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Show I 1 - : ) 'I - ' ' CV . J " r.: , - "' ' 1 ! ! " ' "i & '- " - ' ' r i ev . a. f ' ' i a, r . i I - 'ujiU - jVT - """J ; '' ' I "'.-y't V-'"" -'Af' '' Signups for hunter safety classes will be held on June 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. and on June 6 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Bountiful Lions Club House. Classes will be taught at the club house range Tuesday and . , , , . . Thursday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. for six classes over three weeks, HIINTRR SAF FiTY starting June 9. The Lions Club House is located on the mountain VJXAXAJXX sjJe jusl nolh of th(; hjg ..B Go east on 40Q North ,0 the mountain. Instructors Max Biehn, center, and Wendell A. Fair, right, explain some fundamentals to Ellen Anderson. For further information call 295-3986 after 6 p.m. A Use Foir Tobacco tional mustard and linseed poultices and other bruise treatments. faster than in the non-treated tissue. The professor said further research needs to be done to determine exactly w hat it is in Nicotiana tabacum that causes the healing. It may be due to one of several alkaloids, but because so little research has been done, "one can only theorize as to the reason," he stated. DR. FRANCIS is conducting additional research to determine deter-mine the effectiveness of tobacco compared with tradi- Tobacco may be hazardous to your health if smoked but not if applied to buises. according to a Brigham Young University researcher. DR. Rl'LON S. Francis, a professor of physical therapy in the BYU Human Performance Perform-ance Research Center, said studies he has conducted on rats show that bruises treated with tobacco heal 20 percent faster than untreated bruises. In a report published in "Athletic Training" magazine, maga-zine, the professor said he was prompted to investigate the healing effects of tobacco after BYU athletic trainer Marv Roberson returned from the 1971 Balkan Games in Yugoslavia Yugos-lavia with stories of (he successful suc-cessful use of commercially manufactured tobacco substances subst-ances on bruises of basketball players. ROBERSON obtained a few cans for use in the United States, and after they ran out, he began making his own tobacco poultices. When Dr. Francis decided to scientifically evaluate the effect of tobacco on healing, he was surprised to find practically practical-ly no previous research on the subject. DURING THE middle ages and on into the years immediately immedi-ately preceding the era of mod ern medicine, tobacco in various va-rious forms was employed as a "medicinal" for maladies ranging from rheumatic pains to toothache, the professor said. "Today, tobacco is negatively nega-tively associated with such notorious maladies as carcinoma carcino-ma and emphysema." He was further intrigued by a statement of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith who. in 1833, said the "tobacco is not for the body, neither for the belly, and is not good for man. but is a herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill." THE MAGAZINE article says Dr. Francis sei up an experimentally ex-perimentally validated "traumatizing unit" to uniformly uni-formly bruise the thighs of 80 anesthetized rats. Commercially distilled tobacco juice was then painted on the thighs of 40 of the speci-ments speci-ments for a period of two weeks. The other 40, the control con-trol group, were painted with distilled water. BOTH THE number of healing heal-ing cells (granular white blood cells, lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages, etc.) and the size of the brises were monitored. Dr. Francis discovered disco-vered that tobacco-treated tissue tis-sue contained 20 percent more healing cells and the size of the bruises decreased 20 percent |