Monday, April 9, 1979
Folk medicine alive and well
By BRENDA WATSON
Staff Reporter
Continued unseasonally cold weather could catalyze a delayed surge of sniffles, sneezes and coughs among KU students.
Sufferers seeking temporary relief would turn again to their preferred commercial cold medicines.
What the sufferers do not realize is that they are practicing folk medicine.
according to Jerry Stannard, professor of history, folk medicine is an integral part of today's society.
It has just taken a different form. People are using "new drugs and chemicals". Stannard said. "Hopping an
A more formal definition of folk medicine is "beliefs and practices employed by the folk in medical matters." But Stannard said that any self-administered medical practice could be based on a clinical diagnosis could be considered folk medicine.
Stannard, whose speciality is history of medical botany,
said, "Folk medicine not only does continue today, but it
had better continue or doctors' offices would be packed
like cars of sardines.
"WE CAN'T GO running to the doctor for every little ache or pain. We know that usually whatever is ailing us will go away by itself. If it doesn't, then we do something about it."
Examples of ailments treated by folk medicine include
Until about 1850, when scientific medicine began to develop, and even as late as 1900, people around the world relied on home remedies for relief from colds and other ailments, he said.
'sick headaches' and indigestion, which nearly everyone suffer at once or another, but which generally go away
Now, however, folk medicine as practiced in its traditional sense, using readily available plants, usually is confined to isolated areas such as Appalachia, he said. Stannard said, "I suspect that in some ethnic communities folk medicine is still practiced today just as it always was."
Clarence Meyer's "American Folk Medicine" is a good source of representative examples of common folk medicine.
Meyer's book includes some recipes and advice that might seem bizarre to a modern reader. However, Stanfield said, the rationale behind them might not differ much from the way we eat food. Both use a kind of mechanistic model in treating the systems.
IN OTHER WORDS, if you were cold and your nose was running, the logical thing to do would be to try to warm up.
"A sore throat is rather grating so it makes sense to look for something smooth—like honey," he said.
not looking about the money, he said.
Two of the more questionable remedies suggested in
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Meyer for colds are eating raw onions and rubbing the chest and throat with skunk's oil.
For treating fever, Meyer's book suggests, among other things, mixing mustard with the white of an egg and laying it on the wrist, applying sliced onion to the soles of the feet, and drinking at 30-minute intervals until the fever is broken a concession derived from simmering a "good handful of cocklebur" in a quart of water.
stamard said he was interested in folk medicine for its worth in historical research.
FOR A THROAT that is "sore deep down," one remedy suggests chewing bark from a slippery elm and swallowing the juice. For a nighttime cough, swallowing a pinch of salt is recommended, but if that does not work, a cough syrup whose recipe calls for 100-proof whiskey as a base also is listed.
Although most of these recipes must be viewed in an "intellectual perspective" and should "absolutely not" be tried, there are some folk remedies that may have some value.
He said he uses only two—mud on bee stings and aloe plant on burns.
"I must admit that I was somewhat dubious about the properties many attributed to the aloe, which I had always considered to be a rather useless plant," Starnard said. "But when I tried it on a localized but deep burn once, I was amazed by the amount of relief from pain it provided."
'New' radar aids funnel detection
By LYNN BYCZYNSKJ
Staff Reporter
Because tornadoes are as unpredictable as the weather that causes them, as many as two-thirds of all twisters arrive unannounced and go off-Eagleman, KU professor of meteology.
But Eagleman said tornado prediction soon should become a more precise science when the type of radar that has been used to track hurricanes or motorists is put to work in weather stations.
Eagleman said he had worked with the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla. for more than a year in 1980 and with the Doppler radar for tornado forecasting.
That type of radar, called a dual-Doppler system, can detect tornadoes as long as 30 m/s.
"People don't know how unscrupile, in terms of instruments and gadgetry, tornado weather conditions, highway patrol reports and storm spitter organizations."
The type of radar that is used now can detect only air conditions that might result in an accident.
Dual-Deploper radar, however, presents a three-dimensional picture of the speed and direction of wind within a storm. Circular movements of air that precede tornadoes can be detected long before any movement is visible from the ground, he said.
Eaglerman said a Doppler system probably could have spotted the tornado that killed 15 people when it overturned the house. Whippoorwill on Lake Famona last June.
USING THOSE sources, the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch when twisters are likely to form. A tornado is a rapid attack on a funnel has been spotted on the ground.
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DOPPLER RADAR systems installed in weather stations could detect tornado movements in thunderstorms as far away as 100 miles, he said.
Lawrence would be covered by the National Weather Service stations in Topeka and Kansas City if Doppler systems were installed.
The cost of a Doppler system, which could run to thousands of dollars, would rule out the possibility of equiping the KU weather station with the system.
But the day when Doppler radar will be used widely elsewhere is not far in the horizon.
"It will be practical within the next five years, from both a technical and financing perspective."
Reluctant prisoner caught after fleeing county jail
Eagleman said he had become interested in tornado forecasting in 1966 when he began to study to find the safest place in a house during a tornado. That place, he said, is the northeast corner of the basement, away from windows or doors.
Three Lawrence police officers got a morning jog Friday when a man being booked into the Douglas County jail suddenly fled.
Police said Lonney R. Teichmann, 19, 2522 Alabama St., had run down the stairs and out of the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., after authorities told him that there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest. The warrant was for allegedly driving while under the influence of alcohol.
Teichmann had gone to the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center to speak to the
Officer Jessie Treu, who was escorting Teichmann to the jail, said Teichmann had run away when they reached the jail entrance.
city attorney. Before speaking to the attorney, he went to the police station on the second floor of the building, where he was told about the warrant.
Treu, Sgt. Miguel Garcia and Sgt. Mike Reeves chased him into an alley in the 1100 block of Rhode Island St., where he surrendered.
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Cost of living pay raises to be weighed for faculty
A proposal that would give faculty cost of living as well as merit pay increases will be sent next week to the Council of University Administratorsuncle Archie R. Dykes said yesterday.
The Council is made up of the presidents and chancellors of the Regents schools.
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The proposal was approved at a meeting Friday between KU administrators and faculty from both the Lawrence campus and the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Merit increases are awarded by committees in the departments and schools. Criteria for increases may vary among the schools but most rely on evidence of outstanding scholarly achievement or involvement in departmental affairs.
The proposal was made because faculty pay increases have not kept up with inflation, according to one of the faculty members at Hartz, professor of curriculum instruction.
The most recent faculty pay increase, approved by the Kansas Legislature last week, calls for a 0.5 percent increase. But, according to the staff, faculty reach nearly 10 percent this year, faculty
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Swartz said the proposed system wound give faculty members an increase based on inflation in addition to keeping the merit award system, which KU schools and departments use to distribute the increases awarded by the Legislature.
Dykes said he would introduce the proposal at the Council of Presses' meeting.
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Dykes said that if the proposal were approved unanimously, the council would recommend that the Regents use the system in next year's budget requests.
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