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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 10, 1953
Poison Used By
Indians Helping
Polio Patients
By JERRY KLEIN
New York —A drug used for cen-
uries by Sk>uth American Indians to
ooison their arrows may prove to be
i major weapon against polio.
Polio paralyzes ando twists
body, shrinking the muscles. How
over, the Indian potion, curare, re
jections of curare. They reported that know n only to a few tribal leaders, ioned with belt loops #nd zipper
the Indian drug relaxed the patients and passed on by word of mouth, and had a becoming cuff bn each
and enabled them to undergo mus:!e With another secret potion, the same leg, near the bottom. A whije
stretching far beyond the point they tribe—the Jivaros — shrunk human! shirt with cunnjngly conceived
could normally endure without suf- heads tb the size of a grapefruit or French cuffs and an ingenious but-
fering terrible pain. smaller. (ton-down front was loaned by the
One hundred and thirty-six polio Not long ago an American scien- groom’s father for the occasion. A
suffers were given the curare three, ti^t learned that the Indians make silk tie of green, laced with diag-
times a day while their diseased curare from a plant similar to that onal white stripes, fell from the
limbs were stretched back into whose seeds yield deadly strychine. groom’s neck and was tucked inside
shape. They scrape off the bark and shred the suit. He also wore shoes.
In only one case out of four could l * in water-
this stretching have been accomp- Thirty pounds of the plant were
lished without the mysterious drug, wought out of the jungle, and at the
the | the doctors reported. They also said National Institute for Medical Re-i
‘Donald R. Hurdle of Rockford,
111., an old school mate of the groom marine gabardine imported from
served as best man. He chose a England. He carried a pink grudge
suit of tan gabardine, lighter than and wore a white carnation. The
that of the groom. rHe also had bride’s father chose a cinnamon-
two lapels, two cuffs and a green j brown gabardine suit with a figur-
tie. The shirt was his own. He ed brown te. He also wore a white
wore a white carnation boutonnier carnation.
on his left lapel I “For his going-away, the groom
“Miss Molly Rideout of Frfeeport, had no choice. He wore-the tan
111., was maid of honor. 1 gabardine suit or nothing. The
“For his son’s wedding, Mr. Terry bride accompanied him to the Lake
wore a single-breasted suit of aqua- of the Ozarks for a honeymoon.”
that with curare, their patients were * e arch in London the chemical form-
stronger, had better blood circula- u ’ a drug was analyzed. Now
•Yxcs the diseased muscles and per-aion and less deformity. ” ‘ s rnade synthetically,
mils doctors to stretch them back toj • - v -Other Purposes ,< ^ n °b erat * n S room in Montreal
ornper length again. ^ Polio may be curares newest ap- ‘ n , li942 Wa j the sene , of curare’s
Two surgeons at the Queens Gen- plication, but the poison has already 1, Uie unc *er surgical anesthesia,
cral Hospital in Jamaica, L. I., have!proved itself invaluable for other 11 Proved its ability to relax the
given polio sufferers over 10,000 in- • itjedical purposes, too. Because H re- I ^ usc ‘ e twaiOP of nervous patients,
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laxes muscles and deadens nerves,
thus making the surgeon’s work
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curare has yielded good results when . e 0 P eratl0n smoother and
used for rheumatism, epilepsy and ‘ c rtco\er> taster,
rabies, as well as to calm patients , . ay curare is used regularly
about to undergo surgery. ^ ring . the course of operations.
. .u tt ■ , Physicians at the Indiana University
Physicians at the University ot S;hool of Medicine told , he Amcrica '
BuKalo Medical School gave the : 1Iedjcal Association
drug to a group ot patients whose'
that curare
, , . proved itself “a most promising prep-
spmes were twisted by rheumatism, aration” in 500 operations ° ^ *1
Despite the fact that many other Physicians also give curare ln
'drugs had failed to help them curare their offices t0 relax ients wh j
lessened their pam, enabled them to imust undergo delicate and normally
stand straighter, loosened their p a i nfuI> examinations.
