CONCERNING SECOND FRONTS A 13-year-old negro girl was admitted to A patient, following admittance to a hospital, obstetrics in active labor. While taking her underwent a unilateral radical mastectomy. She history, the interne asked whether she was took the operation with very good grace and married. To this she promptly replied, "Oh, accepted the daily dressing of her wound with­ no sir. I'm too young to be married.''— (Sub­ out a complaint. mitted by A.O.B., New York City.) # * * One day the doctor found her deeply en­ The dumb rookie was up against the doctor grossed in the morning paper. She looked up who was asking questions: with a knowing smile and said, "You know Doctor: "How are your bowels?" what, Doctor? I’m just like Stalin. I need a Rookie: "They didn't issue me none.” second front."— (Submitted by M.D., Philadel­ Doctor: "I mean are you constipated?" phia, Pa.) Rookie: "Naw, I enlisted.” * * * Doctor (exasperated): "What’s the mat­ ter with you? D on’t you know the K ih g’s Young man: "Good morning, 'Doc! I just English?" dropped in to tell you how greatly I benefitted Rookie: "Oh! Is he?” from your treatment.”

* * * Doctor: "But I don’t remember you. You’re Mother: "You know, darling, Ruth is 15 not one of my patients.” years old now—so today I had a frank talk with her about the facts of life.” Young man: "I know, but my uncle was, Father: "Well, did you learn anything?”— and I’m his heir."— (Submitted by Mrs. Ruth Med. World. Oscherwitz, Duncan, Okla.).

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Pierce County Medical Society One of Our Boys Comes Home

OFFICERS In the Solomon Islands, the Navy has been 10-12-10-13 doing heroic deeds. The toll of Ja p ships, planes P r e s i d e n t ...... C l y d e M a g i l l and men has been large and satisfactory. The President Elect ...... S. F. Herrmann little brown men have learned that we have Vice President ...... R. D. MacRae Sccretary-Treasurer ...... W . B. Penney striking power and are not afraid to risk batde at any time. We had losses, at first, but of late, ' I ’ r u N t e e x all the sea actions have been to our credit. This L. T. McNerthney S. M. MacLean is because the N avy has been ready and anxious C. F. Engels T. K. Bowles C. V. Lundvick Clyde Magill to engage the enemy wherever and whenever E. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann possible. Every man has been imbued with this J. W. Gullikson R. D. MacRac R. D. Wright W. B. Penney spirit which, to him, seems the natural thing to do. Amid the thick of it all, for the past year, D clt‘Kiit?N has been Lieutenant - Com m ander Lawrence S. M. MacLean C. R. McCreery E. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann Joers, who has been having a short leave, while his ship prepares to go back and help finish the Alternates Alternate for S. M. MacLean ...... C. F. Engels job. At our last society meeting, Larry gave Alternate for E. W . Janes ...... R. D. Wright us a somewhat sketchy account of some of his Alternate at Large ...... C. V. Lundvick Alternate at Large ...... F. R. Maddison experiences, all of which, was m ost interesting. Ilusine-s.s Diirenu TruHteeN One may judge how close he was to the fighting B. McCrcerv L. A. Hopkins R. D. MacRae W. D. Read when we learn that out of his staff of one Clyde Magill assistant doctor and eleven corps men, four of the corps men and the assistant doctor were COMMITTEES killed. Scientific Work S. F. Herrmann, Chairman R. C. Schaeffer At one time, watching the attacks on his ship by Japanese aviators, he was spell-bound lOtliies W . D. Read, Chairman by one dive-bomber which neared the ship in E. W . Janes spite of a hail of shot from every sort of gun. I'oNtKi'ixliinto Education As it seemed the Jap was going to land his M. R. Hosie. Chairman load right on the ship at last, one of our L. T. M cNerthney fighter-planes dove and riddled him, sending Public Relation* him plunging into the sea. Larry says he was so A. W. Howe. Chairman intensely excited seeing all this that when the S. E. Light S. M. MacLean Ja p finally plunged to his watery doom, he found Public Health ami Sanitation himself with a sailor's head in each hand, shout­ E. W . Janes, Chairman ers N. E. Magnussen ing. "We got him. We got him," and knocking the lads' heads together. His description of Library W . W . Mattson. Chairman night battles, seeing the bright blast of the Jap T. K. Bowles big guns, fifteen miles away and then being Legislative able to note the course of the big shells, ted C. I;. Engels, Chairman hot, com ing towards his ship, the noise increas­ T. B. Murphy R. D. Wright ing as the shell came nearer, the relief as it ] I OI1NC passed over them, was certainly dramatic. At S F. Herrmann, Chairman another time, he had been standing up in the W. A Nielli.limner C. V. Lundvick bow of the ship for some time, during action, Entertainment T. IV Murphv, Chairman when a sailor called to his attention, a Jap I-. A Ii. ,11*11ii'iun R, D. MacRae shell which had penetrated the ship's structure Military sufficiently to be imbedded there but which J. R. Turner, Chairman If J Wlm.iin: J. \V. Gullikson had proved a dud. Had this shall exploded W. ii. Penney Clyde Magill when it hit, Larry would undoubtedly h a v e been blown to bits by it. T K. Bowie A. L. Schultz Maternal ami Child Health II. J. W'hitacre. Chairman T he foregoing experiences we had to worm P. C. Kyle, Chairman in Dr. W hitacre’s absence out of him. H e talked to the society entirely D. M D.iyimi Clyde Magill N. E. Magnussen Col. A, P. Clark about medical matters. D uring action, of course, itiiiictin su.n the medical staff are kept busy, caring for die C . F. E n g e ls ...... E d it o r W, W. Mattson ...... Business Manager Continued on Page 23 BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society 3 5

Minutes of the Regular Meeti ng of The Pierce County Medical Society

March 9,1943

---= ..." ■ •I*W llt4a|c The regular meeting of the Pierce County COMMITTEE NO. 2 Medical Society was held in the Medical Arts r~ lCMn; ffld t President-elect ...... J. W. Gullikson Auditorium on March 9, 1943, with Dr. Clyde Vice President ...... W. H. Ludwig _ , : ‘°®®’»w4eiiWjj Magill in the chair. Minutes of the last meet­ Secretary-Treasurer...... W. B. Penney — Jedndcf iitfcii,;' ing were read and corrected. Trustees...... _..E. W . Janes, S. M. MacLean i LjeaKiuat ■ Comimada t T. K. Bowles, R. D. MacRae Dr. Bernard P. Mullen, of Seattle, gave a Delegates .....__C. R. McCreery, A. H. Buis " ~ ' "ftn ^''mgaskinhti case report of rupture of the spleen and left ■ :o go bid and hjpt E. W. Janes, S. M. MacLean kidney in a seventeen year old boy, which oc­ Alternate for Dr. McCreery C. F. Engels -; »p» ani|Iq, curred in a sled accident. This case was marked Alternate for Dr. Buis...... R. D. Wright iictito iccouni c; se by severe hemorrhage and recovery was attri­ - ■ 7 ;h : c was n o s Alternate for Dr. Janes...... C. V. Lundvick buted to the quick use of intravenous plasma Alternate for Dr. MacLean...... E. W. Hanson ■ - - S K i v d o s e h e w s io f c and removal of the spleen and kidney. Within Business Bureau Trustees—W. B. McCreery, : ou t o f his s i ■ the first three days 750 c.c. of blood plasma, L. A. Hopkins, Clyde Magill, R. J. Robert­ - sic eleven corps n ea :.. 750 c.c. of whole blood and 2000 c.c. of glucose son. : id it liiiiricr in was given intravenously. Discussion was by Dr. John Steele and Dr. Charles Engels. Dr. L. E. C. Joers, who was home for a brief visit, gave a very interesting talk on his : " { . ®‘i o m g iht aciids Dr. Kenneth W. Douglas gave a review of experiences in the navy. :v a t o :s , he ira $£• ■znst the work of Schaefer and Purcell in regard to The question of an annual meeting, to be w h ich m l its etiology and treatment of Perthe’s disease and held with a dinner in May, was considered. . o f sh ot fro m every star associated conditions. These were classified zs. This was left to the Entertainment Committee , - r; ::e fjp wis goine n - under the heading of osteochondreal hypo­ for a report on the feasibility. ■” or. m e ship i t last, ta' thyroidism and the treatment by the use of z a :cve m i nddltii ix r thyroid extract. Dr. Douglas then reported Dr. A. L. Schultz presented the following : v ; the s a . b i r r s ® i ; three cases which he and Dr. Nelsen had treated resolution: 3 ; . : j : i e e t E J this to * with thyroid extract, all of whom were appar­ RESOLVED that for the present war to his watery f c i k ently well in six months. Pain and symptoms emergency duration the Pierce County : j i i i o r s head in f n i - ■ had all improved within two months. These Medical Society elect associates mem­ bers only, permanent members to be v-ia i. Ce cot« were all treated ambulatorily. The paper was considered at such time in the future :a ;s torether- Hu t e f discussed by Drs. M. T. Nelsen, H. J. Whitacre, 1; s^taed*bf^tM ® ^ S. S. Sanderson, Bernard Mullen, R. D. Wright as the present emergency is over. and T. H. Duerfeldt. "- r 'tiz 'd e i « ' 3lJ fal: The above resolution would necessitate a " , c o m * 0(’ ^ ^ ! S ' The following tickets were announced by change in the by-laws and is not in proper his ship, iK ci'^ j the two Nominating Committees: form for such change. It has been referred ^ o ffic e s® back to Dr. Schultz, to be presented in proper . ‘-,r ws c e r o i i * * ® 1 COMMITTEE NO. 1 form if he so desires. ' T h,- President-elect ...... J. F. Steele f,7some dm k f Vice President...... S. E. Light ,v':‘aud to k * [C;. Secretary-Treasurer...... W. B. Penney STANDARD BURNER OIL ce n errifed the Trustees B. A. Brown, R. D. Wright, hdit! it'®’" 1 THE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME w*»e L. A. Hopkins, A. L. Schultz Distributed by | I .JnilhffdiV Delegates W. W. Mattson, W. B. McCreery ^ Mill C. F. Engels, R. C. Schaeffer Fuel Oil Service Corp. ■'i b - i:- Alternate for Dr. Mattson.. S. M. MacLean * weft Alternate for Dr. McCreery...... E. W. Janes MAin 3171 Alternate for Dr. Engels...... Clyde Magill Alternate for Dr. Schaeffer...... T. K. Bowles riE.^ During3010y|i Business Bureau Trustees— Clyde Magill, L. A. 816 A STREET TACOMA Hopkins, W. B. McCreery, R. D. MacRae. i j <23 B U L L E T I N of the Pierce County M edical Society

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pta n tffE a < work to keep caught up. So at least we aren't So— it is imperative that we meet regularly all loafing in the army. each month because of rapidly changing con­ ditions and it is equally imperative that each "Last month I read 188 electrocardiographs member make an effort to attend every meeting. and had 96 consultations out of my own service. There must be a doubling of effort in our I take care of four wards, which have approx­ County Society as well as in practice. Let it not imately 35 patients to a ward, and have only one be said of any member that he failed to attend assistant, a first lieutenant. his County Society meeting during this critical "Best regards to Treacy and the rest of the period of our history. United we stand!" bunch.” — Gloucester County Medical Bulletin.

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Carroll Carlson Writes irom Station from 3:30 to 6:00 I am forced to indulge in physical training of one sort or another; from Hospital, Biggs Field, Texas 6:00 at night until 8:00 the next morning my "I am Chief of the Neuro-Psychiatric Service time is my own. in a 300 bed Station Hospital that is being "This area has two things to recommend it: rapidly expanded. The Ait Force cannot have the continually clear blue skies and sunshine a general hospital due to some regulation or and the city of Juarez, Mexico. The latter is other, so they are enlarging some station hospi­ the one bright spot of this station—bars, night tals to serve the purpose but to avoid the name. clubs and above all a free and easy typical I have a ward with 25 beds which is kept full Mexican spirit. Dolores and I are pretty well of neurologic patients. So far I have had no acquainted over there by this time, know most psychotic patients. When I am fortunate I have of the head waiters by their first names and all an assistant but doctors come and go so fast of the good bar tenders. It has its practical I never know. In this ward I have worked out aspects too for there is no shortage of food a new system whereby they are treated suffi­ across the river and an excellent meal with ciently to return to duty, but not sufficient to metropolitan service can be had for a dollar. satisfy my civilian psychiatric conscience. At "All in all we are finding life very delightful. any rate the system I worked out practically Our Medical Staff varies from 14 to 30. The operates by itself which is almost a necessity key men, those who are slated to remain here for I have too many other duties. longer, are from all parts of the country and "By far the largest and most interesting of are a very congenial group. As a matter of fact my duties are psychiatric examination and our Hospital practically runs by itself. I under­ treatment of flying personnel with phobias of stand that most of us who are key personnel one kind or another. All of these boys are in­ will go to Randolph in the near future but they telligent and good psychiatric material. At will refuse to make us Flight Surgeons, will in­ the moment I am engaged in some research of stead keep us in a base air force hospital. Frank­ these lads that keeps me well occupied. ly I am delighted with my work; have learned "Among my duties are: Member of the Re­ a great deal and believe I will come out of the classification Board, Member of the C.D.D. Army a much better informed and capable Board, Star witness for every Section VIII board, psychiatrist. and member of a semi-permanent special court- "Sincerely, Carroll.” martiaL In addition to that every afternoon Homer Humiston Sends Greetings DAMMEIER irom Abroad by V-Mail "This is a most pleasant place to practice Printing Co. G. U. for the army. The climate and surround­ ings have been well described. They live up MAIN 1065 to descriptions. We get Sat. and Sun. afternoons off unless O. D. and make the beach for the 811 Pacific Ave. Tacoma famous Hawaiian surf at least once a week. Also get a day off every now and then to go into Honolulu. "Give my best to everyone.” Homer." Karen Rynning PHYSIOTHERAPY SCOTTS LUNCH M e m b e r o f The Place W here All The American Physiotherapy Association Doctors Eat REFERRED WORK ONLY * 507 Medical Arts Building FIRST FLOOR BRoadway 2862 MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING Tacoma, W ashington 10 B U L L E T I N of the Pierce County M edical Society

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Fordyce Johnson Sends News of east. One or two from Texas and several from McCaw General Hospital at California. "When I left Vancouver, Washington, Bill Walla Walla Goering was still stationed there, however For­ "Each time the Bulletin comes I read it rest Monzingo had just received orders to through with increased interest and wish to let report to the First Auxiliary Surgical Unit in you know my appreciation in being able to re­ Texas. He will probably see overseas action. ceive the magazine. It is interesting to know "My station at McCaw is an appointment what is happening both at home and to the rest and will be for a definite period unless there is of the boys in uniforms scattered throughout a change made in the personnel, so you may the world and this seems to be the only place hear from me from McCaw in the future. in which I, and I am sure other men in the Fordyce Johnson, Capt. MC.” service, can get a comprehensive summary of what is happening. "Since I last wrote you I have been transferred Communicable Diseases from Barnes General Hospital to McCaw Gen­ eral Hospital at Walla Walla, Washington. March 1 to March 31, 1943 This is not a big jump yet it takes me a little farther from home and makes it impossible for Chickenpox ...... 42 me to make an occasional short trip to Tacoma. Diphtheria ...... 1 Measles, German ...... 22 "McCaw is the new base hospital just being Measles ...... 74 completed with a capacity of 1,500 beds. It is M u m p s...... __ 80 just being equipped and as a result there is con­ Scarlet Fever ...... 6 siderable that must be done. I wish that some Chancroid ______1 of the men who may speak of hardships could Gonorrhea ...... 17 be placed in some of these institutions which Syphilis ...... 41 are just being organized. There are no beds, Whooping cough ...... 2 we need blankets and even as simple a thing as Tuberculosis ...... 2 a tonsillectomy is held up due to shortage of supplies. Requisitions are sent in and you wait for weeks at times hoping that some of the things that you find essential may arrive. The living quarters are single story buildings parti­ tioned off with one partition of plaster board Oakland Drug Store separating you from the next room. Two by fours are your decorations on the other three Complete Prescription Stock walls. The furniture in the room consists of one bed and a chair. Any additional equipment you have such as a waste basket, and incidently ☆ we have been using paper boxes for waste baskets, tables, lamps and other essential things, Pharmacist in charge has had 17 years' are only obtained by going down town and purchasing them yourself. The hospital is experience in Prescription Work. about a mile from the center of town where officers and men may go when they are not confined to the post on tour of duty which ☆ means a thirty-six hour stretch approximately every other day. The men at McCaw come from We always co-operate fully with the New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and points Physician and Patient

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Personal Notes on The Home Front Richard B. Link, now a major, is about all that is left of the original bunch at Fort Charles and Will McCreery have returned Worden, caring for the Coast Artillery troops. from their trip to San Francisco, being away We had a newsy letter from him recently. only ten days. W ill visited with his son, W ill, Thanks, Dick, come again. Jr., who is now a sophomore in pre-medic at Stanford. Charlie was also very circumspect, in spite of reports to the contrary. Leo Scheckner has opened offices in the Washington Building. He is willing to make This year’s Legislature has passed a bill, night calls. As soon as this news gets around, making it unnecessary for doctors in military he should have plenty of them. service to pay their annual license fee, this to be in force for six months after they receive an We are flattered to have the Library of the honorable discharge. Big-hearted bunch, what? Imagine our lads in Africa or the Solomons Surgeon General’s Office ask to be put on our careing a damn about whether they are licensed mailing list. Do you suppose they are snooping here or not, at a time like this. Well, it’s a to see if we have any more possible inductees fine gesture, anyway. left among us?

Jack Gullikson and Cy Lundvick have also During March, a number of doctors, the been "resting” at Palm Springs for a short editor among them, were given an exam at vacation. W e wonder what this "resting” Tacoma General for possible service in the is. Seems to be an epidemic of it lately. Well, they all come back with a High-yaller tan, USPHS forces. Chest X-rays, Wassermanns, anyway. blood counts and everything. Jack Steele, Pat Crowe, Treacy Duerfeldt, Chris Quevli, Tom Ralph Schaeffer plans a California trip, Murphy and other flotasm and jetsam, all put leaving April 10th. through the mill. No inductions to date.

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Personal Notes on The Home Front The Entertainment Committee is dubious about having the annual dinner in May, unless they can buy a horse. We are in receipt of the following: Dr. Nelsen has resigned as chairman of the Dear Editor—Now that the doctors are so State Horse Racing Commission. busy, a new problem arises, Telephone! People Dr. Janes acquired temporary fame attend­ call and want a prescription and proceed to tell ing Paul Robeson during his illness while in you all their symptoms. To give one over the Tacoma. telephone is dangerous, especially to prescribe The Lawrence McNerthney’s take advantage the sulpha drugs but what are you going to do? of Dr. Will’s return to practice by taking a Are you going to give your valuable time dur­ vacation of several weeks in California. ing office hours to diagnose and prescribe over the phone? Are you going to give precious Dr. Herrmann has returned from a trip which minutes of your time at home to do it? Should included a visit in St. Louis with his brother and a charge be made to discourage it? I wish the nephew, who is interning prior to entering the doctors would discuss and come to some agree­ army. Mornings were spent at the Barnes ment about what should be done, for its a Hospital attending surgical clinics. Dr. Herr­ problem every doctor is facing daily. mann then joined Mrs. Herrmann, who ac­ Sincerely, Office Nurse. companied him as far as Chicago, where he visited the Illinois Research Hospital, which he We confess we are stumped. No glib remedy describes as being ideal in the way of equip­ springs ready-made to our lips. Now if we ment and offering wonderful opportunities in only had this young lady’s name, (and possibly neurosurgery and neurodiagnosis. While there a late photograph) we might go into the he spent time with Dr. J. R. Green, a son-in-law process of working out an answer to this dis­ of Dr. Hillis, who is a resident at the hospital. tressing problem. We have given advice, in After crossing the mountains the Herrmanns teh past, to the lovelorn but not yet to the encountered snow all the way and are delighted over-worked. to get back to the green Puget Sound country.

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THE ARMY DOCTOR—A Tribute It has been my observation that the average By Mr. Damon Runyon service doctor makes a greater sacrifice of oppor­ tunity on joining up than the member of any One of the least publicized, yet surely one other class of professional men. of the most valuable of all soldiers in time I m ust say I have never heard a service doctor of war is the army doctor. complain on this particular point. His role lacks the dramatic flourish of the In war the doctor’s service is nearly always combatants yet without the doctor the fighting extremely hazardous. men would be out of luck. My remarks also apply, of course, to the navy doctor. In sea battle, his risk is exactly that of every Few realize, perhaps, that this war calls for other man aboard his ship with the difference thousands of doctors. They must be men that he must remain calmest of all. thoroughly qualified in their profession which On land he often has to perform his delicate as you know takes years to learn. Almost any work close behind the fighting lines with the man can be made into a soldier or sailor with a w'ounded coming into the dressing station by little instruction but a doctor is developed only the hundreds. after long study and practice. There, too, the doctor m ust preserve the poise And the irony of military or naval service to of the hospital operating room, must function a doctor is the fact that he becomes useful for with unfaltering hand. that purpose just about as he has established himself in private practice and is commencing I have seen the medicos in the field with the to make a living. shells falling around them and confusion every­ Our armed forces require many medical men where except in their immediate presence and of experience and of considerable physical I have marvelled at their calm. I call it bravery activity. of the highest type. It’s not as difficult to be That kind are usually men who are verging brave under the impulse of excitement as it upon the recognition and success in their is when excitement is exactly the emotion that chosen fields to which their long preparation must be restrained. entitled them. I doff my lid to the service saw'bones.

