MAY 7;1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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By MARTHA JEWETT, Society Editor
James Melton will sing in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 tonight as part of the University observance of Music week.
"The "April showers" we are having these days throw a damper on field trips, picnics, sun baths, and on everything in general. With only four more weeks of school, students are beginning to take a quick gulp and struggle through stacks of books and piles of notes, while endeavoring to catch up a little before finals.
Harman Weekend Guests
Maxine Holsinger, Kansas City, Kansas, and Sarah Allen, Independence, Mo., were weekend guests at Harman co-op.
Phi Psi Gives Dinner
Phi Kappa Psi entertained last week with a "sister and daughter of Phi Psi's" dinner. Guests were Jeanne Louise Atkinson, Martha Bonebake, Carolee Sproull, Kathryn O'Leary, Bonnie Chestnut, Mary Katherine Sims, Carolyn Campbell, Martha Lou Little, Sydney Letson, Ardella Ringwalt, Emily Stacey, and Irene Hird
Guests of Kappa Sigma
Sunday dinner guests at the Kappa Sigma house were Mary Katherine Paige, Carol Lembeck, Bobe Jane Parker, and Dorothy Savage, Independence, Mo.
Visit at Ricker Hall
Sunday dinner guests at Ricker hall were-Beverly Cubbage, Lois Fallis, Richard Eckle, Manhattan; Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Shaw, Neale Shaw, and Wanda Lee Redman, all of Galesburg.
Tipperary Gives Formal
Tipperary hall entertained with a spring formal Saturday night. A candy shop theme was carried out in decorations.
Guests were Roger Penner, Edward Sherwood, Leland Galbreath, Robert Beal, John Armel, William Spicer, Paul Briley, Bailey Chaney, Carl Kron, Robert Earle, Leeman Joslin, Robert Light, Robert J. Hamilton, Paul Adams, James Cheney. Dean Banker, Donald Burton, Charles Harkness, William Nicholson, Kenneth Bales, Richard Ferrin, Wilbur Nilbur, Edward Brown, William McLvaine, Earl Gerharter, James Findley, Richard Champ.
John Kalbfeisch, Newton; Martha Musick, Robert Steinbach, Jerry Adams, Edward Wong, all of Kansas City; Edgar Henry, Coffeville; Jerome Minnick, Ottawa; Richard Getty, Downs; James Conrod, and William Swisher, both of Winfield.
Chaperones were Mrs. Ruth Mahon, Mrs. Claude Hibbard, and Mrs A. B. Leonard.
taylor Asked To Return
To Vatican for Truman
Washington (UP)—Myron C. Taylor has been asked to return to Rome as President Truman's personal representative to the Vatican.
Mr. Truman said in a statement that he felt Taylor could "continue to render helpful service to the cause of Christian civilization."
Taylor, a former president of U. S. Steel, will have the personal rank of ambassador.
TELL ME,
DOCTOR
How to Stay Out of the Hospital
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By R. I. CANUTESON, M.D. (Director, University Health Service)
Today's column is devoted to a brief report on an interesting new disease, histoplasmosis, that is receiving much attention in public health work.
--following recovery from a lung infected with Histoplasma, capsulatum, calcium was deposited during the process of healing. This produced, on the X-ray films, the "spots" referred to by the layman.
Histoplasmosis is an infection, of various organs of the body and the lungs particularly, by a parasite Histoplasma capyulatum. The disease has been recognized only rarely; reports of fewer than 100 cases are now in medical literature but evidently many mild cases are undiagnosed or mistaken for other fevers.
Attention was turned to histoplasmosis when someone found that
Tests for histoplasmosis will be made Tuesday at the Lawrence Community building, by the Douglas county health department, aided by the United States public health service and the Kansas board of health.
Appointments for the tests may be made this week, Dr. J. M. Mott, director of the county health department, said today. The tests are similar to tuberculin tests, and are free to K.U. students.
This interest in histoplasmosis was really a byproduct of the examination of the lungs for tuberculosis. For many years, doctors believed that calcium spots in the lung, as shown by X-ray, were almost certain evidence of healed tuberculosis of the primary or childhood type.
Then when the tuberculin test came into wide use along with extensive X-ray programs, critics of the tuberculin test claimed that it was not very accurate because they found in many persons with negative tuberculin tests. X-ray evidence of calcified spots in the lungs.
It was not uncommon to find X-ray films showing multiple calcified spots on the lungs, and if calcium represented only-healed tuberculosis, here were cases that had survived the widespread or military type of tuberculosis, and this disease
had generally been considered fatal. With the discovery that histoplasmosis and a few other infections might produce calcium spots in the lungs, the finding of calcified areas in the lungs assumed an entirely different significance. The tuberculin test resumed its rank as a highly accurate test.
had generally been considered fatal.
Preliminary surveys made of nurses, who were convenient guinea pigs, in several large cities showed that half the nurses in Kansas City, Kansas, 60 per cent in Kansas City, Missouri, 13 per cent in Detroit and only 5 per cent in Minneapolis gave positive reactions to histoplasmin.
Now surveys are in progress to map out areas where reactions to the test indicate evidence of past healed or present mild infections and the relation to finding of calcium spots in the lung X-rays.
The test is done exactly like the tuberculin test, by injecting into the skin of the forearm a minute dose of the histoplasmin. There are no bad effects. The test is read in 48 hours. A positive reaction produces a small area of redness and a hive-like swelling of the skin where the test was given.
Emphasis is placed on the fact that histoplasmosis does not, apparently, commonly produce illness, judging from the number of positive reactors who have no knowledge of the disease. It is interesting chiefly from its relation to finding calcium spots in the lungs.
This is about all that is known about histoplasmosis. Don't think you have it, even if you want to be different. In spite of the relatively high rate of infection, illness from the disease is extremely rare.
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