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Tuesday, December 7.1976
University Daily Kansan
Pharmaceutical cures replace chicken soup
By RICK THAEMERT
Chicken soup never cured the common cold. But, as a home remedy, it's been prescribed by many mothers through the years.
Home remedies such as chicken soup are fading, however, according to 10 Lawrence physicians. Advancements in the pharmaceutical field are pushing home remedies out of the family medical spotlight.
"Over the counter drugs are sufficient to serve most minor medical problems," Carl Olson, Lawrence physician, said recently. "Over the counter drugs are getting to be almost too strong, to the point where they could be dangerous."
Although there are still people who use home remedies, Olson said, most of the remedies can do very little to help the patient.
OLSON SAID the only home remedy he could recall was in Asia, where they used palm oil as a substitute.
Similarly, chewing tobacco was placed on cuts and scraps as a mild aniseptic, reducing the risk of tooth decay.
If a bleeding wound was involved, he said, spider webs were used to stop the bleeding.
One of the most common home remedies was a poulice, Jones said, which supposedly relieved a patient from a cough or chest cold.
"For an onion poulice, they stewed up a bunch of onions and then drained the water off. Then they put the onions between two cloths, and placed it on the chest," he said. "The heat was there, and it stunk, which always helped the nose, of course.
"They thought it tured them," he said, but added that it really had a little medical need.
G. E. MANARAH, Lawrence physician, said pollinated serves as a "counter irritant that inflamed the skin slightly, and was thought to draw the germs out of the lungs."
mustard staple" were also used as relief from chest colds.
"Goose grease was something that the old folks used to rub on your chest when they thought you had a cold or pneumonia," he said. Turpentine and lard were sometimes rubbed on the chest to keep the chest warm, he said.
Manahan said "goose grease" and a "hot
Manahan said a stupef was similar to a poulice because it sandwiched the mustard inside a hot flannel cloth, which was applied to the chest.
Margaret Clark, Lawrence physician,
said fats and dairy products were often used.
"FAT PLACED over a splainer makes the splinter come to a head," she said.
For sunburns, she said, dairy cream is often rubbed on the skin to soothe it.
Clark said she recalled one home remedy that was especially superstitious in nature. An "acidity bag" was a bag filled with cough drops around the neck to ward off germs," she said.
Other preventative cure-alls included several drinks.
Jones said, "sassafras tea drunk in the spring helped clear up the blood," he said,
WHEN SULFUR WAS teamed with lard, however, a different remedy was created, which relieved itching when rubbed on the skin. he said.
Jones said that the use of honey as a panacca was still popular today. He said honey and vinegar was a mixture that people thought would "cure everything." R. L. Dulian, Lawrence physician, said he was familiar with a honey remedy for coughs.
"For a cough, you take a teaspoon of honey, a teaspoon of lemon and a teaspoon of bourbon. then swallow a teaspoon of the mixture. The bourbon is the active ingredient and the honey is sweetening," he said.
ACCOUNTING TO  D  C  JARVIS, a physician and author of *C. V. Medicine*, published in 1942.
can serve as: a nonirritating stomach-coach, a quick energy food, a natural laxative, a mild sedative, a treatment for bed-wetters, a sugar that is easy on the kidneys, a cough syrup, a sleep-producing aid, an aid for muscle cramps, a treatment for heart failure, a food that helps allergies and asthma and a food that helps one recover rapidly from over-exertion.
Jarvis also states that seaweed is an important food source because it has a variety of minerals, and that iodine is the protein that enables the body to resist disease.
Castor oil and corn oil are also miracle remedies, according to Jervis, and can serve as an ulcer treatment, a wart treatment, a treatment for eye irritation, an eyelash and hair growth stimulant, a wound cream, a treatment for cuts and abrasions, a chest rub, a treatment for hemorrhoids and a treatment for tired and sore feet.
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Bond issue on commission agenda
City commissioners will act tonight to give $3 million in industrial revenue bonds to TWK, Inc., a northwest Lawrence factory that wants to expand its operating capacity.
TRW has been in Lawrence for two years and produces electrical cables for oil wells. TRW has already been given $1 million in industrial revenue bonds and is entitled to
as much as $10 million under past action by commissioners.
In other business, commissioners will authorize issuing $55,000 in temporary financing for extending a Leavenworth County bridge belt it in Douglas County, City Manager Buford Watson has said that it is the city's responsibility to pay for anything
involved in the Mud Creek dechannelization program.