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From A Doctor's Scrapbook too bold to practise upon himself, without an approved Physician’s consent, if he read a Of those diverse gifts which, our Apostle receipt in a book; for so many grossly mistake, Paul saith, God hath bestowed on man, this of and do themselves more harm than good. Physick is not the least, but most necessary, and Robert Burton (1577-1640) especially conducing to the good of mankind. "Anatomy of Melancholy" Next therefore to God in all our extremities, (for of the Most High cometh healing, Ecclits. The LARRABEE N U RSIN G H O M E 38. 2,) we must seek to, and rely upon the Physician, who is Manus Dei, (the Hand of IS NOW PREPARED TO CARE FOR God), saith Hierophilus, and to whom he hath POST-OPERATIVE and CONVALESCENT given knowledge, that he might be glorified in Good Food CASES Good Care his wondrous works . . . It is not therefore to 3710 Thompson Ave. GArland 3732 be doubted that, if we seek a Physician as we ought, we may be eased of our infirmities, such a one I mean as is sufficient, and worthily so called; for there be many Mountebanks, Quack­ salvers, Empiricks, in every street almost, and in RIGGS OPTICAL CO. every village, that take upon them this name, Rx Rx Rx Rx Rx make this noble and profitable Art to be evil spoken of, and contemned, by reason of these 0 ptical Prescriptions base and illiterate Artificers: but such a Physi­ Established in 54 Cities cian I speak of as is approved, learned, skilful, honest, &c. ☆ When these precedent cautions are accurately kept, and that we have now got a skilful, an MEDICAL ARTS BLDG. TACOMA honest Physician to our mind, if his patient will not be conformable, and content to be ruled by him, all his endeavors will come to no good end. Many things are necessarily to be observed and continued on the patient’s behalf. First that he be not too niggardly miserable of Lowe's his purse, or think it too much he bestows upon himself, and to save charges endanger his health. The Abderites, when they sent for Rest Home Hippocrates, promised him what reward he for would, all the gold they had; if all the City were gold, he should have it. Ndaman the Syrian, Elderly People when he went into Israel to Elisha to be cured of his leprosy, took with him ten talents of The beautiful Wallace Estate silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten 10 lovely bedrooms changes of raiments (2 Kings, 5. 5 ). . . . 5 bathrooms (Another) thing to be required in a patient is confidence, to be of good cheer, and have Large Yard and Flowers sure hope that his Physician can help him. As Galen holds, confidence and hope do more ☆ good than Physic; he cures most in whom most All guests have private rooms; a are confident. Paracelsus assigned it for an only home in which your parents cause why Hippocrates was so fortunate in -his receive the personal care we cures, not for any extraordinary skill he had gave our own. We pride our­ but because the common people had a most strong conceit of his worth. To this of confi­ selves upon the food served— dence we may add perseverance, obedience, and all tray service. constancy, not to change his Physician, or dis­ like him upon every toy. It was a chief caveat of ☆ Seneca to his friend Lucilius, that he should not alter his Physician, or prescribed Physic: 402 N orth J Street nothing hinders health more; a wound can M A in 4432 never be cured that hath several plasters . . Last of all, it is required that the patient be not 20 BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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p ' - ' '' ! ’■' Professional Obligations was important, today is that time. Beset with problems of national as well as local import­ ■Al'S The task of meeting present war conditions 7 : 1 ■ and at the same time planning for the peace ance, problems offering new theories in the ad­ that is ahead is no easy one. For the doctor of ministration of government— theories of social reorganization, security, administration of med­ harmacy medicine the problem is exceptionally difficult. Faced on the one hand with the added task of ical care — the doctor of medicine truly needs caring for patients of those doctors who have the counsel and support of his fellow doctors ii'x r .,7:. Ph rmcisls enlisted in the armed services of the country, now and in the days ahead. 7: 1; ■■ and on the other hand encompassed with the The finest expression of support that can be same regulations relative to the use of auto­ shown at any time by a doctor is that of active GAHand 9927 mobile, gasoline and fuel oil as imposed on any 1 membership in both his county and his state I ’1. ■ other citizen, the doctor of medicine is truly . r ■1 i- medical societies. Today’s problems extend far JIT1'.'. ' hard pressed to meet all the demands for his ' 3 STREET beyond the scope of each small district and it is services that are made, or may be made in the not sufficient that the doctor merely assume an n:cr coming months. Even his periods of relaxation interest in local community situations. He must or recreation have been practically eliminated, also take an active part in the solution of state and his leisure time is all too limited. . s - A .... ■, . and national issues if he hopes to play other -. -f ; coridence In spite of this situation, there is one ob­ than a passive role in future social reoganiza- ", 'V [1 ligation that every doctor owes to himself, to tions affecting all our people. His member­ his colleagues, and to his Profession. That ship in the State Medical Society will go far duty is the continued support and interest of towards assuring that participation so necessary the activities of his medical society. If ever the for the progress and advancement of organized association of men of kindred spirit and intent medicine.— Providence Medical News.

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ONE OF OUR BOYS COMES HOME a year, right in the thick of it most of the time Continued, from Page 2 and still able to smile at some of his own early experiences. He has matured indeed, as anyone wounded. They use spinal anesthesia almost would who had gone through the hell he has. altogether, for obvious reasons. The half-grain With it all though, he is still the same quiet- hypo of morphine is also one of their most spoken, modest chap he was. He has left Ta­ satisfactory remedies, to combat shock and put coma, probably to rejoin his ship. Wherever he the patient at ease until he can be cared for is, we are proud of him, we wish him the best more adequately. As the sick-bay is usually of luck and hope to have him come home again, deep within the ship and as they were in the safe and well. In the meantime, Larry, we wish tropics anyway, the perspiration simply rolled you to know how proud we are of you. We off them, while working, so the common cos­ salute you as a Christian gentleman and a tume worn was trunks and tennis shoes, with first-class fighting man. sterile gowns and gloves added for operating. Men swimming face down in the sea, near an exploding shell in the water, were found to Just Reward have innumerable intestinal perforations, due It is encouraging to learn of a certain doctor to the exploding force being transmitted by the who has just completed forty years of practice non-compressible water. Those who floated on their backs sustained little injury under and is retiring with a comfortable fortune of $80,000.00, amassed through his courage, en­ similar circumstances. The flash of an explod­ ing shell will produce burns on the skin of terprise, initiative, hard work, professional persons quite a distance from the explosion ability, the careful investment of his savings so some of his patients had completely burned and the death of an uncle who left him bodies, except where their trunks, all they were $79,999.00. wearing, had covered them. Doubtless, when the war is ended and cen­ For Sale! sorship is lifted, we shall hear much more Physician’s scales for sale. Inquire at Medical from Larry Joers. He has been at sea practically Library.

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VOL. XIII -No. 5 NAY -1943

ANNUAL DINNER — MAY 11

University-Union Club — 6:30 p. m.

Installation of new officers

...... Lieut, Col. Elbert DeCoursey

SiO presentation, through the courtesy of KTBI, of an episode from "Doctors Courageous,"Va series of broadcasts dramatizing outstanding events in the history of medicine. This series will be broadcast over KTBI each Sunday Evening at 8 o'clock under the sponsorship of the Shaw Supply Company.

le fentertainment Committee announces that an especially fine dinner will be • provided, as extra ration points have been made available, and that f^-feservations must be made not later than May 8th on account of point ■rationing.

Tacoma, Washington BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

Pierce County Medical Society EDITORIAL

O FKICI3R 5 With this issue of the Bulletin, comes the HML’ -IO l.*t P r e sid e n t...... Clyde Magill end of the publication until fall, as is usual. President Elect...... S. P. H e r r m a n n

V ue President ...... R. D. MacRae We hope the doctors in military service have Secretary-Treasurer ...... W. B. Penney been getting their copies regularly as we T r u N l e c . s have made every effort to forward them to L. T. McNorthncy S. M. MacLean C. F. Engels T. K. Howies the changing addresses, as we have able to C. V. Lundvick ( lyde Magill E. W. Janes S. 1;. Herrmann learn them. We thank those who have aided J. W. Gullikson R. D. MacRae R. D. Wright W. B. Penney in this plan by giving us information of those

D e l e g a t e * who are away and we deeply appreciate the S. M. MacLean (1. R. McCrecry F. W. Janes S. F. Herrmann letters that have come to this office, from the

;\ I I <*1*11 II1 ON men themselves. Apparently, the authorities Alternate for S. M. MacLean ...... C. F. Engels Alternate for F. W. Janes ...... R. D. Wright who are directing the war, have felt it neces­ A lte rn ate ac L a r g e ...... C. V. Lundvick A lte rn a te ac L a r g e ...... F. R . M a d d is o n sary to shift our doctors here, there and every­ Husine.sN Bureau Trustees W. B. McCreery L. A. Hopkins where, getting them trained for the special R. D. MacRae W. D. Read Clyde Magill tasks to be done. Some, like Bill Goering, have stayed put from the beginning, others, COM JIITTKE.S S e i e n t i f ie W o r k like Walter Cameron, have been shunted from S. F. Herrmann, Chairman R. C. Schaeffer one station to another, any number of times, making it difficult to keep up with their move­ E t h i c s W. D. Read, Chairman ments. Some are far awav, in Africa, New A. H. Buis E. W. Janes Caledonia, Alaska, Hawaii, some in distant I'o.stttrrml mi to E d u catio n M. R. Hosie, Chairman parrs of the United States. To all of you, L. T. McNerthney wherever you may be, we send best wishes and Public* Hel:i< ions assurances that you are not forgotten. W e expect A. W. Howe, Chairman S E Light S. M. MacLean you to do the job you are on, in a creditable

Public Health j ii m I Sanitation manner and when the big fuss is over, we will F. W. Janes, Chairman welcome you back home again, to take up L. E. P o w ers N . E. M a g n u sse n where vou left off. L i b r a r y W. W. Matron, Chairman T. K. Bowles

l . c K f i s l a t i v e F IR ST A ID C. E. E n g e ls. C h a ir m a n I. L. S ih e y e r T . B. M u rp h y Pirsr Aid Instructor: "Suppose the victim R. D. Wright was bleeding profusely, had a broken leg, was 1 1 m iN e S E. Herrtnann. Chairman extremely pale and showed no pulse. What V. . A. Niethammer C. V. Lundvick would you do?" Entertainm ent T. H Murphy, < hairman I A II Johnson R. D. MacRae Student: "Doc, I’d bury him." M i l i t a r y I R 'Eurtier. ( hairtnan II J. W'hii.ure J. W. Gullikson VC-'. IV Penney Clyde Magill

'M embership YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW 'I K M ow le. A . I.. S c h u ltz I have a pain in my abdom en," said the M aternal ami Child Health H J. Whitacre. ( hairman trainee. lJ. C. Kyle, Chairman in Dr. Whitacre’s absence D M Dayr.m (.lyde Magill N. E. MaKiiuv.cn Col. A. P. (Mark Young man," said the army doctor, "officers II ii I le t i ii S t a i r have abdomens, sergeants have stomachs—YOU C. F. E n gels ...... E d ito r W. W. Mattson ...... Business Manager have a bellyache.” BULLETIN 0/ the Pierce County M edical Society ______3 3n ilmorium THE ANNUAL DINNER In memory of a very dear fried, we Well, it looks as if we are to have our annual offer the following resolution: dinner just the same, in spite of the shortage of meat. The committee announces a steak dinner Dr. Clarence Pearl Gammon at the University Club, with all the trimmings, Dr. Clarence Pearl Gammon was bom on Tuesday May 11th, at which time the new in Missouri on January 4th, 1870. He was officers take over. Whether the liquor short­ a man of wide experience in various fields age will have any bearing on this event re­ of endeavor. As a boy, he was a farmer mains to be seen. Our retiring president has and rancher, a clerk in a hardware store been known to be somewhat more eloquent, and later a cashier in a bank, a school or at least loquacious, when his inhibitions teacher and a student of medicine and have been partially released by the influence of surgery, which course was interrupted by a slight binge, so we hope the committee has his volunteering and serving in, the Span- arranged for a good snort for him. ish-American War, where he saw service The incoming president has also demon­ in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, strated his ability as a raconteur, both cold holding the rank of Captain. He received sober and otherwise, so we may expect a few his diploma from Rush Medical College snappy stories from him. There will also be in 1899 and then became a student of the an episode of "Doctors Courageous” as it will famous surgeon Nicolas Senn for four sound coming over the air in the new broad­ years. He practiced medicine in Walla casting program to begin over KTBI soon, Walla and the last thirty three years in sponsored by our friend Henry Shaw. A noted Tacoma. speaker on a scientific subject will also grace He again volunteered for service in the meeting, so it all looks very attractive. World War One and was placed in charge As this will be the last meeting until Septem­ of a 3,000 bed hospital in France. He was ber, a large attendance is expected. Extempor­ honorably discharged at the end of the aneous vocalists will not be suppressed as long war with the rank of Lieut. Colonel. He as they stay on the key, in fact, they are ex­ served as surgeon for the Union Pacific pected to furnish most of the music for the Railroad for about twenty years, was an occasion. So, let's forget the war and over­ honorary member of the Pierce County work for one evening and just relax and have Medical Society, the State Medical Society, a good time. the American Medical Association and a Fellow of the American College of Sur­ geons. He was a member of the First During Food Shortages Congregational Church and various frater­ It is well to bear in mind that dried brewers nal societies, and on the staffs of the sev­ yeast, weight for weight, is the richest food eral Tacoma Hospitals. source of the Vitamin B Complex. For ex­ Dr. Gammon was a physician, true to ample, as little as one level teaspoon (2.5 gm.) the highest ideals of his profession. He Mead’s Brewer's Yeast Powder supplies: 45'/, made friends easily; to meet him was to of the average adult daily thiamine allowance, like him; to know him, to love him. W e 8% of the average adult daily riboflavin allow­ who knew him best shall m iss him most. ance, 10% of the average adult daily niacin He leaves hosts of friends among his allowance. railroad associates, fraternal friends and This is in addition to the other factors that the physicians and nurses of Tacoma, who occur naturally in yeast such as pyrodoxin, will long cherish his memory. pantothenic acid, etc. He is survived by his widow, Mary Helen, his son, Capt. Francis D. Gam­ Send for tested wartime recipes, the flavors of mon, Administrative Inspector Army Air which are not affected by the inclusion of Base, Clovis, N. M., and a sister, Mrs. Mead’s Brewers Yeast Powder. Mead Johnson Lucy- Barnes of Berkely, Calif., to whom & Company, Evansville, Ind., U. S. A. the members of the Pierce County Medi­ cal Society extend their sincere sympathy. The LARRABEE NURSING HOME BE IT RESOLVED that a copy of these IS NOW PREPARED TO CARE FOR resolutions be spread upon our minutes, POST OPERATIVE and CONVALESCENT and a copy sent to the immediate relatives. Good Food CASES Good Care C lyd e E. G ra y, 3710 Thompson Ave. GArland 3732 T. H. L o n g , Committee BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

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WITH THE ARMED FORCES Bruce Milligan is now a naval Lieutenant, somewhere in the South Pacific. We would We had a brief visit in the billiard room like more definite information if anyone knows with Bill Norton recently, while he was up his whereabouts. here from California on an official trip. Look­ ing big and handsome in his uniform. Come Chris Reynolds and West G. McElroy, both again, Bill, when you can stay longer. of Tacoma, graduated from Carlisle Barracks recently, Chris to go back to Alamogordo for Bob Brooke, now a Captain, has been shuttled further duty. around, east of the mountains, California, etc. He is back at Fort Lewis for the present. Walter Cameron has been ordered to Or­ lando, Florida for further training with the Forrest Monzingo is now a Major, being School of Applied Tactics. This may be Wal­ toughened up at San Antonio, Texas with the ter's last stop before going abroad. Our guess First Auxiliary Surgical Group, some 130 sur­ is Africa for this lad. geons, undoubtedly for over-seas duty. Our guess is Africa. They have been hiking these Carl McCandless, in Key West, is getting lads uncounted miles, sleeping them out on married to one of Tacoma's fairest daughters. bivouac, among the rattle-snakes and ticks. We've only seen her picture but she's a pippin Down there, they cook the rattlers and they for looks. Congratulations, Carl. come out all same fried chicken. For the ticks, Monty, try the old logger trick of leaving your FOR SALE shirt on an ant-hill, the ants will soon clear out Office equipment, instruments and medical the ticks. Anyway, congratulations on the pro­ library of the late Dr. C. P. Gammon. Call MAin motion and good luck. 1661. 1107 Fidelity Building.

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OFFICERS The last meeting of the season will be at P r es id e n t— Mrs. James H. Egan, 3722 North Washington the home of Mrs. J. Benjamin Robertson, 301 Street, PRoctor 1133. North J street on Thursday, May 13, at 2 p. m. President-Elect— Mrs. C. G. Trimble, 620 South Union, Strecc, PRoctor 4811. Following the business meeting and annual

First Vice President— Mrs. Miles Parrott, 9997 Park Avenue. reports of Committee Chairmen, tea will be GRaniee 8541. served and Mrs. T. J. Loonan will give harp

Second Vice President— Mrs. Lawrence T. McNerthney, 3215 selections. The program will be in charge of North Alder, PRoctor 4661. Mrs. G. A. Moosey, social chairman. T h ir d V i c e Prw/Vfew/— M rs. G len n M . Steele, 3 6 2 2 N o rt h 29th, PRoctor 6212. ANNUAL DINNER OF MEDICAL BUREAU Fourth Vice President— Mrs. Benjamin T. Terry, 1001 North Yakima. BRoadway 1S43. The Pierce County Industrial Medical Bureau will entertain its members at a banquet at the T re a su r er — Mrs. L. E. C. Joers, 4026 Pacific Avenue, GAr­ land 4 2 4 2 . University-Union Club on the evening of May

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Doctors' Households Urged To Set both nitroglycerine and dynamite, the first of which provides the explosives for propellants, An Exampe in Waste Fat Salvage and the second the means of military demol­ From: WASTE F a t SAVING COMMITTEE ition. Tanks, ships and planes last longer 11 West 42d Street, New York because of paints containing glycerine. It is used as an anti-icing fluid for the propellors The importance of saving waste household of fighter and bomber planes. The shock ab­ fats in order to salvage their glycerine content sorbers of jeeps and half-tracks, the recoil mech­ should be apparent to every physician. The anisms of big guns and the firing mechanisms doctor's kitchen, like that of every other family of depth bombs all contain glycerine. in town, can supply at least a tablespoonful of fat a day—from meat drippings, from ren­ Glycerine has an important place on the dered trimmings or fat skimmed from the medical front, too, in both war and peace. It soup kettle and no longer good for food. If is one of the best known and widely used that much were retrieved in every household medical materials. There is scarcely a branch and taken to the meat stores which collect of therapeutics in which glycerine does not the fat for the Tenderers, the amount saved play a part. An average of more than three would exceed the national goal of 200,000,000 pounds of glycerine per hospital bed per year pounds for 1943. is used in our American hospitals. And an Why must we go to this trouble, in a land analysis of 15,063 prescriptions made prior to where more than a billion pounds of fat used the war in a single American city showed that, to be wasted every year down the kitchen drain with the sole exception of water, glycerine was or into the garbage can? Because glycerine is the most-used liquid ingredient. desperately needed to feed the United Nations war machine, and because many of America’s In military medicine the role of glycerine outstanding sources of fats and oils have been continues to grow. Even before we entered cut off by the war. the war, large quantities of glycerine were ship­ Glycerine is indispensable in the manufac­ ture of munitions, because it is the cource of ped by the American Red Cross to England. In the requests made to organized medical groups in the United States for medical supplies, Brit­ SCOTTS' LUNCH ish authorities rated glycerine as equal in im­ portance to surgical instruments. The Place Where All The Practically all the liquid sulfonamides call Doctors Eat for glycerine. The war has given increased * emphasis also to the long-established value of FIRST FLOOR glycerine itself in burn therapy and surgical MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING treatment, as well as for wound dressings. Dress­ Tacoma, Washington ings can be changed with less discomfort to the patient when they are soaked with glycerine.