limbs and gave tnem more energy. *
Curare also proved itself capable r p i j
of softening the severe spasms which ' Q*’''' k-QienQQr
' characterize epilepsy and convul- pOT GuidOMCC
sions of various types. And it re-! ■ ,
1 duces the violent muscular contrac- l^GCCfllDGr
tions suffered by mental patients who ———♦
are being given electrical shock. Even in December farmers have
treatments to snap thqjn out of their, important activities, chiefly looking
dream world. lo the future, says County Agent C. I
In 1535 Sir Walter Raleigh de-! B - Cannon, w ho lists these remind-j
: scribed the strange drug brewed by ers:
a jungle tribe in South America. He
said the finest armor w’as no protec-
Agronomy
1—"Green fields for Christmas
tion to a soldier struck bv an arrow' keep on planting small grains and
: which had been tipped with the sub-
: stance.
Secret Rituals
For centuries the Indians brewed
.their weird potion at secret rituals
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ether cover crops. 2—Put cotton un-1
der cover to prevent weather dam- :
age. 3—Clean up briars and thick
ets around edges of fields. 4—Bed
down stalls and barns with leaves,'
pine needles or grain straw; the|
bigger the manure pile the smaller-
the fertilizer bill next spring. 5—
Start preparing now* for improve
ment of permanent pastures next 1
year. 6—Apply liming materials
on pastures that need it. 7—Top-
dress winter grazing with nitrogen
fertilizers. 8—Order and accept
delivery on fertilizers and insecti
cides as soon as posible. 9—Cover
your farm with a “Blanket of
Green”
Horticulture
1—Make plans for your garden
in 1954; get catalogs and order seed
before seedsmen are out of desir
able varieties. 2—If fruit trees
have not already been set, they
should be set this month; fall or
w’inter planting in the South is
preferable to early spring planting.
; 3—Don't let this winter get by!
without planting a strawberry
patch. Contact county agent or
write Clemson for information. 4—
Prepare hotbeds for sowing in
January and February. 5—Prune
fruit trees and bunch grapes. 6—
Propagate grapes and ornamental
deciduous shrubs from new cut-|
tings. 7—Terrace all land to be'
planted to peaches before trees are
set. 8—See your county exten-1
sion Service for information on
fruits and vegetables.
Insects and Diseases
1—Kill rats, clean up breeding
places, and make buildings rat-
proof’ to reduce losses. 2—Observe
how well long, close-fitting shucks
protect corn against weevils. 3—
Burn orchard prunings to destroy
shot-hole borers. 4—Burn pecan
twigs severed by gridlers. 5—Apply
sprays after fruit trees are com
pletely dormant. 6—Destroy grubs
| in backs, and lice on the bodies of
cattle.
Engineering
1—Check over all farm machin-;
! ery and order needed repair parts
j now. 2—Store cultivating machi» i
I ery and grease parts that are like- i
' ly to rust. 3—In operating tractor
during winter months, follow man- j
i ufacturer's instruction book re-
( garding Suggestions for Cold
Weather Operation. 4—Use disk
harrow or plow for cutting in or
turning cotton stalks and other
j vegetable matter. 5—Plow up ter
races so that they will have time to
settle before the spring planting
season.
The Groom Wore Tan'—
And the Groom Wrote the
Story About the Groom
Several publishers have run stor
ies about a wedding where the re
porter described the groom’s cos
tume instead of the bride’s. But
Jack R. Terry, edtior of the La-
moni (Iowa) Chronicle, is probably
the first editor to bave the fun of
writing such a piece about his own
wedding.
His story, as run in his newspa
per following the wedding, read:
“The double ring service wasi
read at the home of the bride’s par
ents by the Rev. Benjamin E. Boll-
man of the Polo Presbyterian
chunch.
“Given in marriage by his whole
family, which was only too glad to
get rid of him, the groom chose for
his wedding a double-breasted suit
of tan imported English cloth with
a faint shadow stripe. Fashioned
with wrist-length sleeves and slash
pockets, the handsome gabardine
coat had two lapels, one on either
side. In the left hand lapel the
groom wore a white carnation bou-
tonhiere. The trousers were fash-
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