European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 13, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 1 gallstones removed without major surgery by Lawrence k. Altman new York times gallstones a vexing health problem Allec Ting millions of americans and normally requiring major surgery or Long term treatment with pills can olten be quickly dissolved in the body with a new method devised by doctors at the Mayo clinic in Rochester. Minn. It takes less than three Days to turn even Large gallstones into a fluid with the experimental technique. Dissolution results from the action of a liquid called Methyl text butyl Ether Mobe a chemical Cousin of the die Hyl Ether that has been used in surgery As c general aesthetic Tor More than a Century. The Ether preparation is injected through a thin tube that pierces the skin and is guided through the liver to enter the gallbladder. The stones that form there afflict up to 20 million americans and come in a variety of sizes shapes and chemical compositions. The Ether solution can d solve cholesterol gallstones the most common Type. It appears this new method will become the treatment of Choice in preference to surgery Lor patients who have the most common Type of said or. Johnson l. Thistle who developed the therapy at the Mayo clinic. The use of a liquid drug to dissolve gallstones inside the body represents a less Radical approach than surgery and is far less destructive to the body. Other examples of this approach Are the Ike Tripler which uses electrical Shock Waves to pulverize kidney stones angioplasty which involves insertion of a balloon into a coronary artery and inflating the balloon to Squash obstructing plaque and the colonoscopy which can examine the entire length of the Bowel and remove polyps sparing exploratory surgery. Mobe has Long been used As a solvent in laboratories and As an octane enhancer in gasoline. The food and drug administration considers its use in Medicine investigation Al. And a spokesman Lor the Federal Agency said approval for Mobe s use As a gallstone solvent has be n Given to Thistle and to doctors at about half a zen other medical centers Thistle a gastroenterologist. Said in an interview that he has used the Ether solvent to dissolve gallstones in 16 patients Over the last 18 months. Now that refinements have been made in the technique. Thille said he is doing one to two cases each week depending on his schedule. Still it will take several years to collect data on hundreds of cases to document the Efficacy and safely of Ether solvent to determine the rate of recurrence of gallstones following the new treatment and to determine its place in medical practice. The Stone busters non surgical kidney Stone disintegration Unaka of Mound. 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A a i told you so a woman who has been told All her we that unmade Beds give you bad skin and cleanliness is next to godliness who has ust heard that dust is in that s Whol i knew if i just Hung around Tang enough and waited it All out that housework would be found out for what it is. Something to do so you won t bite your fingernails. I realized years ago that i was born out of my time Warp. I watched my Mother every monday morning run a tace to get her clothes on the line first. I watched her lug mat tresses out of the bedroom and beat them with Sticks in the Back Yard. I watched her Hose Down bedsprings on the porch and move the refrigerator every Spring and vacuum under it. It was even Boring to watch. Then one Day my Mother turned to me and said move that sofa Why would i want to do that i asked it la just stir up the cleanliness is next to godliness she chanted. Cleanliness is next to impossible i countered if you can t see it smell it or trip Over it. Pass on Little did she realize then what a Prophet i was. The women of the 80s no longer consider housework a religious experience. In fact dust is a badge of status worn proudly by the women who Are making a statement to the world i Don t have time to clean my House. I have other things to we Are entering the Golden age of domesticity. The time when your oven cleans itself As you sleep there is a naval officer in your toilet bowl and you can Cut Down cooking doors by not cooking. Women who engage in Spring or fall housecleaning Are becoming extinct. No More do women dust each Book on the bookshelf or use a Toothbrush to polish Chrome on the bathroom spigots. No Siree we pay someone $9 an hour to do it or we hire a swat team to come in once a year and attack it All like an assault on a plague of locusts. We launder by demanding and Iron by Force. We Wax by pressure Cook by necessity. We vacuum by habit and dust by a full Moon. What about guilt what about it somehow i always sense there was something unnatural about polishing piano legs that never went anywhere and no one Ever looked at. Would the uni verse Stop spinning it there was a Martini Glass in the bathroom and poker chips in the Hall planter Mother said she s not sorry that she spent All those years on her hands and Knees fighting yellow Wax buildup. Me i d be so bitter i d spit nails. It s like saying no to a Jelly doughnut and getting hit five minutes later by a car. C lot Angylet Tolmei Syndicate