The War Production Board is urging all Americans everywhere to help save the fat from which this precious liquid is made. The Karen Rynning meat dealer from whom you purchase food PHYSIOTHERAPY will be glad to pay the prevailing rate for the kitchen fats YOUR household conserves. Member o£ The pennies will buy War Stamps— and every American Physiotherapy Association pound of waste cooking fats turned in will REFER RED W ORK ONLY provide enough glycerine to make a half- pound of dynamite or four 37-mm. anti­ 507 Medical Arts Building aircraft shells, or their equivalents in other BRoadway 2862 badly-neded materials. Doctors, set an example in your community: start YOUR household saving waste kitchen fat today! 10______BULLETIN o f th e Pierce County M edical Society

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Minutes of the Regular Meeti ng of The Pierce County Medical Society

April 13,1943

The regular meeting of the Pierce County rest and moist treatment in injuries and in­ Medical Society was held on April 13, 1943, fections of the hand. The paper was discussed with Dr. Clyde Magill in the chair. Minutes by Dr. Wright. of the previous meeting were read and ap­ Captain L. M. Farner, of the United States proved. Public Health Service, explained the activities A communication was read from the Dis­ of the Industrial Hygiene Committee that is trict Nurses’ Association, giving notification of working under the State Department of Health. raise of nursing fees to $8.00 for eight hours This committee was set up by Governor Lang­ and $12.00 for a twelve hour day. ley and consists of representatives from the The application of Dr. Arthur P. O'Leary United States Public Health Service, the De­ was read and referred to the Trustees. partment of Labor and Industries, the State De­ Dr. Murphy reported on the possible holding partment of Health, physicians and employers. of the annual dinner at the University-Union Dr. Farner stated that he was loaned by the Club. Motion was made, seconded and carried United States Public Health Service to do this that the annual dinner be held if arrangements job. He asked that a committee on Industrial could be made. Hygiene be appointed by the President of the The following officers were elected for the Pierce County Medical Society. ensuing year: Dr. Whitacre told of the work that is being President-Elect ...... J. W. Gullikson done in industrial surgery. Vice President...... W. H. Ludwig Secretary-Treasurer...... W. B. Penney Trustees E. W. Janes, S. M. MacLean T. K. Bowles, R. D. Wright Oakland Drug Store Delegates to State Association— C. R. McCreery, W. W. Mattson E. W. Janes, C. F. Engels Complete Prescription Stock Alternates, C. V. Lundvick, S. M. MacLean Clyde Magill, T. K. Bowles ☆ Business Bureau Trustees— W. B. McCreery, L. A. Hopkins Pharmacist in charge has had 17 years' R. D. MacRae, Clyde Magill experience in Prescription Work. Dr. William B. Hutchinson, of Seattle, gave a graphic and detailed description of the care of injuries of the hand as practiced by the Hand ☆ Service Group as used in the King County Hospital. This paper was dramatically dis­ We always co-operate fully with the cussed by Dr. Homer Dudley, of Seattle, who Physician and Patient demonstrated the proper method of obtaining

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ON THE HOME FRONT quite a sunburn; he didn't spend his time in nite spots. Dr. Haskell F. Maier, a newcomer, has opened offices in the M edical. Arts Building for the We are in receipt of a copy of the Journal practice of EENT. of Electronic Medicine for January, issued by the College of Electronic Medicine in San The Duerfeldts returned from California, Francisco. This seems to be redolent of the after seeing new plays, nite spots, etc., and late Albert Abrams. The whole journal is de­ going for four days without meat. Back within voted to the sale of the ossiloclast, which ten days. makes the diagnosis and also treats the patient. Medicine simplified. Our lod friend, Henry Rhodes, has just Warren Penney is off again, this time to married. Trust these old lads to get into some­ Chicago and New York, attending T. B. meet­ thing when they have too much time on their ings. To be gone two or three weeks. hands. Anyway, we wish him well. H e’s a grand fellow. We are to hove a program over KTBI every Sunday night at eight, entitled "Doctors Cour­ Harry Allison has sold his place on Clover ageous,” sponsored by Henry Shaw, of the Park and bought a home on North Tacoma Shaw Supply Company. Avenue. Harry got fed up with those long cold rides in the winter. The new management of the Medical Arts Building is raising rents of most of the tenants, Ralph Schaeffer has returned from seeing ours among them. If this means improved his son graduate at Pomona, California. He has elevator service, we may become reconciled.

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ABSENTEEISM IN INDUSTRY tween such groups. As one visualizes the var­ ious shades of people represented among his In the beehive the individual is recognized acquaintances he discerns certain behavioristic either as a worker or a drone, and is promptly patterns that would bear heavily on the inci­ and appropriately dealt with on that basis. Thus dence of absenteeism in their industrial employ­ the hive is not plagued by absenteeism in any ment. There are the hard workers, those who— form. Fortunately or unfortunately, human sick or sore— report for duty punctually, and, beings have not evolved the social insight of so long as they can stand on their feet, deliver the bees, and they must consequently cope with their full measure of effort. Next there are this distressing quirk of human behavior when­ those who absent themselves only when they ever and wherever groups of persons gather and are definitely sick and who return at the attempt to correlate their efforts. Absenteeism earliest possible moment to steady employ­ has long been recognized as a phenomenon of ment—the "conscientious” people. Next are school life, college life and adult life. One those who are "spleeny,” who make the most would like to believe that it is progressively of whatever illness they have and manage to outgrown and appears less frequently in adoles­ make a good deal of some illnesses that they cence and maturity, but such is probably not do not have. Then come the willful absentees— the case. those who cannot recognize either our national One might like to assume that human beings perils or our national opportunities as their could be separated, like the bees, into groups own. They may be motivated by excessive that could be defined and labeled as workers selfishness or deficient intellect, and they ra­ or drones. Although there are undoubtedly tionalize their absenteeism by all sorts of many human beings in both categories, there sophistries. For example, one is quoted as say- also are many who are subtly placed in be­ Continued on next page

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ABSENTEEISM IN INDUSTRY served in school and college. There is a sort Continued front page 15 of epidemiology to this kind of behavior, ing, "They won't give me a vacation, so I've academic outbreaks of which can often be got to take it myself." Many are undisciplined, satisfactorily analyzed. Industrial absenteeism unaccustomed and frankly unsuited to the work is not so readily studied or understood, how­ they are attempting to accomplish in industry, ever, because the basic groups concerned have including those who are laboring in factories fewer common denominators than have the for the first time and those who are desperately sem idisciplined student bodies. The rapid labor trying to make themselves useful in fields to turnovers of today also mitigate against an un­ which they have not been and never will be derstanding of the underlying mechanisms. naturally adapted. Lastly come those on whom Nevertheless, alarm is being expressed over the the world has bestowed such adjectives as "lazy,” effect that absenteeism is already having on "incompetent” and "inadequate"— the people war production, and an effort to deal sternly who in normal times are unable to obtain or with it may com e at any time. W hen it does hold a job of any sort. appear, the physician is apt to find himself in Because sickness is the only indisputable the vortex of many a little cyclone.— New Eng­ status with which to explain most absenteeism, land Journal of Medicine. the physician's association with all these factors is close and decisive. Doctors have long been Only those are fit to live who do not fear to called on to certify that overwrought students die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk are nervously or otherwise ill at the moment from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both they face a critical examination. The cutting of life and death are part of the same great ad­ classes for hours and sometimes for days pre­ venture. Never yet was worthy adventure worth­ ceding an examination has been frequently ob­ ily carried through by the man who puts his personal safety first.— Theodore Roosevelt.

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Some Facts Abouts Organized What about infant mortality— in relation to Medicine the same subject twenty-five years ago? How about maternal welfare? This reads "To hell with organized medicine!" Not a like a fairy tale, when we study the graphs and pretty speech but one I overheard expressed by work done by these busy people. a young physician at a recent Medical State Who looks after the imposter? To see that he Convention. does not flourish in your community. Young man, what do you know of organized At any regular society meeting we all receive medicine? Do you know of the work of your more than we give, and we are always able to County, State and National Societies? express any opinion of our own. This is a big factor in our constant education. We are most nearly related to the county or­ ganization. What does this society do for us? Have you ever been privileged to join a little Let us pause and discover? group after the meeting for sandwiches and talk far into the night about some phase of medicine, Are you interested in postgraduate education? and perhaps be present at the birth of some Our progress and the wonderful strides in great idea of either medicine or surgery? You medicine have only come through the exchange may have diagrammed the operations on the of ideas and the work of our colleagues along tablecloth and wearily gone home in the wee their several special lines. hours. Young man, this is a rare privilege.

Have you ever needed a reference book in a Of course, we have not reached our perfect hurry? Your county society with its wonderful stage of development and I am afraid organ­ library, and trained staff of assistants, stand ready ized medicine, like marriage, may have its to offer any book of reference you may need. faults, but it does give us one and all a very We accept pure water, pure milk, pure food fine rule of thumb for the ethical conduct of in all its many branches, but who is the watch medicine.— Bulletin, Medical Society, County dog? Your medical society7. of Kings.

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United States soldiers return from the far TROPICAL MEDICINE corners of the earth, the responsibility of The present war bids fair to change the char­ diagnosing and treating the diseases they may acter of medical practice in the United States. bring back with them will fall on the medical practitioner in both the large and the small Aside from many economic and social changes, town. Would it not be well to include papers there will be new problems in diagnosis pre­ on amebiasis, yellow fever, typhus fever and sented to the physician. similar diseases in the programs of our state and county medical societies in the next few years? Through the constant vigil of the United — Missouri State Medical Journal. States Public Health Service, so-called tropical disease has been kept from this country. Even the few tropical diseases which are indigenous —malaria, hookworm disease, sylvatic plague RIGGS OPTICAL CO. and others—have been controlled to the point Rx Rx Rx Rx Rx that they are not serious threats to the economic Optical Prescriptions life of the nation except in a few scattered Established in 54 Cities regions. ☆ However, participation in a global war opens MEDICAL ARTS BLDG. TACOMA up entirely new contingencies. A study of the Public Health Reports (57:2000-2002, 1942) reveals that for the first nine months of 1942 there were 837 cases of plague in India; 22,380 cases of smallpox in India; 34,913 cases of typhus fever in Algeria, 22,653 in Egypt, 25,666 Lowe's in Morocco, and 16,152 in Tunisia. Thanks to Rest Home the service of the Rockefeller Foundation, yel­ for low fever is relatively infrequent. Only 19 cases were reported in Africa and 23 in South Elderly People America. This does not, of course, mean that The beautiful Wallace Eslate yellow fever might not again become an im­ 10 lovely bedrooms portant disease. The United States has troops 5 bathrooms stationed in India, North Africa, the Southwest Larqe Yard and Flowers Pacific and in many other places. These men will be exposed to the etiologic agent or to the ☆ vector that disseminates the virus, bacterium All guests have private rooms; a or rickettsia of these diseases. Many of these home in which your parents diseases pass into a latent stage. The etiologic receive the personal care we agent remains in the body and a month or a gave our own. We pride our­ year later may be passed on to another person. selves upon the food served— all tray service. These facts point to the necessity of more adequate teaching and knowledge of tropical ☆ medicine in the United States. Medical schools have been asked to increase the time allotted 402 North J Street to the subject and to give more adequate M Ain 4432 courses in parasitology and public health. When BULLETIN of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y

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Juvenile Crime Shows Increase the removal of large numbers from civilian to Over The United States military life. Fifty-five and seven-tenths per cent more Mr. Hoover reported that arrests of girls girls under 21 were arrested last year than in under 21 for prostitution and commercialized 1941, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported. vice increased 64.8 per cent last year; arrests It indicated a deplorable lack of parental guid­ for other sex offenses were up 104.7 per cent; ance and discipline in many homes. drunkenness arrests increased 39-9 per cent, "Boom conditions in many communities and and disorderly conducts arrests, 69-9 per cent. easy money in youthful hands are contributing Among boys under 21, arrests for assault in­ to the general letdown in moral standards creased 17.1 per cent! for rape, 10.6 per cent; among juveniles.” disorderly conduct, 26. 2 per cent, and drunk- The number of boys under 21 arrested last eness, 30.3 per cent. year increased 17.1 per cent over 1941 despite The age of most frequent arrests was 18, a drop of one year from the level which pre­ STANDARD BURNER OIL dominated from 1939 through 1941. THE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME Distributed by I do the best I know how, the very best Fuel Oil Service Corp. I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is MAin 3171 said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels 816 A STREET TACOMA swearing I was right would make no difference. —Abraham Lincoln.

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THE MEDICAL CITIZEN OF 1943 ferment which stimulated the growth of re­ ligious devotion into one of the potent forces NATHAN B. VAN ETTEN, M. D. which stopped the march of paganism. We need Let physicians take the leader-ship for which a Saint Paul today. they are qualified, let them emerge from their conservative shells and demand sane and pro­ Communicable Diseases gressive programs which will assure a con­ APRIL - 1943 tinued good medical service, and let them Chickenpox ...... 67 educate all the people in their own commun­ Diphtheria ...... 3 ities and ask their cooperation in developing Meningitis ...... 2 sound programs for American Health. German Measles ...... 54 Away back in the era of Babylonian culture Measles ...... 56 practitioners of healing arts were compelled M umps ...... -...... 59 to organize themselves for the protection of the Scarlet Fever ...... 7 people against the deceptions of charlatans and Tuberculosis ...... 3 quacks. That was four thousand years ago. The Whooping Cough ...... 7 need for rededication is upon us now. The autocratic quackery of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini must be resisted with all our DAMMEIER strength. In the year 90 A. D., the Roman Empire ex­ Printing Co. tended from the English Channel to the Red MAIN 1065 Sea. A little man named Paul, 5 feet 3 inches tall, was a prisoner in Rome. He was a giant 811 Pacific Ave. Tacoma

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OFFICERS IIMtt-ltKI-t W ith Septem ber m orn in the offing, we P r e sid e n t...... S. F, H e r r m a n n come again to the official end of summer and President-Elect...... J. W. Gullikson the beginning of another year of medical ac­ Vice President...... W. H. Ludwig Secretary-Treasurer ...... W. B. Penney tivities, Society meetings, getting out the TruNtet*K Bulletin and preparing an income tax state­ E. W. Janes C. V. Lundvick S. M. MacLean Clyde Magill ment by Septem ber 15 th. A s Badoglio said, T. K. Bowles S. F. H e r r m a n n R. D. Wright J. \V. Gullikson "T he war continues.” W hat with a government L. T. McNerthney W. H. Ludwig C. I;. Engels W. B. Penney budget estimate of 95 billions for 1944, the

C. R. McCreery E. W. Janes latest convulsion of Senator Wagner, who has \\". W. Mattson C. F. Engels introduced a bill putting us all on salary as Alternates C. V. Lundvick Clyde Magili government employes and providing free med­ S. M. MacLean T. K. Bowles ical services for everybody, we may well pause IIus 1 itt*Ns Bureau Trustees W. B. McCreery R. D. MacRae and contemplate the future. Six thousand more L. A. Hopkins Clyde Magill doctors needed for the armed forces, with some COMMITTKI3 S Seien t if it* "Work sixty-five thousand nurses, is going to make L. A. Hopkins. Chairman a large dent in civilian needs. For those already \X'. B. D u b lin K . \ \ \ D o u g la s T. H. Duerfeldt in military service, there seems to be no telling Lcfflsluti vc when they may again be released to resume C. F. Engeis, Chairman F. L. Scheyer E. W. Janes private practice; certainly the time must be A. L Schultz H. J. Whitacre estimated in years rather than months. Later Food Rationing G. M. Steele. Chairman will come the task of feeding the world and J. R. Turner coddling the war-stricken nations back to the Hou.se M. T. Nelsen. Chairman standard of the four freedoms, all of which will Christen Quevli be expensive. So it seems unlikely that any of Kthies A. H. Buis, (-hairman us may hope to live long enough to see this Clyde Magill war paid for, in full. IO11 tcHaiiimeii t J. J. Verhalen, Chairman T B Murphy Govnor Teats W e seem to be bom bing Germany sufficient­ L. T. McNerthney ly to crim p their industries but at a consider­ I'os t^rail 1121 tc Etluea tion able cost in Flying Fortresses lost. We also are S S. Sanderson, Chairman D. H Johnson beating the Japs in the South Seas but a glance Mililary at the map shows the conquered territory to W. D. Read. Chairman (. R McCreery T K. Bowles consist of almost infinitesimal dots of land in W. B Penney F < Y o d e r

I * ii l> I i <* Relations a limitless expanse of ocean, just the fringes of S. F Light, (.hairman their own empire. All adding up to the net W B. M c C re e ry A. F. H ill is I*u 1>Ii<* Health and Sanitation result that we must be reconciled to continue B A Brown, ( hairman the lighting indefinitely, with consequent civil­ N. Ii. Magnussen J E Steele Menilie rship ian eliort expanded even more in buying war S R Sleep, < hairman II. B. A lliso n bonds, paying increased taxes, having our sup­ >la ternal mid Child Health plies of food and goods still further decreased. P. C K y le, ( h a irm a n II T ( J a y < . G Trimble M. R Hosie However, we can do it. If we will not allow 1,1 lini i*y ourselves to be discouraged by the magnitude W. W. Mattson, Chairman C. II. D o e of the job but just go on doing the best we can Ind list riii I lly^lcnc from day to day, preserving a certain equanim­ R D. Wright. ( hairman A B H eaton E. L S ch eyer ity, we may lind ourselves strengthened by hav­ Iliillettn Stall’ ing overcome difficulties and so, more fit to E d ito r ...... C. F. Engels Business Manager... W. W. Mattson enjoy the post-war life than we were before. BULLETIN of the P i e r c e Co u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y 3 The Physicians & Dentists Business Bureau M y r t le C hristoferson , M anager The following article is reprinted from the Jack­ ment for his services is proverbial. If the matter son County Medical Society Bulletin, Kansas City, is referred to at all, he will say, "Never mind Missouri, of August 28, 1945. It is a splendid dis­ cussion of what might appropriately be said in be­ about the cost; pay it when you can." And the half of the services rendered by our own bureau. It patient takes him at his word. Later when re­ is worth reading and the plan fits almost exactly peated billings are ignored, the doctor may re­ with our plan and the treatment of accounts is almost sort to collection methods which alienate the identical. patient. Or he will, perhaps, cancel the ac­ To collect accounts owing to the doctor— count, dismissing the matter from his mind. but to collect them in such a way that any pos­ There is, too, the patient who will not pay sible misunderstanding which might have unless pressed to do so. And there is the "dead­ arisen between the patient and the physician is beat.” But the experience of most physicians eliminated; to return the patient to the physi­ is that the majority of the patients with whom cian and retain the proper patient-physician they deal are honest and expect to pay if it is relationship; this is the purpose and motive of at all possible. the Business Bureau of the Medical Society of Bureau Procedure Milwaukee County. Realizing the innumerable causes that stand Every doctor realizes that the profession of between the patient and the payment of his medicine would deteriorate rapidly if it were bill, the Business Bureau undertakes the inves­ commercialized. And many doctors are prone tigation of slow accounts with a procedure that to associate the systematic collection of bills is both scientific and human. Unlike some un­ owing them (if the patient is at all reluctant scrupulous private collection agencies that have to pay) with a kind of commercialism unfitting unfortunately attached a stigma in the minds of their professional status. True, medicine cannot many physicians to any kind of collection serv­ be allowed to become a "business." It must re­ ice, the Business Bureau is keenly alert to the main a science and an art. However, applying personal element that must be connected with basic business procedures in their proper rela­ any phase of the practice of medicine. Simon tion to medical practice is an altogether differ­ Legree tactics have no place in the Business ent matter. Patients expect physicians to deal Bureau. This does not mean, however, that all with them in a businesslike manner— and pa­ accounts can be settled by sweet talk. The point tients, for the most part, want to pay for what they get. is that the Bureau fits its method to the indi­ vidual case. "Delinquent" Accounts For the physician who keeps adequate rec­ Consequently the procedure of the Bureau ords of his accounts and follows a systematic is elastic. It starts with the proposition that its routine of sending out itemized statements on basic purpose lies in explaining to the patient the first of every month, the payment of bills is the professional side of the matter by answer­ much simplified. Nevertheless, every doctor ing any questions the patient may have and has a certain percentage of bills that will have convincing him of the necessity of remitting his no return, either because of the patient’s inabil­ payments. This is done through letters and ity to pay or because of his reluctance to pay. through personal contact by experienced in­ This latter attitude results from an idea the vestigators. patient has built up in his mind that a doc­ It is important to note that the Bureau does tor’s bill is a negligible obligation that can be not demand or require payment of the bill in fulfilled or not as he sees fit. full, but suggests the possibility of an equitable To relieve the doctor of the settlement of arrangement of weekly or monthly payments. such accounts, the Medical Business Bureau As a social service agency, it is well aware of stands ready to "take over.” the fact that every patient’s ability to pay is not The bulk of the accounts that are delegated the same. By determining this ability, the Bu­ to the Business Bureau by doctors are delin­ reau can make arrangements accordingly. No quent. The word "delinquent” tends to imply hardship befalls the patient and a mutually sat­ a malicious refusal to pay. This is not at all isfactory relationship continues between him true. Most patients' accounts become delinquent and his doctor. If the patient can show adequate because they are not given proper attention reason why he is unable to pay, the Bureau and often the doctor is as much at fault as the is happy to extend whatever time is needed be­ patient. fore asking any payment. The doctor’s disinclination to discuss pay­ Continued on page 19 A BULLETIN of the P i e r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c i e t y __

The LIBRARY Ju HUmnriam M r s. B l a n c h e L. D eW i t t , Librarian Arthur S. Monzingo, M. D. Poliomyelitis The Northwest has suddenly lost an­ In view of the present prevalence of infantile other fine lovable pioneer physician. paralysis, the library oilers the following ab­ Death was hastened by faithful, srubbom stract of an article by Don W. Gudakunst, of devotion to professional duties. When the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, younger men left, the old doctor carried published in the August 15 issue of the New on. Let us review' the attributes which York State Journal of Medicine, together with endeared him to us. a list of additional articles available in the medical library: A pioneer spirit of independence and The past few years have brought to us more self-reliance led him w'estward. Out­ knowledge of poliomyelitis than all the pre­ spokenness, intolerance of sham, pretense vious generations in which it has been known and frills may som etim es have offended to man. The common concept that the polio but always commanded respect. He was virus used the olfactory nerve as its portal of an individualist. H is best w'ork was entry, producing death of anterior horn cells done alone in his own little hospital, in of the cord, with resultant paralysis, w'as a his own community', in his own resource­ dangerous half truth. There was little appre­ ful way. His contributions were not ciation of the extensive pathologic changes and those of a scientific scholar but consisted consequently a poor understanding of the com­ rather in the practical help given to all plete symptomatology. who called upon him each day. Never While the virus can retain its infectious and averse to consultation, he still had the in­ invasive powers for extremely long periods of nate good judgment to meet emergencies time, under adverse conditions, it cannot mul­ well. Active interest in civic affairs made tiply except when it draw's upon the substance him a leader in his community. Gregar- of particular nerve cells. Though it has been iousness when off duty made him good found in the blood stream, the so-called "gen­ company at the dinner or bridge table. eral systemic" stage of the disease is not due to He loved to excel. During depression such infection but is dependent upon a much years when returns from practice were more complicated mechanism resulting from poor he showed his resourcefulness by central and brain nerve cell invasion. branching out into horticulture and de­ The normal and usual method of travel of riving an income from the sale of his the virus through the body is reported to be by own holly. During my last conversation the pathways provided by the nerves. It leaves with him he was boasting of his chickens no demonstrable histologic changes as it tra­ and line victory garden. He was an in­ vels, yet its spread is dependent on healthy dulgent husband and father. In short, normal nerve cells, both motor and sensory. he was not only a doctor but a man who The portal of entry therefore becomes im­ lived a full, useful life. portant in determining which portion of the Arthur Monzingo, we salute you as central nervous system will be first invaded and one of the vanishing type of pioneer what train of symptoms will develop. Labora­ physicians. You will ever live in the tory evidence fails to show that the olfactory hearts and lives of your patients. Your route is common in man. In the experimental sons will carry on in your tradition. May animal clinical disease may be produced by oncoming generations of the medical many portals. Any method that allows the fraternity never cease to emulate your virus to come in contact with nerve tissue many good qualities. S. F. HERRMANN. Continued on next />,tge BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society 5