Career, life needs topics for workshop in January
According to Bob Rozelle, assistant to the dean of men and workshop leader, people attending the workshop at the Resource Center will learn about life and business skills using resource materials and examining factors involved in decision making.
A workshop for people wanting to explore career opportunities and alternate ways of life will be conducted by the Adult Life Centre, 143 King Street, London, UK. of Continuing Education, Jan. 15 and 22.
"WHAT THE WORKSHOP tries to do is
give people a realistic opinion of their life."
Rozelle, who has led previous living and career workshops, said yesterday. "Some people believe that when you become an 'adult' you've got it made and there aren't any crises. That's more Hollywood than anything else.
That realization will come in part, Rozelle said, by acquainting the workshop participants with their own "Personal identity" and understanding many dormant or unutilized individual and environmental resources available to us for making satisfying life and career choices."
Individual resources include enthusiasm, self-determination, the ability to communicate with people and working with one's hands, he said.
A CITYTY effort to bring ordinances up to date will be continued when commissioners officially adopt on second reading 15 City Code revisions that were passed last week. The revisions include legalizing cohabitation and giving men to wear a wristband of women and children and removing restrictions on crime and horror publications.
"Environmental resources include family, occupational resource materials, counselors, skill development workshops and classes," he said.
"The more you are familiar with your needs, values, interests and competencies, the better you are able to direct your life the way you want it."
Rozelle said such exercises as role playing, self-inventories, large and small group discussions and reading the resource materials would help the workshop participants to realize their strengths and weaknesses in making decisions.
"Most people don't take the time to step back and look at their life from an objective point of view. The workshop will give people a chance to do this." Rozzelle said.
The workshop, which costs $40, will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Adult Life Resource Center, 13th Street and Oread Avenue, immediately north of the Karsas Union. Interested persons should contact the Resource Center at 864-4794.
The bridge on Vermont Street, will have two lanes of traffic going south.
Work on Kansas bridge to be completed in July
The old Massachusetts Street bridge over the Kansas River will be torn down immediately after the Vermont Street bridge and construction of a new bridge will then begin.
Commissioners also will consider, on firs reading, an amendment to the Code "removing from the definition of a dead animal that dies in dead animals." Mike Wildeglen, assistant city manager, said yesterday that if the amendment was adopted, Lawrence residents would soon be able to legally impalp large dead animals into their trash cans.
Work on the Kansas River Bridge is nearly on schedule and the estimated completion date is July 1977, according to the U.S. National Park Service. Turnpike Consulting Engineers, Topeka.
The Massachusetts Street bridge is closed to heavy traffic, restricting any vehicle with a suspended license.
HIDING LAWRENCE'S junkyards from public view will be discussed. A special mayor's study committee has proposed that junkyards within 200 feet of houses should be screened by fences, but commissioners Carl Mibeck and Donald Bins have said
Frazier said yesterday that construction of the piers was supposed to be done by Dec. 15 but the piers won't be finished until the first of the year.
Mibek and Bins will report on what they and Myles Schachter, of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Office, believe should be covered by a screening ordinance. Mibek has said that such an ordinance should include a ban on open storage of certain new materials, not just on storage of items after they are used.
The contractor of the bridge is Anderson Construction Co., Holton, Kan. The contractors have 500 work days to complete the project. In the spring, holidays, weekends or cold weather days.
When the Massachusetts Street bridge is completed it will have two lanes of northward traffic.
ACCORDING TO the committee's report, only open storage areas that contain 'saltvaged materials, saltvaged motor culture or used appliances" would be fenced.
that the committee's recommendations may not go far enough in beautifying the city.
Binn has said that the committee's proposal wouldn't beautify unsightly storage areas near major roads. Only the view from houses is protected, and no restrictions on the view from streets are included in the proposal.
Commissioners also will consider site plans for Wendy's Restaurant, on the south side of 23rd Street 150 feet west of Louisiana Suite 482 of Dount House, at 187 Montessori State St.
The cost of work on both bridges is estimated at $3.7 million.
"It's been quite rewarding, but everyone has his quota of administrative duty and I figured I had reached mine," Smith said.
would have enough time to select his replacement.
Dean to retire next year
William Smith, dean of the University of Kansas School of Engineering, announced yesterday that he would retire at the end of 2015. He will be teaching electrical engineering at KU.
Smith said the announcement was made a year in advance so that the University
Five years after coming to KU in 1950, Smith was named chairman of the department of electrical engineering. He became dean of the school in 1965.
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