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3fn Ms moriam offers a means of infection in the animal and Edgar F. Dodds, M. D. there is no reason to think that this does not hold true in man, with a vast amount of evi­ The passing of Dr. Edgar F. Dodds is dence pointing to the gut as the common gate­ a real loss to a large circle of friends and way. Virus can be demonstrated with present- especially to his patients and his fellow physicians. day methods in the stools of all patients and Dr. Dodds prepared himself with a frequently in those of many contacts. thorough, well-rounded college education Appreciation of these findings, which de­ before beginning his medical work and pend on the more recently developed and more this fact contributed in no small measure nearly exact methods of detection and study, to his ability to appreciate the problems gives a much better basis for understanding of those whom he later served. infantile paralysis. Following his graduation from North­ In all diagnosable cases of poliomyelitis, with western Medical College he interned at the possible exception of early nonparalytic Mercy Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois, where he was privileged to serve under types with complete, spontaneous arrest of some of America’s truly great physicians symptoms, there is an encaphalitis and com­ and surgeons. Better equipped than most monly an accompanying meningitis, with or young doctors during those years, he came without clinical symptoms. Examination of west to Colorado and then to Montana. autopsy material commonly reveals extensive Practice there and at that time required much native skill and ingenuity to meet pathology totally unsuspected and unpredicted the difficult situations that necessarily by clinical symptoms alone, though at times arose in practice that was a far cry from clinical manifestations are out of all proportion what the young doctor experiences today. to the severity of manifest lesions. The simple In 1903 he and Mrs. Dodds went to concept of paralysis as the sole or main symp­ Europe, where Dr. Dodds spent a year at tom is no longer reasonable. With massive Berlin, Vienna and London and then re­ and extensive involvement it is apparent that turned to Montana to practice until pain, hyperirritability and increased muscle World War I. After serving in several army hospitals in the United States, he reaction can all be expected. was sent to France, where at two base With these thoughts in mind, it is apparent hospitals he had intensive experience do­ that the medical profession was more than ing reconstructive orthopedic surgery. ready for some change in the system of therapy. Since that time Dr. Dodds has prac­ The Kenny method of treatment is based ticed in Tacoma, where he was always a on a concept of poliomyelitis that differs from careful, conscientious worker, with the the former one of flaccid paralysis as the pre­ patient's welfare his first concern. dominant symptom. According to Kenny, To an unusual degree he had an intelli­ much that has been called paralysis and thought gent appreciation of current national and world problems. to be due to anterior horn-cell damage is not Dr. Dodds waged a long brave fight flaccid paralysis but spasm in the opposing against an insidious form of anemia and muscle, due, probably, to lesions at some level through it all he would smile and joke higher than the anterior horn cells, or due to with never an expression of self-pity. A other changes in the neuromuscular structure constant regret during the past year was and function. his inability to make use of his ortho­ pedic knowledge. Treatment is aimed first at overcoming pain As a friend with broad sympathies and and spasm and providing early muscle train­ understanding, those of us whose privi­ ing to re-establish muscle function and motor lege it was to know him will always pathways. The application of heat by use of cherish his memory. compresses at unusually high temperature re- L. A. H. Continued on page 23 6 BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

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HOME OFFICE - MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING - TACOMA BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society 1? On the Home Front The Fay Naces welcomed a baby into the family, born June 23rd, their first. "First” means We have been trying to get news of our boys the beginning of a series, doesn’t it? in service, with current addresses, to help all Dr. John A. Sheppard has also become asso­ of us keep more in touch with each other. Any ciated with the City Health Office, in charge of information to make this effort more complete­ the Division of Contagious Diseases. He is ly successful will be appreciated by the editor. also in charge of the V. D. Clinic for both the city and the county. Dr. Lee Powers has resigned as Director of Health of Tacoma to accept the position of Labor Day was fittingly celebrated by a num­ State Director of Health. He has moved to ber of patients in our hospitals, under the su­ Seattle. Dr. Cecil R. Fargher, formerly Health pervision of the obstetricians. The crop is Officer of Clarke County, has taken over the continuing plentifully. City Health Office, succeeding Dr. Powers. Dr. Fargher has had special training in Health Vacations this year were shorter and much Department work and we know he will make nearer home than usual, due to the press of an excellent director. work and the gas rationing.

Sydney MacLean vacationed in Victoria, Dr. Raymond J. Bennett has associated him­ playing at bowling on the green, during the self with Dr. A. C. Stewart, in the practice of Senior’s Golf Tournament. Psychiatry in the Medical Arts Building and in the operation of the sanatorium in Puyallup. Don Willard, Carroll Carlson, Mac Benjamin have been home for visits since our last pub­ Some new names in the telephone directory lication. Also Walter Cameron. Jess Read was include J. O. Lasby and A. P. O'Leary of the in Sicily the last we heard from him. Western Clinic, and L. J. Bland in the W ash­ ington Building. Income tax returns due Sept. 15.

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HEN interviewed between platefuls, this 11-months-old W young man emphatically stated: "I have been brought up on Pablum and still like it, but some days when I’m in the mood for oatmeal, nothing satisfies me like Pabena!’’

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All too often one looks back many years to one particularly dark day. This memory can be made lovelier, more tender, through the knowledge that the final tribute was as beautiful as it could be made. Cassedy&Allen (litjiinenil Directors D ale Forkenbrock, Manager 1224 So. Eye Street M Ain 5801

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VAGINAL BIOPSY. Th.»d week ol 23-da, cycle Aficr 9 mo». doily application of Ortho-Gynol. Vogmol op>- ihelium of normol thickneu. layer* well diflcreniioted. Subrnucota notmol. No evidence of mflommoi*on. iA M A S s

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A recently-completed study involving the daily intravaginal application of Ortho-Gynol

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With the Armed Forces Lieut. F. W. Hennings became ill while on duty in Alaska and was flown to Seattle, where J. W. Bowen, flight surgeon, finished school he is still in the hospital. of aviation medicine at Randolph Field. Now at Esler Field, La. Homer Humiston writes from somewhere in John R. Flynn was made a Lieutenant Com­ the South Pacific that he is working 10 to 15 mander on July 1. A recent cablegram indi­ hours a day but finds time to do some deep cates that he is probably in Iran. sea swimming around coral reefs, looking at tropical fish, has taken up golf again and is Maj. Harrington happily situated at Green­ converted to avocadoes, which he picks off ville, S. C. his own trees. C. P. Larson probably overseas. Jess Read writes from Sicily that the towns It is now Captain Miles Parrott. Now en­ there are much dirtier than in Africa but not gaged in extensive army maneuvers at Bend, so many flies. He and some of the boys had a Oregon. real meal when they found a place that had some fresh eggs and they had two fried eggs, E. J. Fairbourn taking a three-month course two pieces of bacon and some crackers. on internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic.

Hillis Griffin in Washington, D. C., for Sep­ Capt. Fordyce Johnson is now at Pasadena tember and October, studying tropical diseases Area Station Hospital, one of the swank Army at the Army Medical School. hospitals, quite a change from McCaw. Mrs. Johnson and the children left on August 27 It is now Captain Gerald Kohl. Still at Re­ to join him. ception Center, Fort Lewis. Lieut. R. A. Norton finished at Randolph Major Monzingo still at San Antonio but Field and transferred to the Santa Ana Air expects to go overseas any moment. Base.

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PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS' families whom they gladly serve without com­ BUSINESS BUREAU pensation. Through its affiliation with National Asso­ Continued from page 5 ciation of Medical-Dental Bureaus, the Medical Business Bureau also has the key to out-of-town Methods of Collection accounts. These reciprocal associations range If the first notice to a delinquent has been from one end of the United States to the other. disregarded after a week's time, another is sent Besides these services, the Bureau stands and another seven days allowed for an answer. ready to assist the doctor in his office problems If there is no response the case is turned over and the preparation of new record forms, to to a Bureau investigator who telephones or counsel him on insurance questions, to help calls at the home to determine whether or not him estimate his taxes, and to audit his records the client intends or refuses to pay. If he does so as to determine the age and consequent col­ intend to pay but has merely overlooked the lectibility of his accounts. advance notices, the investigator arranges the Society members who take full advantage of method of payment. the Bureau services have come to realize that The Bureau does not discourage payments there is a definite place in the physician's office direct to the doctor, but it does ask that the for the services of a reliable agency. To neglect doctor report them immediately when received. the proper use of these facilities only contrib­ It is easy to see that should the doctor receive utes to the widespread abuse of the public’s a payment and fail to report it, he may be put­ financial dealing with the professional man. ting himself and the Bureau to added trouble The Milwaukee Medical Business Bureau besides risking ill feeling on the part of his pa­ ranks high among other such agencies in the tient who will continue to receive letters from country. To the members of its Society it of­ the Bureau or calls from an investigator. fers service and aid through methods con­ The Bureau is proving every day to its So­ gruous with the standards of the medical pro­ ciety that the collection of accounts is a legiti­ fession. mate and respectable business and that the suc­ cessful operation of the services it offers is a highly specialized work. Szipplementary Services Lowe's The advantages the Bureau offers to mem­ bers of the Society are many. Besides being re­ lieved of the task of collecting his own bills, Rest Home the doctor has the advantage of the credit file for which is constantly being augmented and kept up to date. It now contains more than 125,000 Elderly People names of medical delinquents in Milwaukee. The information obtained about these people The beautiful Wallace Eslate is available to every member of the Society. 10 lovely bedrooms This listing of delinquent accounts does not 5 bathrooms by any means insinuate that the doctor who used it to check on his patients is more inter­ Larqe Yard and Flowers ested in collecting his bill than in treating the patient. But it is true that the doctor has the ☆ right to know, and know immediately, whether All guests have private rooms; a or not he is treating a charity case. The charity home in which your parents case is of concern to the private practicioner, receive the personal care we for despite numerous organized medical serv­ gave our own. We pride our­ ices the burden of the care of the indigent falls heavily upon him. Most physicians have many selves upon the food served— all tray service.

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CARL E. WALLACE, B. S. TELEPHONE Bacteriologist MAIN 4241

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Correct support is necessary before and im­ mediately after childbirth in order to secure comfort for the mother and guard her health and that of the child. Laura Churchill carries a complete line of surgical garments for all the doctor's needs. Belts fitte d by experts and rechecked every two weeks.

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PAUL O'HOLLAREN, M. D. Associate Director

WARREN E. TUPPER, M. D. Associate Director

7100 ttotli Ave., Southwest Seattle, "Washington Phone W Est 7232

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JOHN R. MONTAGUE, M. D. Associate Director

WM. C. PANTON. M. D. Associate Director MARTIN GILMORE, M. D. Associate Director

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Exclusively for the Treatment of CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM By CO NDITIO NED REFLEX METHOD

'FREDERICK LEMERE, M. D„ Consulting Psychiatrist 'WALTER L. VOEGTLIN, M. D„ Research Director ‘ WILLIAM R. BROZ, M. D., Medical Director 'ERNEST L. BOYLEN, M. D., Associate Director SEATTLE 24-HOUR SERVICE PORTLAND 'Serving in the Armed Forces. BULLETIN 0/ the Pierce County M edical Society 23

THE LIBRARY group of patients but few will deny that Eliza­ Continued from page 3 beth Kenny has made a great contribution in this field. lieves pain. As soon as motion can be per­ formed without discomfort the affected parts The present-day treatment of early polio­ are moved through their utilizable arc of mo­ myelitis, P. M. Stimson; Clinics, 2:309-322, tion, not so much to restore strength as to se­ August, 1943. cure a rhythmic and co-ordinated action of all A diagnostic cutaneous reaction in acute muscles concerned with any motion. W eak­ poliomyelitis, E. C. Rosenow; Proceedings of ened, inco-ordinated or "alienated” muscles (to Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, 18:118- use her term) are stimulated and directed by 128, April 21, 1943. individual attention to resume their correct Observations on the Kenny treatment for function, normal in point of time and direction poliomyelitis, F. H. Krusen; Medical Clinics of of action. Other muscles not involved or in­ North America, 27:883-902, July, 1943. volved to a lesser degree are discouraged from assuming any abnormal action as the result of The use of prostigmine in the treatment of the patient’s conscious or unconscious effort poliomyelitis, Herman Kabat and M. E. Knapp; Journal of the American Medical Association, to effect a desired motion. Patients under the Kenny treatment show 122:989-995, August 7, 1943. many benefits as a result of the combination of The Kenny versus the orthodox treatment heat, regulated exercise, the direction of motor of anterior poliomyelitis, J. A. Key; Surgery, impulses and the absence of long periods of 14:20-31, July, 1943. immobilization. There is much yet to be done Insect vectors of poliomyelitis (editorial); to lessen the time and amount of work now Journal of the American Medical Association, required to apply the method to any large 122:1250-1251, August 28, 1943.

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For thirty-live years we have consistently co­ find, and we have live competent registered operated with the medical profession of this men in charge. Some of these men are grad­ locality. Advertising during this period of uates of colleges of pharmacy. years has always been fully as beneficial to rhe medical profession as it has been to In addition to our prescription department, we have a few other lines which do not con- ourselves. 11 ict in any degree with the medical profes­ The prescription business has never been a sion, such as toiletries, sundries, fountain pens side line in our store. At the present time and tobacco. we are carrying one of the largest stocks of

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FFICIALS oF the W ar Manpower Commission assert that women today can copobly "take over" any man’s job, pro­ vO id e d it is within their physical pow ers. Menstrual oberrations, however, cause frequent absenteeism and loss of efficiency. For the symptomatic treatment oF functional conditions, physicians find Ergoapiol (Smith) a highly eFFicient e m m e n a g o g u e , in which the actio n o f oil the a lk a lo id s oF ergot (prepared by hydro-alcoholic extraction) is synergetically enhanced by the presence of apiol, oil oF sovin, and aloin. Its sustained tonic oction on the uterus provides welcome relief in many cases— by helping to induce local hyperemia and to stimulate smooth, rhythmic INDICATIONS uterine contractions, and by serving as a potent hemostatic agent to con­ Amenorrhea, dysmen­ trol excessive bleeding. orrhea, menorrhagia, May we send you a copy of the metrorrhogio, in o b ­ booklet "The Symptomatic Treat­ stetrics. ment of Menstrual Irregularities."

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lifc Cerebrospinal Meningitis...... W. J. Lightburn, Major, M. C. Station Hospital, Fort Lewis

fpecent Surgical Advances...... C. B. Ritchie

See page 3 for details of a special Poliomyelitis Clinic, with demonstration of the Kenny treatment, at County Hospital on October 16 at 8:30 A. M.

See page 4 for notice of proposed change in By-Laws of Pierce County Medical Society. BULLETIN o j th e Pierce County M edical Society Pierce County Medical Society EDITORIAL Senator Robert Wagner, of New York, au­ OFFICUIIS thor of the bill creating the National Labor

P r e sid e n t...... S. F. Herrmann Relations Board, which was to do away with President-Elect...... J, VC'. Gullikson strikes but which, in effect, has been the most Vice President...... W. H. Ludwig Secrctary-Treasurer ...... W. B. Penney one-sided and unfair law ever put on the stat­ T r i i N t c o N ute books and under the operation of which E. W . Ja n e s C. V . L u n d v ic k S. M. MacLean Cllyde Magill the country lias been sold down the river to T . K . B o w le s S. F. H e rr m a n n R. D. Wright J. W. Gullikson the labor-union racketeers, has had another L. T . M c N e rt h n e y W . H . L u d w ig C. F Engels W. B. Penney brain storm and produced another bill, this

C. R. M c C re e ry E. W . Ja n e s one to sell the medical profession to the politi­ W. W. Mattson C. F. Engels cians. It is officially known as Senate Bill 1161. Allniintcs C. V. Lundvick Clyde Magill Under this bill, if it should become law, S. M MacLean T K Bowles liusi ness Jliirciiu Trustees there would be collected, in taxes, S3,048,000,- W. B. McCreery R. D. MacRae 000.00 annually. This tidy sum would be placed L. A Hopkins C.lyde Magill at the disposal of the Surgeon-General of the COMMITTKES Seien I if ie AVork Public Health Service giving him also the L. A. Hopkins, Chairman \W B. Dublin K. W. Douglas power to hire doctors, own or lease hospitals T. H. Duerfeldt and take over the practice of medicine in nearly Legislative C. F. Engels, Chairman any way he saw fit. All this to bring free medical F L. Scheyer E. W. Janes A . L. S c h u ltz H . J. W h ita c re service to practically everybody in the country.

rood Halioiiiii^: If this becomes the law of the land, we may G. M. Steele, Chairman as well consent to be hired men, working for Cecil Hurst J. R. Turner II on sc the government, taking the salaries they think M. T. Nelsen, (.hairman we should have, doing the paper-work they W, C. Paul Christen Quevli KMiics think we should. Our men in the armed forces A. FI. B u is, (.h a ir m a n will appreciate this best. Clyde Magill V. E. Crowe Entertainment This measure will come up for passage this J. J. Verhalen, Chairman T B Murphy Govnur Teats session of Congress. If that's the way you wish L T. McNerthney to practice, fine, just don’t do anything about 1 'osl^l'iiilnate Kdiiea(ion it and you'll eventually have the chance. If it S. S. Sanderson. Chairman D. FI Johnson C B Ritchie does not please you, write to our congressmen >1 ilitJiry and senators and tell them so. You men in serv­ \V. D Read, (..hairman C R MiCreery T. K. Bowles ice particularly. You're the lads who will wield VC'. B Penney F (, Yoder I * ii I»114' Relations a tremendous influence with the politicians after S. F. Light. < hairman the war. A politician's first thought about any \V M MiCreery A E Hill.s I * l> I ii* IleaMh and Sanitation legislation is. "How will this affect my job?” B. A. Brown, < .hairman Just drop him a note, saying, "Look, congress­ N . F M agn usseai J. F. Steele M (‘in Im* i‘N Ii 1 p man (or senator), if vou try to do this to us, S R Sleep, ( hairman while we are away fighting your war, so help II B A lliso n >la(ei-nal and <'IiiId Health us, when we get back, we will have things to P ( . Kyle. < hairman do to you and believe me, we will do them." The H F Clay ( , G. Trimble M. R. Mosie soldier vote, after any war, is the one thing the l.lhrai* y politicos play us to, so put in your rank with W. W. Mattson, Chairman C. II. D o e your signature, so he'll know you're not fooling. I iidns t rla I II .vkUmm* Tell him you're going to w'atch his vote on this R. D Wright. Chairman A B Heaton G. J. Vandenberg bill and pairing off with some other legislator, IK ii 11 o 41 it Stllft or being absent, or any other of those subter- I ditor ...... C . F. E ngels Business Manager ...... W. W. Mattson Continued on Page 23 BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society 3

Bubonic Plague in Tacoma! C. R. F a r g h e r , M. D.

It is traditional that control of epidemic dis­ gram and a special laboratory was built. Rats ease is difficult in time of war. This war has were killed by every known means, their been no exception and has demanded the ut­ sources of food were removed and their nest­ most effort of physicians and health authorities ing places were destroyed. More than 250,000 to keep this nation one of the healthiest in the poison baits have been prepared and distrib­ world. uted. Of 25,000 rodents collected and examined in the laboratory, eighty groups or "pools” of During the present war Tacoma has the dub­ specimens were found positive for Plague. Ad­ ious distinction of writing another chapter ditional untold thousands of rats were killed in the history of Bubonic Plague. Late in 1942 by home owners, commercial exterminators, it was discovered that a large population of and other agencies but were not examined in rats in the waterfront sections was infected with the laboratory. Plague. Since it is known as a scientific fact that Plague in rodents always precedes appear­ Within six months of the start of the cam­ ance of the highly fatal disease, it was consid­ paign control had been achieved and on May ered imperative that immediate steps be taken 4, 1943 the last infected rat was found. to eradicate this menace. Control efforts are continuing as it is too early It is no accident that not a single human case yet, to be sure that no further danger from the of Plague has occurred. The Tacoma Health disease exists. It is known from past experience Department in cooperation with the U. S. Pub­ that continuous control must be conducted for lic Health Service and the Washington State at least six months after the last infected rat Department of Health quickly and quietly set has been found before it is reasonably certain in motion an organized campaign of control, that control of the outbreak has been attained. which had as its objective elimination of in­ The institution of a permanent program fected rats and their fleas which transmit the which will prevent the recurrence of Plague is disease to man. In addition, strenuous efforts being considered by the Tacoma Department of were directed toward preventing the spread of Health. the disease from the waterfront into residential areas and preventing its spread from Tacoma to other cities and states through rail or water Poliomyelitis Demonstration shipping. and Clinic

Very shortly after discovery of the disease, A demonstration and clinic on anterior po­ a group of 25 people was engaged in this pro­ liomyelitis will be held at the Pierce County Hospital Saturday, October 16, at 8 :3 0 a. m. There are a number of cases of varying de­ JORDAN’S grees of paralysis to be reviewed. The details and technique of the Kenny treatment will be The Fresh-As-A-Daisy Bread demonstrated by Miss Loretta Botto, physio­ — now enriched with— therapy technician. The Kenny conception of the disease will be discussed, and a general dis­ Vitamin B-l cussion of any aspects of the disease can be

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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of The Pierce County Med ical Society

September 14, 1943

The regular meeting of the Pierce Counry Letters of appreciation were read from Medical Society was held in the Medical Arts Mabel P. Dodds and Bernice Monzingo. Auditorium on September 14, 1915, with Dr. Report of the Hospital Fund as presented to S. F. Herrmann in the chair. Forty-eight mem­ the Trustees was read. bers were present.

Mr. Fowler made a plea for the members’ The Secretary stated that the State Associa­ participation in the bond drive now under tion had raised the dues to S20.00 for next year. way.

Minutes of the last meeting were read and Dr. Herrmann stated that Dr. Wright had approved. asked chat letters of availability and disability of employees o f the Seatde-Tacom a Shipyards The secretary stated that he understood that be sent to the Personnel Department direct in­ an annual meeting had been held in May, 1943, stead of being given to the employees. but found no evidence in the minutes. There being no further business, the meet­ The scientific program was presented under ing adjourned. the auspices of the Committee on Industrial Hygiene of the Washington State Medical As­ sociation. Proposed Changes in By-Laws Dr. L. W. Farner described the development N otice is hereby given of proposed changes of the industrial hygiene program in the state. He particularly recommended a book on oc­ in the By-Laws of the Pierce Count)' Medical cupational hazards and diagnostic signs that Society, which will be voted upon at die regu­ was put out by the United States Department lar meeting of November 9, 1943, as follows: of Labor. It was stated by the president that Section 3. Chapter 1, to be amended to read, the society would buy fifty' of these books and they would be available for anyone who desired The annual dues of this society are due Jan­ one. uary I. annually, from each member, excepting those specifically exempted. The dues shall be Dr. H. J. Whiracre presented the program of the Committee on Industrial Hygiene of the S-10.00 tor members practicing in the city of Washington State Medical Association. Tacoma and $27.50 for those practicing out­ side of the city." These papers were discussed by Drs. Murphy, Wright, Herrmann and Yoder. Paragraph a, Section 4, Chapter 1, to be

The following applications for membership amended to read, "Graduates in medicine grant­ were read: C. R. Fargher, L J. Bland, H. L ed membership within five years following Maier, C. H. Wiseman, G. F. Dillon and G. A. completion of their internships shall pay dues I )rucker am ounting to $25.00 per first year of active Dr Arthur I'. O'Leary was elected to mem­ practice, $30.00 per second year, $35.00 per bership in the society. third year and regular dues thereafter." BULLETIN of the P ie r c e C o u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y 5

Community Immunization Program of City Health Department

A few weeks ago the Tacoma Housing with the endorsement of the Board of Directors Authority asked the Health Department to of the Pierce County Medical Society: consider making their services available to oc­ 1. The family physician should encourage cupants of the Salishan and Lincoln Heights immunization of his own patients. areas, indicating a specific desire for immuni­ 2. The City Health Department will conduct zation services. mass immunization clinics at Salishan and As a result of this request, a survey of the Lincoln Heights housing areas. immunity status was made. O f the 2400 homes 3. The Tacoma Health Department will give to be completed at Salishan and Lincoln a special emphasis to the promotion of Heights 1050 were occupied at the time of the immunization by the family physician in survey, and 100 homes were surveyed at Sali­ news releases. shan, none at Lincoln Heights. The survey is as follows: E s t i m a t e d N o n - I m m u n e i n A r e a Tuberculosis Symposium C h i l d r e n Im m u n e ------S u r v e y e d ------At time ol Complete No. % St/rrey Occupancy The Heart Committee of the San Francisco

Diphtheria Tuberculosis Association will hold the four­ Pre-School 115 42 37 464 1058 teenth annual post-graduate symposium, with School 130 88 68 273 623 Dr. Tinsley R. Harrison as guest speaker, in San Francisco, November 4, 5, 6, 1943. A com­ Smallpox plete program may be seen in the library by Pre-School 115 33 29 533 1216 anyone wishing to attend. School 130 102 79 182 415

Whooping Cough Pre-School 115 *4 2 37 464 1058 Resolutions

* 1/2 were given active immunization, Vz had experienced Kind Fate will soon decide my time to go; the disease. I’ll say, "So long,” and add this one request: No resolutions, please, if you would know, The proportion of pre-school children pro­ Just pass them up and that will suit me best. tected from Diphtheria and Smallpox is not sufficient to prevent occurrence of these dis­ For resolutions give a futile note, eases in epidemic proportions. Of praiseful words possessed of empty sound; A patterned eulogy addressed by rote, Due to the endemic incidence of Diphtheria To fresh laid sod upon the mounded ground. and the length of time required to produce ac­ So skip the resolutions you would frame, tive immunity, Diphtheria should be given the Remember my good share of work and fun; greatest consideration. From here in resolutions sound so lame, All I can offer now is what I’ve done. The following program has been planned L. A. H. 6 BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

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OFFICERS P r es id e n t...... Mrs. C. G. Trimble Unsung Heroines President-Elect...... - ...... -...... Mrs. Miles Parrott 1 st Vice President...... Mrs. Lester Baskin Mothers and wives such as we have in our 2nd Vice President ...... Mrs. S. F. H e rr m a n n 3 rd Vice President...... Mrs. Clyde Gray Auxiliary are the unsung heroines of the hour. 4 th Vice President...... M rs. G eo r g e Sm ith They carry on the fundamental and perhaps S ecretary...... -...... -...... -Mrs. S. S. Thordarson

COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN less exciting roles that hold home and family— (Incomplete listing) P ro g ra m ...... Mrs. T. H. Duerfeldt and therefore society— together. Sons, husbands, S o cia l...... Mrs. J. W . Gullikson fathers, brothers, and now even sisters and P u b lic ity ...... Mrs. J. B. Robertson C a n ce r ...... -...... -...... - Mrs. Clifford Halvorsen daughters too, are in uniform. Additional mil­ H is to r ia n ...... -...... Mrs. Lester Baskin lions are dislocated to work in war production. T e l e p h o n e ...... Mrs. Clyde Gray National Bulletin ...... Mrs. L. A. Hopkins The center of these depleted families is mother and wife. Because she is here, at home, and on the job, these dislocations and depletions, in The October meeting will be a tea at the major degree, will be only temporary. home of Mrs. W. B. Penney, 3018 North Pu­ get Sound, at 2 o’clock on the 14th. This is more than merely war effort, as im­ portant as that is; it is human effort rooted in Reports will be made on the State Auxiliary woman’s sense of values that transcends to­ meeting which was held in Seattle in Septem­ day's problems and expresses itself in terms of ber, followed by a general discussion. Mrs. T. mankind, and evolution and civilization. H. Duerfeldt will be in charge of the program. In sharper focus, the Woman’s Auxiliary of Mrs. J. W. Gullikson, social chairman, has the Wayne County Medical Society is assisting arranged for tea and a social hour following materially in a big and most difficult job— the the business meeting. establishment of scientific truth. More truth, and adherence to it, is what the world needs DAMMEIER today. The process is sometimes slow and dis­ Printing Co. couraging, but the satisfaction that comes from working for the truth is the greatest of com­ M AIN 1 0 6 5 pensations.

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In a recent book under the tide of "Public removed. In other words, these business organi­ Relations for Business,” Milton Wright pre­ zations have set their own houses in order first, sents some ideas which seem particularly ap­ in order that they might be in a position to go propriate for the consideration of organized before the public with clean hands to tell their Medicine and every one of its members at a story by all the modern means of communica­ time when certain groups are clamoring insist­ tion, the printed word, the billboard, the radio ently for a radical change in our system of — and, what is more important, satisfied medical care. customers. In one chapter of this book, "Reorganizing Is there something wrong with the "house of for Good Will," emphasis is laid upon the Medicine” that is responsible for the insistence necessity for removing all causes of public ir­ on the part of a small number of individuals ritation and dissatisfaction with the product or that some radical change be made in the way services rendered by the particular industry in we conduct our business? Are our relationships question. with our employees— nurses, technicians, cleri­ While Mediccine could hardly be considered cal workers—conducive to building their good an industry yet it does render a service vital will toward us? Do we pay them decent living to the public, and the attitude of the public wages; make their working conditions as pleas­ toward the profession is the sum total of the ant as possible; do we attempt to give our impressions it receives as individual patients patients the best we have at a price they can under treatment or as friends, or relatives of afford to pay? Or, do we sometimes exploit those patients; and finally, of the accuraccy of them for a fee; do we take full advantage of our its information concerning the broad social opportunities to develop good will by our con­ value of those services to the nation as a whole. tacts with hospital executives, private and gen­ Leading business concerns such as the Amer­ eral duty nurses, and all of the public with ican Telephone and Telegraph Company, the whom we associate? International Nickel Company of Canada, and These are some of the questions that a public the General Foods Company, to mention only relations counsel would ask us as individual a few, have long recognized the value of public practicioners and our medical organizations rep­ opinion. They have employed specialists in pub­ resenting us, if we were to employ such a coun­ lic relations activities to analyze corporations’ sel to analyze public opinion and tell us wherein contacts with the public. W here causes of irri­ we had failed in the past and what we might do tation have been found these causes have been to correct such failure. Your committees on Professional Conduct and on Fee Complaints have been doing some Continued on Page 19 Karen Rynning PHYSIOTHERAPY

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The G. M. Steeles have moved into their new in Seattle on September 25 were Dr. J. R. home at 3602 North 36th street. Turner, who presented a case report of herpes simplex, and Dr. W. B. Penney, who presented Dr. George Kunz, Jr., and Miss Lorraine a case report of Addison’s disease. Barkost were married on September 10. George is now in active practice, officing with his fa­ What sounds like rather a strenuous vaca­ ther for the present. tion was spent by Dr. Duerfeldt in California. He spent some time at Dr. Addis' Bright’s Dr. Baskin writes from somewhere in Alaska disease clinic in San Francisco, taking charge that he is becoming a very accomplished car­ for a week while Dr. Addis was away on vaca­ penter, furniture maker and plumber and will tion, and attended various clinics at the Uni­ be able to enter any of these unions when he versity of California hospitals. He was in Mo­ returns home. desto for two days with Captain Frank Mad­ Don Willard and Glen McBride are both cap­ dison, who is still at the Hammond General tains now. Congratulations. in charge of the cardiovascular wards, feeling fine, doing lots of work and seeing many inter­ The Kenneth Douglases have a new baby esting patients. He walked Dr. Duerfeldt boy, Harry Greg, born Sept. 20. Another po­ around the hospital for about three miles, show­ tential interne. Keep up the production, Ken. ing him his pet cases and altogether the two Dr. MacLean has moved into new offices at had a good visit. Captain Maddison spoke of 903 Medical Arts Building. The MacLeans the value of the Bulletin in keeping men in are receiving contratulations upon the arrival the service informed on local matters and said of a new granddaughter, the child of Dr. and he missed it during the summer suspension. Mrs. Vincent Sneeden, of Portland. It is now Lieut. G. A. Drucker, M. C., Army Major Clifford Halvorsen gave a paper on of the United States, stationed at Fort Beale, "Some Neurophychiatric Problems in the Mil­ California, a full-fledged American citizen. itary Service” at the regional meeting of the American College of Physicians, which was Clara Llewellen, former office attendant with held in Seattle on September 24. Others at­ Dr. Rich and later with Dr. Goering, was mar­ tending from Tacoma were Drs. B. A. Brown, ried to Leslie T. Stephenson in Ketchikan, W. B. Dublin, Robert W. Brown, W. B. Pen­ Alaska, August 24th, 1943. ney and T. H. Duerfeldt. Mrs. Jean Hawley, technician in Dr. Sander­ Appearing on the program at the meeting of son's office, has her son visiting at home, on the North Pacific Society of Internal Medicine leave from service in the Solomons for many months with the U. S. Navy.

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America at War Continues in Good Health

It is now 19 months since the United States Outside of these direct losses from enemy entered the second W orld W ar, a period equal action, the health prospect of the country re­ to that of our participation in the first W orld mains comparatively favorable. One fortunate War. Fortunately, the health of the civilian factor in this situation is the absence of any population has continued on a high level dur­ widespread epidemic of respiratory disease, ing this trying period. As a matter of fact, the such a developed toward the end of the first mortality among the many millions of Metro­ World War. Because of the increased preval­ politan Industrial policyholders in 1942 was ence of the virus pneumonias, which are not the lowest ever recorded for any year. And al­ amenable to chemotherapy, the mortality from though since October of last year the monthly pneumonia has been higher so far in 1943 than rates have exceeded those of the preceding year, in 1942. It is lower, however, than in 1940 or month by month, the rise in mortality has not in any prior year. been serious. The death rate for the first six The low level of the tuberculosis death rate, months of 1943 is only 8.2 per 1,000. W hile despite war conditions, is an outstanding fea­ this is 7 per cent higher than the comparable ture of the period. The United States is unique rate for last year, it is appreciably lower than among the belligerent nations in this respect. that recorded in any year prior to 1938. R e­ England, for example, reported an increase of strictions and difficulties incidental to a global 6 per cent in respiratory tuberculosis in the first war have not as yet seriously affected the health year of the war, and 10 per cent in the second of the American people. year. The condition there has improved, how­ Part of the recent rise in mortality is due, ever, with the letup in enemy air raids. Among of Course, to the increase in deaths from en­ Metropolitan Industrial policyholders the tu­ emy action. For although the fatalities are low berculosis rate for the first six months of 1943 in this war as compared with the first World is 4.6 per cent below that of 1942, which in War, they are increasing in number as more turn was down 2.7 per cent from 1941. As yet, and more of our men become engaged on var­ ious battlefronts of the world. The rate for the longer hours of employment, the congested deaths from enemy action is 11.2 per 100,000 living conditions in defense areas,'and the cur­ policyholders of both sexes for the first half tailment of food supplies have not affected ad­ of 1943, as compared with 4.5 in the like versely the tuberculosis mortality rate. The con­ period a year ago. The largest part of this in­ tinuation of these war conditions is, of course, crease has occurred among military personnel. potentially dangerous, and calls for great vigi- The war deaths of civilian policyholders, large­ Continued on Page 16 ly in the Merchant Marine, have remained fair­ ly stable from month to month. Greater losses STANDARD BURNER OIL will undoubtedly occur as our forces advance on THE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME Distributed by the various fronts. Modern surgery, the use of the sulfa drugs, and the blood bank will save Fuel Oil Service Corp. many thousands of lives; nevertheless, deaths MAin 3171 on the battlefield are likely to be high in com­ ing months under the conditions of modern 816 A STREET TACOMA warfare. 1 I BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society'

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America at War Continues the number of women exposed to the hazards of in Good Health pregnancy and childbirth, and the shortage of Continued from Page 1 3 medical personnel, the death rate from the lancc on the par: of those working in the field, puerperal causes has reached a new minimum to detect casts early and to bring them under for the first half of 1943. adequate treatment. The usual tendency for the suicide rate to At the beginning of the war it w'as feared decline in wartime is again evident. The rate that the migration of large numbers of workers for the first six months of 1943— 6.5 per 100,- into defense areas, and the concentration of 000— is the lowest in more than two decades. new recruits in training camps, might provide It is 15.6 per cent below last year’s rate, and fertile soil for such diseases as measles and 23.5 per cent below the average for 1917-1918. scarlet fever, which play havoc with susceptible adult populations. It is, therefore, noteworthy The great decline in deaths from motor ve­ that the mortality from these diseases remains hicle accidents has resulted in bringing down below prewar levels. Cerebrospinal meningitis, the total accident rate to 48.6 per 100,000, or however, has show'n an increased prevalence. under last year's figure, despite the increase in The death rate for the first six months of 1943 some other types of accidents. is 2.7 as compared with less that one per 100,- Among the unfavorable features of the year’s 000 in 1942 and 1941. record, aside from the m ounting toll of war

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Unwanted Freedoms

Four freedoms have been widely advertised chance to move beyond their walls and fences. to the world has having originated in the Group 2—Those in prisons and penitentiaries. Atlantic Ocean. Two of these freedoms are They have freedom from want and fear. They positive—Freedom of Speech and Freedom of have security and all of its implications. They Religion or Faith. These two freedoms are are guarded in their security. They have no sufficient for Victory. These two freedoms give liberty. the widening perspective and the far view. Thus, those with no mind and no liberty Speech gives opportunity for discussion, have security. study, deliberation and argument. It gives lati­ Give me want and I will strive for my own tude to those who teach and those who listen. security. Give me fear and I will fend for my­ Faith is a precious quality that lends courage self. Give me freedom of speech that I may to the possessor. Faith is an important part of be educated and acquire intelligence and wis­ every religion. One may have faith without re­ dom enough to protect myself and my brother. ligion but one cannot have a religion without Give me freedom of faith so that I may pray to faith. be delivered from planners. I will make my own arrangements. The only arrangements willingly Freedom from want and freedom from fear left to planners will be my funeral arrange­ are negative quantities. There is no glory in ments—for then I will be secure, settled and these freedoms. There is no particular virtue dead.— E. H. S. in The Kansas City M edical in them. They may be useful slogans for at­ Journal. tracting political support, but they are weak arguments. They may just as well be left in the Atlantic for all the good they will do. Communicable Diseases If one indulges in Freedom from Want, he SEPTEMBER 1943 does not strive, think, save, budget, study nor Chickenpox ...... 6 work. One will do all of these things to escape Diphtheria ...... 1 want. Then, why ask for freedom from want? German Measles ...... 1 If one insists upon Freedom from Fear, he Measles - ...... —...... 1 can then burn himself in his innocence and in­ Mumps ...... 4 dulge in a confident future that planners are Poliomyelitis ...... 8 willing to arrange without guarantees. Scarlet Fever ...... 7 Tuberculosis ...... 3 There are two groupings of people who have Whooping Cough ...... 26 freedom from fear and have security. Group 1 —Those in asylums. They have security, food, bed, clothing. They have no liberty and no Doctors Courageous Don't forget to remind your patients to "T he BetterWay ” listen in to "Doctors Courageous," which is broadcast over KTBI every Sunday evening at TACOMA MAUSOLEUM 8 o'clock. South 53rd & Alder St. GA. 7562 This broadcast is sponsored by the Shaw Crematory MAUSOLEUM Columbarium Supply Company and is a dramatization of famous episodes in the history of medicine. BULLETIN o f the Pierce County M edical Society

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Public Relations the public is entirely unaware. The services of Continued from Page 9 our members, rendered freely and cheerfully in clinics and county hospitals throughout the excellent public relations work although they land without thought of recompense, the vast may not have realized just how important their amount of part-paid services rendered in our work has been. The complaints that come into offices, are all activities which a skilled public your Association headquarters from individual relations counsel can and will depict in such a patients against Association members strangely enough are rather few in number and most manner as to demonstrate to our patients as often center around some disagreement over a a whole the fact that the system under which they have received their medical care is not so fee or the belief on the part of the patient that his physician has failed to give him proper and bad as some of its detractors have implied. considerate treatment. Your committees have The truth should be known about the over­ accomplished some excellent results in recon­ whelming favorable comparison of our Ameri­ ciling these differences between patients and can system with any other type of medical care physicians and in the long run improving our as practiced elsewhere about the world. When relations with the public. properly presented by those skilled in portray­ Eliminating the just causes for public com­ ing facts to an intelligent public there will be plaint against us, and this elimination must be no doubt about what the decision will be. sincere, prompt and thorough, what is the Admittedly the hour is late, but not too late. next step? —The Bulletin of The Los Angeles County We too, as a sound, going concern, contrib­ Medical Association. uting an essential service to American society in a manner that is admittedly not perfect, but on the record, always improving, must now go before the people in an aggressive, up-to-date manner, informing them just what has been ac­ Lowe's complished in their behalf and how. Rest Home To do this we must employ every modern means of communication directed by those for skilled in the analysis of public opinion and Elderly People the manner in which that opinion can be made The beautiful Wallace Eslate to respond to the accurate representation of facts. 10 lovely bedrooms The story of American Medicine and its ac­ 5 bathrooms complishments has never been told to the Larqe Yard and Flowers American public. The organization of medical ☆ schools, supervision of medical education, the direction of hospital staffs, the careful search All guests have private rooms; a home in which your parents for and experimentation of new drugs, thera­ receive the personal care we peutic appliances, are only a few of the many gave our own. We pride our­ services Medicine renders daily and of which selves upon the food served— all tray service. The LARRABEE NURSING HOME ☆ IS NOW PREPARED TO CARE FOR POST-OPERATIVE and CONVALESCENT 402 North J Street Good Food CASES Good Care MAin 4432 3710 Thompson Ave. GArland 3732 20 BULLETIN of the P ie r c e Co u n t y M e d ic a l S o c ie t y

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Editorial Hospital Merger Continued from Page 2 Mrs. Henrietta Palmer of the Washington fuges won't go this time. Tell him you expect Minor Hospital and Dr. R. A. Button of the him to be on hand and vote 'N O " or else. Button Veterinary Hospital were married in Remember the chap is working for you, you September. We were not invited to the wed­ hired him and are paying him, ten thousand ding so can give no details. good smackers a year, AND extras, plenty of extras. A Doctor Is a Funny Guy For the benefit of those who will really A doctor is a funny guy; write, here is a list of the W ashington legisla­ He tells us that we're sure to die, tors. Write all of them, you can't miss. Homer If we don't hustle into bed T. Bone and Mon C. Wallgren, U. S. Senate, The minute that our throats get red, Washington, D. C. Warren G. Magnuson, Hen­ And temperatures rise two degrees, ry M. Jackson, Fred Norman, Hal Holmes, W al­ And we begin to cough and wheeze. ter Horan and John M. Coffee, all House of But when he gets the selfsame way, Representatives, Washington, D. C. He thinks he's made of tougher clay; Get the doctors in your outfit to write to That he can gambol in the rain their representatives too. Our State Society has In spite of fever, cough and pain. just passed a resolution against this bill, to be His rules, when other folks are ill, Applied to him are simply nil. forwarded to all our legislators but the indi­ H e’s different; tho' he can’t tell why. vidual letters carry more weight, so let’s all A doctor is a funny guy. write. Now. — Excbtinge.

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0 BULLETIN of the PIERCE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY Pierce County Medical Society sional conduct entitle him to recognition. It places him in che fold o f organized medicine. OFFICKIIS Mere membership, however, it not enough. A P r e sid e n t...... -...... S. F. Herrmann Prcsidcm-Hlca ...... )■ W. Gullikson society can function and continue to survive Vice President ...... W. H. Ludwig only if it remains alive. Are you doing your Secretary-Treasurer ...... W. B. Penney duty or are you even looking out for your own T r u N t e e M E. W. Janes C. V. Lundvick interest if you fail to rem ain an active member S. M. MacLean Clyde Magill T. K. Bowles S. F. Herrmann who attends meetings? Trustees and officers R. D. Wright J. W. Gullikson L. T. McNerthney W. H. Ludwig cannot make a society. Your attendance is C. F. Engels W. B. Penney D c k ‘Klt4CH needed. C. R. McCreery L. W. Janes W. W. Mattson C. I1. E n gels AHerim tc.s These are strenuous times. W e who remain C. V. Lundvick Clyde Magill S. M. MacLean T. K. Bowles at home are entrusted with many responsibili­ lliiNini'N* B u r e a u 'l'ruHtecH ties. We must keep the civilian population \V. B. McCreery R. D. M a c R a e L. A. Hopkins Clyde Magill well and must help solve complex problems of

COMMITTEES medical care now and in the future. Individuals Scientific "Work cannot work effectively; only organized effort L. A. Hopkins, Chairman W. B. Dublin K. W. Douglas T. H. Duerfeldt can meet the challenge. When the boys come I.epislati ve back from the war let us be able to tell them C. F. Engels, Chairman F. L. Scheyer E. W. Janes that we have kept the faich. Or shall we give A. L. Schultz H. J. \\'hi [acre Foml Rationing up because we are too busy? A concession has G. M. Steele. Chairman Cecil Hurst J. R. Turner already been made by reducing the number of Jloii.se meetings to one per month instead of the for­ M. T. Nelsen, Chairman \V. C. Paul Christen Quevli mer two. Your voice, your vote and your at­ JOIliie.s tention are needed at each meeting. There may A. H. Buis. Chairman Clyde Magill V. E. Crowe even be som ething of scientific interest which Entertainment J. J. Verhalen, Chairman you should learn. Will you come? T. B. Murphy Govnor Teats L. T. McNcrthney S. F. H e r r m a n n . Postgraduate Education S. S. Sanderson, Chairman During the past year we have had, at our D. H. Johnson C. B. Ritchie M ilitn ry medical meetings, twenty-one speakers from W. D. Read, Chairman C. R. McCreery T. K. Bowles outside the city and twenty local men. Some W. B. Penney E. C. Yoder Public Relation* of these were men with international reputa­ S. E. Light, Chairman W. B. McCreery A, E. Hillis tions in medicine. Certainly, all this material was I’ublic llcnllh and Sanitation equal to what one might expect at some famous B. A. Brown, Chairman N . I:. M a g n u sse n J. F. Steele clinical course, yet we have any number of SI enil>cr.slii|i members who have not sufficient interest to S. R. Sleep, Chairman H. B. Allison turn out for tw'o hours of an evening, to take Maternal and Child Health advantage of these opportunities. Medicine is a P. C, Kyle, Chairman H. T, Clay C. G. Trimble living, growing science and those who do not M . R. 1 lo sic L ib r a r y keep up find themselves outdistanced and left W. W. Mattson, Chairman C. I I. Doe behind. How is it possible that we have mem­ I IMllINt rill 1 II >-tri4* 11 bers who do not realize this? Some of our mem­ R. D. Wright, Chairman A. B. Heafon G. J. Vandenberg bers have not attended a single meeting for a nuiicUn stair E d ito r...... C. F. lingcls year. Our medical society is not like a labor Business Manager ...... W. W. Mattson union or a lodge, which one may join and then Not one of us would lightly give up his mem­ enjoy certain benefits, without further attend­ bership in the medical society. It means that he ance. The old lumber-camp cook's call of "Come is accepted by his fellows as one whose educa­ and get it" applies here. You must at least come tional attainments, ethical ideals, and profes­ to the table if you wish to enjoy the feast. B U L L E T IN of the Pierce County M edical Society 3

The Lake County Resolution

(Adopted by unanimous vote of the Lake and have therefore a grave responsibility to our County, Indiana, Medical Society at its meeting members in the armed forces, to the public, to of September 8, 1943.) our predecessors and teachers, and to the future W H EREAS, we, whose medical practices place generations of physicians and their patients— an us in intimate daily contact with the rank and inescapable responsibility not only to preserve file of Americans, know that the public has re­ but to improve both the quality and methods acted against the policies and actions of the of medical care; and

American Medical Association and its represen­ W h e r e a s organized medicine is entirely tatives, and that the public is reacting favor­ without voice or representation at the national ably toward the Wagner-Murray Bill S-1161; legislature, presumably because the American and Medical Association seeks to preserve a tax- W h e r e a s the high standards of practice and exempt status by refusing to engage openly in the unparalleled achievements in public health legislative work at a time when the future of that have resulted from the American system of American medicine is at stake; and private medical practice are threatened with W H E R E A S we are nor now organized to meet destruction because much of the American pub­ our responsibilities because, for example, such lic and many of its congressional representa­ dangerous legislation as that portion of the tives misunderstand and are therefore prejudiced First Deficiency Appropriation Act of March against organized medicine; and 18, 1943 which established the program for the W h e r e a s we are, to medical history, the obstetrical and pediatric care of families of men temporary custodians of the practice of medicine in the armed forces, has only recently slipped through Congress without the constituent state associations and county medical societies even being advised of the bill or its implications, and FOR SALE without well-intentioned legislators who voted Physician's Instruments for it being informed regarding the bill’s med­ ically vicious features; and

* W h e r e a s we are not now organized to pro­ tect the public or the profession, because actions Call Medical Library taken and public health measures recommended BR. 3166 by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association remain only words on the record and are not translated into action or suc­ cessfully enforced in the public interest upon the elected servants of the public; and

W H E R E A S damaging and oppressive legisla­ JORDAN’S tion is seldom, if ever, imposed upon an Ameri­ The Fresh-As-A-Daisy Bread can industry, business or profession that has — now enriched with— earned good public relations, seldom imposed upon any well-organized group that not only Vitamin B-l serves the best public interest but is understood, respected and admired by the public because of 450 International Units per pound—'the equivalent of natural whole wheat grain. its known unselfish public service; and Continued on Page 23 4 BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

The Physicians & Dentists Business Bureau M yrtle Christoferson, M a n a g e r Debtors in Military Service

What do you do with bills against debtors in boiled letters in these cases, as we believe they Military Service? are more or less antagonistic and knowing as This is one of the present-day problems that well as the debtor that we are not able to carry add to the collector's many headaches. We all out our threats. have our own method in handling accounts It sometimes helps to contact the Command­ against men and women now in military serv­ ing Officer. T his has brought results in some ice. Some collectors say that when they find a cases, especially where the man is attached to debtor in service they immediately forget the permanent personnel, but in the majority of account, that it is not worth the time and effort cases, under present-day conditions, by the time to attempt liquidation. Others immediately can­ a letter is written to the Commanding Officer cel these accounts back to the client and let him of a certain detachment, the debtor has been either charge it off to profit and loss or let him transferred to another camp, consequendy the hold it in his own files. letter finds its way to the waste basket. When an account is assigned to the Bureau, All this has to deal with obligations incurred it is not filed away unless it is definitely proven before the man entered military service, as it is that the account is uncollectible at the present customary for the Finance Officer to bring pres­ time. There have been a few accounts collected sure to bear when a soldier receives his pay against service men, but this percentage has providing it is an account that has been in­ been small in comparison to the number of ac­ curred since the m an entered military service counts which have been assigned against these and it is brought to the attention of the Finance men. It is a known fact that many men in Officer through proper channels. However, even service have families at home whose wives are then there is no way, to the best of the writer’s unemployed and are financially not able to make knowledge, even for the Finance Officer to make payments on outstanding obligations. However, it absolutely compulsory that the obligation be on the other hand, we have found many in­ paid. stances where the debtor is in service and the After all, it is more or less up to the debtor account being of such nature that the wife is himself whether or not he can afford to pay and equally liable, and upon investigation found lias the desire to pay or whether he is one heav­ her to be employed. In cases of this kind, we ily burdened with present family expense or have not hesitated to make demands on her who has an indifferent attitude. for payment. * # * When we receive an account for collection D o you know that there was no new City and the creditor advises that the man is in mil­ Directory published this year? Because of this itary service, we immediately attempt to get his it is apparent that you instruct your office as­ present address, then write him asking for a sistant to gather much more information from systematic liquidation, and if we do not receive your new patients than she did months ago. a reply may write one or two more letters and If you do this it will make the task of collecting if we still do not receive a reply, and there is from these people a lot easier. Be sure to get no chance of collecting from his wife, if he is their new business connections, address and married, then the account is deferred for the above all, some reference. The people are on duration, unless we have reason to believe or the move and in the last several months we have rc-ccive information the man has been or may noticed that some families are already going be discharged. We do not feel that it is quite back home. Where "back home" is, chances are the thing to write any threatening or hard- Continued on Page 27 BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society 5

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of The Pierce County Medical Society

October 12, 1943

The regular meeting of the Pierce County The following change in By-laws, which had Medical Society was held in the Medical Arts been approved by the Trustees, was read and Auditorium on October 12, 1943, with Dr. S. F. will be voted upon at the next meeting: Herrmann in the chair. There were 47 members Section 3, Chapter 1, to be amended to present. read "The annual dues of this society are Mr. Gerry Waechter, head of Ration Board due January 1, annually, from each mem­ ber, excepting those specifically exempted. No. 1, Tacoma, spoke of changes to be made in The dues shall be $40.00 for members the blank for physicians to fill out in regard to practicing in the city of Tacoma and $27.50 special orders for rationed foods. for those practicing outside of the city.” Minutes of the previous meeting were read Paragraph a, Section 4, Chapter 1, to be and approved. amended to read "Graduates in medicine granted membership within five years fol­ The scientific program was then presented. lowing completion of their internships A paper on Cerebrospinal Meningitis was shall pay dues amounting to $25.00 per given by Major W. J. Lightburn, of the Station year per first year of active practice, $30.00 Hospital, Fort Lewis. M ajor Lightburn gave a per second year, $35.00 per third year and detailed report, illustrated with slides, of 186 regular dues thereafter." cases which occurred at Fort Lewis during the The following resolution was read and adopt­ last two years. This paper was remarkable in ed, honoring Dr. E. F. Dodds: demonstrating the difference in the treatment W h e r e a s : It has pleased the Almighty of these cases by chemotherapy, the death rate to remove from our midst our esteemed being less than 3% in this series. and valued friend and co-worker, Edgar F. Dr. C. B. Ritchie gave a paper on Recent Sur­ Dodds, gical Advances, which was very instructive. He THEREFORE: Be it resolved that in the dealt mostly with the treatment of burns. death of Dr. Dodds we have sustained the loss of a faithful and conscientious friend, In the business meeting the following cour­ one who was trusted and honored by all. tesy members were accepted after approval by We wish to bear witness to his steadfast the Trustees: Drs. F. J. Schwind and R. J. and careful work in his profession. His Ramquist. patients were always sure of receiving his The following doctors on ballot were elected most careful and considerate judgment. to membership in the society: Drs. C. R. Far- We feel honored to have enjoyed his fel­ lowship and friendship. gher, Leland J. Bland, H. L. Maier, C. E. W ise­ We offer to his bereaved family our man, G. F. Dillon and Gerhart A. Drucker. heartfelt condolences and sympathy. The application of Dr. F. E. Shovlain, lo­ R e s o lv e d : That these resolutions be cated at the Western State Hospital, was read spread upon the minutes of the Pierce County Medical Society and a copy be and referred to the Board of Trustees. presented to his family. A communication from the State Medical (Signed) Ralph C. S c h a e f f e r Society was read, in regard to change in by­ W i l l i a m H. L u d w ig laws concerning dues of disabled members. The following resolution honoring Dr. A. S. A communication stating that the group dis­ Monzingo was read and adopted: ability insurance policy taken out with the W H E R E A S : It has pleased the Almighty Commercial Casualty Company was now in to remove from our midst our esteemed effect was read. Continued on Page 25 6 BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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OFFICERS brought in to the Editor’s office a sheaf of President.. ..Mrs. C. G. Trimble PreiM m i-EiiciZ ...... Mrs. Miles Parrqct replies to her letters. lj ; Vice President...... M rs. Lester B a sk m 2nd Vice President...... Mrs. S. F. Herrmann 3 rd Vice President...... -...... Mrs. Clyde Gray Doctor's Wife 4th Vice President...... Mrs. George Smith S ecretary...... -...... Mrs. S. S. T h o rd a rso n Dr. M. H. Kettle used to say that the biggest COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN handicap of a woman doctor was that she (Incomplete listing) P rogra m ...... Mrs. T. H. Duerfeldt could not have a wife. For no 'housekeeper or Social...... Mrs. J. W. Gullikson P u b lic ity ...... Mrs. J. B. Robertson secretary or dictaphone, companion or detective C a n cer...... Mrs. Clifford Halvorsen H is to ria n ...... Mrs. Lester Baskin service can quite take the wife's place, and so T e l e p h o n e ...... Mrs. Clyde Gray National Bulletin...... Mrs. L. A. Hopkins far no husband has ever tried. A doctor’s wife Membership.. ..Mrs. H. F. Griffin can make or wreck his career, but she can do The Auxiliary will meet for luncheon at the far more—bring him misery in the midst of home of Mrs. C. G. Trimble, 620 So. Union, success or happiness in spite of failure. What on November 11. Luncheon will be served at qualities should she have if she is to give him 12:30 by the Social Committee, Mrs. J. W . — and therefore herself—both success and hap­ Gullikson, chairman. Coffee, tea and dessert piness? First among them McClinton of On­ will be provided, and members are asked to tario puts good health not only for the reasons bring their own sandwiches. which apply to anyone’s wife but because her Mrs. T. H. Duerfeldt, program chairman, has lesser ailments will never receive the attention secured as speaker Miss Kathleen Leahy, state they deserve; she can only mention them when chairman of the Division of Nursing, Procure­ her husband is hurried over breakfast or tired ment and Assignment Service, from the U ni­ over dinner, and she must subsist mainly on versity of Washington, who will discuss the samples from his dusty shelves. It is her job to accelerated training course for nurses. know as much as he does though not of the Take Sixth Avenue bus and get off at Union. same subjects. She needs not skill with the All physicians’ wives are urged to attend. stethoscope, but must master the telephone. In two minutes she must learn the patient’s name It would be a fine thing if other members of and social status, his address and how to get the Auxiliary would follow the example of Mrs. there, what he has and how long he has had it, I. P. Balbanoff in writing our Congressmen re­ and she must bear the blame if her assignment garding the Wagner-Murray bill. These men of urgency based on the distorted tone values always have their ears to the ground for indica­ of a few hasty words, turns out wrong. Moreover tions of how their constituents feel about pro­ her reply to the message must be neither posed legislation, and Mrs. Balabanoff has alarmingly sympathetic nor unkindly terse. She must know how to entertain their friends, re­ PUGET SOUND membering that too much entertainment in SANATORIUM the doctor's home becomes obvious and odious. She is fortunate if he worries, for if he does not FOR MENTAL AND NERVOUS CASES he burns with no creative fire. The good doctor A. C. S t e w a r t , M. D ., S u p t. will often sweat when the phone rings at night, O F F I C E for fear of something he has left undone, while 1318 Medical Arts Bldg. the bad one snuggles dry beneath the blankets Office Telephone— MAin 1095 knowing that most people get w'ell anyhow. TACOMA Last of all—she must love the doctor. To act Sanatorium Telephone— Pcyal lnp 118 PUYALLUP as such a combination of doormat and poultice she will have to.— Lancet.

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Frank Maddison was in town for a few days Glenn McBride writes, from Camp Luna, recendy, on leave from his station at Hammond New Mexico: General Hospital at Modesto, California. Army “I have meant to write to you for quite a life has certainly done wonders for this lad. while. I hope that you fellows are not working Frank has gained fifteen pounds, his filled out yourselves too hard. Needless to say, I’d like to something like Bill Goering and now looks like be there to help out, but things here need a little a regular he-man, with even a suspicion o f be­ attention. This old rumor about army medics ginning a double chin. He is still chief o f the sitting on the "one spot" and not doing any­ medical service and general consultant at Ham­ thing may apply in some places but not here. mond, has his family with him, enjoys his work W e are short handed and all o f us have about and his environment. H e has as many as three six jobs. O f course much o f the work is not ex­ hundred electrocardiograms a week to read, actly medical— in the sense o f private practice— among his other duties. Some P. G. course he’s but it does keep us busy and, as far as the army getting. About time for his majority to be com ­ is concerned, is a necessity. I have been on sur­ ing through, too. gery since arriving here last September. W e do George Moosey is in town at this writing on a lot o f corrective work such as hernias, bun­ a short leave from his station at Oceanside, Cal­ ions, hemorrhoids, etc., and have the usual run ifornia, where he will return to await assignment of acute belly work. W e don’t see many car­ to duty elsewhere. About 125 doctors at the cinomas of the bowel, or fibroid uteri however. same post, none of them doing much work, All in all the work is quite satisfactory and as apparently waiting to be assigned to service as far as I’m concerned, I have a desirable set-up. needed. George got a lot o f hiking out in the "My main concern and reason for writing at hills to toughen him up. Was thrown out of a the present time is this damn Wagner-Murray- jeep in June and has had some sacro-iliac dis­ Dingell bill. Naturally, you know how all o f us turbance since but manages to get around. fellows in the army feel about this thing. Be­ Don Willard was taking training in San cause of our position in the army and our isola­ Antonio, Texas, School o f Aviation Medicine tion from our local societies, we feel more or and the Aviation Cadet Center near Kelly Field less impotent to act on our own accord. H ow ­ the last we heard from him but was moved to ever, I am sure that all of the men on army or Delhart, Texas two weeks ago where he is now navy duty would like to help out in some way Squadron Surgeon with the 3 33rd Bomber in the fight against this bill. Group. Katherine and the baby in Tacoma for "I am confident that you at home have mapped the time being. out some plan o f action regarding this. If there is anything that I can do to help, please let me know. In California I understand that the local societies are calling for a five dollar contribu­ Karen Rynning tion from all their members both in and out of the armed forces for a fund for the fight. PHYSIOTHERAPY "Also I would appreciate it if you would send M em ber of me a complete list o f the names and addresses American Physiotherapy Association of all of our Washington congressmen so that

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Authority on Gonorrhea Teachers for Wagner Bill To Visit Tacoma A t a recent meeting in Seattle, the W ashing­ On Tuesday, November 30th, Dr. Percy S. ton State Federation of Teachers was urged by Pelouse will be in Tacoma. Dr. Pelouse is as­ its retiring president, Henry G. Weeks, princi­ sistant profressor o f urology ac the University pal of our own Edison School, to work for pass­ of Pennsylvania, Fellow o f the Philadelphia age o f the W agner Bill, which would assure all College of Physicians, member of the Board of teachers, among others, free medical service. If Directors of the American Neisserian Medical any of you know Mr. Weeks, it might be a good Society, member o f the Board o f Directors of idea to call his attention to the "free" part of the American Social Hygiene Association and is this program, which is like the old "free" lunch at present serving as full time consultant o f the we used to get. Over three billion dollars col­ USPHS in connection with the gonorrheal con­ lected in taxes to pay for this "free” service trol program. Dr. Pelouse has written a book won’t set any too well on these teachers and their on the treatment o f gonorrhea, which is re­ ill-informed advisers, remembering also th^t garded as a standard work and is currently rec­ out of this fund will have to be paid a swarm ognized as a national authority on the subject. of new government officials to administer the W e are interested in knowing whether a suf­ act. Another vain hope of getting something ficient number of doctors would turn out to for nothing, another shackle to bind us to na­ a special meeting to hear Dr. Pelouse. If there tional bureaucracy. is enough interest displayed, we will try to arrange such a meeting. If not, we will have a Mrs. Scott, manager of the first floor lunch­ small group entertain the doctor at dinner and room in the Medical Arts Building, has recov­ have him talk to us at that time. W e would like ered from a fractured scapula and the lunch­ to have such of you as wish to attend either of room is again open for business. the above planned meetings communicate with the Librarian and arrangements will be made in concordance with the number who respond. The International Post-Graduate Assembly in Please consider this a personal invitation; no Chicago is the attraction this week for a num­ other will be issued. ber of tired and overworked Tacoma doctors, Penney, Schaeffer, MacLean, Wright, Burton Bulletin on File in W ashington Brown, Nelsen and Yoder among others. The W e are rather flattered to be informed that two McCreery's are also away, N ew Y ork being our Bulletin is now currently on file and may their destination. Burton Brown has an extra be read at the Army Medical Library of the problem, the difficulty of getting internes for Surgeon-General’s office in Washington, D. C. the County Hospital for next year. At present, If any of you get to Washington, you might go his internes are due to leave on January first, in and ask to see the current copy, just to show with no new ones signed up to take their places. them we do have an occasional reader.

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The following letter, just received from For­ tinues very long don’t believe for a minute that dyce Johnson, is worth printing in full. It speaks dependents of service men are going to be re­ for itself. What we need is more zealots like him. luctant about asking for and even demanding medical care. October 25, 1943. I am in charge o f the E. N . T. Clinic and E. Dear Charlie: N . T. and Bronchoscopy at this hospital, and The receipt of the last issue o f the Bulletin hardly a day passes but what requests for care was a real pleasure for the editorial it contained. are made upon me. The seriousness of the threat to medicine by Oh, yes! If any o f the men back home the Wagner-Murray Bill, N o. 1161, has many comment they would like to trade places; I will of the men in service concerned. Your editorial be more than willing any day o f the year. is an effective drive in the proper direction. Best of luck in your work. Here in Pasadena Area Station Hospital I Sincerely, have been talking it up to the men as well as writing to Bone and Coffee. F o r d . Could we have reports in the Bulletin on what P. S. Enclosing a copy o f the letter I wrote Washington, D. C. progress is being made by the State Medical Society, as well as individual members at home P. S. Scott Jones is stationed in Pasadena. H e — and a little more prodding along this same is a Lt. Col. and 2nd in command o f the South­ line to the men in service? ern California Sector, Medical Administration, In the Los Angeles area many M . D .’s are with headquarters at the Huntington Hotel, Pasadena. placing inserts in with their mail and monthly statements. Honorable Homer T. Bone, One of the officers here received a letter from U. S. Senator, his state medical society (New Jersey) asking Washington, D. C. him to write his congressman. This he did. Dear Sir: However, on the whole there seems little that is As a resident o f Washington state, I wish to being done actively and it has me concerned. loudly voice my objections to Senate Bill 1161 If I can be of any help, please let me know. (the Wagner-Murray Bill). To the more pleasant side of life— we have May I ask that you exert every influence in been enjoying our stay in Pasadena. So far, your power in opposing this bill. since Aug. 1, we have had a slight rain one day, Sincerely yours,

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MEAD JOHNSON & CO., EVANSVILLE, IND., U.S.A. BULLETIN of the Piercb County M edical Society 15 The Wagner-Murray-Dingell Three billion dollars is a lot of money. It is Bill enough to hire every doctor in America at a It is most important that every physician salary o f $5,000 a year; to hire every bed in study the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (S. every privately operated hospital every day 1161) to learn what the Bill proposes, how it in the year at the rate o f $5 a day; to pay $2.50 will be administered (see pages 1355-59, Sep­ a day every day in the year for each bed in tember Pennsylvania Medical Journal) and government-owned hospitals; to spend over how much it will cost, in order that he may tell $250,000,000 a year for medicine and supplies, his clientele or neighbors why the medical pro­ and still leave half a billion for political job­ fession is against this type o f legislation as well holders. (The Bill generously permits each of as why we believe the public should be equally us to choose his own doctor, but not if the one interested in opposing it and favoring, perfer- o f our choice already has his allotted number ably, the gradual evolvement o f changes in the of patients.) existing forms o f medical practice which have Too many propagandists of socio-economic to date developed an ever-improving type of changes are intellectually dishonest, and will service free from bureaucratic regirfientation seize upon a popular movement of the public of the individuals or the groups which render as a kite upon which to tie a tail of their own the service or the patients that receive it. pet schemes. The question as to whether or not * * * they thus contaminate an otherwise wholesome While it may be true that 10% to 15% of movement is beside the point, if they can only the people in the United States do not receive gain their end. adequate medical service, the view is held by The fundamental logic which all doctors, of­ most physicians and many lay editorial observ­ ficials and the public must keep in mind stems ers that it is very unwise to scrap the entire from the following question: Will any of the system of practice now in operation which gives Continued on Page 25 85% of the population satisfactory medical service. * * * How many of the millions of persons, now Carbon Trouble? so happily employed in the United States give any thought to the fact that a 6 % deduction from their pay envelopes to supply medical and Try Triton Motor Oil hospital service under S.1161, have stopped to think— if they ate earning $2,000 a year that a 6% deduction means $120 a year for a sickness service which they may never need or perhaps Triton Motor Oil— 100% pure has never heretofore cost them over $10 or $12 paraffin base — 100% pure in any given year. Since this same percentage lubrication — so pure, in fact, may be deducted from each employed member that even the little carbon it of a family household who is more than 18 does form is practically harm­ years of age, in many instances it may total a less. Triton means better all- tremendous deduction from the family income . for medical and hospital service. From the around performance— reduced self-employed— the doctor, the farmer, mer­ engine wear. chant— it will take 7 % up to $3,000, or $210 a year. ; Three billion dollars o f the money thus col­ lected has been definitely allotted to medical I \lll\ OIL COMPANY and hospital service making no provisions for drugs, etc 16 BU LL ETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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The Old Doctor A Letter From a Mountain Woman To Her Son in the Army The old-time family doctor now is back with Dear Son: us once more, Your Pa has a new job now, the first in 48 As majors and as captains all the young have years. W e air a little better off now— $17.95 gone to war every Thursday, so we thought we’d do a little And the doctor, long past 50, is on duty night fixing up. and day W e went to Sears Roebuck for one of them Taking care of all us patients in his good old- thar new bath rooms you hear about in some fashioned way. houses— it took a plumber to put it in shape. On one side of the room is a great big long There is something in his manner reassuring to thing, something like the pigs drink out of, the sick. only you get in it and wash all over— over on Is it age or is it wisdom? Is it just a doctor's the other side is a little white thing called a sink trick? — this is for light washing like face and hands— But his speech has comfort in it and it’s good but over in the corner N O W we really got some­ to hear him tell thing thar— this darn thing you put one foot If we'll carry out his orders we will pretty soon in, wash it clean and then you pull a chain and be well. you get fresh water for the other foot. Two lids came with the darn thing and we ain’t had any The little grip he carries shows the signs of use for them in the bath room so I am using wear and tear. one for a bread board and the other we framed Like the doctor it has labored long, through your Grand pap's picture in. They are awful weather foul and fair, nice people to deal with and they send us a roll And the same things still are in it. A ll the of writing paper with it.

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WHAT DO YOU THINK I SAID? the award will be given primarily for publica­ The other day I called a plumber to fix a tion of specific papers, the judges are given leaky radiator. "W ell," he answered, "I can’t considerable latitude in the exercise of their make it for about a week." "Okeh,” I replied, function. If in their judgment circumstances "come as soon as you can.” and justice so dictate, it may be recommended That same day I took a pair o f shoes to the that the prize be divided between two or more shoe repair shop and figured on leaving my persons. It may also be recommended that the watch to be cleaned at the jewelers. The shoe repair man told me to pick up the shoes in about award be made to a worker for valuable con­ three weeks. The jeweler estimated I could get tributions over an extended period but not nec­ the watch in two months. essarily representative o f a given year. Member­ W e put in a new tile floor here in our build­ ship in the American Institute o f Nutrition is ing and were in need o f a carpenter to plane not a requisite of eligibility for the award. down and rehang the doors. So I called four To be considered by the committee of judges, carpenters recommended by a lumber company and asked if they could put in a few hours in nominations for this award for work published the evening or on Sunday. All I got was "N o, in 1943 must be received by the secretary, Ar­ too busy now to take on any extra work.” thur H. Smith, Ph.D., Wayne University Col­ Then the next morning I stopped at the clean­ lege of Medicine, Detroit, by Jan. 10, 1944. ers to leave a suit and found that they couldn’t The nominations should be accompanied by take any more clothes that week. such data relative to the nominee and his re­ On my desk when I returned to the office was search as will facilitate the task o f the com m it­ a note from the stoker company to the effect that it would be about a month before they tee o f judges in its consideration o f the nom­ could get around to cleaning and oiling our ination. equipment. And about 2:30 p. m. my phone rang and some fellow jumped on me with all fours. "I asked for a Doctor over half hour ago. What in H is wrong with the medical profession these days? You send a Doctor here D ------Lowe's quick or I'll see that the newspapers hear about this." "What’s wrong there,” I asked, cautiously. Rest Home "My wife has been sick for a week and it looks plenty bad,” was the reply. "Have you had a for doctor before,” I replied. And when he said no—what do you think I told him? Elderly People — Bulletin of The Toledo Academy o f Medicine The beautiful Wallace Eslate 10 lovely bedrooms The Mead Johnson Vitamin B 5 bathrooms Complex Award Large Yard and Flowers Nominations are solicited for the 1944 award ☆ of $1,000 established by Mead Johnson and Company to promote researches dealing with All guests have private rooms; a the B complex vitamins. The recipient o f this home in which your parents award will be chosen by a committee of judges receive the personal care we gave our own. We pride our­ of the American Institute of Nutrition. The selves upon the food served— award will be given to the laboratory (non- all tray service. clinical) or clinical research worker in the United States or Canada who, in the opinion ☆ of the judges, has published during the pre­ vious calendar year January 1 to December 31 402 North J Street the most meritorious scientific report dealing M A in 4432 with the field o f the B com plex vitamins. W hile 20 BU LL ETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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The Lake County Resolution full-time representative who will advise with Continued from Page 3 members of the Congress regarding the health W H ERE AS the actions and policies o f the implications of bills presented to them, and American Medical Association have been inter­ who will maintain close contact with state as­ preted to the public in a manner that has given sociations and county medical societies so that a dangerously large part o f the public the er­ they may join in an effective legislative activity roneous impression that American medicine is for the organized profession; and be it further reactionary and not in step with social and RESOLVED, That the American Medical As­ economic progress, that American medicine is sociation headquarters office be reorganized and identified with capital as against labor, with its staff expanded so that it will not only make conservatives as against liberals, with Repub­ studies and recommendations, but, in the public licans as against Democrats, whereas the only interest, will succeed in the actual accomplish­ identification the organized American physician ment of the things American physicians want, wants, and the only identification he should and for which they have organized themselves have, is with the best public health and the best and established a headquarters office. treatment of his individual patients; and W H ERE AS the American Medical Association Tumor Clinics Slated has created the public impression that it opposes Tacoma General Hospital will hold its staff the reasonable public desire for an application meeting on Thursday, November 4th, in con­ of the insurance principle to the costs o f medical nection with the Tumor Clinic meeting, as the and surgical care, whereas, both in the public regular staff meeting will fall on the same eve­ interest and as a preventive measure against ning as the appearance of the Don Cossack state medicine, it should itself have established, Chorus at the Temple Theater. This arrange­ or at least cooperated actively in the establish­ ment will leave Dr. Terry and the other medics ment of, the kind o f voluntary health insurance free to hear the Cossacks, who will doubtless plans that do not interfere with the delivery of put on a livelier show than the staff would. the best medical and surgical service; and Good arrangement, we say, as we were going W h e r e a s the American Medical Association to the Cossacks anyway. The Tumor Clinics will has not represented to the public the true and be held regularly from now on, 9:30 A. M. unselfish character o f the organized American every Thursday, Drs. Rigos and Terry officiating. physician, and has not delivered to the organ­ ized profession the good public relations it so richly deserves; and "The BetterWay"

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The Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill Minutes of Regular Meeting Continued from Page 15 Continued from Page 5 proposed economic changes improve the med­ ical services? The ultimate fate of any group of and valued friend and co-worker, Arthur doctors or of any set o f officials is obviously of S. Monzingo, minor consequence. Therefore: Resolved that in the death The medical men and the hospitals o f this o f Dr. M onzingo the medical profession has lost a tireless and faithful worker in a country, over the years and through the Am eri­ field of practice where his services will be can system of free enterprise have evolved the greatly missed. most enviable record o f national health of any W e bear witness to his interested activ­ major nation. Any change to a European pattern ities in the life o f his community and to his of medical care such as underlies the second honest and steadfast work in his profession. Wagner Bill (S.1161) is subject to fatal chal­ W e are honored to have enjoyed his friend­ lenge. ship and good fellowship. * * * We offer to his bereaved family our The House of Commons in England has voted heartfelt condolences and sympathy. to postpone action on the Beveridge Plan R e s o l v e d : That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Pierce (cradle to grave social security) until the war County Medical Society and a copy be pre­ is over. sented to his family. In this country, Congress should handle the (Signed) Ralph C. S c h a e f f e r Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill in like manner. W i l l i a m H. L u d w ig This would be not only fair to millions of Americans fighting overseas, but it also is There being no further business, the meet­ common sense. ing adjourned.

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Physicians and Dentists Business Bureau fices. Are you in need o f office help at this time? Continued from Page 4 At the present time we have on hand several we’ll never know, unless more information is applications which we consider very good peo­ obtained at the time you have them at hand in ple and who would without a doubt be able to your office. If the Business Bureau cannot find assist in a helpful way. Some o f these people these people for you after the account has been are from out o f town but their qualifications are turned over, don’t blame us entirely, because in adequate. most cases the neighbor on either side o f your A solemn-looking man was seen riding con­ debtor is also a stranger in town and they do tinuously on a merry-go-round at an amusement not stay here long enough to become acquainted park. A fellow passenger said to him, "M y but with anyone. The grocer is unable to get a line you must be enjoying yourself, you have taken on these people because the old time grocer is so many rides! ” no longer in existence and he doesn’t have the "I don’t like it at all,” replied the sad-faced time either to visit with his customers and we one. "In fact it makes me dizzy and gives me are unable to get information from him, which a headache, but the owner o f this outfit owes in the past was a source of valuable information me ten dollars and this is the only way I can to a collector. Collectors have had to change collect the money.” their methods and work out new ideas and Mrs. Jones had at last paid the final install­ procedures as a result o f this war. ment on her baby carriage. ANNOUNCEMENT "Thanks, madam, and how is your baby get­ Almost every day the Physicians & Dentists ting along?” asked the smiling collector. Business Bureau takes some applications from "Oh, simply fine,” replied Mrs. Jones, "he is girls who are seeking positions in doctors’ of­ graduating from high school next week.”

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A Review of Recent Literature on Internal Medicine . E. W. Janes

Tumors of the Spleen ...... S. F. Herrmann 2 BU LLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society Pierce County Medical Society W e see by the papers .... O F F ic r c n s Mr. Eric Johnston of Spokane, president of 1043-1044 the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, made one of P r e sid e n t...... S. F. Herrmann President-Elect...... J. W. Gullikson his famous speeches in Tacoma recently, in Vice President...... W. H. Ludwig which he said that industry, labor, agriculture Secretary-Treasurer ...... W. B. Penney and government would all have to do their T r u N t c c x E. W. Janes C. V. Lundvick S. M. MacLean Clyde Magill share in reconstruction after the war. Industry T. K. Bowles S. F. Herrmann R. D. Wright J. \V. Gullikson would have to accept collective bargaining as L. T. McNerthney W. H. Ludwig C. F. Engels W. B. Penney normal, labor would have to modify its de­ D e l o g n t C N mands, agriculture would have to produce in C. R. McCreery E. W. Janes \V. W. Mattson C. F. Engels quantity without subsidies and the government A M c r n n l c s C. V. Lundvick Clyde Magill would have to be reasonable with business S. M. MacLean T. K. Bowles which, in the last analysis, w ill have to provide nii.slncNK Ilurcnu TrustecH W. B. McCreery R. D. MacRae jobs so everyone can earn a living without WPA L. A. Hopkins Clyde Magill methods and will also have to pay the major COM M ITTEES part of the national debt. A brilliant speaker Scientific "W ork with vision, Mr. Johnston will yet go far. L. A. Hopkins, Chairman W. B. Dublin K. W. Douglas T. H. Duerfeldt The third bond sale having gone over in a

I.cpiHlntivc big way and our local War Chest having col­ C. F. Engels, Chairman lected over half a million dollars, our next job F. L. Scheyer E. W. Janes A. L Schulcz H. J. Whitacre is to make out our December 15th tax state­ Food Rationing; ment and pay the balance of our estimated 1943 G. M. Steele, Chairman Cecil Hurst J. R. Turner tax. W e now' have the spectacle o f some o f our H o u n c members paying more income tax than their M. T. Nelsen, Chairman W. C. Paul Christen Quevli total receipts for previous years. W e would not E t h i c M mind paying if these bureaucrats would stop A. H. Buis, Chairman Clyde Magill V. E. Crowe wasting so much o f the money. As an example,

E n t e r t n i n m e n t there has recently been set up, in Washington, J. J. Verhalen, Chairman T. B. Murphy Govnor Teats a bureau. The chief draw's $7500 a year, his as­ L. T. McNerthney sistant S5000 and they have 108 employees. lJo.stf?rii(lunte K du cation The purpose o f this bureau is to reach us to S. S. Sanderson. Chairman D. H. Johnson C. B. Ritchie pronounce correctly, such words as Kharkof, M i l i t a r y Am chitna, etc. This bureau was set up by presi­ W. D. Read, Chairman C R. McCreery T. K. Bowles dential decree against the wishes o f Congress. W. B. Penney E. C. Yoder Senator Byrd of Virginia has been sniping at P ublic licllltioilN S. E. Light, Chairman the government to reduce civilian personnel in W. B. McCreery A. H. Hillis Washington, so 131,058 employees were dis­ I'lililic Ilculth and Sanitation B. A, Brown, Chairman charged from June to September this year. How­ N. I: Magnussen J. I-'. Steele ever, during the past year, in spite o f the fore­ M cinlicrN liip goin g discharges, there was a net increase of S. R. Sleep, Chairman H. B. Allison 260,6-19 employees. Senator Byrd wants 300,- M aternal nn(I Child H ealth 000 more fired. So do we. P. C. Kyle, Chairman H T - c - ^ y C G. Trimble Our Congressmen get a dinner o f turkey with M. R. Hosic all the trimmings in the H ouse restaurant for L i b r a r y W. W. Mattson, Cliairman sixty cents, less than half what we would have C. H . D o e to pay for a similar meal. This feat is accom­ TndiiNtriul H ygiene R. D. Wright, Chairman plished by the passage o f a subsidy annually, to A. B. lkaton Q_ j_ Vandenberg Jlullctin Staff take care of the difference. This year is was " ' v , ...... C. F. Engels Business Manager ...... W. W. Mattson S85.000, which works out to $160 per Con- BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society 3 gressman. This also provides all the free min­ Personals eral water they care to drink. O f course the poor Lieut. Francis Hennings, U.S.N., is the father lads only draw ten thousand a year salary, plus o f a brand new son. Lieut. Hennings has just a few other extras. left Tacoma to report at Pensacola, Florida. Life magazine recently published a list of Governors, by political parties, as compared Dr. W. K. Sullivan has recently joined the with 1939. At that time, there were 30 D em o­ staff at Western Clinic. Dr. Sullivan, who is a crats, 18 Republicans. Today there are 22 D em o­ graduate of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, crats, 26 Republicans. The electoral vote o f these Tennessee, was formerly connected with the 26 Republican states would be enough to elect Permante Foundation, Vancouver, Washington. a president. Jack Karel, our former pediatrician, after Our Governor Langlie has set aside a week serving in the army in Alaska for two years, to be known as "Bill-of-Rights Week,” to re­ has been promoted to major and assigned to fresh our memories about the privileges assured duty in Arizona. Jack has also taken unto him­ us under the first ten amendments to the Con­ self a wife. stitution, known as the bill o f rights. Possibly Les Baskin has been promoted to captain and also to give us time to think about how many is still in the Aleutians somewhere, as is A1 of these rights we are still permitted to enjoy, Erlich. W e have heard indirectly from both of to the full. them but would appreciate a letter relating their Our enemy Japs in concentration camps were experiences, which we could publish in the Bul­ fed turkey on Thanksgiving. In Japan, they letin. Come on, you two sourdoughs, the boys are threatening to make reprisals for the poor would like to hear from you. treatment we are giving these Japs we are holding. W illiam Deering has also been promoted to captain and is off to Florida for duty. W e note occasionally, newspaper reports of the induction into the armed forces, o f men There is now an Edwin W . Janes, second, a with large families, the families immediately son born to Mr. and Mrs. Marc Janes at W eiser being given allotments of over three hundred Park, Pennsylvania, Novem ber 27th. dollars a month. The latest o f these draws $320 Marshall Mattson, nephew of Bill Mattson, monthly which, with the inductee’s pay o f $50, is our newest addition to the profession. Mar­ just about balances the purchase of a five hun­ shall graduated from the University o f Penn­ dred dollar war bond by one o f us at $375. sylvania in 1939, had two years o f internal Wouldn’t you think the draft boards would con­ medicine at the Scott and W hite Clinic at Tem ­ sider the fighting value instead of the stud value ple, Texas, is married and has two children. He of these men and leave them at home an as will limit his practice to internal medicine, o f­ economic saving? fices in the Medical Arts Building. In spite of all this, it’s still the best country The McCreery’s must have been stepping on earth. around some, on their recent visit to New York as we note them mentioned in Fishbein's col­ umn in the AM A Journal. Charlie probably JORDAN’S slipped Fishbein some of his good ones. The Fresh-As-A-Daisy Bread Just as we go to press, here comes a card —now enriched with— photo o f Jesse Read, from Sicily, mailed N ov. 23rd and expressing Christmas sentiments. 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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

"Never,” said Winston Churchill, coining one assure them peace and security, for that they of his most famous epigrams, "have we owed will have won for everyone, but above all it so much to so few.” He referred, o f course, to should extend the opportunity to become re­ the defense of England by the Royal Air Force habilitated as useful, contented, contributing in those desperately heroic days o f 1940. The members o f a society that they have helped not tribute was sincere— it was deserved— and no so much to preserve as to remake, we trust, on reward was offered. a better plane. W e do not want them to have We Americans, more mercurial and having a month of adulation followed by a long period suffered so much less, find it necessary to twist of idleness and gradual deterioration punctuated our eagle’s tail feathers quite frequently, to hear by bonuses, nor do we have the present inten­ him scream. True, we also have an aggregation tion of forcing this year’s heroes back, next of stout-hearted young men in our services who year, into the adolescent’s social and economic are rendering excellent accounts o f themselves status— although in the past this also has been wherever they may be— in the air, on the land, done. on the restless surface o f the ocean and in its The conspicuous advertisement of a well- waveless depths. They are for the most part known industry now engaged in war work fea­ modest youths, but by our very idolization of tures the thoughts of a young bombardier pro­ them we are making their eventual return to jected forward to the time when his last bomb civilian status doubly difficult. is dropped and "tyranny is purged forever from the world." Then he will return to his country It has been the grim duty of occasional gen­ and his home, where he wants to find everything erations of youths, in peace-loving countries, exactly as he had left it— even to the missing to forsake their normal ways o f life and to as­ picket in the fence. Here we have pictured, with sume the unaccustomed burden of arms, for a the misleading cleverness o f the copy writer, time, in defense of the peace that they have al­ the crystallized nostalgia o f the boy who is long­ ways cherished. Their countries owe them a ing for his home as he had known it, with all great debt of gratitude for their sacrifices, but its faults and its imperfections. This may be they owe them an additional and still greater what he believes that he is fighting for, but ac­ practical debt— that o f helping them eventually tually it must not be. W e cannot let him waste to return to useful citizenship so that they may his time and risk his life to preserve a at last enjoy the benefits for which they fought. status quo, nor are we at home leaving our fences unre­ The very nature of the hero-worship, for the paired for him to come home and hang over. most part unwelcome and unsought, to which Our hopes must be that out of a sorry and they are subjected tends to unsettle them and shaken world will emerge, through his efforts unfit them for the necessary readjustment to and our own, a brave new one in which each life on Main Street. As one o f our more youth­ will have a part to play. That is the best that ful senators recently remarked to the personnel we can offer our returning men when the time of a bomber station somewhere in England, comes, and it will not be too good for them! "When you come back there'll be nothing too good for you!” W e all agree with the enthus­ —New England Journal of Medicine iastic young senator, but we wish that his vague promise might have been left unvoiced, and we Son: "Say, dad, what does it mean when the should like, incidentally, some clear exposition paper says some man went to a convention as a of what we really do owe our men when they delegate-at-large?” return from their complex battle fronts. Dad: "It means his wife didn’t go with him, The discharge o f this debt should certainly son.” 6 BULLETIN of the Piercb County M edical Society

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In order to improve health and control dis­ psycho-neurotic states and infectious or para­ ease it is necessary to solve existing problems sitic diseases. The major responsibility will then and anticipate new needs before these needs often fall upon the mother. become problems themselves. The present health Here again, we will find a group who them­ status of our community appears to be well selves, for one reason or another, will be unable controlled by the responsible agencies. There to advance their child physically, morally and has been no cause for alarm in the recent spas­ mentally along the ideal path to proud manhood modic increase in poliomyelitis; the death tate and womanhood. In some o f these instances the from pulmonary tuberculosis continues to de­ community itself will have to assume the entire cline; venereal diseases do not constitute an un­ burden for the care and development of the solved problem; our usual seasonal epidemics child. In the greater majority, however, the com­ of measles, whooping cough and chickenpox munity will have to assume only part of the are no more alarming than before. It is obvious responsibility. It behooves us to examine our that to improve community health, efforts community facilities and determine if we are should be directed to the expectation o f needs now able to help in solving these problems that will arise during the next few years. In an­ which are justifiably anticipated. ticipation of future problems, it would seem To breakdown anticipated needs of children, that strong consideration should be directed to we might consider into what groups they them­ the needs of children. selves will fall. First, there will be children who, One of the most startling results o f the pres­ as mentioned above, will be thrown entirely ent conflict is the definite sharp increase in the upon the community for support. A second number of births throughout the United States. group might be those whom the community will Rhode Island has kept pace with this national have to share in developing. A third group will trend. In 1933 the number o f resident live births be those who are afflicted with one o f the dis­ recorded in the State was 10,341; in 1939 there abling diseases or deformities and who primar­ were 10,368; in 1941, 11,430; in 1942, 14,105. ily will need health correction. Another group The 1942 figure is approximately 36 per cent will be such as need care for certain periods in more than that of 1939. This is indeed startling. the year in order to improve their health. And, It calls for serious thought about the health and finally there will be some who should be re­ welfare of these children. moved from the home for certain lengths of time during the year, to provide a harassed and To consider the problems that might be pre­ sented by a sudden large increase in children hard-working, or an ill mother, an opportunity we must weigh the ability o f the parent and to obtain for herself an essential vacation, rest or convalescence. the community to fulfill their respective obliga­ tions. The health o f the child depends upon the The problems o f the first two mentioned social condition o f the family which in turn de­ groups are well recognized and certainly have pends upon the health o f the parent. The par­ been adequately cared for during recent years. ents of many of these births will necessarily W e anticipate that the responsible groups will comprise members o f the armed services. The themselves foresee future needs and be prepared devastating effect of war will leave its impres­ to handle the increased problems satisfactorily. sion on many o f the fathers in service. It is in­ The demand for the facilities which are now evitable that a number will return unable to available for the second group might be taxed dispense satisfactorily their responsibilities over when the new births advance in age and become the formative years o f the children. Their de­ more susceptible to the menace o f disabling ill- fects will be manifested as traumatic disabilities, Continued on Page 27 10 BU LLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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Dr. Pelouze Addresses Society Planning for Post-War Medical The County Medical Society was addressed on Service November 30th by Dr. P. L. Pelouze, assistant During recent months since the allied forces professor of medicine at the University o f Penn­ have assumed the offensive on all fronts, much sylvania, on the subject o f gonorrhea. A full at­ consideration has been given to the many prob­ tendance was registered and the audience heard lems in connection with post-war planning. For a very complete and practical lecture on this many years we have heard the slogan, "In time subject. The idea that sulfa drugs would auto­ of peace, prepare for war," and it is quite ob­ matically clear up any case o f this infection was vious to all that during war time it is highly dispelled and Dr. Pelouze showed lantern slides essential that much consideration be given to the covering the anatomy o f the uro-genital tracts in many problems which will come to this ( as well the male and female, showing why internal as other nations) immediately following the medication alone often fails and what should successful conclusion of the present world wide be done to promote a cure. Before the lecture, conflict. Dr. Pelouze was entertained at dinner by the One highly important subject is that pertain­ local urologists. The Seattle Urological Society ing to the many problems which the medical also gave a dinner for Dr. Pelouze on December officers with our armed forces will be facing 4th, which was also attended by some of our upon their return to civilian practice. Surgeon urologists. General Ross T. McIntyre stated recently that it may be necessary to retrain one-third o f the physicians in service following the conclusion We are in receipt, from time to time, o f var­ of the war so that they may aid in the giving ious items of a humorous nature, some o f which o f medical care that will be required in many we cannot use on account o f the censor, some parts of the world. So, perhaps many of those of which must have an illustration to bring out physicians now in service will not return to the point. The latest o f these shows a doctor civilian practice for a considerable length of at his desk in a hospital, looking up as a nurse, time. armed with a large pair o f scissors, is chasing a One of the present duties of the physicians patient, clad only in a short hospital shirt, remaining at home is to see that those return­ through the room. The doctor raises his hand ing to their former field o f endeavor actually and exclaims, "No, no, Miss Brown. I said to have something worth returning to — so that just slip off his spectacles.’’ they may begin at once to render civilian care with a minimum loss of time. The practice of many o f these physicians now at war will have Doctor: "Good heavens! W h o stuffed that been absorbed by one or more physicians who towel in the patient's m outh?” have remained at home. It is natural to as­ Husband: "I did, D oc. Y ou said the main sume that these physicians will willingly re­ thing was to keep her quiet." linquish the patients so that they may again be under the care of the one formerly respon­ sible for their well-being. RIGGS OPTICAL CO. The problems relative to relocation of re­ R . V Rx RX Rx Rx turning physicians is another which must be Optical Prescriptions given serious consideration, for no doubt many Established in 54 Cities of the demobilized physicians will prefer to enter practice in another field. Places should be ☆ made available so that they may open an office and establish a practice according to their in- MEDICAL ARTS BLDG. TACOMA Continued on Page 23 12 BU LL ETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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Those Draft Rejection Figures

There must be something particularly in­ by Uncle Sam, manages to hold down the reg­ triguing about the fraction "one third.” The ular shortstop position with the N ew York changes have been rung over and over again Yankees. upon our President’s appeal for the submerged Another fact not mentioned by the prophets one third of our population who are ill fed, ill o f gloom is that the records show the average housed and ill clothed. At the Raleigh meeting soldier of this army to be a decidedly huskier of our State Medical Society, Governor Brough­ physical specimen than was his father in the ton bemoaned the high proportion o f North first W orld War. Carolinians who have been rejected for military It is perhaps beside the point, but neverthe­ service because of physical defects, and pled less o f interest, to recall that many o f our great­ eloquently for improving in our public health est military heroes— including George Wash­ program, since "from the standpoint o f the na­ ington and Andrew Jackson— would not have tion’s safety we cannot progress with a popula­ made the grade in our army today. tion only two-thirds fit." The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has aptly said: "It is evident, then, that great The high number of draftees rejected for caution must be used in drawing conclusions various causes is being exploited for all it is from the crude statistics o f physical defects dis­ worth by those who would have the politicians closed by the Selective Service examinations, take over the practice of medicine. Before we and in comparing them with World War fig­ accept the figures at face value, however, we ures. The data do not in any way support asser­ should be sure of their real significance. First, tions that there has been deterioration in our it should be recalled that the figures quoted are national health. Even where comparative data rejections for unlimited military service, and show improvement, they fall far short of mea­ that more than half o f those reported as re­ suring its amount. Actually, the causes of most jected were found fit for limited military service. rejections today for military service do not Only those who can stand up to the most gruel­ seriously impair the individual for ordinary ing punishment are chosen for unlimited mil­ civilian occupations, nor do they have marked­ itary service. It has been pointed out— but over­ ly adverse effects on his health and longevity . . . looked by social reformers— that "The standards "A good indication o f the greater strictness by which our armed services pick and choose of selection for military service today is that the are the highest in the world; and a large percent­ rejection rate is far higher than in the selection age of those rejected on physical grounds here o f risks for ordinary life insurance." would be considered acceptable in nearly every No one would claim, of course, that we have other country.” yet arrived at a medical Utopia where all our Another fact usually overlooked is that 10 population are perfect physical specimens; but per cent of those rejected fail because o f de­ let us not be stampeded into thinking that ficient education. Other principal causes o f re­ health conditions in the United States are in­ jections are defects o f teeth and eyes, abnor­ ferior to those of any other country in the malities of height and weight, flat feet, and per­ world, or that the health of our people would forated ear drums. That rejection for military be. materially improved if politicians took over service does not necessarily imply absolute de­ the practice of medicine. crepitude is shown by the fact that two o f Car­ —North Carolina Medical Journal olina's greatest basketball players, Glamack and Nagy, were both turned down by the army, W e note that M exico has adopted as its slo­ while George Stirnweiss, although not wanted gan, "Peace is respecting the rights of others.” 14 BU LLETIN of the P ie r c e C o u n t y M e d i c a l S o c i e t y

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Christmas Delirium O the m oon on the breast o f the Christmas eve snow The time has come the Walrus says May bring happiness to the fore-handed, To write another column. But it only means coal in the furnace below It’s only fifteen hundred words T o shoppers whose shopping is stranded. So don't bother to make things rhyme. — Exchange. Only fifteen hundred words, I says, And an hour'n a half to do it. The Saturday Evening Post, in a recent issue, You heard me, says the Walrus; carried an elaborate article describing the bless­ Go ahead, there’s nothing to it. ings of the Blue Cross, national organization for providing prepaid hospital benefits. Our own Hark the Herald Angels sing State Medical Association has already taken Bells, bells, bells. steps to supply this need in Washington, under The needy have their pots out, the direction of organized medicine. Apparent­ On the corners hear the bells. ly this is inevitable, so we might as well have it A car in every parking space in a form which we may hope to control. And every parking lot. No chickens in but chicken wire On top of every pot. "The BetterWay”

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Medical Research in Wartime Let us not be nearsighted. W e are fighting for a better world in which to live. A part of this The facts given in the recent John W ykoff better world is freedom from disease. This free­ Lecture by Brigadier General James Stevens dom in the field of medicine which is destined Simmons should be most gratifying to the to take its place beside the other Freedoms o f the American people and those who are proud of Atlantic Charter can be obtained only by the American medicine. There has not been a single continued search for the basic phenomena of case of tetanus among the troops immunized. disease. The curative and preventive medicine The annual rate for dysentery and diarrhea in of the future depends on the basic research of 1941-1942 was 10.19 as compared to 18.45 in today. Time, money, and man power must and 1917-1918. There have been less measles, can be found, even in the midst of an economy mumps and scarlet fever than in the last war. converted to the needs o f war, to continue the The present outbreak o f meningococcic menin­ march of medical research and preparation for gitis apparently has reached a peak at about 2.7 the future. cases per 1,000 per annum, while the peak in —Journal of Missouri Medical Association January, 1918, was 4.5. Despite the disposition of American troops in all parts o f the world "no authentic reports have been received o f yellow STANDARD BURNER OIL fever, plague, trypanosomiasis or relapsing T HE BEST OIL FOR YOUR HOME fever.’’ Distributed by These remarkable accomplishments have been made possible in part by the basic medical Fuel Oil Service Corp. and chemical research of the last two decades. MAin 3171 In wartime there is a tendency, fostered by pat­ riotism and emotional stress, to push aside all 816 A STREET TACOMA things not directly connected with the war ef­ fort. The fallacy o f this attitude is well shown in a statement in the annual report of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation for 1942. "It is interesting to not that the first and third of Oakland Drug Store these developments (plasma transfusion and the sulfonamide drugs) originated in basic non­ Complete Prescription Stock war-connected investigations, although they were later stimulated and accelerated by the war i k emergency. If fundamental studies o f this nature had been restricted in the past, as at present, the Pharmacist in charge has had 17 years’ war medicine of today would be lacking in some experience in Prescription Work. of its most important attributes.”

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Vitamines thing about it. This is urgent too. D on ’t delay! W rite them, and remember these are some I gather from the A.M.A. points to stress. That vitamines have had their day. M edicine today has reached its high standard (I hope that vitamines the way because o f freedom for study and research and One should in fact pronounce it: private practice. W e see its results among our I call it that in this my song war wounded. Our generals have paid compli­ Because it helps the verse along: ments to the fine work o f the medical officers. If my pronunciation’s wrong, We only ask to practice medicine in a demo­ Well, let the pundits trounce it.) cratic way without political dictation. The un­ fairness o f presenting such a bill when nearly The point is this: the vitamine, one-half of our young, able-bodied physicians Which has for several seasons been have given up their practice, left their families What one might term the Fairy Queen and homes as a patriotic duty to save D em oc­ Of dramas dietetic, racy. Has come unstuck; the praise it won Doctor, as a member of the great profession Has been, I gather, overdone; of medicine, as a protection of Democracy and I see its virtues (gee, what fu n !) as your patriotic duty to those who are serving Described as hypothetic. on the battlefront for you today, w on’t you take time to write your senators and congressmen For lo! the rival bigwigs come, your protest o f this bill?— Fulton County Med­ Observing darkly, "Fee, foe, fum! ical Society Bulletin. Not vitamines but calcium You need on this our showing.” So I suppose it must be time To sally forth and find some lime, And eat a lump or two if I’m Lowe's To keep my works a-going. Rest Home I shan’t; but, oh, I hope there’ll be for A good old row; I love to see The learned experts'disagree Elderly People W ith tempers dark and hellish, The beautiful Wallace Estate While I sit tight and put on weight 10 lovely bedrooms By eating what I always ate 5 bathrooms And heaping up upon my plate Larqe Yard and Flowers The things I like and relish. ☆ The Murray-Wagner-Dingell All guests have private rooms; a Bills home in which your parents receive the personal care we Have you written your senators and congress­ gave our own. We pride our­ man how you feel about the Murray-Wagner- selves upon the food served— Dingell Bills? W e have seen replies to some of all tray service. the letters and believe our representatives are going to oppose its passage. The fight they put ☆ up will depend on the pressure from home. We know you are busy, but if you thought 402 N orth J Street your house was on fire or your insurance would M A in 4432 lapse today, you would get busy and do some­ 20 B U L L E T IN of the P i e r c b C o u n t y M e d i c a l So c i e t y

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But some day he may come again, the friend The Family Doctor that we can call, By Edgar A. Guest The good old family doctor who will love us, one and all.

I've tried the high-toned specialists who doctor folks today; Planning Post-War Medical Service I've heard the throat man whisper low, "Come Continued Prom Page 11 on, now let us spray.” dividual preferences. Many of the younger I've sat in fancy offices and waited long my physicians will desire to complete their interne- turn, ships and residencies, and efforts should be And paid for fifteen minutes what it took a made to have the available positions properly week to earn, indexed so that, with but little confusion, places But while these scientific men are kindly, one may be made for this group of returning physi­ and all, cians after the war. I miss the good old doctor that my mother used With the war ended, perhaps many physicians to call. will believe that it is essential for them to take The old-time family Doctor! Oh, I am sorry postgraduate work before re-entering private that he’s gone; practice. Plans will no doubt be made every­ He ushered us into the world and knew us where to make such courses available. This can every one. easily be a function for organized medicine to assume, or at least supervise, with the coopera­ He didn’t have to ask a lot of questions, for he tion of the large hospitals, medical educational knew institutions, and various clinical centers. Our histories from birth and all the ailments Those physicians who have been with the we’d been through. armed forces formerly enjoyed a practice in a And though as children small we feared the country where free enterprise, through the clas­ medicines he’d send, sical physician-patient relationship, was enjoyed. The old-time family doctor grew to be our It is hoped that they will be permitted to re­ dearest friend. enter a practice with this same type of initia­ No hour too late, no night too rough for him tive and endeavor still prevailing. to heed our call; W ith the United States enjoying the lowest He knew exactly where to hang his coat up in mortality rate o f any o f the major countries the hall; o f the world, and with the best health record He knew exactly where to go, which room up­ anywhere, there are no statistics yet available stairs to find which will prove that the American people The patient he’d been called to see, and saying: will be more healthy under any new type of "Never mind, medical care system which has, to this time, 111 run up there myself and see what's causing been recommended. all the fuss.” It seems we grew to look and lean on him as one of us. He had a big and kindly heart, a fine and ten­ California Florists der way, And more than once I’ve wished that I could Tacomas Leading Floral Shop call him in today. The specialists are clever men and busy men, I know, And haven’t time to doctor as they did long 919 Pacific BRoadway 3277 years ago. B U L L E T IN of the Pierce County M edical Society

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Communicable Diseases Tomorrow's Children NOVEMBER, 1943 Continued From Page 9 ness and injury. Obviously we expect an increase The following is a report on the number of o f disease proportionate to the increase in chil­ contagious diseases in the City o f Tacoma for dren. The last mentioned group, however, may the months of November, 1943: be that which could be given greater consid­

Gonorrhea ...... 30 eration than previously. In the more fortunate walks of life it is customary for the parents to Chickenpox ...... 40 take a vacation each year, frequently away from Diphtheria ...... 3 their children. It is obvious that an equal or German Measles ...... 6 greater health taxing burden is placed upon the Measles...... 6 less fortunate parent caring for several children. M um ps...... -...... 9 It is equally important with other problems Poliomyelitis ...... 3 that we provide opportunities for such mothers to obtain vacations several weeks each year, Scarlet Fever ...... 35 knowing her children will be placed in suitable Tuberculosis ...... 7 environment. Whooping Cough ...... 4 Much of the national post war planning has Syphilis ...... 17 appeared to devote itself to finances, the reha­ bilitation o f soldiers and the return o f industry Jones: "An apple a day keeps the doctor and labor to peace time production, but little has away.” been said o f what we shall do to solve the prob­ Smith: "W ell, at the present price o f apples lems o f the vastly increasing number o f children. it would be cheaper to have the doctor.” — Rhode Island Medical Journal

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Lakewood Center - Tacoma, Wash. - Phones Lakewood 2191-2192

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For thirty-five years we have consistently co­ tind, and we have five competent registered operated with the medical profession of this men in charge. Some of these men are grad­ locality. Advertising during this period of uates of colleges of pharmacy. years has always been fully as beneficial to the medical profession as it has been to In addition to our prescription department, ourselves. we have a few other lines which do not con­ flict in any degree with the medical profes­ The prescription business has never been a sion, such as toiletries, sundries, fountain pens side line in our store. At the present time and tobacco. we are carrying one of the largest stocks of

biologicals and prescription supplies in the It will always be our policy to continue put­ Puget Sound area. ting our best efforts into our prescription Our store is centrally located and easy to department.

McMILLAN BROTHERS, Inc. 955 BROADWAY, TACOMA, WASHINGTON BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society 2 9

DEAN DRUG CO.

Professional Pharmacists

Phone M A in 2726

2612 6th Avenue Tacoma, Washington

Prescription Optical Company

Dispensers for the Oculist

205 Medical Arts Building Tacoma, Washington Phone M A in 4151

Branches in — EVERETT . . . ABERDEEN . . . BREMERTON 30 B U LL ETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society

BRALEY'S, Inc. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS

Catering to the Doctor and

his Patient

Free Delivery

Medical Arts Building MAin 8116

A Conscientious Staff

whose first desire is to make each service a flawless tribute, individ­ ualizes the C. C. Mellinger funeral.

P H O N E BROADWAY 3268 510 SOUTH TACOMA AVENUE BULLETIN of the Pierce County M edical Society 31

Tacoma Brace Shop Lundberg ☆ Drug Co. Doctor— W e are here to serve W. W. LUNDBERG, Ph. C. you with proper fitting appli­ ances made to your prescription. PACIFIC AVENUE &

☆ AIRPORT ROAD

BRACES - A R C H SUPPORTS ☆

TRUSSES - BELTS C om plete ARTIFICIAL LIMBS Prescription Service ☆

L. C. CEDER, Manager ☆ 206 Medical Arts Building Phone MAin 2717 Telephone GRanite 8519

★ ★ ROGER B. MOLT PhifAM iicwuL cm d cM od^utal Sv ^ p iied .

1015 SOUTH 12TH STREET TACOMA, WASH. M A in 7852 Pierce County Medical Society See. 568, P. L. *_B 2 Medical Arks Building TACOMA WASHINGTON U . S. POSTAGE PAID TACOMA, WASH. PERMIT NO. 300

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